aperrien

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by aperrien 11d ago
I'm trying to understand the difference between this project and FreedomBox. I mean it's great to have options, but have any of them looked over that way? Heck, FreedomBox is even built into Debian now.
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by aperrien 21d ago
Sound very much like a Resource Based Economy. Back when discussion of the future and futurology was small and hopeful, that was one the well sought after goals. Now cynicism has destroyed that, and we're left to deal with the ashes.
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by aperrien 21d ago
Ignoring Gates, what do you suggest as solutions to the problem at hand?
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by aperrien 29d ago
Interesting work! There's NeuroMechFly ( https://github.com/NeLy-EPFL/flygym/ ) available, you might try using that to simulate the fly body in real time as well.
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by aperrien 2mo ago
Is there a way to download them all in one go?
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by aperrien 3mo ago
Prove to me that you are conscious, without referring to the fact that you are a human and have common ground and experiences with other humans.
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by aperrien 4mo ago
Is there a server for the PS2?
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by aperrien 4mo ago
Why not python? It's pretty simple for kids to understand.
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by aperrien 4mo ago
If the file is that important, it shouldn't be stored in the VM, but on some sort of more robust storage system.
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by aperrien 5mo ago
Remarkable. If this material works and is flexible enough, we could someday see tape drives with hundreds of exabytes of capacity.
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by aperrien 6mo ago
> In general, the idea of producing a body that lacks the brain but has everything else intact is very rational. Its doubtless creepiness may wane with time. I'm old enough that I remember when artificial hearts and heart transplant
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by aperrien 6mo ago
Thanks for the blast from the past. SED led me to AWK, which led me to Perl, which lead me to Python. An interesting chain that brought me back to the interpreted languages like BASIC that I programmed in when I was a kid. Even though my f
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by aperrien 6mo ago
Maybe. But it can also help people find their voice. And I'd rather have comments from someone knowledgeable but unrefined with some good guidance than their silence on that same topic.
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by aperrien 7mo ago
Are there any attempts to start geo-engineering to fix this? I'm assuming there will be no attempt to stop dumping carbon into the atmosphere, can we at least do something to take it back out? Can we use solar or renewables to possibly
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by aperrien 7mo ago
We build our own with data that we've collected ourselves ethically. Then we execute once the big guys are distracted.
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by aperrien 8mo ago
Have you tried asking one of your peers who claims to get good results to run a test with you? Where you both try to create the same project, and share your results?
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by aperrien 9mo ago
What I like about Forth is that it can be expressed at the lowest level of computation, and that it can be used to bridge that to the highest level of computation. For example, Forth only requires about 12 opcodes to run, which can be imple
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by aperrien 10mo ago
We could just leave them up there and add more stations nearby. It may even be possible to use tethering lines to travel from one to another.
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by aperrien 11mo ago
Large planes are all fly by wire. In a commercial airplane, you're talking about moving maybe a quarter-ton of metal for the rudder alone, and against high wind speeds. There is no way to move those without powerful servo motors.
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by aperrien 11mo ago
I didn't know about Pinta, and now I do. Thank you!
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by aperrien 11mo ago
There is a range between less profit and no profit. As a shareholder, I'd rather have a functional society for all at the cost of a bit less profit, rather than being the richest in a world of ashes.
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by aperrien 1y ago
An Aeon ago in 1984, I wrote a perceptron on the Apple II. It was amazingly slow (20 minutes to complete a recognition pass), but what most impressed me at the time was that it did work. Since that time as a kid I always wondered just how f
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by aperrien 1y ago
If it tastes good and reduces harm to salmon, I'm in.
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by aperrien 1y ago
Is it possible to download this for offline use? Or to view the source code for it?
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by aperrien 2y ago
Man, we shared our knowledge via books long before the internet. And a lot of those AI models train off of thousands of books as a base before they try to incorporate less accurate knowledge from the wild internet. The cat was out of the ba
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by aperrien 2y ago
Is this model open source?
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by aperrien 2y ago
I can't contribute that much yet. I'm working on a set of real estate investments to hopefully start the chain within 5-6 years. One of the things that would help for now is to experiment with small projects and hopefully identify
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by aperrien 2y ago
I really wish there was a finance group for solarpunk stuff. It's a constant problem, and when I join any of the many groups online, no-one seems to acknowledge it. If there was some sort of fund that we could contribute to that handle
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by aperrien 2y ago
Whatever happened to the Quick Interchange Format(.qif)? It used to be common for all banks to support that. A modern variant today could just be a XML or JSON export, and I hardly see that either.
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by aperrien 2y ago
While descriptive, I'd think a catchier name might be in order. As a plus, that can be used to draw people away from any Oracle branding.

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