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by AlanYx 2y ago
There's some evidence that CPL emissive screens cause less eyestrain than linearly polarized emissive screens (e.g., https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9010255 ), although the evidence there is not wildly str
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Yes, I find that there are differences in eye strain between the regular and nanotexture displays, even in a dark room with no reflections. It's worth trying both. One interesting difference between the two that not a lot of people rea
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by AlanYx 2y ago
The grain on the DC-1 is quite a bit more noticeable than the grain on Apple's nanotexture displays. I don't find the latter distracting, but I found that I couldn't really read PDFs with small text on the DC-1 because of the
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by AlanYx 2y ago
One thing about the DC-1 that this piece doesn't mention is the graininess of the display. It's not resolution-related... on a pure white background the display looks slightly speckled, like it has some film grain. I find this imp
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Gaudi pioneered a lot of interesting physical modelling techniques to check his designs, e.g., he was the first to use inverted space-hanging models for domes and vaults (although his predecessors had used them for arches).
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Quantel is a good example of how pivoting to patent litigation against competitors generally foreshadows a formerly innovative company's demise.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
This piece ignores recent news that DeepSeek is doing inference on Huawei’s Ascend 910C GPUs. The simplified export control analysis Amodei gives here gets a lot more complicated when increasing export controls potentially ends up spurring
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Although it's tempting to see it that way, the name actually comes from its unification of multimodal understanding and generation. i.e., it goes in both directions -- Janus is the god with two faces. This is also the second version of
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Another aspect that reinforces your point is that the ATM push (and subsequent downfall) was not just bandwidth-motivated but also motivated by a belief that ATM's QoS guarantees were necessary. But it turned out that software improvem
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by AlanYx 2y ago
IMHO the best way to do this is to install apps in the Applications subfolder of your user directory. When you do this, Launchpad and everything else treats them as if they were installed in the /Applications folder, but it's stil
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by AlanYx 2y ago
>they understand what they were facing Parts of the deck suggest that they didn't fully understand what they were facing. For example, the bullet "scaling the user experience to lower HW specs may be challenging. iPhone mini ma
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by AlanYx 2y ago
I think you're referring to the Canadian and Mexican studies that were excluded from the meta-analysis. If you read the paper, two Canadian studies and three Mexican studies were excluded, but not all of them were. Table 3 only shows
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by AlanYx 2y ago
>As noted by this meta-analysis itself, all the results indicating that fluoride has a negative impact on IQ come from China, India and Iran. That's not accurate. Table 3 shows negative impact from data collected in Canada and Mexic
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by AlanYx 2y ago
The best thing about community notes IMHO is that you get notified if something you liked previously has been community noted. Gives you a chance to reassess.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Ignoring all the drama, this part is interesting: "On one call, Elon told us he didn’t care about equity personally but just needed to accumulate $80B for a city on Mars."
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by AlanYx 2y ago
One of the stronger criticisms of Economics as a discipline is that double-blind reviewing of papers is uncommon, and there has been a trend in the past 25 years for the subset of Econ journals that did use double-blind reviewing to move aw
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by AlanYx 2y ago
It's strange that they don't specify what gamut. I think it's possible that they mean 45% of the entire CIE gamut, which would be slightly larger than sRGB. (It's an odd way of specifying a monitor though, usually manufa
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by AlanYx 2y ago
No (naturally). But my thought process is that if you use advanced voice even half an hour a day, it's probably a fair price based on API costs. If you use it more, for something like language learning or entertaining kids who love it,
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by AlanYx 2y ago
$200 a month is potentially a bargain since it comes with unlimited advanced voice. Via the API, $200 used to only get you 14 hours of advanced voice.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Are you using them with the Philips hub, or on their own?
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by AlanYx 2y ago
That's been my experience as well... it's a downward trend of reliability. Forty years ago my parents had a bunch of Radio Shack home automation stuff that was actually reliable, though functionally simple. Apart from Philips devi
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Assuming you're not talking about lens effects (which definitely has a huge effect), you might be reacting to the use of tone mapping in iPhone photos, which tends to make things look "flat". There's a slider called &quo
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by AlanYx 2y ago
That is a great project! I wonder if anyone has created a visualization that uses a "life in weeks" format (like https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html ) rather than a linear horizontal timeline.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
3-cueing is still being used in some places, although there's been strong pushback in the last couple of years. 3-cueing isn't the main problem though these days IMHO. It's "balanced literacy" reading instruction st
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by AlanYx 2y ago
>But we noticed that if you took a cheap old school microscope and stuck an iPhone on the lens the resulting images were infinitely more crisp vivid and high-res That's the core reason why the Foldscope is so popular. It really does
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Chinese folk music does often tend towards higher pitches than western folk music. Some of it is related to influence of the ranges of traditional instruments (e.g., the erhu and pipa), some of it is perceptual relating to the pentatonic sc
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by AlanYx 2y ago
I'm not familiar with Porter, but Wiegley is a heavy contributor to a number of open source projects, is the author of the Ledger plain text accounting system, has been emacs maintainer since 2015, operates his own software consultancy
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by AlanYx 2y ago
One of the senior Aperture team members went off to use the underlying OS RAW infrastructure in product called Gentleman Coders Nitro. It's a decent but little known Lightroom alternative with no subscription, albeit without all the re
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Are nonlinear junction detectors still state-of-the-art for detecting hidden devices when powered off? Does anyone know if alternatives like electronic noses (to detect chemical signatures associated with IC packaging) and magnetic anomaly
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by AlanYx 2y ago
The debate was "Be it resolved: Do not trust the mainstream media". To Gladwell's credit, he did try to attempt to understand why he lost and has written about it.

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