kevindamm

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by kevindamm 3d ago
Prioritizing something other than 7% week over week growth. This doesn't appeal as much to venture capitalists so we may have to try it with some bootstrapped products first.
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by kevindamm 7d ago
Having seen the abuse vectors that get thrown at this and similar products, I suspect it is less about whether they care and more about finding a suitable threshold for some arbitrary features, or moments of demand exceeding the available m
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by kevindamm 22d ago
Kind of, but not really.. though there are simple models with electrons as a point charge, a more accurate model involves the electron field describing the probability of an electron existing at any region in space (not to be confused with
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by kevindamm 2mo ago
I get that's what you're suggesting. The locking per-axis or across all axes is fine but doesn't address the problem I'm talking about. In gimbal lock, which many graphics programmers first encounter by using only sequ
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by kevindamm 2mo ago
I think they're referring to the Enterprise sales where people have felt pressured to sign six- or seven- figure contracts after usage goes above a certain point. However, all the articles I've read on it are from companies using
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by kevindamm 2mo ago
It doesn't have to imply replacement. Do you stop thinking just because other humans can?
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by kevindamm 2mo ago
If you're suggesting that the different columns of a comptometer would relate to different rotational axes of the ball, you will likely run into gimbal lock in 3D. You could build an interface in 4D around quaternions but that is much
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by kevindamm 2mo ago
Now remove the spacebar, combine the two buttons into a single one for "tone" and adapt it to morse code. All the buttons still do only one thing and now there's only one button! And, you don't have to worry about what
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by kevindamm 3mo ago
Why remove the code and binary artifacts, though? Don't you want to verify that the business logic is accurate and the processing is deterministic? In some circumstances there is no substitute for something that you know will produce
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by kevindamm 3mo ago
ELI5: explain like I'm five, ELIF: explain like I'm forty.
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by kevindamm 4mo ago
key chain furby lootboxes
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by kevindamm 7mo ago
Actually the reason people experience vection in VR is not focal depth but the dissonance between what their eyes are telling them and what their inner ear and tactile senses are telling them. It's possible they get headaches from the
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by kevindamm 8mo ago
Would a high enough dose of UV also work? I suppose it would ruin most pigmentation too, though.
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by kevindamm 8mo ago
Pure functional programming and lazy evaluation.. sure, you could create classes and a meta-function that selectively eval's thunks at a time, but the call site of that kind of library would look atrocious.. You might be able to hack
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by kevindamm 9mo ago
Almost made it into 1.18 but looks like it doesn't add enough value and has some open questions like what to use for a backing data type and what complexity promises to make. https://github.com/golang/go/discu
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by kevindamm 9mo ago
It's not a yes/no per contestent, it's per edge between contestants. There are n(n-1)/2 of these. A true answer for a potential match is actually a state update for all of the (n-1) edges connecting either contestant, t
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by kevindamm 9mo ago
I think that LLMs will be complemented best with a declarative language, as inserting new conditions/effects in them can be done without modifying much (if any!) of the existing code. Especially if the declarative language is a logic
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by kevindamm 9mo ago
Broccoli Man! classic https://youtu.be/3t6L-FlfeaI (2010) To be fair, a lot of this changed after that video became a meme.. but I'd bet that the broccoli man template is still trending on memegen
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by kevindamm 9mo ago
Have we abandoned the term "generate" already?
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by kevindamm 9mo ago
and you could shim these gaps with custom components, hypothetically
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by kevindamm 10mo ago
You can go one step further than that and calculate a fairness measure using something like the Gini coefficient (*) and analyze how much it has changed over time. [*] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
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by kevindamm 10mo ago
replace the scope with a dimmable light and we might have a better solution than low-decibel audio hum or perhaps live wire into the seat, tied into a transistor on this signal, so if performance drops enough you're sure to be alerted
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by kevindamm 10mo ago
The source is electrical noise, but the solution of isolating the audio chain from the computer's USB means that in the future you might not notice when you've introduced another GPU memory bandwidth hog into your rendering loop.
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by kevindamm 10mo ago
Is it ironic that they publish it as a PDF? I get that it's the easiest way to control the print layout and also nicely self-contained... but how many of us are opening it in a sandbox as we should?
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by kevindamm 10mo ago
And python didn't get it right the first time either. It wasn't until python 2.3 when method resolution order was decided by C3 linearization that the inheritance in python became sane. http://mail.python.org/pipe
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by kevindamm 10mo ago
It really was way ahead of its time. I remember the handwriting recognition being excellent for the time, too. Meanwhile Palm forced its users to write each letter one at a time in a tiny box and requiring specific sequencing of each stro
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by kevindamm 10mo ago
I still have my Newton but I wasn't, nor am I, elite. I didn't store recipes on it, though.
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by kevindamm 10mo ago
We're told not to feed the wildlife at parks and beaches because of the dangers when they become dependent on visitors for their food source. It changes their natural behavior to the extent that it becomes difficult to revert to natur
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by kevindamm 10mo ago
which is a real problem if a significant part of being in the population of whale or addict involves AI psychosis
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by kevindamm 10mo ago
This was, I think, the greatest strength of MapReduce. If you could write a basic program you could understand the map, combine, shuffle and reduce operations. MR and Hadoop etc. would take care of recovering from operational failures lik

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