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by VanillaCafe 2y ago
Trying to understand it... if by comparison I'm using tmux then switching to something like this adds mouse based window (panel) management?
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by VanillaCafe 2y ago
> For anyone wondering why it takes so long to actually switch this stuff out One counterpoint is do we really NEED to have brightly colored foods? It's a hard problem if you need a food to be bright red. But, that has to boil down
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by VanillaCafe 2y ago
I thought this might be a useful article because I've often had a similar question. But there's a diagram that has text: > More simply put: imagine that you have red, green, and blue light sources. What is the intensity of ea
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by VanillaCafe 2y ago
> I don't know why the narrative became "don't call it hallucination". Context is "don't call it hallicination" picked up meme energy since https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007
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by VanillaCafe 3y ago
> Unless you could somehow make an Alcubierre warp drive. Even if you can make it, even though it's theoretically possible that the warp bubble could move through space faster than the speed of light, it's a separate and comple
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by VanillaCafe 3y ago
There are a lot of real world caveats that go into those range estimates. I just took my long range Tesla Model Y with an advertised 326 mile range on a multi-day road trip and I was stopping to charge about every 100 miles. I would love to
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by VanillaCafe 3y ago
A pet nit, and the standards probably don't permit this, but for encoding 128-bit numbers, I prefer base-57 in my own implementations. 22 characters for a 128-bit encoding, same as base-64. You can split it into two 11-character 64-bit
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by VanillaCafe 3y ago
Evidence suggests that none of this is true. Just look at how Google Fiber wasn't able to navigate the myriad regional regulatory roadblocks thrown up by local governments when lobbied by incumbent ISPs. It's reasonable to expect
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by VanillaCafe 3y ago
I think there is true emergence coming from these newest large language models, which is something that can't be captured by reducing the system to merely a mathematical Plinko machine. To understand emergent behaviors, the system real
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by VanillaCafe 4y ago
Love the demo jitters as he picks up the frosted flakes, "Well that's working. That's good."
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by VanillaCafe 4y ago
I can't seem to find the reference, but I seem to recall that Valve had specialized rendering logic for the power lines in Half Life 2? I presume that's basically the same fundamental problem as rendering line art and star fields.
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by VanillaCafe 4y ago
> They successfully show that Niemann was playing many games with a high percentage of "engine perfect" moves, but they do not do enough to show that this is inconsistent with what top players usually do. I thought the video ve
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by VanillaCafe 4y ago
The real problem isn't the veracity of the information, but the consensus protocol we use to agree on what's true. Before the internet, we were more likely to debate with their neighbors to come to an understanding. Now, with the
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by VanillaCafe 4y ago
> Maybe it would be worth spending some mental cycles thinking about the impacts this will have and how we design these systems. Regardless if the bot is actually sentient, a portion of the population may _believe_ the bot is sentient. I
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by VanillaCafe 5y ago
Hilarious the visceral response here to the apparent and inevitable decline of YouTube content quality with the removal of a dislike count -- when Hacker News itself doesn't show a down vote count nor even a down vote button for a larg
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by VanillaCafe 5y ago
Nice. And now the museum can create a piece of art in response called "Repercussions". (Or, maybe it was all one piece of art all along.)
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by VanillaCafe 5y ago
Title should read: China has forbidden under-18s from playing ONLINE VIDEO games for more than three hours/week. (And even ONLINE may not be quite precise enough.)
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by VanillaCafe 5y ago
The final bit that locked it in for me (and someone please correct me if this is wrong) is that going to the bathroom (which what many people assume is where weight leaves the body) is actually the last stage of "energy input" to
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by VanillaCafe 6y ago
If it ever gets to home computing, it will get to data center computing far sooner. What does a world look like where data center computing is roughly 100x cheaper than home computing?
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by VanillaCafe 6y ago
You're not wrong that BMI is okay enough of a metric for most people. But, in terms of a metric that is even more simple (one simple measurement tool instead of two), accounts for athletic builds, and is arguably more predictive of hea
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by VanillaCafe 6y ago
360 Wh for 18 cubic meters? Is this a joke? That is indeed the volume of a small room. You need nearly 40 of them, the volume of a large house, to give the equivalent energy storage of one 13.5 kWh Tesla Powerwall.
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by VanillaCafe 7y ago
What does the super scheduler that coordinates the two schedulers approximately look like?
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by VanillaCafe 7y ago
For instance, I assume for instance a common workload that would otherwise benefit from the fair scheduler has a fair chance of wanting to do low latency audio. I believe Android has had this issue. As soon as the platform cares about low l
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by VanillaCafe 7y ago
> A NOTE ABOUT DEADLINES: While fair scheduling is appropriate for the vast majority of workloads, there are some tasks that require very specific timing and/or do not adapt well to overload conditions. For example, these workloads
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by VanillaCafe 8y ago
> Years later, when we discover these relics and hop on, it’s as if we never stopped biking. I'd like to challenge this. Barring scientific evidence to this fact, it is at best an anecdotal evidence, and so I will submit my own anec
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by VanillaCafe 8y ago
These principles seem to have already been wholesomely applied to Google then Waymo's approach to self-driving cars. This is in stark contrast to the approaches used by competitors such as Uber and Tesla who appear to favor capturing
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by VanillaCafe 9y ago
Step 1? Maybe if you don't want your model predicting crime based on race, sex, or other sensitive features, you shouldn't train your model on race, sex, or other sensitive features.
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by VanillaCafe 9y ago
So in terms of training, they went from nothing to "Go Singularity" in about a month? Impressive.
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by VanillaCafe 9y ago
Agreed. For products in Amazon above a certain star threshold (say, 3+), I evaluate given the shape of the review histogram, particularly minimizing the size of the bump down at 1-star and 2-star.
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
Note: the blog post was written by Eric Brewer who invented the CAP theorem.

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