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by nilstycho 6mo ago
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-nvidia-groq-3-lpx-t...
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by nilstycho 7mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1179/
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A Nintendo 64 Rumble Pak so Bad that it's Good(phoboslab.org)
5 points by nilstycho 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nilstycho 8mo ago
O algorithm, algorithm! all men call thee fickle.
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by nilstycho 8mo ago
Better to read the original story from Politico. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumuk...
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by nilstycho 8mo ago
I believe it's "TextSynth". https://bellard.org/ts_server/
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Jack Lance made a bunch of games(jacklance.github.io)
2 points by nilstycho 9mo ago|0 comments
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by nilstycho 9mo ago
It was Jack Lance, who wrote Enigmash. Tragically, he died in 2023 at the age of 25. Jack Lance superlatively creative. I cannot find the words to express how much the world lost. I do not know of a finer puzzle designer. https:/&#x2F
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by nilstycho 11mo ago
Oops, you're right. I read that factoid [1] while searching for information about the 2025-077C, but it was about a different 2021 launch. [1]: https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/06/15/three-nro-satellites-l
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by nilstycho 1y ago
I think that Centaur was sent into solar orbit.
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by nilstycho 1y ago
I think there are only two US rocket stages in LEO that were launched in the past 21 months: 1. 2024-125H — Firefly Alpha FLTA005 Stage 2, launching demo cubesats for NASA 2. 2025-077C — Orbital Minotaur IV (8) Stage 4 (Orion 38), launching
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by nilstycho 1y ago
“The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.”
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by nilstycho 1y ago
Do you have any tips for how to work on this with kids?
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by nilstycho 1y ago
> Second, Starship is much more expensive for each launch attempt than Falcon 9 ever was. The launch cost of a Starship today is high, especially if you include development costs, but Musk's goal is a marginal launch cost of ~$1M. A
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by nilstycho 1y ago
The distributions in TFA are accurate. Compare with the shape of the 2015 distribution here: https://ourworldindata.org/the-history-of-global-economic-in...
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by nilstycho 1y ago
The x-axis isn't "income", it's "log income".
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by nilstycho 1y ago
My partner, who was raised conservative Mennonite, tells me this is exactly how pastors are chosen today. About three men are nominated, then they draw lots.
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by nilstycho 1y ago
Here's a link to the diff between first publication and today: https://www.diffchecker.com/CJz1Bn51/
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by nilstycho 1y ago
Was it this? On August 27, 2020, Natalie Escobar for Code Switch interviewed Vicky Osterweil about her book In Defense Of Looting. The segment was titled "One Author's Argument 'In Defense Of Looting'", and was subs
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by nilstycho 2y ago
The Pritzker Prize leans modernist. If you prefer classical architecture, check out the Driehaus Prize [1]. The 2025 laureate is Liam O'Connor. [1] https://driehausprize.nd.edu
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by nilstycho 2y ago
I got lost at (?R). IIUC, this is a feature of the "regex" module that "tries to match the entire regex recursively". Fun.
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Solve Surnames with Union Names(nothingismere.com)
3 points by nilstycho 2y ago|0 comments
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by nilstycho 2y ago
I like the idea of union names [1]. If you're AC and your partner is BD, then on marriage you choose a new name X. You become AXC and your partner BXD. Your child is EX. Then each child has equal connection to both parents. The cost is
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by nilstycho 2y ago
> For about $6,000 a pair of Nvidia Project Digits offer about a combined 2 petaflops processing and 256 GB VRAM. 2 PFLOPS at FP4 . 256 GB RAM , not VRAM. I think they haven't specified the memory bandwidth.
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by nilstycho 2y ago
Are you comparing tinybox red with 738 FP16 TFLOPS at $15K to Project Digits with 1 FP4 PFLOP at $3K? Or did they announce the Project Digits FP16 performance somewhere?
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by nilstycho 2y ago
Far less than 10%. During a heavy downpour, by volume, about one part in a million is liquid. In a cubic meter of heavily rain, there are only a few tens of raindrops.
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by nilstycho 2y ago
Yes, that would be my preferred answer!
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by nilstycho 2y ago
> What's the name of the women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts? Wait, what is the correct answer? “Radcliffe College”?
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by nilstycho 2y ago
With a large sample size, it's astronomically unlikely for there to be a confounding trait that is important to the outcome and is also widespread in only one of the experimental arms. If you were to write a simulation showing the issu
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by nilstycho 2y ago
In a sample of 10,000, the number who have trait T9 is about 20. The chance of all 20 being in a randomly chosen half of the sample is about 1 in 500,000. It's quite unlikely that trait T9 is randomized this way, and it's also qui

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