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by cottonseed 14d ago
Get a soldering practice kit. If you're doing surface mount, get a SMD one. For next level practice, checkout azonenberg's rework challenge: https://github.com/azonenberg/reworkctf . He also has some YouTube
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The best way to advertise a programming language(stylewarning.com)
1 points by cottonseed 5mo ago|0 comments
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Illuminating the Insides of Mlx Models(github.com)
1 points by cottonseed 9mo ago|0 comments
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by cottonseed 1y ago
You cannot bruteforce this. Exhibiting a unknotting of K with n moves only gives you an upper bound u(K) <= n. Proving u(K) = n is an entirely different matter.
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by cottonseed 1y ago
Those are the same. To see that, just flip over L before performing the connect sum.
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A Core Calculus for Documents(arxiv.org)
2 points by cottonseed 1y ago|0 comments
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by cottonseed 2y ago
Proteins are linear molecules consisting of sequences of (mostly) 20 amino acids. You can see the list of amino acids here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid#Table_of_standard_a... . There is a standard encodin
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Orion Browser by Kagi(kagi.com)
271 points by cottonseed 3y ago|188 comments
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by cottonseed 3y ago
I actually prototyped a system like this, mostly as an exercise to learn about crypto. You can't feasibly host or verify proofs on-chain, so you need external trusted verifiers (e.g. oracles). Making sure the oracles can't front
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Just How Random Are Two Factor Authentication Codes? (2018)(wired.com)
1 points by cottonseed 3y ago|0 comments
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by cottonseed 4y ago
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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by cottonseed 4y ago
Yes. EleutherAI is doing it, probably one of many: https://www.eleuther.ai/projects/gpt-neox/ https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06745 Th
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by cottonseed 4y ago
AllSpice might be what you're looking for? > AllSpice: A git platform for hardware engineers https://www.allspice.io/
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by cottonseed 4y ago
Where are you losing people in your hiring process? Are you getting no initial applications? Do you give the coding exercise but they never do it? Do you give an offer but they turn it down? There is a lot of speculation in this thread
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A New Kind of Science: Review by Cosma Shalizi(bactra.org)
2 points by cottonseed 4y ago|0 comments
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Takeaways from 3 Years Working in Machine Learning(epistem.ink)
5 points by cottonseed 4y ago|0 comments
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by cottonseed 5y ago
Mathematician here. What do you want this for? Even if you had them, you probably wouldn't understand the definitions anyway. As others say, there is no standard, and conventions vary by subfield, publication, author and over time.
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by cottonseed 5y ago
One of the best technologists I ever worked with denied his interest in technology until he was around your age. He was a professor at a top school in CS and started some innovative and impactful companies. I quit my job at 34 to study ma
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Increased Neutron Levels at Chernobyl-4: How Dangerous Is Corium?(hackaday.com)
13 points by cottonseed 5y ago|0 comments
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by cottonseed 5y ago
I thought this recent Hackaday article did a good job putting the current Chernobyl situation in perspective: https://hackaday.com/2021/05/14/increased-neutron-levels-at-... edit: submitted: https:/&#x2
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by cottonseed 6y ago
It is pretty clear Jim Keller did something pretty remarkable at Apple and then AMD (I know less about his work at Tesla). I tried to dig into the stuff he's said and written to understand what he did and how he did it. Say what you
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by cottonseed 6y ago
You guys are getting upvotes?
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by cottonseed 6y ago
Hail at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Software Engineer | Boston, MA | ONSITE, https://hail.is , https://broadinstitute.org The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was launched in 2004 to improve human healt
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by cottonseed 6y ago
I think it's going to largely depend on build times and how much infrastructure you need to spin up during during tests. Some discussion for the same question in a recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216
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by cottonseed 6y ago
You might like 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, too.
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by cottonseed 6y ago
Check out What the Best College Teachers Do and What The Best College Students Do by Ken Bain.
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by cottonseed 6y ago
The Broad Institute: https://www.broadinstitute.org/about-us https://broadinstitute.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/broad_institute I work there. My group builds scalable tools for genomic data analysis: https:&#x2
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by cottonseed 6y ago
For context, a skim of random internet sources claim that TSMC produced 1.1M 7nm wafers last year.
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by cottonseed 6y ago
I don't think so, but you need to manage/sync the infrastructure state yourself.
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by cottonseed 6y ago
> college The author specifically mentions college friends. Sounds like they were only friends with CS majors even then.

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