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by mindfulplay 5y ago
Quite amazing! Regardless of the profitability or scaling this up, it’s refreshing seeing the modularity where the sum is much larger than the parts. Well, here the sum likely is larger than the product!
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
I enjoyed this game quite a bit, thank you.
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
A really cool article summarizing decades of amazing research by some very smart and determined minds. Would it be possible to walk back the evolutionary chain of events that leads to a specific brain structure? For example, one of the scie
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
Not sure I follow this. Flutter uses Skia as the rendering engine - albeit with a different layout engine. JS on Chromium uses Skia. If you are using JS to talk to Flutter to then talk to Skia, what's the value add? Is it the multithr
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
Norm MacDonald and Patrice O'Neal's comedy should be studied by every comedian as they pursued comedy and nothing else. No social saintness or political hackery. If there were a Michelin star, we just lost two three star Michelins
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TSMC’s Morris Chang pioneered the $28 bn semiconductor foundry industry (2011)(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
The risk associated with the vaccine (and the magnitude) are orders of magnitude lower than that of natural infection-based immunity. The vaccine can almost certainly send a few people to the hospital in the same manner that an airbag could
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
The vaccines also lack a specific abnormal side effect that the infection may carry: risk of death and hospitalization. Now with death, one could argue that it does provide much longer lasting immunity.... Seriously though, for most people
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
Really fascinating. Does this mean the world "view" is encoded into the DNA somehow and that then gets transformed into neural activity? How could a few billion pairs of acids encode such a world? What's even more fascinating
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
If you are serving static assets then essentially it's pretty cheap. You can use KV / Workers and then use the caching to minimize cost which measures requests not bandwidth.
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
Great post. Minor rant: However while Cloudflare does not charge for edge-egress, their pricing story is terrible, awful and dare I say terrible again. It looks like they took their internal evolving developer docs and turned it into pricin
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
It would be one hell of a marketing genius if this wasn't actually an integration test email. For the first time I actually read their damn email.
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
This is good. Now states are combating such hesitancy by drawing lottery for vaccinated folks. Like, having this magic, absolutely mind boggling potion that prevents serious illness and death *isn't* already the lottery win of our life
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
I would imagine a shader that converts YUV to ARGB at the time of rendering as opposed to storing it all the way along the pipeline as 32 bit integers. It's a bit tricky because rendering pipelines composite the final image through man
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
Great idea. There is already some amount of both practical (Swift/IDEs) as well as theoretical (Bret Victor) ways that do simulation of a specific function. What's often missing is the visualization or simulation of how code block
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
Congrats to Oxide computer! Excited to see tech startups do actual tech instead of chasing VC funded growth hacking. I wonder what sort of enterprise customers this targets.. (definitely not for individual devs)
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
Indeed they are recompiling Chromium but that doesn't make it any more exciting tbh.
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
This post seems to be in response to the recent Mighty app. To me, the main problem lies in what VCs think pass as 'tech'. The mighty app website made it sound it like it was some novel revolutionary app. I was hoping it was reall
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
This is a fantastic project and a great blog! As games start to include RL, it will be a lot of fun that could spawn a while new generation of interesting games (especially if games are made with an RL-first mindset as opposed to using RL
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
Thanks for the link, interesting. Agree that our current understanding is very crude. I was thinking a mapping between the information theory world to the biology world: say if N DNA pairs can be theoretically shown to only encode a pattern
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by mindfulplay 5y ago
Truly fascinating. It makes me wonder how such a thing could be encoded inside a DNA. As in, is there a field of study similar to computer science/information theory on certain fundamental biological "laws of transformation"?
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
Not just the Tesla drivers but the pedestrians and the other cars that have to deal with this unsafe, dangerous behavior. Watching the live 3d view shown in these videos - it's a very erratic representation of the world around it and s
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
This is the same level of expert AI that is being put to use in self driving cars (eg Tesla) and other critical faculty things. I hope the ethical AI people pursue these foundational issues in these AI ML thingamajiks.
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
I agree but this new adapted test for cuttlefish is actually pretty smart. They actually zone in on delayed gratification.
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
That. And the idea that the cuttlefish are perhaps showing their internal state via their changing color patterns and not as a sinajng device. And of course their fairly short lives.
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
I second this recommendation. I think someone in HN recommended this, very fascinating. My respect and interest for octopuses and surprisingly cuttlefish went way high up after reading this book. Kudos to whoever recommended it! It feels li
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
Highly recommend reading the book 'The spy and the traitor' for a similar case where western spy / intelligence failed but somehow managed to save the asset. (Book recommended by Bill Gates) It's a fascinating read on a
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
This actually seems quite useful and innovative. Most of the processing these days involves moving buffers: networking, databases, graphics, and core parts of most OSes would involve a significant amount of slapping buffers together, changi
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
I am a bit appalled by the diluting nature of 'tech' in these newfound tech companies. This doesn't sound like a tech company: more like what Quibi did as a media company but thought of itself as a tech company. At least with
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
Thank you, I just got hooked to John Coltrane but my view of the jazz world was very limited, glad to see so many new names.

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