nihzm

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by nihzm 7mo ago
This article is scratching the surface of the concept of desynchronization from the theory of social acceleration and the sociology of speed. Any technology that is supposed to create idle time, once it reaches mass adoptions has the opposi
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by nihzm 8mo ago
> Sometimes models that seem nonlinear turns linear if those nonlinearities are pushed into the basis functions, so one can still hope. That idea was pushed to its limit by the Koopman operator theory. The argument sounds quite good at f
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by nihzm 8mo ago
From the abstract and skimming a few sections of the first paper, imho it is not really the same. The paper is moving the loss gradient to the tangent dual space where weights reside for better performance in gradient descent, but as far as
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by nihzm 11mo ago
I'm just showing the logical consequences of utilitarian thinking, not endorsing it.
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by nihzm 11mo ago
Since as you say this utilitarian view is rather common, perhaps it would good to show _why_ this is problematic by presenting a counterargument. The basic premise under GP's statements is that although not perfect, we should use the t
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by nihzm 1y ago
I don't think this is the reason. Since Apple stopped making new interesting product lines they are very attentive about not having one line cannibalize the sales of the other(s) as it happened with the iPod and iPhone. This is also th
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by nihzm 1y ago
It has definitely been overused by too many authors. This reminds me a passage of Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language": > A newly−invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the ot
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by nihzm 2y ago
My favourite (fiction) book this year was One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. An amazingly intricate storyline with a perfect ending.
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by nihzm 2y ago
Roughly sorted by thickness (for the editions I own), these are among my favourites and arguably a good starting point * Animal Farm - George Orwell * The Fall - Albert Camus * Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes * One hundred years of soli
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by nihzm 2y ago
While I certainly appreciate the practicality of these technologies I do feel uneasy when thinking about a future where more or less everyone owns AR devices, as they denormalize interacting with others to do these activities. I was taught
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by nihzm 2y ago
> It's breaking news about a topic that came out of the blue for everyone. After having read the two rather strongly opinionated pieces "Amusing ourselves to death" [1] and "Avoid news" [2] they have mostly convi
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by nihzm 2y ago
I had not considered this. You (and others mentioning it) have a point. Though I would still have preferred a more substantial article as submission.
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by nihzm 2y ago
> I have tried to find good scientific evidence that shows that social media is a net negative for kids and or adults. I have been unable to do so. The author mentioned by GP is currently working on a similar questions collecting, review
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by nihzm 2y ago
Indeed, around 2019 I was reading many computer vision papers for volume estimation and came across a few that tried to estimate the weight of the meals from pictures using the size of known objects (cutlery beside the plate). The idea was
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by nihzm 2y ago
Kalman filters are usually the way to go because for some cases it is mathematically proven that they are optimal, in the sense that they minimize the noise. About alternatives, not sure if people actually do this but I think Savitzky-Golay
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by nihzm 2y ago
If I understand correctly the fees are only for an overleaf-type web collaborative editing experience. The typst program itself, the one you install on your computer, is free to use and open-source.
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by nihzm 2y ago
If you don’t need it to be perfect it is actually not too difficult. A notch filter could be enough remove most of the pattern provided that you have a good way of guesstimating its frequency
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by nihzm 2y ago
> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. IMO the title of the post should be "Ice Skater" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by nihzm 2y ago
Not sure if there are standing waves involved, or resonance. I presume it is very similar to a phased array [1] for beamforming in antennas, except that then anisotropic properties of medium may not be negligible to construct the wavefront
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by nihzm 2y ago
As far as I understand yes, I would also guess that it is analogous to a phased array antenna, but with sound waves
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by nihzm 2y ago
I have a friend who built one of these as their thesis. IIRC they were telling me that the air through which the sound beam propagates acts as a low pass filter, so if you're at the correct distance from the device the high frequency e
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by nihzm 2y ago
After a quick google search I found that the author is amidst many controversies and definitely not a reputable source of information. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPsych
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by nihzm 2y ago
I am quite skeptical about the possibility of condensing the complexity of “intelligence” down to a single number “g”, but even if this were some kind of approximate metric for actual intelligence, I do not see how this type of “research” i
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by nihzm 2y ago
> But the official reMarkable client is not available for Linux, which I find a bit odd, since it is a Qt-app and the founder of the company apparently is an avid linux user. If I had to guess it's probably because they want to keep
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by nihzm 2y ago
Sony made one a while back but I've never tried it, and it's as expensive as the remarkable if not more. https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/design/stories/DPT-RP1/ https://goodere
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by nihzm 2y ago
> with some linux distro with touch support, unlocked bootloader and ssh, powered by a microcontroller with mainline linux support, no fancy apps, no cloud service and no subscription I am also not a fan of the subscription model & p
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by nihzm 2y ago
I concur. I switched from the very first remarkable to an ipad pro with paperlike but it's very different and much less paper-like. Also, the paperlike screen protector lost lost 100% of the roughness in just a few months, and now when
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by nihzm 2y ago
Although not explicitly stated this application [1] of codesign for engineerring problems is actually built using category theory [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.08055
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by nihzm 2y ago
> So killing civilians en masse is fine, as long it forces the enemy to surrender with (probably) fewer casualties Of course not. Startegic calculations for warfare should not be conflated with a moral justifications for military actions
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by nihzm 2y ago
That is not incorrect, but wildly different than doomscrolling. The latter is highly incentivised by UI/UX designs across almost all social media platforms to retain your attention, while the other is "just" reading depressin

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