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by briandw 5d ago
Logo was created by by Seymour Papert. I highly recommend his book Mindstorms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindstorms_(book) It was written in 1980 but could have mostly been written today. All the same issues with t
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by briandw 10d ago
Unfortunately this does not work at nation scale. We are not insects. Tribes fail at levels over a few hundred and that scale only works because of blood ties. Communism has failed to produce good outcomes every time it's been tried. E
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by briandw 11d ago
You don’t have to have one. My first LAN didn’t. I had no idea what I was doing and picked 17.0.0.0 addresses for local ones and I couldn’t connect to Apples website.
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by briandw 14d ago
“does anyone actually know how much of your insurance premium is going on the call centre staff” It’s pretty easy to figure out. Insurance companies publish a loss ratio. That’s the ratio of premiums collected to claims paid out. Lemonade h
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by briandw 19d ago
I’ve wondering if there is a DD-WRT type firmware project out there for TV firmware. If not how difficult is it to root these? I can’t imagine that they are that secure.
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by briandw 20d ago
They didn’t mention the strain. My understanding is that there are 5 strains. P. malariae is common and not particularly deadly while. When i visited Africa, all of the locals had had malaria multiple times. P. falciparum is extremely nasty
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by briandw 21d ago
I think you are conflating a number of factors. Increasing the supply of a good, when all other things are equal, decreases the price. Austin TX is a good example. If increasing the amount and density of housing increases the desirability o
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by briandw 27d ago
The reason for the price increase isn't hard to figure out. The AI boom is here and the demand is off the charts. Supply is limited and increasing production is difficult and slow. > Why does everyone play the game where everything
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by briandw 27d ago
What's your actually point? Reading between the lines I'm seeing the following logic. 1) The free market develops and sell products. 2) The government buys the products that the free market has produced. 3) Therefore the free mark
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by briandw 1mo ago
Fabs take a long time to build. The price will come down once the new fabs come on line. It’s expensive because there isn’t enough of it. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s supply and demand. We’ve see this boom and bust cycle again and again.
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by briandw 1mo ago
This isn't even worthy of a news article. Nothing of consequence happened. It's only news because the media loves to scare people. Does a gas plant breaking or shutting down deserve a big media presence? No? Then this shouldn&#x27
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by briandw 2mo ago
In a conventional aircraft you sit on the roll axis. In a blended wing body design you can have off-axis motion that can increase motion sickness. Rather than rolling with the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, you move up and down when the
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by briandw 2mo ago
I’ve seen the connection between the Riemann zeta function and primes talked about but never an accessible explanation. Although I must say that the beginning was fairly easy to follow, I got overwhelmed about a quarter into it. Feels like
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by briandw 2mo ago
Citation needed.
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by briandw 2mo ago
The point is that stress makes some things stronger. Stress doesn’t make a tea cup stronger because a tea cup is fragile. Stress makes a body or organization stronger if its not too much and the system can adapt. A body in zero g gets sick,
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by briandw 2mo ago
I mean that when you have a system like this and you don’t stress it, it becomes more likely to fail catastrophically. It’s like the Dodo bird. It evolved in the absence of predators, so was easily made extinct. Had the island had dogs the
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by briandw 2mo ago
“Does the job” means all of those things. Figure out what’s important, find a way to measure it (could be also be qualitative.) How does the AI generated code do? If you simply say its no good because of the way it was created, it’s not a r
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by briandw 2mo ago
Code is code. It either does the job or doesn't. If there is nothing that could convince you that AI generated code is trustworthy (for whatever definition of trust) then this is an article of faith, not a rational position.
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by briandw 2mo ago
These systems are antifragile. Just like what was exposed by the supply chain shock during covid. You optimize like crazy to squeeze every bit of efficiency (I know it's the military, so this is relative) out of a system when times are
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by briandw 2mo ago
Gemini was giving us ethnically diverse images of Nazis. Was that profit driven or political?
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by briandw 3mo ago
Irradiated doesn't even mean radioactive. It's like saying I don't want to be set on fire, so I won't eat cooked food. I think the author would have no problem with mushrooms from Chernobyl given that they were under a s
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by briandw 3mo ago
Maybe. I see the real issue as being that people are scared by change and politicians are taking advantage of the opportunity to get more power.
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by briandw 3mo ago
It's a response to the FUD that is water usage in data centers. Data centers don't use a meaningful amount of water when compared to just about any other industrial application, or many recreational ones. Data centers used about 6
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by briandw 3mo ago
Cray used Fluorinert, a chlorofluorocarbon. So not exactly a environmentally friendly solution.
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by briandw 3mo ago
I'll do my best to restate the problem. If AI does all the work, then we won't have people who can understand the math that AI's are creating. This is the real problem as I see it and it extends to most technical work. I didn
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by briandw 3mo ago
So what was the substance that I missed?
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by briandw 4mo ago
You are describing the Jagged Frontier. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/SSRN-id...
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by briandw 4mo ago
Nothing will ever be cheep enough. “599 is dangerously close to 1100”? It’s 1100 is nearly double! I bought the neo for my daughter to use in HS and it’s perfect. Fast, great build and great battery life. Ill be buying a second one for my s
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by briandw 4mo ago
I don't know about the CFD, but I really enjoyed reading this blog back in my iOS days. Friday Q&A was especially good. He would take some part of Obj-C or Cocoa and build a simple version from scratch.
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by briandw 4mo ago
Most of the arguments here feel like gate keeping and resistance to change. I didn't see any arguments that were directly about advancing the state of knowledge of math. “Current automated techniques can produce plausible but unreliabl

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