GIFtheory

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by GIFtheory 2mo ago
SimCity 2000 solved this problem 26 years ago: just beam the power down as a tight microwave beam. Granted, things get messy when the beam accidentally sweeps across your city, but such is the cost of progress.
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by GIFtheory 4mo ago
The US does not exist in a vacuum. Cuba just ran out of fuel. These things have cascading effects. Even if you do believe the U.S. exists in a vacuum and you don’t drive a big truck, there are still obvious effects. Spirit airlines went ban
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by GIFtheory 6mo ago
> First, he's had a real anti-corruption push that seems to be meaningful and seems to apply to senior government officials and the wealthy (eg Jack Ma). Uh, interesting take… I think many would say he was silenced/disappeared
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by GIFtheory 1y ago
100% agreed. The moment I saw the “revised” syntax I had a real “what were they thinking” moment. You’re supposed to take the good parts of a good thing and add it to a bad thing, not the other way around! Really, OCaml’s syntax is beautifu
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by GIFtheory 1y ago
This 100%. McMaster quietly perfected e-commerce at some point, and because we’re live in a fallen world, nobody decided to follow their lead. If only we could convince McMaster to sell toilet paper and cereal…
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by GIFtheory 1y ago
That’s a nice idea, but I’m skeptical—where is the new wealth coming from that will allow Lesotho to pay its workers more? It’s not an issue of strong-arming some bad guys in Lesotho to pay their workers more using tariffs as a negotiation
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by GIFtheory 1y ago
I don’t see how tariffs magically create wealth for foreign exporters that translates into higher wages. Let’s say I can buy a $10 shirt from Lesotho with zero tariff. Now a 50% tariff gets imposed. I can either eat the tariff and pay $15,
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by GIFtheory 2y ago
This argument is problematic because it implies that a person from a different background who committed the same crimes (e.g., a poor, black, uneducated person without any fancy philosophical ideals) /should/ be locked up and the
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by GIFtheory 2y ago
Exercise can supposedly help outcomes for some types of cancer—-I wonder whether the mechanism is similar to that of fasting. The supposed mechanism AIUI is that exercise makes less glucose available to the tumor. Podcast with more info her
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by GIFtheory 2y ago
My first reaction to this news was, “fine, sounds like a silly requirement.” However, being a PhD graduate from a minority background, I really have to thank my advisor for the undergraduate outreach work he did, without which there is real
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by GIFtheory 3y ago
Using https://www.mcmaster.com/ makes me wish I were a hardware engineer. Makes every other e-commerce site feel like garbage. If amazon were this fast, I’d be broke within days. Why haven’t other sites figured this out?
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by GIFtheory 3y ago
I think the conclusion is that /total sleep time/ is actually very accurate, while deep/light/rem measurements are crap.
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by GIFtheory 4y ago
Agreed—the article is sort of silly in that it debunks a bunch of bogus claims about dark mode, but then completely overlooks the main legitimate use, which is to limit exposure to artificial light at night. You basically want to get as muc
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by GIFtheory 4y ago
Interesting that this has 7x the cores of a M1 Ultra, but only 25% more memory bandwidth. Those will be some thirsty cores!
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by GIFtheory 5y ago
People generally overestimate the benefit of working long hours and underestimate the value of working hard during those hours. If working 55 hours a week is enough to cause serious bodily harm, then it seems likely that the optimal number
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by GIFtheory 5y ago
They increased the participants sleep from 5.5 hours to 6 hours per night and expected improvements in cognition. This is not how sleep works, AIUI. This is like expecting to get rich after overdrawing your bank account by $140 per week ins
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by GIFtheory 6y ago
> 1) If you're writing anything that's not a script with a few lines, and you care about your software not being terrible to maintain and change for other people in real production settings, typed languages wipe the floor with
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by GIFtheory 6y ago
My take is that engineering is essentially the use of predictive models to solve design problems. I think the general trend is that the more accurate and universally accepted the models are, the more ‘engineery’ a particular discipline is.
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by GIFtheory 6y ago
> As an example, despite the Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith prompt containing text from a single scene, the 0.7 temperature generation imputes characters and lines of dialogue from much further into the movie This makes me
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by GIFtheory 8y ago
Could it be CO2 build-up in your bedroom?
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by GIFtheory 8y ago
ceci n'est pas une cat
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by GIFtheory 8y ago
I'm fairly sure the model is implemented in a reasonable way. It's an experimental deep generative model based on https://github.com/openai/glow , though more complex because the warp and its inverse are eval
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by GIFtheory 8y ago
So, this doesn't apply to torch specifically, but to give an example from my own experience... I have a tensorflow model that takes 45 minutes just to build the graph. You can imagine how frustrating it is to wait most of an hour to r
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by GIFtheory 8y ago
For a low-tech solution, GNU Screen can also be used to share a terminal. e.g., http://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/index.php/HowTo_Share...
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by GIFtheory 8y ago
> Did not freakanomics come up with a famous (and to me more convincing) argument that it legalized abortion was the reason for the drop in crime? At they very least it dispels the arguments we don't have a better explanation and do
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by GIFtheory 9y ago
This story reminded me of how this morning, while commuting via bike to work in the rain, I was tailgated by an SUV. If I had slipped and crashed on some wet leaves, I probably would have been crushed to death, and (in a just world) the dri
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by GIFtheory 9y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1047/
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by GIFtheory 9y ago
There is still plenty of evidence that diet drinks are killing you, or at least making you fat: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161122193100.h... .
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by GIFtheory 10y ago
I believe that the problem with a lot of these tech interviews is that they reflect a deep-seated belief on the part of the interviewer, that there exists such a thing as absolute intelligence, that it is immutable, and it is the most impor
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by GIFtheory 10y ago
In fact, there is a good chance your phone does this when it is in speakerphone: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1799/_index.htm... .

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