juliangamble

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by juliangamble 18d ago
This is the fridge that is used in the book and movie 'The Mosquito Coast'.
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Construction Physics: Los Angeles' ADUs, electrical transformer manufacturing(construction-physics.com)
1 points by juliangamble 26d ago|0 comments
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by juliangamble 6mo ago
But would it have run Shufflepuck Cafe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128631
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by juliangamble 6mo ago
I am so proud to be an Australian technologist today.
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by juliangamble 8mo ago
Some more - Cambridge Centre for Computing History - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/ - London Museum for Science - Babbage's Difference Engine https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories&#
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Bell Labs Won Its First Nobel Prize(construction-physics.com)
3 points by juliangamble 9mo ago|0 comments
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by juliangamble 9mo ago
I'd like to call out the work from Nada Amin in this area: Dafny and verification-aware programming, including proof by induction to verify properties of programs (for example, that an optimizer preserves semantics). Dafny Sketcher ( h
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Messenger Deprecation for Mac(facebook.com)
3 points by juliangamble 10mo ago|2 comments
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by juliangamble 10mo ago
Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS
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by juliangamble 10mo ago
Thanks for your article. The references section was interesting. I'll add to the discussion a 2018 Nature letter: "Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents" https://www.nature.co
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Strap Rail(construction-physics.com)
50 points by juliangamble 11mo ago|6 comments
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by juliangamble 11mo ago
> Anything more complex than a few lines, you can just copy it from lib\ folder of the CD-ROM. There's a component for everything. You want to left-pad a string? This got me.
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by juliangamble 1y ago
They started with a different, more brilliant idea, of using human brains as a giant neural net, then backed away from that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12508832
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Ford and the Birth of the Model T(construction-physics.com)
4 points by juliangamble 1y ago|0 comments
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How does the US use water?(construction-physics.com)
241 points by juliangamble 1y ago|195 comments
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by juliangamble 1y ago
“Zero success” seems a bit strong. People have been able to get 96% accuracy on MINST digits on their local machine. https://norse.github.io/notebooks/mnist_classifiers.html I think it may be more accurate to say “197
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by juliangamble 1y ago
Quibble: Both Clojure and Scala have a Software Transactional Memory implementation, and the original Clojure Ant demo showed this.
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Understanding US Power Outages(construction-physics.com)
3 points by juliangamble 1y ago|0 comments
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by juliangamble 1y ago
I did the tour of Bletchley Park today and my Tour Guide said he'd met Betty Webb, that he mourned her loss, and that when he had met her at a reunion, she had remained tight-lipped about what her work had been on.
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Construction Physics: Google's answer to Starlink, US food imports, BYD factory(construction-physics.com)
1 points by juliangamble 1y ago|0 comments
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How will the Trump tariffs affect construction?(construction-physics.com)
8 points by juliangamble 2y ago|1 comments
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by juliangamble 2y ago
> These “limitations” inhibit truly intelligent behavior in machines, LeCun says. This is down to four key reasons: a lack of understanding of the physical world; a lack of persistent memory; a lack of reasoning; and a lack of complex pl
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by juliangamble 2y ago
The University that hosted "The Little Schemer" and all its derivatives. Those books were a delight and taught me to think about programming in a way that other languages had not. (Even if I didn't go to that University). h
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by juliangamble 2y ago
Like a @Nanoraptor concept art, except real…
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The Influence of Bell Labs(construction-physics.com)
7 points by juliangamble 2y ago|0 comments
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by juliangamble 2y ago
I’ve tried different part detectors, and nothing has been as good as the Google Image search (download the Google App if you’re on an iPhone.) I’ve found it surprisingly good at identifying LEGO parts.
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by juliangamble 2y ago
There is some code to generate Lego images from Lego 3d files here and use it to train models: https://github.com/jtheiner/LegoBrickClassification It is based on this post (which others have mentioned) https:/&#x
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by juliangamble 2y ago
> Acorn did ship a computer with the 65816—the Acorn Communicator—but when Sophie Wilson visited WDC in 1983 and saw Mensch and crew laying out the 65816 by hand, it struck her: if this motley crew on a card table could design a CPU, so
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by juliangamble 2y ago
I’ve heard some claims that to get closer to brain-like energy efficiency you’d need to use a spiking neural network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiking_neural_network
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by juliangamble 2y ago
The author spends lots of time modelling axial tilt to represent the seasons. Then there was this gem: > I also used this program to create digital building instructions. My takeaway from this is that it works really well for small model

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