dcanelhas

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by dcanelhas 18d ago
On the "Stop saying please" part. I personally like to use polite language, as an exercise. According to this one paper on arxiv, toxic behavior gets better accuracy https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04950 It was pu
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by dcanelhas 20d ago
I don't know how other people experience it, but it's not like a full-blown hallucination as the exercise would imply. Personally I experience it as something in between the concept of an object and the perception of an instance
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by dcanelhas 20d ago
I find it harder to conjure up the sensory experience of scents and flavors, is that something other people can do instinctively? Is there an equivalent to perfect pitch smelling out there?
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by dcanelhas 25d ago
There was 13th lab, acquired by oculus years ago. Wouldn't surprise me if there are a bunch of first, second, third labs too
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by dcanelhas 1mo ago
For me that step-size only works to affect the jumps given by the mouse scroll wheel. The keyboard arrow keys (Left and Down) also seem to do some scrolling after you have selected the number line. However, both arrows produce steps in the
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by dcanelhas 1mo ago
This is a nice visualization. Are there any keyboard keys to just advance one position along the line? I tried the arrow keys but they jumped quite far. I don't know how this was generated (BFS and flattening?) it seems adjacent indice
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by dcanelhas 1mo ago
The suicide rate isn't uniformly distributed given gender. There are likely screenings (previous mental health history) and rejection of the most affected age group (70+) that should lead the baseline to be even lower. Meaning 18x is p
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by dcanelhas 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem Facts alone won't get you to answers about what you should do about something. Whether your personal view is that the solution to low income migrants entering
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by dcanelhas 3mo ago
Clearly making a motor with induced magnetic fields both for the stator and rotor isn't the innovation here, since a large fraction of industrial motors do not have permanent magnets. I would assume the innovation here would need to be
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by dcanelhas 5mo ago
KeePass is just an encrypted database file with UI around it for usability. You can keep the db on a USB drive, sync it through a cloud storage, e-mail it to yourself, whatever ... It's really not that complicated. BitWarden is the abo
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by dcanelhas 5mo ago
I figured 2x4 would be the theoretical minimum since ascii characters are 1 byte each (without extensions). 1x5 with color is impressive, even if it is sort of like a faux 3x5
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by dcanelhas 6mo ago
After the transition to digital TV our broadcasted signals mostly look like noise, though. Maybe an outside observer would assume that our civilization ended sometime in 2010.
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by dcanelhas 6mo ago
I'm half expecting to see "AI model" appearing as stand-in for "linear regression" at this point in the cycle.
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by dcanelhas 7mo ago
Wait, does that mean that you could make an ASCII representation of a QR code that points to the URL that the QR code was made of?
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by dcanelhas 7mo ago
How shocking!
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by dcanelhas 7mo ago
Shouldn't 523 in that list of "other numbers" actually be 522?
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by dcanelhas 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root for those who just want the info without AI filler
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by dcanelhas 7mo ago
> I wrote my first line of code in 1983. I was seven years old, typing BASIC into a machine that had less processing power than the chip in your washing machine I think there may be a counterpoint hiding in plain sight here: back in 1983
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by dcanelhas 8mo ago
The opposite of down is up, so it wouldn't be completely illogical.
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by dcanelhas 8mo ago
Indeed, 15 or 25 mph (24 or 40 km/h) are the speed limits in school zones (when in effect) in CA, for reference. But depending on the general movement and density and category of pedestrians around the road it could be practically reck
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by dcanelhas 8mo ago
It does sound like a good outcome for automation. Though I suppose an investigation into the matter would arguably have to look at whether a competent human driver would be driving at 17mph (27km/h) under those circumstances to begin w
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by dcanelhas 8mo ago
Indeed, then this design will truly have come full circle.
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by dcanelhas 9mo ago
I remember the pitch for Julia early on being matlab-like syntax, C-like performance. When I've heard Julia mentioned more recently, the main feature that gets highlighted is multiple-dispatch. https://www.youtube.com/w
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by dcanelhas 9mo ago
Even with text, parsing content in 2D seems to be a challenge for every LLM I have interacted with. Try getting a chatbot to make an ascii-art circle with a specific radius and you'll see what I mean.
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by dcanelhas 9mo ago
I think the selfishness here is related to being fine with generating a pile of electronic waste that becomes a problem for everyone else, as long as he can avoid carrying a few ounces extra. It's hard to recycle electronics, because s
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by dcanelhas 10mo ago
In 15 years: Testing shows that automotive shaped charge glassbreakers can't penetrate the armor on most modern automotive glass. Was drone-proofing civilian cars a mistake?
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by dcanelhas 11mo ago
I wish there was an active dev community that could patch win10 going forward, but without access to source code for the kernel, perhaps that isn't really viable. Ideally I would want to use Linux but I also want to play games that are
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by dcanelhas 1y ago
It's an interesting read. I guess the difference between this situation and the ideal case is that he would have been admitted for observation as a precaution in a world where there was plenty of room and staff to take care of even the
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by dcanelhas 1y ago
I wonder what the prognosis was right after the operation. The article makes it sound a bit like this outcome was totally unexpected. Insulin from pigs can be used by humans, right? But maybe there's more to diabetes than just a new pa
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by dcanelhas 1y ago
I wonder where platforms like slack would land in all of this, and how would they go about akeeping people from just using their own encryption e.g. pgp over unencrypted channels? Is public key cryptography too weak to matter?

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