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by leovailati 2y ago
Regarding applications for robots that have to move very precisely without carrying a load, there are robotic measurement systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate-measuring_machine
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by leovailati 2y ago
We use a C compiler for embedded systems that doesn't support link time optimizations (unless you pay for the pro version, that is). I have been thinking about some tool like this that merges all C source files for compilation.
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by leovailati 2y ago
> It feels like OpenAI is mostly concerned with developing proofs of the untrustability of every digital medium Which, to me, makes sense. Once the underlying technology exists, a malicious actor would not think twice before developing t
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by leovailati 3y ago
Hopefully I'm not being over optimistic, and I only vaguely understand the many tradeoffs that go into rocket design. But, technology-wise, starship seems analogous to a falcon heavy propelling a space shuttle. Both of which are manage
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by leovailati 3y ago
I think you are incorrect. If you build a 230-m tall pipe and fill it up with water, the water at the ground-level end of the pipe will be at the exact same pressure as the water 230 m deep in the ocean. Hydrostatic pressure only depends on
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by leovailati 3y ago
It is different this time. I bet that was also said when the transformations that you mentioned occurred, but this time it really is different. LLM models are pretty general in their capabilities, so it is not like the relatively slow pro
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by leovailati 4y ago
A couple times already I found myself adapting functions from the Octave standard library to avoid paying Mathworks for some expensive toolboxes.
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by leovailati 4y ago
Apparently they produced it with agricultural by-products. So no net CO2 (other than the energy it takes for the transformation)
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by leovailati 4y ago
Too many times I have been the guy in the top left quadrant of the chart in the post. I eventually came to the realization that I have often been disrespectful to the intelligence and capacity of my colleagues. I am lucky that I get to work
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by leovailati 5y ago
What the fuck indeed. I can't help but think of the Nuremberg laws in Germany. More specifically the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" [1]. Sure, it's not _that bad_ (e.g., the Israeli law is not
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by leovailati 5y ago
To complement your example, there are also cases when everything coincidentally happens to work fine. For example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7280877/why-and-how-does...
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by leovailati 5y ago
People tend to emphasize the negatives, like you mentioned, but WhatsApp has revolutionized communication in the low-income country I came from. And I think ultimately creating a net benefit for society (even though the conspiracy theories
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by leovailati 5y ago
You got it actually, it's all about how long you leave your hand in. And that is why the probe has a very elliptical orbit, so it "touches" the sun briefly and goes back out into space to cool down. Temperature is not what bu
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by leovailati 6y ago
> doesn’t hurt anything because there isn’t anything better being done with it or better ways to store it That's a very strong statement. If you unpack it a little bit, what you are saying is there is absolutely nothing productive (
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by leovailati 6y ago
Just wondering here, is there any way to protect oneself from that type of situation while at the same time keeping the source code open? Obviously, the name and logo are trademarked, but a third party could rebrand the program while using
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by leovailati 6y ago
Other people in this thread bring up great counterpoints. Namely, gaming is not nearly as intensive as mining and whatever value gaming brings to society is more than that of mining. I'd also say that gaming at least occupies the human
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by leovailati 6y ago
I generally like the idea of rewarding replication studies. Replication/validation could be a required process that runs concurrently to peer review. The researchers who run the experiments to replicate results could rewarded by being
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by leovailati 6y ago
You're right! English is my second language, so I was typing "Antartica". I apologize for that.
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by leovailati 6y ago
I wish there was a way to move Antarctica around.
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by leovailati 6y ago
Fair point! I guess I meant the entire powertrain, not just the motor per se.
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by leovailati 6y ago
Disruption is the price of progress. Like cars with electric motors vs combustion engines, sometimes you have to start from scratch. You can't just keep improving combustion engines forever, you eventually reach a technological limit.
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by leovailati 6y ago
I remember hearing something about the Cell processors on Playstation 3's being the ones with manufacturing errors. The 100% good ones were supposedly sold to the US military. I realize that second part was probably just a myth. Who kn
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by leovailati 6y ago
I am actually in favor of a UBI, as long as it is truly universal. That means money every month, no questions asked. I agree with your point: under a true UBI, workers would be able to seek their passions, do whatever they like to do. Doesn
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by leovailati 6y ago
Exactly that! As I read the article, I kept thinking "this guy is not following the money". The author's ultimate assumption is that money supply is somehow decoupled from accumulation. People receiving money from the governm
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by leovailati 6y ago
I agree. What is the purpose of applying gradient descent to a linear regression problem? I mean, the pseudo inverse _is_ a closed form solution! Is it maybe more efficient for very large problems? I just don't get it.
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by leovailati 7y ago
I agree. I was expecting something about protocol buffers or a binary based representation of JSON.
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by leovailati 8y ago
Previous post on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18224625
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by leovailati 8y ago
That is a very good point. When you talk about preventing addiction, are you referring to the war on drugs or providing quality of life improvements that might steer people away from drugs in the first place?
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by leovailati 8y ago
Micropayments is another possible solution that comes to mind. Say, pay one tenth of a penny every time you want to look at weather data. Assuming that we can come up with something that works for insignificant amounts and is fast, cheap, a
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by leovailati 8y ago
I found it counterintuitive that it was predicted in simulation and then confirmed with experiments, rather than the other way around.

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