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by ballooney 24d ago
This only proves the original point which is that there is not much demand for actual machine learning expertise because that is only carried out in a small number of places and what demands there is is for the more basic software carpentry
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by ballooney 1mo ago
Does this bring me closer to being able to run notebooks natively on my ipad?
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by ballooney 1mo ago
For a given lift, a larger, lower speed rotor is strictly more efficient than a smaller faster one, all else being equal. So no surprises that when efficiency matters we don’t see quadcopter-type designs. The reason they became ubiquitous i
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by ballooney 1mo ago
It is infact a visual implementation of arithmetic coding, and he used it in his lectures to teach arithmetic coding in the lecture following the one on huffman coding. The video lectures posted earlier are highly recommended, best course I
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by ballooney 1mo ago
This is such a grim thing to read.
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by ballooney 2mo ago
> I’ve always been a sucker for something novel, so when something as huge as the iPhone had a quirky new model I was really stoked to check it out. This is just... not a life well-lived.
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by ballooney 2mo ago
Almost all the ‘servicing’ and ‘orbital debris cleanup’ robot-arm sats are funded quite heavily by military end users, because there is really no market for their stated aims and a huge market for the unstated aims - flying up to an adversa
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by ballooney 2mo ago
I have rarely had such displeasure from hearing such an interesting interviewee having to cope with such a cretinous interviewer. I’m very surprised you recommended this.
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by ballooney 3mo ago
In no way whatsoever, for low power devices.
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by ballooney 3mo ago
I don't know, I get runner's high and want to go running again a couple of days later.
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by ballooney 3mo ago
Do something better with your life. Honestly, not /s. Your brain is trying to tell you something.
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by ballooney 3mo ago
For a proper distributed internet it seemed like a good idea, but silicon valley has rather scorched the earth, and so it’s not that useful for passively consuming slop and adverts.
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by ballooney 4mo ago
The chinese colonies love opium, engagement is through the roof.
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by ballooney 5mo ago
I don’t like this site’s obsession with reducing everything to market opportunities, but… it’s extremely well documented that land mines, white truffles, cancer, diabetes, chemical weapons, etc can all be ‘sniffed’ by animals and it’s a mec
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by ballooney 6mo ago
What he means and you're interpreting a bit too literally is that this [heatshield] is one subsystem where the risks are not well understood or quantified as, say, the propulsion system, for which we have a lot more experience and flig
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by ballooney 6mo ago
Bayes rule has existed for nearly 300 years, there is no excuse for ‘only look[ing] at this data’ and that is NEVER a reasonable thing to do.
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by ballooney 6mo ago
You’d need a load of additional propellant to insert yourself into the same orbit as the ISS on your return, which would have an exponential effect on the amount of propellant needed in the first place to get all this lot out to the moon. I
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by ballooney 6mo ago
In the last 60 days I have written over 600,000 lines of production code No you haven't.
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by ballooney 6mo ago
About the same as Bezos invested in the Melania documentary, watched by about six people.
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by ballooney 7mo ago
Everyone in silicon valley would do well to remember why the web was built (by other people, elsewhere).
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by ballooney 7mo ago
What are your favourite active irc channels for technical hobbies?
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by ballooney 7mo ago
For context, the Cosmos Institute an AI lobbying business. [it flatters itself otherwise but that’s not atypical of the form]
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by ballooney 1y ago
Hopelessly over-idealistic premise. Sama and pg have never been anything other than opportunistic muck. This will be my last ever comment on HN.
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by ballooney 1y ago
WTF? [Tang notes in-joke for potential downvoters]
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by ballooney 1y ago
No! “they must do _something_ that makes their users want to use it.” Is fentanyl acting in the interests of its addicts?
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by ballooney 1y ago
How could you _possibly_ believe a company like meta would use a new technology to act in your interests rather than theirs?
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by ballooney 1y ago
I do worry about seeing more of these posts, as a way of SV people - who bare a substantial burden of guilt for enabling the collective mess we’re in because the ad-tech/algorithm dollars were nice - collectively distancing themselves
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by ballooney 1y ago
The electrical efficiency of breaking water to hydrogen, then combusting hydrogen through a turbine to generate electricity, compares extremely disfavourably to most other forms of storage - it takes about 50kWh of electricity to produce 1k
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by ballooney 2y ago
250 _meters_, this is science not javascript.
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by ballooney 2y ago
I'm from the dark ages and am interested in this for non-AI things like CFD. What is the state of SDK support for these chips? Is there a nice rust or C++ library that abstracts the hardware and lets you just do very big Matrix multipl

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