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by xaellison 2y ago
there's never a time I've been glad an article used Excel's 3D surface plot lol
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by xaellison 2y ago
I worked for a company where the main workflow was to download an entire postgres dump at the start of the day and work off that. It took 25 min. I aliased our download command to play run a profane version of `say "beep beep"` af
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by xaellison 2y ago
as a major julia enthusiast I gotta say this is not how you get people to check it out buddy
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by xaellison 2y ago
that's not very vc-minded of you /s
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by xaellison 2y ago
maybe I can offset your disappointment by sharing a very cool nail exhibit I saw a few years back :) https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/01/writhing-sculptures-j...
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by xaellison 2y ago
indeed, it's more of an emergency landing
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by xaellison 2y ago
the article says that
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by xaellison 2y ago
1. I want a human drilling because I want empathy in my care 2. 90% detection rate on cavities isn't great
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by xaellison 2y ago
Pros: this is just like the Dark Knight! Cons: privacy nightmare
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by xaellison 2y ago
yeah this is an immediate show-stopper for me, at least for professional usage
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by xaellison 2y ago
It appears Enel "plans" a gravity system in ERCOT (May 2024) https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/05/22/enel-energy-vault-bui...
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by xaellison 2y ago
WE COME TO A NUANCED CONCLUSION. DOWNLOAD TO FIND OUT WHAT. world's best abstract
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by xaellison 2y ago
came to comment this :)
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by xaellison 2y ago
I think it's a bit underwhelming, yes
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by xaellison 2y ago
The whole point of homoiconicity is that a language (lisp) is implemented in itself. This is lisp implemented in python (not itself).
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by xaellison 2y ago
"antennas so big that we cannot even simulate their behavior. " - does anyone know what that means?
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by xaellison 2y ago
I wonder what that will mean for charging infrastructure that suddenly has to deliver 10x power to enable that. Not sure that sort of charging could be as ubiquitously placed as gas stations
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by xaellison 2y ago
As the article mentions, the curves are unstable. This is delightfully apparent when you drag one control point in a circle around another. Interestingly, it can also make fairly sharp corners if the control points approach each other.
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by xaellison 2y ago
I don't either put code in or use it's output directly. I treat it as a conversational oracle over stackoverflow / all documentation ever written :D
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by xaellison 2y ago
If anyone successfully uses this in a dating app context please leave a note
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by xaellison 3y ago
clearly they don't know any coders
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by xaellison 3y ago
Scientific American I think did a balanced article about this character: https://web.archive.org/web/20231231040033/https://www.scien... My favorite quotes: when provided with some of the responses from
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by xaellison 3y ago
There's a difference between deep tech research (which truly can be revolutionary) and "revolutionary" consumer gizmos. I don't think the analogy holds.
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by xaellison 3y ago
askbeeves.com
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by xaellison 3y ago
This limit comes from using int32s. Does anyone have an idea why on modern machines it isn't making use of int64s?
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by xaellison 3y ago
forgive me for not engaging with your core ideas, but as far as I know the vernacular term is "cattle prod" and "cattle prick" sounds rather like something else
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by xaellison 3y ago
Drug cartels might disagree with the 'nothing of value' statement
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by xaellison 3y ago
I read it as "for Barbies"
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by xaellison 3y ago
Two reasons. 1. A microwave receiver on earth is much smaller than many solar farms, so we don't use a lot of our finite land for energy generation 2. This could actually bring solar to some geographies which aren't well suited to
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by xaellison 3y ago
ok but gravity scales quite nicely as force right?

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