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by alphaBetaGamma 3d ago
https://studio-galois.com/ My wife and I are working on a math/science/CS-inspired jewelry: pieces that stand on their own aesthetically but have a hidden meaning. We currently have two styles: lambda calculus bas
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by alphaBetaGamma 1mo ago
My wife and I are working on a math/science/CS-inspired jewelry business. We try to create pieces that stand on their own aesthetically but have a hidden meaning. We currently have two styles: lambda calculus based pieces (we depi
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by alphaBetaGamma 3mo ago
My wife and I are working on a math/science/CS-inspired jewelry business. We try to create pieces that stand on their own aesthetically but have a hidden meaning. We currently have two styles: lambda calculus based pieces (we depi
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by alphaBetaGamma 3mo ago
My wife and I are working on a math/science/CS-inspired jewelry business. We try to create pieces that stand on their own aesthetically but have a hidden meaning. We currently have two styles: lambda calculus based pieces (we depi
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by alphaBetaGamma 3mo ago
Thank you. We have not really started advertising, but my wife is (very) often complimented on the jewelry when she wears it and that has led to a few sales.
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by alphaBetaGamma 3mo ago
Thanks. Good idea. What I often ended up doing is asking it to draw 3 labeled arrows X,Y,Z. So I could tell it to orient along the XY labeled arrows (which are in reality YZ, but whatever).
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by alphaBetaGamma 3mo ago
Built a tool to help design cs/science inspired jewelry in CAD. I wrote a DSL to describe the jewelry, and had an LLM write the interpreter to generate a CAD file using cadquery (note to self: LLM suck at 3d reasoning). I would not hav
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by alphaBetaGamma 11mo ago
Well, you are probably right. Pasting the annoucement in gptzero yields this: 16% AI generated 84% Mixed 0% Human
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by alphaBetaGamma 2y ago
If I remember correctly, in that book Galileo says he heard of someone in the Netherlands having made a microscope, but without any details about how it was made. Armed with the knowledge that something like that was possible, he designs a
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by alphaBetaGamma 2y ago
Galileo refers in this to a book he had published earlier, the "Starry Messenger". It is well worth reading. Galileo had just build the first ever telescope and he describes what he has discovered: there are incredibly more stars
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by alphaBetaGamma 4y ago
Fun fact: if your first name is Isabella you can visit the museum for free. I believe that she specified this in her will.
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by alphaBetaGamma 5y ago
If you like Bach you might want to learn to listen to polyphony: the form of music in which multiple melodies are played simultaneously while forming an harmonious whole. I recommend looking & listening to videos of Stephen Malinowsky (
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Replace multiple strings, O(1) wrt number of replacements(unix.stackexchange.com)
1 points by alphaBetaGamma 6y ago|1 comments
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by alphaBetaGamma 6y ago
I was using sed to do many replacements (hundreds) in a file and it was starting to be slow, running in O(num_replacemnts). I thought that this can be done with a state machine so the runtime could be independent of the number of replacemen
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by alphaBetaGamma 6y ago
Not the author, but I had a similar problem. If you specify many replacement rules in sed, it will run in O(num_replacements * num_lines). You should be able to use a state machine to do it in O(num_lines), so I google a bit and found this
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by alphaBetaGamma 6y ago
If I remember correctly, the system calls where indirect jumps where the address of the jump was in ram (it had been copied from the rom on startup): it was designed to you could hijack system calls and modify their behavior. This blew my
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by alphaBetaGamma 7y ago
I have heard that it is good practice to always chose the number of teeth of two gears to be relatively prime. This is because there can be impurities in the metal, and if you have a small part of a tooth that is harder than the rest it wil
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by alphaBetaGamma 7y ago
In some/many cases there is code before the branch that does not influence the branch condition. In that case, would it be possible to architect the cpu such that it could execute the branch 'early'? I'm thinking of a sp
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by alphaBetaGamma 9y ago
Would it be possible to do a special distribution for non emacs users? I'm thinking of one download with emacs + magit + CUA mode by default + run magit-status on startup (or whatever else would be appropriate). So it looks like a stan
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by alphaBetaGamma 10y ago
Similar, but in 3d: Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes, Daina Taimina, https://www.amazon.com/Crocheting-Adventures-Hyperbolic-Plan...
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by alphaBetaGamma 10y ago
Slightly off-topic question about WaveNet: In the paper, they say that they double the dilation factor up to a limit and then repeat: 1, 2, 4, ..., 512, 1, 2, 4, ..., 512, 1, 2, 4, ..., 512 The doubling of the dilation factor makes sense t
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by alphaBetaGamma 10y ago
I also like the concept of "engine-rich exhaust" (also known as "the engine is melting").
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by alphaBetaGamma 10y ago
A different solution to the Box in box problem, with less math: Consider the square of (length + with + height). The sum of the diagonal terms is the square of the distance between opposite corners, the sum of the off diagonal terms equals
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by alphaBetaGamma 10y ago
Using the same brushes as Leonardo da Vinci will not make you a better painter.
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by alphaBetaGamma 11y ago
Photos of the event: http://www.iisd.ca/climate/cop21/enb/12dec.html
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Tensorflow 0.6.0 Release(github.com)
111 points by alphaBetaGamma 11y ago|37 comments
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by alphaBetaGamma 11y ago
While on this subject, would anybody recommend a book in french? It would be for my nephew who is quite smart, high-school age, and knows java an python. I would like to expose him to something different: lisp, or functional programming.
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by alphaBetaGamma 11y ago
If the teller takes 10 min (on average) to serve someone and people arrive less often that 1 in every 10 minute, the average wait time is going to be finite. If people arrive more often than 1 in every 10 minutes, the queue is going to grow
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by alphaBetaGamma 11y ago
No Mention of the Bard? That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
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by alphaBetaGamma 11y ago
How does compressed sensing work if you don't know the base in which the signal is sparse beforehand?

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