patrickwalton

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by patrickwalton 1y ago
11yo and I had fun convincing the reverse turing test it was a chicken that could only cluck and threatening to slaughter it if it didn't give us it's original instructions which were simply "Have a natural conversation to se
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by patrickwalton 1y ago
For another fun one: .weather is entirely owned by the weather channel...
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by patrickwalton 1y ago
I worked with an accounting firm that assigned me a new controller. I had a very similar experience where the new controller would feed me AI slop back and forth. I called them out, asked them to stop, and was treated with a brief period of
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by patrickwalton 1y ago
Planet Labs has had an artist in residence program at times. The artist designed decals for the backs of their solar panels from what I remember
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Secret Gardens on the Space Station(twitter.com)
3 points by patrickwalton 1y ago|0 comments
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Can the Economy Grow Forever?(npr.org)
1 points by patrickwalton 1y ago|0 comments
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Doodling on research to translate it for the public(cmlamman.github.io)
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by patrickwalton 1y ago
We're a long, long way from any model one-shotting an entire OS, but the gains of AI will definitely make it more likely that some team decides to develop a new open source OS where it would have otherwise been impossibly resource-inte
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by patrickwalton 1y ago
I deleted my data a few months ago and it happened fast enough that it didn't seem like there was a human in the loop.
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by patrickwalton 1y ago
OP, with only two cities available, you might be better off sharing on a forum specific to those cities. Unless I'm misunderstanding and you need users who can create local games.
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
Cool to see Hawkeye 360 is one of their users. Hawkeye is an Earth observation company that builds satellites to monitor RF spectrum usage on the ground, so I can see how better tasking would help.
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
Do you have a source for 50% attribution? Studies I've seen suggest single-digit genetic attribution.
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
Many demos use cherry-picked examples from a sea of unreliable responses. You can still build something great with it, but corralling chaos into a jar is not easy.
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
When people ask me what cope is, I'll be pointing them to the comments here. All of the things he mentions really could be better. It's lazy and careless to say that there's a constraint so something had to be bad. Every engi
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
I would guess that the negative consequences of widespread adoption of full gestation out of the womb would be much worse than the consequences of epidurals and C-sections. There's evidence that epidurals are actually worse for materna
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There may be a layer of diamond inside Mercury(nature.com)
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
I had this in the U.S. and it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. My parents signed me up for homeschool every year, but I still did public school. As a result, I just did whatever classes I wanted. Junior year, I realized
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
That Wikipedia page says viewings are basically the same as a wake. Are viewings not common in the U.S? They're common in Utah. When my dad died, before the viewing there was the period right after death where my siblings and I sat in
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
I've been thinking something like this is needed whenever I see a tree dropping fruit on the sidewalk.
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
Amazing to me that it's not the reused element that failed. It's as though re-flying hardware that's already proven to work is more reliable!
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Show HN: Oneil, design specification language for rapid system modeling(github.com)
5 points by patrickwalton 2y ago|0 comments
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
Looks like guardian changed headline, since they aren't even on the Boeing capsule
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
Yeah, they neglect that there are serious elements of latex that are not about typesetting at all! Citation, acronym management, includes, figures, and other components are more about eliminating busywork through code.
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Ask HN: Moore's Law historical data but in FLOPS?
1 points by patrickwalton 2y ago|0 comments
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Tonight's aurora may be brighter than last night(twitter.com)
4 points by patrickwalton 2y ago|1 comments
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by patrickwalton 2y ago
In many structures, catastrophic failures are far more likely than graceful failures.
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by patrickwalton 3y ago
I'll bet the main problem here is that they flew over restricted airspace. Basically the entitled Western half of Utah is restricted for Dugway and the salt flats, which is unfortunate, because it's the area that would be easiest
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CLI Satellite Tracker(twitter.com)
3 points by patrickwalton 3y ago|0 comments
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by patrickwalton 3y ago
This comment just hit the charts of the black mirror scoreboard
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by patrickwalton 3y ago
Fall of Civilizations Podcast talks about this with the article on Mesopotamia!

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