glkindlmann

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by glkindlmann 12d ago
I am grateful that he put an accelerometer on the test train, and plotted the results: it was very cool to see effect of the dashpot snubber. Also, the video introduced me to the term "dashpot snubber", but now when I try to learn
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by glkindlmann 3mo ago
I see that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB#Translation_to_integers implies what I would call node-centered sampling ("standard" or "mid-tread" in the post), but are you aware of sRGB documentatio
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by glkindlmann 4mo ago
This is like a 1D version of what a scientific computing person might describe as the distinction between node-centered ("standard" or "mid-tread" in this post) vs cell-centered ("alternative", "mid-riser&
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by glkindlmann 4mo ago
But traversing the prototype chain (to figure out method dispatch) is also potentially slow without static typing, and we're managing that ok, no?
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by glkindlmann 4mo ago
Supporting operator overloading is part of the linked TS issue [1]. But I'm more curious: why did operator overloading in ES6 itself [2] die? [1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/42218 [2]
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by glkindlmann 4mo ago
This is very cool! I would love the ability to scribble arbitrary smooth curves (like a little right hand, or a comma, something asymmetric to highlight the symmetries in play) and see how they are repeated.
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by glkindlmann 4mo ago
Yes, if it included a spanx-like thing to contain my belly. Otherwise it would not look flattering, on me at least.
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by glkindlmann 4mo ago
Thanks for highlighting this. I've seen a lot of popular press about Magnifica Humanitas that notes the slavery apology. It does make some sense with this (recent, as you note) humanist push, but shoe-horning a centuries-overdue apolo
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by glkindlmann 6mo ago
As a standard for floating point representation and computation, IEEE 754 solved multiple long-standing serious problems better than anything that came before it. I don't think its sensible to judge it with a PL design lens like &quot
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by glkindlmann 6mo ago
I like this justifiation of NaN != NaN; it emphasizes that NaN has representional intent, more than just some bit pattern. We take for granted that (except for things like x86 extended precision registers) floating point basically works the
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by glkindlmann 6mo ago
Thank you for the background info, and sorry for me explaining CFFI (I just wanted to be sure we were talking about the same thing). Being ignorant about PyPy, I honestly had no idea until now that there was a personnel or purpose overlap
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by glkindlmann 6mo ago
Sorry can you explain more the connection between PyPy and CFFI (which generates compiled extension modules to wrap an existing C library)? I have never used PyPy, but I use CFFI all the time (to wrap C libraries unrelated to Python so tha
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by glkindlmann 7mo ago
Is there any visibility or accountability to record exactly what it did and not look at? I doubt it. So we're left with a kind of Rorschach test: some people think LLMs follow rules like law-abiding citizens, and some people distrust
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by glkindlmann 7mo ago
Sure, a license can't create new legal understanding of "derived work", but I think the intent of what Splinelinus said still works: a license outlines the terms under which a licensee can use the licensed Work. The license
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by glkindlmann 7mo ago
but I came here for amusement, not existential dread.
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by glkindlmann 8mo ago
I love the Vernier scales! But I honestly hadn't known about the sense in which slide rules have a Venier scale until your comment, which led me to [1]. In another class on laser-cutting I had students make a kerf-meter, which became
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by glkindlmann 8mo ago
A big 6-foot K&E sliderule hung at the front of my high-school chemistry classroom, but was never used. At graduation ('91) I asked the teacher if I could have the slide rule and she said "sure". I keep it now in my offic
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by glkindlmann 8mo ago
I learned about this not from Mathologer, but Numberphile [1]. The second half of the video is the continued fraction derivation. I remember this being the first time I appreciated the sense in which the phi was the most irrational number,
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by glkindlmann 8mo ago
That's super cool! Thanks for explaining. Just to clarify myself - when I was thinking of automation I was not thinking of AI, or at least not how its popularly understood these days. I was thinking more like how 2D mazes can be auto
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by glkindlmann 8mo ago
It may have jumped the shark, but it may be that now there's space for actual experimentation and innovation again. This talk from Scott Jenson (who worked at Apple in Human Interfaces) was thought-provoking and gave me a little optim
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by glkindlmann 8mo ago
The website says "I basically need to design puzzles in reverse and have built a set of tools to help me with that." Does that mean that each day's puzzle is essentially built by hand? It seems like an interesting and non-t
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by glkindlmann 9mo ago
Of the various internet .+P, NTP is one I never learned about as a student, so now I'm looking at its web page [1] by its creator David L. Mills (1938-2024). I've found one video of him giving a retrospective of his extensive int
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by glkindlmann 10mo ago
Others have more complete answers, but the value for me of learning Prolog (in college) was being awakened to a refreshingly different way of expressing a program. Instead of saying "do this and this and this", you say "here
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by glkindlmann 11mo ago
Circle K in Chicago has them too. Employees are constantly needed to monitor things at checkout. If items aren't clearly separated (which is easy to do out of haste, not malice) it will under-count. The same cashiers at the same sto
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by glkindlmann 11mo ago
Thank you for giving the specific name ("Dynamic XFA (XML Form Architecture)") to the kind of PDF that generates the "Please wait" message. I have seen this and never understood how it arises. Chuck Geschke spins in hi
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by glkindlmann 1y ago
Note: the improved loop in the "1. They are not exact" can easily hang. If count > 2^24, then the ulp of f is 2, and adding 1.0f leaves f unchanged. What's wild is that a few lines later he notes how above 2^24 numbers sta
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by glkindlmann 1y ago
I started work on Teem [1] as a grad student 25 years ago; a coordinated set of C libraries for scientific visualization. It includes the original implementation of the NRRD file format [2]. One of my goals for this summer is to finally fi
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by glkindlmann 1y ago
I suggest trying to quantify "extraordinarily", using the actual spectral response curve for the tetrachromat's fourth cone, called "Q" in the paper shared by varunneal. Most people casually equate the short (S), me
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by glkindlmann 1y ago
Sure, but noticing a difference between the images and the real world also happens with us trichromats too, e.g. colors online don't match those in the real world if the illuminant isn't correctly controlled. The intrinsic difficu
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by glkindlmann 1y ago
Whether via direct or reflected light, spectra in trichromat's eyes are still projected down to a 3D space (the responses of the S, M, L cones). What you describe would still require a standardized and reliable way to probe an extra d

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