LeegleechN

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The Impossible Calculator(asteriskmag.com)
4 points by LeegleechN 1y ago|0 comments
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Looking Back at the Future of Humanity Institute(asteriskmag.com)
4 points by LeegleechN 2y ago|0 comments
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by LeegleechN 3y ago
This idea is common in Shogi piece designs for those who can't read the traditional Kanji designs.
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by LeegleechN 3y ago
The molecules in a crystal still vibrate kinetically. A solid with no molecular motion would be at absolute zero temperature.
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by LeegleechN 3y ago
Ableton Push 3 (standalone version). It's only an 8x8 grid though.
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by LeegleechN 4y ago
The Airthings View Plus is a good one. It has high quality (for consumer) particulate, CO2, VOC and Radon sensors and a good interface. Also tracks temperature, pressure, and humidity for completeness.
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by LeegleechN 4y ago
Practice like you are learning a musical instrument or chess. Break it down into very specific subskills (like a specific chess endgame or guitar picking technique) and practice those in isolation in addition to your usual practice. Also fi
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by LeegleechN 4y ago
Justinguitar.com for guitar.
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by LeegleechN 4y ago
Feynman diagrams are a representation of an integral so moving beyond them is a question of reformulating the mathematical basis of physics. There is some work in that direction (look up 'Amplituhedron') but overall it's not
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Darts, Dice, and Coins: Sampling from a Discrete Distribution(keithschwarz.com)
2 points by LeegleechN 4y ago|0 comments
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by LeegleechN 4y ago
He's not wrong about the narrow algorithmic use cases (so far), but he's completely missing the utility for simulation of quantum phenomena (chemistry, microbiology, materials science). That use case alone completely justifies inv
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by LeegleechN 4y ago
I think one of the biggest applications for quantum computers which isn't well appreciated is simulation of quantum systems: chemistry and materials science. Similar to the old analog computers which were used to simulate differential
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by LeegleechN 4y ago
There are always alternative ways to describe the same phenomena. For example QM could be done with only real numbers (you can emulate imaginary numbers with matrix operations). There is no clear cut notion of what is "required".
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by LeegleechN 4y ago
No, they can solve integer factoring. This result shows that polynomial factoring is fundamentally different from integer factoring. The latter is believed to not be NP Hard.
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by LeegleechN 4y ago
Every apparent exponential in the real universe must actually be a logistic or some other bounded curve.
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
If you mean important in the sense of potential economic impact, this seems like a case where you should form a company to develop the idea.
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
This reminds me of this chart showing underestimation of solar growth by the International Energy Agency for decades: https://twitter.com/aukehoekstra/status/931869221386104832 One of the best charts I've eve
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
He had grants for 0.25% of the company but left when only 1/3 of them were vested . Gitlab will probably IPO for at least a $10 billion valuation. Assuming no further dilution since the grant, the shares would be worth $8.3 million for
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Intel Posts Initial Code for x86 User Interrupts on Linux(phoronix.com)
3 points by LeegleechN 5y ago|0 comments
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
The headline is misleading. The work tightened the range of possible strengths of a fifth force by a factor of 10. In other words it ruled out the existence of a fifth force within a wide range of parameters that were previously open.
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
It's just an absolutely giant construction project. The mass and volume of the construction goes as the cube of the major radius of the reactor. Back of the envelope, SPARC is (6/1.5)^3 = 64 times smaller than ITER. The constructi
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
Thanks for the links. This is a really well written case which relies on an easily swallowed fallacy. The argument is that the main limiter to improvement of batteries is research which needs time, so we shouldn't quickly scale up batt
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
Wind acts like a battery (or capacitor) that smooths out fluctuations in solar energy. Radiant solar being more "direct" really has nothing to do with which is the better option.
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
Globally distributed, consistent databases. See this Google paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
My understanding is that octopus limbs are semi-autonomous, whereas giraffe legs aren't doing any more decision-making than they are for people or cats. Which is not to say that I disagree that most people underestimate animal intellig
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
They're working on a Steam release with a more accessible interface, including mouse support. I suggest trying it again when that comes out.
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
Their competition are the ones who played marketing games already, skipping forward a node relative to pre FinFET scaling. Intel's rename aligns it with the rest of the industry in terms of transistor density on each process number. No
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Beyond malloc efficiency to fleet efficiency(cloud.google.com)
40 points by LeegleechN 5y ago|3 comments
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
Neural network models have millions of parameters, which means you are trying to optimize in spaces with millions of dimensions. If you can't use differentiation you get hit really hard with the curse of dimensionality.
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by LeegleechN 5y ago
A fixed rate plan for something with unknown and highly variable costs is just about the definition of insurance.

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