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by teraflop 13d ago
For anyone who finds themselves in the vicinity of Atlanta. I can highly recommend the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art. Which was also formerly called the Computer Museum of America, but AFAIK has no relation to the one in San Diego. A
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by teraflop 15d ago
The blog post doesn't seem to mention what strikes me as the most interesting application of a model like this, namely extracting semantic information from its latent space. It mentions robotics applications, but only in the context of
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by teraflop 23d ago
Surely there are all kinds of interesting and constructive classroom discussions to be had about lawbreaking. Classrooms teach about reality (among other things) and there are many things in reality that don't involve obedience to the
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by teraflop 28d ago
Clearly these products are being named by topologists, who have no objection to things being simultaneously open and closed.
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by teraflop 29d ago
Another interesting non-hypothetical example: many US states have so-called "blue alerts" which are used to send cell phone alerts whenever a police officer is attacked or injured. I used to live in Texas and blue alerts were a fa
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by teraflop 1mo ago
> The workflow had an if: condition that appeared protective: > if: (github.event_name == 'issues' && github.event.pull_request.user.login != 'whitesource-for-github-com[bot]') > However, on issues event
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by teraflop 1mo ago
Because this particular sensor network is only monitoring earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, not worldwide.
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by teraflop 1mo ago
I guess the headline has been changed? The HN title says "illegally drills wells" but the article now says "prepares to drill". Reading the article and the linked government statement, it sounds like the issue is that th
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by teraflop 1mo ago
Agreed, but I'll just add that annular eclipses occupy an intermediate point on that scale. With a partial eclipse, shadows look odd and the sunlight "feels" noticeably dimmer and more muted, but if you're not paying att
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by teraflop 1mo ago
True, but predictability cuts both ways. We're all used to having to constantly update our browsers and phones to keep up with the security arms race. If a frozen model can't be updated, it will predictably remain vulnerable to an
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by teraflop 1mo ago
This is indeed a very elegant fastening method. I wouldn't be surprised if the designer of that CNC machine borrowed it from the popular Prusa MK2 3D printer, which uses a very similar design for its Y-axis belt: https://hel
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by teraflop 1mo ago
I mean back in the day, those kinds of titles involved film editing, not video editing. As in, physically filming title cards with a camera (and then maybe optically compositing them on top of other elements). It's easy to see how th
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by teraflop 2mo ago
Look up "long arm statutes". State courts can have jurisdiction over out-of-state entities, subject to limitations established by federal precedent. Doing business with customers who reside in a state generally puts you under that
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by teraflop 2mo ago
> therefore I write (hard?) sci-fi. This is not at all what Le Guin is saying! It's right there at the end of the essay: "I agree with my reviewer that I don’t write hard science fiction."
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by teraflop 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)
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by teraflop 2mo ago
There was a bit of a fad for stuff like this, maybe 20 years or so ago, as soon as browser JS/CSS support started getting good enough to support it. All of a sudden, we had the ability to build complex interactive UIs in a web page, an
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by teraflop 2mo ago
The official website ( https://www.staraxis.org/ ) has this to say: > Fundraising is currently underway to complete construction this year and plan for the future of Star Axis. Star Axis will not open to the public for sev
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by teraflop 2mo ago
The coefficients are stored in writable memory as input data. Only the structure and degree of the polynomial are hard-coded in the program. So if the launch is delayed you just change the data. Of course, the justification is that compute
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by teraflop 2mo ago
What does "no cash settlement" mean? If I sell a reservation, do I not get cash?
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by teraflop 2mo ago
The short-term goal of a tool like this is to sell products. The more ambitious long-term goal is to shift cultural norms, blurring the lines between advertising and reality until the question you're asking is no longer consciously ask
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by teraflop 2mo ago
Thanks!
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by teraflop 2mo ago
Well the context is that it was posted to a subreddit for people who struggle with binge eating. So I guess you can think of it as the equivalent of sucking on a lollipop when you're craving a cigarette.
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by teraflop 2mo ago
One cool feature I've read about is that (at least some) GoPro cameras can save high-resolution IMU measurements to the recorded video files, timestamped and interleaved with video frames. This can be useful for mapping applications, e
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by teraflop 2mo ago
Being created by a "mechanical process" from an existing creative work doesn't mean it's not a derivative work. For instance, if I take a copy of $BIG_BUDGET_MOVIE, and resample the video frames from 1080p to 720p throug
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by teraflop 2mo ago
That's not meaningless at all, it's a great metric! If the "cost per correctly-solved benchmark task" is infinity, you know not to use the model.
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by teraflop 3mo ago
No, they're talking about the clearance, which is the difference between the diameter of the bolt itself (1/4") and the diameter of a hole in which the bolt loosely fits (a couple hundredths of an inch bigger than that).
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by teraflop 3mo ago
The "how it works" page for that website says that the ID data is "digitally signed by the issuing government". But there doesn't seem to be anything in the docs about how to get or verify that signature. So it seem
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by teraflop 3mo ago
Where are you getting the information that this project hadn't been cleared? That seems like a big assumption, and I don't see anything in the linked tweet, or the replies, or any of the linked pages that supports it. Unless I mis
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by teraflop 3mo ago
If you tolerate small abuses, and let people get accustomed to abusing their power in small meaningless ways, the abuses will only grow.
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by teraflop 3mo ago
Well, the thing about reliability is that you can't really guarantee it by testing one particular scenario. It seems to me that neither the old nor the new version of the code is really "durable" as I would understand the wor

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