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by queuebert 2y ago
> Alas the tantalizing prospect of real time raytracing seems to be backburnered under the AI hype onslaught. Can you elaborate on this? Is that because ray tracing needs only simple vector units, while AI is driving tensor-type architec
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by queuebert 2y ago
I've always wondered -- is lambda calculus really supposed to be written with periods '.'? Or is everyone too lazy to use \cdot?
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by queuebert 2y ago
Normally PhD programs have a timeline of progress. If you don't make regular progress toward those very generous deadlines, you are kicked out. Neil did not make sufficient progress at Texas. Then he did something weird, where he wasn&
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by queuebert 2y ago
Using the OEIS, you can usually find a reason why every single answer to those IQ questions about what number comes next in the series is correct.
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by queuebert 2y ago
The hero we don't deserve.
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by queuebert 2y ago
No, I did not RTFA. Hangs head in shame. As an American, I did not expect my government to talk about relativity in a press release.
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by queuebert 2y ago
NTP has several methods for dealing with large latency that could possibly be adapted.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Whatever time standard we settle on will need to be re-synchronized periodically, since, according to general relativity, time measured in Earth's gravity well will be running slightly slower than clocks on the moon with its lower grav
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by queuebert 2y ago
More accurate subtitle: "Choosing the Right Tech Stack for a Lightweight Web App". There are way more use cases out there than a simple web or mobile app.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Doesn't that translate to "spy house" in Mandarin? (Depending on tones, of course. I'm assuming 家探.)
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by queuebert 2y ago
Even more, why can't information like this be passed up the call chain as integer return codes? That scheme has been a perfectly functional for decades, all the way back to at least BSD's rc scripts, maybe before.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Maybe I'm weird, but I feel like that style of GUI design with OS 8 and 9 were the pinnacle of GUI styling. Well, maybe BeOS deserves mention as well. But you could put young children in front of a Mac at school, and they'd figure
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by queuebert 2y ago
He posted two weeks ago. And the post from the link above is two years old. Your comment makes no sense. https://fsturmat.net/blog/
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by queuebert 2y ago
And even if heap allocated, there might be a static pointer array tracking them. In the DOS days, dynamic memory allocation was to be avoided if possible. Machines did not handle running out of memory gracefully. Often we'd unnecessari
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by queuebert 2y ago
From a software perspective, yes, but give me the old serial and parallel cables any day over that damn USB-A connector that never fits in either orientation.
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by queuebert 2y ago
This comment below the article from the author cracked me up: "Part of why this paper took so long to write is that the file was called boring.tex."
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by queuebert 2y ago
Except if you're an active person. Blazers don't give you full range of arm motion unless they are laughable baggy or made of some weird stretch material that looks cheap. Loafers are sub-optimal for running up stairs, catching th
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by queuebert 2y ago
Like hackers, I wonder if he'll be restricted from using a computer.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Propaganda or hired PR team influencing the discourse?
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by queuebert 2y ago
So it's better to not have any data and live in continued ignorance?
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by queuebert 2y ago
Perhaps vapid, pseudo-intellectuals are overrepresented in the text of the internet because of their excess blogging, tweeting, etc. Thus the LLMs are biased toward that way of speaking.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Precisely. The continued hyperspecialization of science shrinks the potential pool of qualified reviewers to zero. I rarely get knowledgeable reviews these days. Instead of disputing my methods, they complain about the font or figure styles
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by queuebert 2y ago
Synapses might be akin to transistor count, which is only roughly correlated with FLOPs on modern architectures. I've also heard in a recent talk that the optic nerve carries about 20 Mbps of visual information. If we imagine a saturat
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by queuebert 2y ago
And they still have one of the worst apps (and website) in the game. Seems like that would be some low-hanging fruit.
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by queuebert 3y ago
How many people enjoy their jobs?
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by queuebert 3y ago
But aren't they meant to be rebuilt every 10k miles or so?
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by queuebert 3y ago
The 10R80 in the F-150 has known problems, while the ZF8 is one of the best transmissions currently made. It's also used in BMWs, the Toyota Supra, and the new Ineos Grenadier. Having driven it, my only issue was that it was slow to sw
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by queuebert 3y ago
PhDs are earned through master-apprentice structures. So even outside of blue-collar trades it can be successful.
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by queuebert 3y ago
Pro tip: If you are near a university, the free public wifi may give you access to its journal subscriptions.
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by queuebert 3y ago
Most of us physicists would probably prefer a theory without a mathematical singularity in the middle of it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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