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by peter303 3mo ago
NYTimes article a few years ago on how car insurance companies were using such data. Tracking sudden stoos, driving at night, driving faster than 80 mph, etc.
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by peter303 4mo ago
Relatively few industry keynotes have Nobel Prize Winner presenter. Hassabis was promoting the Gemini Scientists Assistant.
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by peter303 4mo ago
Same issue in Firefox.
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by peter303 8mo ago
The precession circle is 144 arc degrees sin 23.5. In an 80 year lifespan precession would move the rotation pole about .44 arc degrees or the diameter of the full moon. Any long lived astronomical observatory in ancient times would have no
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by peter303 11mo ago
RPN interpreters require very little core memory. So they were popular with computers where core memory was under ten kilobytes. But its horrible for software engineering with multiple programmers and large codebases. Lacks structures, inte
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by peter303 1y ago
Frame buffer memory was still incredibly expensive in 1980. Our labs 512 x 512 x 8bit table lookup color buffer cost $30,000 in 1980. Mac's 512 x 384 x 8bit buffer in 1984 had to fit the Macs $2500 price. The Xerox Alto was earlier tha
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by peter303 2y ago
Reminds of "fugi film": the standard development make the colors brighter than reallife. The customers liked that better, even if less accurate.
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by peter303 3y ago
Of course. You was formal while thou was informal.
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by peter303 3y ago
The larger language models now employ a trillion parameters. This is faster when memory and computing is tighter, not distributed. Cerebus's million core super-wafer addresses this.
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by peter303 3y ago
My state has flat tax rate of federal taxable income (after deductions). Most years its free online filing and typing 5 or 6 numbers. Takes five minutes. The tax softwares dont like that because they get half their income from state filings
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by peter303 3y ago
I eat chicken regularly.
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by peter303 3y ago
Congress
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by peter303 3y ago
Steam power was more of toy for the Romans. Some made dioramas with statues of the gods moved by steam.
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by peter303 3y ago
Aristotle described propositional logic.
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by peter303 3y ago
I liked the guy using an AI to train another AI. He is just maximizing his income.
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by peter303 3y ago
The new run has six candidate GW events the first week. Three are high confidence.
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by peter303 3y ago
Astrophysicists use a similar algorithm to build giant particle evolution models of galaxies and cosmology. It would be computationally prohibitive to compute the gravitational or electromagnetic force for every combinatorial pair of partic
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by peter303 3y ago
More recently it would be self-professed gays. A frat might feel the gay might come on to them, or brand the entire frat as gay. The other similarity is there is at least one predominantly gay frat. These days there is so much gay publicity
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by peter303 3y ago
I took a course from him 49 years ago.
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by peter303 3y ago
The physical human brain has 86 billion neurons with up to 10,000 connections each. However they are somewhat structured (e.g. the seven layers of the cerebral cortex segregated into vertical silos a few hundred cells wide) reducing the arb
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by peter303 3y ago
The physical human brain has 86 billion neurons with up to 10,000 connections each. However they are somewhat structured, e.g. the seven layers of the cerebral cortex, reducing the arbitrariness of connections. So say the connectome has 100
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by peter303 3y ago
I suggest the human-mammal mind readily adapts to new sense modes. Driving a car or riding a bicycle feels like an extension of the body after you mastered it. A grid of bump actuators agains the skin or tongue is perceived as an image afte
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by peter303 3y ago
And Xanadu. That had built in editing and bidirectional hyperlink. Never really took off. In many cases the free open source product beat the commercial product.
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by peter303 3y ago
Deposit banks were banned from crossing state lines and investing in equities markets after the Great Depression. These limitations were removed in the 1990s.
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by peter303 3y ago
Round 2 of the 2023 bank crises might be commercial real estate loans like the 1980s crises. Some downtowns are still 40% vacant. This more a consequence of covid than bad bank behavior.
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by peter303 3y ago
The founder of WeWork was talking about creating this kind of housing- private bedrooms (and mainly bathrooms too), kitchen, living rooms shared. A monthly fee for frequent cleaning of public spaces, because voluntary efforts not so success
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by peter303 3y ago
I wonder how prevalent hikikomori is in the US? It is similar to agoraphobia in US and Europe. One google reference says 2.4%, i.e. similar to Korea number.
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by peter303 3y ago
The pedophile scare alternates between the absurd and underestimated. On the absurd side are: - Satanic preschools - Pizzagate - most recently, drag queen demonization On the underestimated side: - unending Catholic priest incidents, most r
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by peter303 3y ago
Heavyside's vector notation compressed Maxwell's twenty-some component equations into four. Thats elegant for teaching and teeshirts. However when I want to compute them on a computer grid, I use something closer to Maxwell's
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by peter303 3y ago
Since software hasnt has a major layoff since 2002, there are plenty of under 42 year olds who thought tech was layoff proof.

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