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by v9v 8d ago
Interesting article to share on the eve of yesterday's debacle about the Navier-Stokes problem. Maybe another quote to add to the list is about Bob Widlar (from https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/bob-widlar-sili
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by v9v 16d ago
https://restroomarchive.com/r/2026-08-29-grand-army-plaza-au... > has a countdown timer above warning visitors that the door will auto-open in x amount of time. A toilet that has a door with a countdown seems like t
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by v9v 23d ago
Is it that inconceivable to think that there are people who would be ok with stopping what they're doing when they realize it's harmful?
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by v9v 26d ago
Thanks, I seem to have grossly misremembered what I read.
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by v9v 26d ago
Interesting. Wasn't Deepseek's founder saying that they had explicitly decided not to focus on multimodal models at all and were going text-only because they believed it was enough to achieve AGI?
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by v9v 28d ago
The (relatively new) Casiotone CT-S1000V and CT-S500 have CZ sounds included along with fun voice synthesis technology, and are recommended as a good cheap keyboard on some forums.
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by v9v 1mo ago
It still works the same way other LLMs do, by outputting the probability distribution over the possible completions (The weather is ... (sunny (50%), cloudy (50%))). Then the next token is sampled from this probability distribution (in our
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by v9v 1mo ago
A bit buried at the bottom of the page is the extended availability of Genera for non-commercial use: https://hachyderm.io/@gmpalter/117044268951603975
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by v9v 1mo ago
The Bayreuth Festival is a 150-year-old music festival and focuses on Wagner's music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth_Festival
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by v9v 2mo ago
That law only applies to headlines ending in a question mark.
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by v9v 2mo ago
In C with https://github.com/aartaka/pretty.c , foreach (i, int, 10, vector(10, int, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5)) println(*i);
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by v9v 2mo ago
Parts of this reminded me of the book "Sadly, Porn".
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by v9v 3mo ago
For Firefox I've switched to Glide (Firefox fork?) and configured it to implement Emacs keybindings. There is a config on the project's Github discussions page that I started off of.
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by v9v 3mo ago
I'll add another to the list of relevant links in the comments: https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat
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by v9v 3mo ago
For those that don't know, this is a reference to a lovely story involving Charles Proteus Steinmetz https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-stein...
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by v9v 3mo ago
I guess you're writing it all out for educational purposes, but conventionally to describe the kinematics of a serial robot arm Denavit-Hartenberg parameters are used, which needs only 4 parameters per link.
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The Tool Bans Just Arrived [video](youtube.com)
1 points by v9v 3mo ago|0 comments
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by v9v 3mo ago
It's hard to find it since it's a livestream. From the comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG0twQJ7aG4&t=16047s
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by v9v 3mo ago
Somewhat relevant is a blog-post that likens attention to kernel smoothing: https://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.h... (as discussed before in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
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by v9v 3mo ago
Finally an auto-accompanist to rival Band-in-a-Box? https://www.bandinabox.com/
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VibeOS – Hallucinated Operating System [video](youtube.com)
17 points by v9v 4mo ago|3 comments
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by v9v 4mo ago
Recently a new VS Code extension was announced that you may want to check out: https://old.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1tn3zff/new_cl_vscode... It purports to be more stable.
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by v9v 4mo ago
I think Kevin Kelly has taken the opposing side before: https://colossus.com/article/flounder-mode/ (discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455933 )
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by v9v 5mo ago
There are a few of these being sold as products: AGIBOT has some models like that (eg https://www.agibot.com/products/A2_W ). One argument that could be made for legged robots is that these wheeled ones can only work in
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by v9v 5mo ago
There's also Bike for CL/.NET interop: https://github.com/Lovesan/bike
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by v9v 5mo ago
Put me down as interested!
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by v9v 5mo ago
Ada/SPARK may also be worth a look.
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by v9v 5mo ago
DREI = DREI Replaces EINE's Inheritor https://mcclim.common-lisp.dev/static/documents/drei.pdf
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by v9v 5mo ago
I use https://github.com/TxGVNN/github-explorer for this and even though it doesn't have a C-x C-f nicety (you just m-x github-explorer then type in the repo name) it works via http (or at least I don't recal
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by v9v 5mo ago
One thing to be mindful of is that you can get a simulation to behave in (almost) any way you want if you set the parameters right, so you should take care to understand the assumptions that you're baking into your sim before taking it

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