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by gjstein 8mo ago
DC local. Total outage this afternoon. SOS on my phone for a few hours. Unable to log into my account.
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by gjstein 10mo ago
What sort of laptop/desktop do you have? I regularly use my AirPods with my Steam Deck and they work great!
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by gjstein 11mo ago
Ursula Le Guin in her preface to The Left Hand of Darkness [1], describes Science Fiction as "descriptive." She invents "elaborately circumstantial lies" as a means of describing what she sees as some truth in our being.
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by gjstein 2y ago
Feynman is no random celebrity. In addition to be a renowned physicist, his famous "Feynman Lectures" and his thoughts on pedagogy are similarly legendary.
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by gjstein 2y ago
So far, no one has mentioned "Bug Algorithms", which have a similar structure of (1) walk in the direction of the goal, (2) walk around obstacles as they are encountered, (3) leave the obstacle to proceed when some condition is me
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by gjstein 2y ago
The idea that this is a drop in replacement for numpy (e.g., `import cupy as np`) is quite nice, though I've gotten similar benefit out of using `pytorch` for this purpose. It's a very popular and well-supported library with a syn
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by gjstein 2y ago
Similar: XKCD conducted a color survey back in 2010 [1]. The results are detailed and the writeup quite interesting. [1] https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
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by gjstein 2y ago
I'd also like to mention the classic book "Reinforcement Learning" by Sutton & Barto, which goes into some relevant mathematical aspects for choosing the "best" among a set of options. They have a full link of t
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by gjstein 2y ago
Doesn't Slack violate that constraint? Slack allows (or at least seems to) using iOS system emoji to respond to messages.
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by gjstein 2y ago
This is true enough, though remember that material properties change dramatically when you start moving through wavelengths by orders of magnitude. Silicon is transparent in the mid-infrared, which is what makes silicon photonics possible [
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PaperOps: Run experiments and add results to a PDF with a single Make command(cs.gmu.edu)
2 points by gjstein 2y ago|0 comments
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by gjstein 3y ago
This is a cynical take on what I think is a meaningful benefit that the above commenter is talking about. If you use ChatGPT to learn concepts and approach it with the caveat that you should make sure you understand what you are trying to
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by gjstein 3y ago
I have some mixed feelings about this. I used to do this ~10 years ago when I was a distance runner, but now exercising so hard will throw my body off in other ways and I don't feel good having pushed so hard. Perhaps this is exactly t
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by gjstein 3y ago
Agreed! I've never seen something like this before, but it seems that all articles in this (nascent) journal have the same sort of information. Does anyone know if this is standard across journals for research in this space?
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by gjstein 3y ago
It seems like using np.random.choice is indeed a slow way to get a grid in which 5% of the values are 1. I would recommend using np.random.rand(size) >= mutations: > python3 -m timeit 'import numpy as np; mutations=0.05; rows
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SayPlan: Scalable Task Planning Using 3D Scene Graphs(arxiv.org)
1 points by gjstein 3y ago|0 comments
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by gjstein 3y ago
Excited for this, but I think with all this conversation about the role an AI assistant should play in work and development, this line feels incomplete to me: > Think of Claude as a friendly, enthusiastic colleague or personal assistant
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by gjstein 3y ago
Rewatching Person of Interest now. Amazing how relevant it is; aged incredibly well.
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by gjstein 3y ago
What sort of Docker support will this have? I have a very shaky setup right now to run Unity headless that requires OpenGL and VirtualGL. It feels like that pipeline won’t work forever and am looking for alternatives.
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by gjstein 3y ago
That really is a somewhat incredible statistic to me, not because it's surprising given my own empirical evidence, but because of all the things one does in/with a car for years at a time. My car has been driven across the country
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by gjstein 4y ago
This gets shared on here from time to time and while I love it (and Tufte), it really falls short on mobile devices. When the page is sufficiently narrow, revealing sidebar items is done via small clickable elements: if the user has never s
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by gjstein 4y ago
Just as ChatGPT seems pretty capable at summarizing text, an AI with "unlimited memory" could potentially answer analytical questions about larger datasets and non-linear data (in the sense that prose is read from start-to-finish)
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Write Code and Tests in Tandem(cs.gmu.edu)
2 points by gjstein 4y ago|0 comments
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by gjstein 4y ago
I have a similar background in Electrical Engineering and, while I enjoyed the book, it did not change my perspective. I think the book does a good job of opening up what many programmers (and, of course, others) may see as a "black bo
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by gjstein 4y ago
Would love an answer on this too. It would be even better not just to try using this, but also be able to run it locally, something that has been impossible for GPT-3.
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A guide to my organizational workflow(cachestocaches.com)
2 points by gjstein 5y ago|0 comments
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by gjstein 5y ago
Philips Hue lights. I had wanted them for a little while for the novelty of it, but upon buying a couple my wife and I converted nearly all of our small apartment (except the bathrooms) to use their color-changing bulbs. Being able to chang
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by gjstein 6y ago
I'd actually like to pose a similar question: is there a "Bob Ross"-like series for drawing with a tablet? My wife and I have had some fun in quarantine following a few Bob Ross videos using our iPads but the sort of techni
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by gjstein 6y ago
The one killer feature I'm still missing from Blender is real-time simulation . I absolutely adore using Blender for hobby and art projects, but as a full-time robotics and computer vision researcher, Blender just still isn't qui
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by gjstein 6y ago
The "search" here refers to the idea that, in principle, you could search the entire space of possible hands of cards and exhaustively predict the optimal action by imagining every hand. However, like in the game of Go, this is co

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