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by docfort 2mo ago
I think the first goal of writing is to talk to yourself. Without an external, unchanging scratchpad, most people cannot keep their thoughts truly straight. It can feel otherwise, but trying to write something about any tricky topic even a
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by docfort 2mo ago
Related: the Busy Beaver problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857041
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by docfort 3mo ago
I know this is such a late reply, but for clarity: my foundational point is the exact opposite hypothesis. Free labor enables incentivized labor. Economic theory has a neat concept of externalities, a necessary mechanism that only that whic
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by docfort 3mo ago
Free labor enables capitalism, especially if you consider labor arbitrage as a mixture of free labor and properly compensated (according to the real value) labor. From literally being born, to family culture, education, and whatever level o
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by docfort 8mo ago
Interesting post, but the last bit of logic pointing to the Neural Engine for MLX doesn’t hold up. MLX supports running on CPU, Apple GPU via Metal, and NVIDIA GPU via CUDA: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/tree&#
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by docfort 11mo ago
This was a passion of mine decades ago, but Putterman's lab jump-started interest after the cold fusion debacles. Some fun videos and pictures on the lab website. https://acoustics-research.physics.ucla.edu/sonoluminesc
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by docfort 1y ago
More specific info on the reference card is available in the paper's supplemental information. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx8/83/10795784/11125864/supp1... . Basically, they used special paper wit
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by docfort 1y ago
The article says that implantation fails in humans 10-40% of the time. Your point is still valid, but the scale in reality is very significant.
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by docfort 1y ago
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/package/#publishing-your-pa...
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by docfort 1y ago
Verification is indeed the majority of the time spent. Unlike programming, Verilog and VHDL and higher level things like Chisel aren’t executed serially by the hardware they describe like a von Neumann machine. Hello World for a chip isn’t
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by docfort 2y ago
There is some recent work [0] that explores this idea, scaling up n-gram models substantially while using word2vec vectors to understand similarity. Used to compute something the authors call the Creativity Index [1]. [0]: https:/&#x2
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by docfort 2y ago
Terry Tao has referred to this classification system as foxes vs hedgehogs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox
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by docfort 2y ago
I take your example on multitasking operating systems as not being limited to only helping make friendly asynchronous I/O, but I do think a deeper consideration of Multics is coincidently appropriate. The telephone and electrical power
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by docfort 2y ago
It's too bad that they took the physicality of the monkeys into account, but assumed the key probabilities were IID. It would have been nice to see the effect of keyboard layout on the overall probabilities. Key mashing would clearly m
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by docfort 2y ago
Thanks for the reality check. I was worried about how I could be conflating my own personal view as a parent with the popular narrative of "kids these days and their Instagram/TikTok." Probably says a lot more about me, but I
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by docfort 2y ago
I don't dispute the facts in the article, but this question kept popping up in my mind: how do they define reading time? I mean, in a too-pedantic sense, smartphone screen time is roughly divided into reading, viewing (photos/vide
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by docfort 2y ago
A nice complement to this post is Mike Culbert’s article about how Apple chose to use 32-bit ARM6 instead of a 16-bit processor for reasons entirely unrelated to maximum memory size. http://waltersmith.us/newton/COMPCON
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by docfort 2y ago
I take your overall point, but for this specific complaint, there’s a shortcut: long press on the “+” button to take you directly to the photo pocket in Messages.
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by docfort 2y ago
Complexity is the outcome of misunderstanding. The misunderstanding can come from lots of areas. It could be from a requirements perspective: “I understand what I can build easily, but not what you want.” It could be from an engineering per
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by docfort 2y ago
The iTEAR 100 is not generally reimbursed by insurance. If you have an HSA or FSA, you might be able to get it through that. This whole medical device lifetime thing is because it’s regulated for its medical claims by FDA. Given some of the
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by docfort 3y ago
I’m still surprised that this essay didn’t explore the nature of the audience. I’m not disagreeing with your take about the dangers of straw men, but PG does seem very much in the vein of essays are for communicating interesting stuff, or f
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by docfort 3y ago
There is research on humans showing that we can perceive at 500 Hz. There are devices that try to simulate a color by modulating a single LED (no color filter) and they don’t work on humans until you go past around 1 kHz. https:/&#x2F
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by docfort 3y ago
I think that for people without enough paid sick leave (maybe especially in the US), being knocked out for 2-3 weeks with a virus that is more infectious than flu is an event causing long term damage to their life. Especially with the repea
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by docfort 3y ago
So I honestly thought that this was going to be another LLM article, but using the venerable ReLU activation function instead of the usual. A ReLU is exactly an if statement when rendered in a decision tree (if less than 0, emit 0; otherwis
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by docfort 3y ago
It’s exactly this kind of thinking that underlies lossless text compression (not exactly what a transformer guarantees but often what happens). For that reason, some people thought it would be fun to combine zip and transformers. https:&#x
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by docfort 3y ago
I think Lockdown would help here since it doesn’t decode message attachments. So the original link in the chain (decoding a PDF) would be impossible. As for detecting unauthorized apps, I would imagine that once you’ve taken over control of
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by docfort 3y ago
It doesn’t use MPS, so at least that part is more interesting than the usual approach.
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by docfort 3y ago
Bread is a great invention and a staple for many across the world. People have grown better at the process of developing grass into ever more productive wheat crops, transforming the inedible into something people find comfort in. But yes,
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by docfort 3y ago
Apple famously doesn’t do business units. It’s all in on functional organization.
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by docfort 3y ago
I agree that composition is the core idea and I was disappointed that the author neglected to summarize the idea correctly. Composition is a structured way of describing a unique task using a few common nouns and verbs. But composition need

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