MrEldritch

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by MrEldritch 4mo ago
Confusingly, both articles do indeed mention each other for me.
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by MrEldritch 4mo ago
Noticed it kept using the term 'resonator' or 'resonance', decided to navigate to a page for 'resonance cascade' as a joke, and discovered this fantastically broken article: https://halupedia.com&#x2
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by MrEldritch 5mo ago
Hear, hear! I honestly think the obsession with cryptography and security has caused us to lose much of what is simply fun about technology. We have grown so used to the assumption that everyone involved is a corporate player and that foo
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by MrEldritch 5mo ago
The concept is interesting, but I'm getting a lot of red flags from this - there's no experimental data or proof-of-concept work at all, which makes this feel more like a blue-sky "Look what we could do if we could arrange at
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by MrEldritch 7mo ago
> Write-Only Code is not a prediction about what we should want. It is a description of what happens when software production scales beyond human attention. Have we considered whether it's even a good idea to produce software at s
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by MrEldritch 2y ago
I primarily use it as a toy, but it's also come in genuinely handy for me as a scripting language and calculator (but a calculator that also works with strings). The terseness isn't really a code-golf thing; once you're famil
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by MrEldritch 6y ago
"Directed energy weapon" is essentially the more technical way of saying "death ray". Lasers, microwaves, particle beams, that sort of thing.
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by MrEldritch 6y ago
It seems very unlikely - the researchers estimate a lifetime for phosphine of just thousands of years in the more temperate parts of the atmosphere, and just thousands of seconds nearer to the surface.
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by MrEldritch 6y ago
the energy flux available in ambient radio waves passing through something the size of a handheld is microscopic , pretty much.
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by MrEldritch 6y ago
While on the subject of FORTH for the 6502, I can't resist mentioning Eloraam's now-defunct (but huge in its heyday) Minecraft mod Redpower 2! It included fully-functional computer blocks that could interface with redstone machine
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by MrEldritch 6y ago
I think what they're doing with those sculptures is that they're taking three sine waves of different frequencies A, B, and C, and that the sculpture is the path that the point (cos(A t), cos(B t), cos(C t)) takes over the combine
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by MrEldritch 6y ago
Does Hacker News have a "Report" button?
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by MrEldritch 6y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but ... this malware's initial infection vector is via email. If your computer is connected to email, it cannot possibly be air-gapped, unless I'm severely misunderstanding what "air-gapp
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by MrEldritch 6y ago
Obviously, like everyone, I'm a little concerned about "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" and I don't really believe that Microsoft are suddenly "the good guys". But I don't, ultimately, think that this will
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by MrEldritch 6y ago
Given that that story, with that specific wording , has been a running joke circulating around the Internet for years, I suspect your co-worker's kid has never said any such thing.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
These are very interesting! The Legible Mathematics one also made me think of APL, which is very hard to read - but specifically it's hard to read for the same reason that traditional linear programming math is hard to read, the lack
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
With all due respect (which is not much), this is complete nonsense.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
See also APL, which was designed as a concise algorithmic notation first and only adopted as an actual language afterwards. (Hence the use of custom symbols) Although unlike this notation, APL is more typewriter -optimized; many symbols ar
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I don't think this is fair. I have ADHD. It is not an exaggeration to say that I can't function without drugs - I have trouble doing literally any task that requires switching focus or making long-term plans (including complex, mu
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
The point of doing an operating system UI in a game engine is so that you can use that operating system UI within games written in that engine! There's several examples - Simulacra, Emily was Away, Hypnospace Outlaw - that use the in
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
It's not supposed to be a a real utility, or run real applications! It's intended for use in computer games; there's several such games that use a virtual "OS" as their framing device and core interface.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I'm not sure if you realize, but this isn't intended as a "real OS" for practical use. It's intended for use inside of computer games; whether for simulation of using computers inside the game-world, or for games
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
> I wonder if one can arrange such conduits (6-way connected pipes and chambers) to replicate a feed forward neural network. If it can be done with light... It actually can't be done with light, not without active switching compon
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
This is a large part of why (at least in the deep learning field, which I'm more familiar with) scientific publishing takes place more or less exclusively through ArXiv, because the field has been moving fast enough that while peer-rev
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
This is true! I was trying to simplify things a bit for a basic explanation, but I fear I oversimplified. I just meant that the generally used math breaks down; if you're aware of the problem, you can correct for it, but very often p
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
This is true, and a valid point. The way they phrased it does make me feel more than a little suspicious, nonetheless. (Besides, there's some other oddity there, like that apparently the alignment only matters when the magnetic field i
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
basically, because once you start trying multiple hypotheses on the same dataset, the math used to determine "is this conclusion real, or am I just fooling myself" begins to break down. The statistical significance threshold usual
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
hm. upon reading the paper, this is sounding very suspicious. > The study was truly blind. Although the observers were acquainted with our previous studies on magnetic alignment in animals and could have consciously or unconsciously bi
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
You don't really want one, honestly. New Scientist is the Daily Mail of science publications. For anything they might publish, if you can find another source, then that other source is likely to be more accurate and less sensationa
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I think the Web just kind of stopped being full of searchable information.

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