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Artemis II Photo Voter(artemistimeline.com)
2 points by kortex 5mo ago|1 comments
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by kortex 5mo ago
NASA just dropped 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. But which ones are the best ones? I know Jeff Geerling linked the site a few days ago, but Hank just unveiled the vote feature in response to the big photo drop to sift through.
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by kortex 5mo ago
This should be immediately intuitive to anyone who spends more than 5 minutes looking at firewall traffic of something public. 99.9% of the bots' requests aren't doing sophisticated penetration attacks, they are blasting all the l
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by kortex 5mo ago
Eh, the problem with that reasoning is one of extreme degree. The "obscurity metric" would be the surprisal associated with discovering the critical piece of info. Using a random port confers brute force resistance of 2^16. At 1ms
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by kortex 5mo ago
And AI agents reliably-ish do tasks billions of times a day that humans struggle with, namely regurgitating information at incredible rates across wide breadths of topics. I see it as merely a matter of degree, not category. How do you meas
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by kortex 5mo ago
We don't have a way of measuring "cognitive awareness" though. We have a way of measuring electrical impulses, and how they behave in response to various treatments (eg anaesthetics or magnetic fields), but we can't obje
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by kortex 5mo ago
Ya, I seem to largely agree with your comments on this article. I was replying to brookst, did you mean to reply on a differnt thread?
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by kortex 5mo ago
Is someone tripped out on mushrooms experience ego death and total disruption of sense of self still conscious? They may even contend they are more conscious than normal life, what with all the communing with the universe and whatnot. Tre
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by kortex 5mo ago
Humans can't reliably subitize more than five-ish objects, while chimps can actually do this task better than us. That's our "cant count the R's in strawberry" (which flagship models can reliably do now, general let
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by kortex 5mo ago
They stopped being autocomplete years ago with RLHF
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by kortex 5mo ago
How do you know the sensation of a red photon hitting a cone cell, transduced to the optic nerve through ion junctions and processed by pyramidal neurons, is any more or less real than the excitation of electrons in a doped silicon junction
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by kortex 5mo ago
I'll bite that bullet. In fact I contend the idea that "humans and maybe some animals are conscious, but other things are not" is the special pleading stand. Why are the oscillating fundamental fields over here (brains) spe
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by kortex 5mo ago
They need to make an example out of these companies. If your whole business model is built around handling sensitive data, and you are caught shipping off that data to brokers, you should be liquidated or at least fined to within an inch of
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by kortex 5mo ago
I actually dont think it's that obvious at all (unless you are a senior engineer). It's like the classic joke: A QA engineer walks into a bar and orders a beer. She orders 2 beers. She orders 0 beers. She orders -1 beers. She orde
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by kortex 5mo ago
I go by a philosophy that Liskov Substitution is reeeally about referential transparency. I don't care about parent/child classes, I care about interfaces and implementations, and structural subtyping. Fix that, and it's grea
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by kortex 5mo ago
Carbon + helium fusion is rather favorable, vs carbon production by the triple alpha process (3He), so it's just reaction kinetics essentially.
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by kortex 5mo ago
I don't think it's a "weird fetish." It's just most of the things privacy advocates have been warning about - PRISM, warrantless metadata requests, tech companies handing over data - are all largely invisible. A cam
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by kortex 5mo ago
Super fun! But the text does get in the way mid-combo.
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by kortex 5mo ago
Complete hearsay, but I struck up a convo with someone who had spent a few hours drinking around a campfire with him and a few others at burning man, prior to GPT3's popularity. Apparently he was utterly convinced in his pivotal role t
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by kortex 6mo ago
Not an EE, but if transformers are at all like smaller scale power supplies, the issue with using multiple smaller components is it works right up until it doesn't. If you lose one or it gets overloaded, it puts more strain the rest, i
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by kortex 6mo ago
for one, it's one tool, that does the job of all three. it just works . i'm not sure how else to describe it other than less faffing about. it just does the right thing, every time. there's a tiny learning curve (mostly un
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by kortex 6mo ago
Usually lack of knowledge that such a thing exists, or just plain ol' momentum. Changing something long in production at established companies, even if there is a tangible benefit, can be a real challenge.
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by kortex 7mo ago
Standard Italian speakers in Rome struggle to understand Ciociaro dialect, which is from the region on the outskirts of Rome. Take "n'coppa" - spelled with a "c" but very much pronounced /ŋgopa/ with a voi
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by kortex 7mo ago
> I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 origami folds once, but I fear the man who has practiced one fold 10,000 times
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by kortex 7mo ago
Literally the second section: > Here is the central claim: the unit of correctness in production is not the program. It is the set of deployments. The thesis essentially boils down to: functional programing paradigm, type systems, strong
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by kortex 7mo ago
Well, I didn't get LLM vibes from it at all, and the article is deeply relevant to the engineering I am working on at the present (migrating a monolith to a highly event-sourced workflow-based distributed application), and I deeply app
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by kortex 7mo ago
I mean, I am dealing with much of the same problems mentioned in the article, and I found it super enlightening. It was neat to read about undecidability of the general problem of version updates, about the two-version window, and some of t
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by kortex 7mo ago
Almost certainly referring to a software forge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)
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by kortex 7mo ago
Why are folks seemingly so averse to sending an email / hopping on a channel to actually talk to maintainers before just firing off code? I've been on both sides of this; I have been young and green and just fired off contribution
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by kortex 7mo ago
Here's the most alarming part: > Host: OK, so you have the software, it raises the alarm, and then… what does the Manhattan DA specifically want? > John Amin: They want to activate it nationwide across the United States. > Hos

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