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by lambdaone 9mo ago
Fantastic detail, thank you.
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
This seems almost too good to be true, and the equipment is so simple that it would seem that this is a panacea. Where are the gotchas with this technology? Clearly power capacity cost (scaling compressors/expanders and related kit) an
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
There are lots of Stratum 0 servers out there; basically anything with an atomic clock will do. They all count seconds independently from one another, all slowly diverging over time, with offset intervals being measured by mutual synchroniz
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
At this point, web design 'ecosystems' are essentially money whirlpools. They're complex, so they require programmers skilled in using them, who in turn make more sites which need more programmers, and so on, and the network
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
SVG without <script> would do just fine.
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
I have always loved this work. A classic example of the effective application of mathematical principles to a computing problem.
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
I'm sure when this is all over there will be interesting stories to tell. Does anyone know why they failed?
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
Sadly such things do happen: https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/20/gang-of-beggars-pictured-gett... I look forward to you donating that $200 to a homeless charity, KingMob.
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
I have on several occasions offered to pay for food at a nearby sandwich shop or fast food place for beggars who were asking for money for food. None of them accepted the offer.
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
Claude is insanely good at grunt-work maintenance coding, which is a fairly formulaic exercise that mostly requires RTFM and simple code changes that look a lot likw the surrounding code. Designing new things from scratch based on human spe
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
It's presumably only a matter of time before there's a Wikipedia article for "Brightness war"
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
The numbers are used as labels or indicators, not for their numerical values, so I think the title is still correct.
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
AV2's mission is to nip VVC in the bud. They seem to be more or less at parity, and given that, why would anyone want to use a royalty-based codec when they could could use an essentially equivalent free one? There's no massive hu
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
This makes the hair rise up on the back of my neck; it reminds me the sub-prime crisis - "they can't all default at once!"
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
This is really impressive work. I'm not sure how this gets fixed, but it needs to be fixed, and soon.
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
...or taking them to somewhere where you are legitimately going to use them for a legal purpose, or taking them back from there, or, indeed, doing anything else with them for which there is a legal justification. Provided the knife is secur
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
We never see Kyoko speak in the film, which is explained away by Nathan as being because she does not speak English. The implication is that she is an earlier model than Ava, with less intelligence. There is certainly sexism and orientalism
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
I think this ship has already sailed, with a lot of comments on social media already being AI-generated and posted by bots. Things are only going to get worse as time goes on. I think the next battleground is going to be over steering the o
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
This brings back memories of Adult Swim's "Smart Pipe" spoof infomercial.
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
You could use a similar argument to argue that "brains do not think, understand, reason, reflect, comprehend and they never shall." After all, there's nothing in there but neurons, synapses and other biological gunk. If you l
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
What you are trying to minimize here is the error rate of the composite system, not the error rate of the individual modules. You take it as a given that all the teams are doing their human best to eliminate mistakes from their design. The
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
It's baffling from our perspective, but perhaps not so much if you try to look at it the mindset of its proponents. It's been sold as "for the children". A very substantial proportion of the population are natural author
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
The big problem is the Red Queen's Race nature of development in rapidly-evolving software ecosystems, where everyone has to keep pushing versions forward to deal with their dependencies' changes, as well as any actual software
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
I find this fascinating, as it raises the possibility of a single framework that can unify neural and symbolic computation by "defuzzing" activations into what are effectively symbols. Has anyone looked at the possibility of going
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
Unity is absolutely being squeezed between the two. I can't really see how it can compete with Godot at the low end; it's hard to compete with free, and most of the goodness in low end games is the gameplay logic, not graphics or
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
RL would reasonably be expected to work if the market had some sort of discoverable static behavior. The reason why RL by backtesting cannot work is that the real market is continuously changing, as all the agents within it, both human an
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
Monophasic waveforms are generally considered less safe than biphasic waveforms. That's why many TENS units have an output stage based around a pulse transformer, so they can deliver two pulses, one in each direction, shortly after eac
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
What makes trading such a special case is that as you use new technology to increase the capability of your trading system, other market participants you are trading against will be doing the same; it's a never-ending arms race.
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
Even more than 20 years on, people are finding new ways to improve kernel internals. This is the sort of subtle, intelligent work that distinguishes excellent software from the rest.
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
There is absolutely nothing to prevent anyone from generating arbirary DOM content from XML using JS; indeed, there's nothing stopping them from creating a complete XSLT implementation. There's just no need to have it in the core

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