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by Robin_Message 2y ago
This sounds exciting but the enormous and confusing breadth of what your bio says you are working on, and the odd unit errors (lowering "a megawatt" to "2 to 3 terawatt), is really harming you credibility here. Do you have a
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | UK/Global | Cambridge/London/Remote I'm a software engineer with two decades of commercial experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised a couple of jo
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
If you think Kier Starmer's Labour party is socialist, you need better sources. His platform is notably unambitious and centrist, more so than New Labour, who managed to be in power for thirteen years without introducing gulags.
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
In the final log10 version, can't you just solve both problems at once by adding 1 to the input? math.ceil(math.log10(x+1))
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
Or a tenth of the area of Arizona, the first desert-y state I checked (not a USAian so maybe there are even better options?) Pretty sure the USA easily has the land area for sufficient solar
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | UK/Global – Cambridge/London/Remote I'm a software engineer with two decades of commercial experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised a couple of jo
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
UK is almost exclusively hot water radiators heated by natural gas boilers (or oil boilers in rural areas not on the gas grid). There is a push by government to switch to electric heat pumps driving hot water into larger, cooler radiators (
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
I love the fact that GPS signals are below the noise floor; its only through correlating the complex modulation that you can find the signal. At least, that's how I understood it when I did my degree!
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
It only has probability 0 or 1/n, where n is the number of compatible next words. There are no numbers in https://github.com/adamjgrant/Tiny-Predictive-Text/blob/main... A Markov chain could express prob
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
I think Markov chains have transition probabilities, which this model is lacking. But it's the same idea, just with uniform transition probabilitis.
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
It's worth noting that HPC is a different problem space from say, kernels, drivers, codecs, and browsers, in that HPC is not generally expecting to deal with adversairial input, and those other spaces are. So the safety-performance tra
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
Thank you! And thanks for suggesting and checking Math.clz32, it makes sense that would be fast as it's a single instruction vs a pile of bit twiddling. I wonder what OP was measuring.
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
I don't understand how all that bit twiddling is faster in the 100% case (where the branch predictor should be hitting home runs.) I guess it means a js branch is very expensive even when predictable but that feels slightly unsatisfact
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
This feels like a PR submarine for a company which I'm guessing makes the conductors or does the replacement operation. Utilities are not stupid so I doubt doubling capacity is as easy or cost free as the article makes out.
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
Offers you a choice of links to retailers in your country. Blocks interaction and covers up centre of page, although scrolling is still possible.
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
I'm confused by this argument. Copyright exists in order that creative works are sold for more than their marginal cost of reproduction, and the profits from that are directed towards the author. Having the exclusive right to produce t
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
Interesting ratios between transactions and events: numbers in the article suggest perhaps 50 million transactions a day which correspond to five billion events. So 100 events per transaction on average, which gives some idea of the complex
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
My three biggest pet peeves are: - You can't turn your queue into a playlist (and you can't see previous queue as part of the queue, only as limited history.) - Clicking a song or album sometimes clears your queue and starts playi
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
From the application form: > This is a pay-per-call work and we need you to join as a interviewee (not interview candidates) for technical calls. > Are you strong enough to pass technical interview? > We will pay $100 for per call
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
If the latent space is meant to be highly spatially correlated, could you simply apply random rotations of rows and columns† to the latent space throughout the process? That way, there wouldn't be specific areas data could be smuggled
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
It's the difference between the evil maid attack (someone sneaks a keylogger into your turned-off machine whilst cleaning your room) vs local privilege escalation (the sysadmin installs a game and now your entire network is owned).
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
I think you are unaware of what has been achieved for years already in Europe by companies like Haus - https://haus.tech/ , Huf Haus, and Hanse Haus. Assembly of an entire house in 1-2 weeks implies little or no rework.
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
> It’s bad for the bottom line to be dead. I have no overall position, but climate change and nuclear weapons seem two quite strong counterexamples to this being a sufficient condition for safety.
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
> was reading Julia Evans post about nothing [my emphasis] Off-topic, but is this a typo of "Nix" or a passive-aggressive jab at Julia for blogging about the tedium of actually getting anything to actual work in modern develo
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
Three ha you missed out rd problems;concurrency.
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
Since only two (or maybe three, I'm not 100% sure) of these positions exist, a mass resignation would be delayed by having to cycle people through the appointment and release of these figurative roles. It also created a curious effect
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
What's wrong with the Dosadi Experiment? I remember enjoying reading it and finding the worldbuilding really interesting and the drama kept me reading. But I am a sucker for Frank Herbert so maybe I missed the flaws.
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
In the UK, I was taught by my driver instructor to never wave on pedestrians for precisely this reason.
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
I too agree with the banning of cars from areas where pedestrians and cyclists are likely to be, for example, all city centres and residential areas.
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
Yes, all day for me

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