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by xaedes 5d ago
Paperclip all humans into bottles filled with nutritious fluid and drug them all the time or let them dream about a better time, I heard 1999 is a good year they could dream about. Healthy happy safe - without exception.
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The Simplest Learning Machine(medium.com)
1 points by xaedes 3mo ago|0 comments
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by xaedes 8mo ago
Robert O. Becker also studied this. His book "The Body Electric" (1985) was quite interesting. Nice to see some more recent research into this topic.
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by xaedes 10mo ago
For a few minutes after reading this I was worried about smartgit losing its way. But it seems they actually still offer perpetual single-payment licenses, where you purchase a few years of updates, usable after update period ends.
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by xaedes 11mo ago
> It puts a name to a considerate consensus-based way to approach change When reading about nemawashi I immediately thought about its usage in software refactoring. This is something you often intuitively do when making bigger refactors.
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by xaedes 11mo ago
In my opinion it is plain fraud: intentional deception to deprive a victim of a legal right or to gain from a victim unlawfully or unfairly.
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Optics Are Monoids (2021)(haskellforall.com)
3 points by xaedes 1y ago|0 comments
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by xaedes 3y ago
There is this concept of the "Four stages of competence": - unconscious incompetence - conscious incompetence - conscious competence - unconscious competence At first you are unable to do something, but you don't even know it
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by xaedes 3y ago
That official identity documents requiring a smartphone is the "smallest imaginable amount" is questionable. With this proposal I can not even go on vacation without a smartphone. Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I still think humans
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by xaedes 3y ago
I read the pie chart as this: Only 11.5% barely notice them or can completely tune them out. 88.5% are annoyed by them with varying degrees of annoyance.
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by xaedes 3y ago
They believed the scurvy protection came from the sourness of lemons, so they switched to lime which is even more sour than lemon, but contains less vitamin C.
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by xaedes 3y ago
It is estimated that the full electrification of all railway tracks in Germany will be completed not earlier than 2070. But maybe I am confusing "Deutschlandtakt 2070" and the electrification of the tracks.
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by xaedes 3y ago
Maybe we need to integrate the AI golems as persons into society, so they can learn and interact with us as individual persons, like us. But remembering Battlestar Galactica, cutting the interconnectivity was the prominent defense against c
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by xaedes 3y ago
In Germany they decided to make the EPA (electronic medical record) opt-out starting by 2024. Managed by "gematik GmbH", a company with limited liability. Because why should the entity responsible for all medical records have some
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by xaedes 3y ago
Eery, this song performance reminded me of the ending song of Portal.
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by xaedes 4y ago
Oh, yes indeed. Thanks for pointing out my confusion and the difference between those two!
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by xaedes 4y ago
The magnetic north pole is wandering pretty fast. Currently magnetic north pole is at coordinates 86.146, 146.826 [1] - right in the arctic ocean. It is not in Canada for quite some years. [1] https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geom
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by xaedes 4y ago
Yet another etymological curiosity: hǫfn is "old norse" for harbour or port. Now going to wiktionary and following the etymology: hǫfn: From Proto-Germanic *habanō, *habnō (“harbour, haven”). habanō: From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂p
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by xaedes 4y ago
Rewrite this function into latin-py, a python dialect based on latin, with all identifiers (even append) and keywords translated to proper latin. Add comments in proper latin. Add typeannotations (translated into latin) and docstring in pro
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Schrodinger's Equation of Software (2012)(gliese1337.blogspot.com)
1 points by xaedes 4y ago|0 comments
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Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Perform Gradient Descent(arxiv.org)
35 points by xaedes 4y ago|0 comments
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by xaedes 4y ago
I like this passage from "Demian" by Herman Hesse: And at this point I felt the truth burning within me like a sharp flame, that there was some role for everybody but it was not one which he himself could choose,
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by xaedes 4y ago
I learned to love linked lists as soon as I discovered that I can just store them in vectors to get the performance of guaranteed contiguous memory: // LinkedListItem[k]: item[k], prev[k], next[k] std::vector<T> item;
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Show HN: Brace Lang – parse brace groups and evaluate them however you want(github.com)
2 points by xaedes 4y ago|0 comments
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by xaedes 4y ago
In Germany we have this propaganda word "Raubkopie" for pirated copies translating to "rob copy", like a copy that was acquired through robbing, i.e. through use of force. It is quite ironic considering who really ab&#x2
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by xaedes 4y ago
These models may contain executable code. Beware of malware. Official sources are recommended for this reason.
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by xaedes 4y ago
Wow, amazing! This really is a comprehensive overview. Basically a syntax Tafelwerk.
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by xaedes 4y ago
Reminds me of Big Bug. This movie went mostly unnoticed, but it is really good science fiction.
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by xaedes 4y ago
I was expecting Kalman filters or something fancy new for positioning or localization.
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by xaedes 4y ago
"submersion of the world in water". What is seldom put in words, it might be frozen water: the mighty glacial sheet, the real cleanser and fertilizer.

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