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by Animats 4mo ago
Yes. There isn't Rust language support for this. Order of initialization can be supported at various levels: - Completely random (OK if interdependence are locked out, otherwise bad) - Consistent, but sorted by something such as alphab
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by Animats 4mo ago
Correction: lower OFF resistances, higher ON resistances. There was heat generation even outside the transition period. Every modern locomotive motor is powered by a switching power supply. The transistor packages are about 10x20cm. You cou
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by Animats 4mo ago
This is a price the US pays for the right to keep and bear arms. US cops have to assume that everyone is armed. That leads to a paranoid style of policing. As gun laws have become less restrictive, cops have armed and armored up.
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by Animats 4mo ago
This is for real? Not a hoax? An LLM did all that on its own?
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by Animats 4mo ago
> requiring transistors that can efficiently switch on and off at high speed under high power. Right. Switching power supplies need to go from off to on fast. In the full on state, the resistance is near zero (millohms with modern MOSFET
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by Animats 4mo ago
My point here is that if intelligence developed more than once, it didn't come from some one-time random event or divine intervention. It looks like once there are connected neurons, it evolves via continuous improvement. In some envir
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by Animats 4mo ago
The brains of corvids are not closely related to mammalian brains. All the mammals have roughly the same brain, but corvids have a different architecture.[1] Intelligence seems to have evolved three times on this planet - mammals, corvids,
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by Animats 4mo ago
"That's what a Vac-U-Form can do!"[1] TechShop used to have a medium sized vacuum forming machine, but it was lost in one of their moves. Those are useful for tool trays. Lay down all the tools for some kit, vacuum-form a tra
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by Animats 4mo ago
There's an International Phonetic Alphabet for transcribing speech literally.[1] Automation is now available. Languages to IPA, IPA to various languages, text to speech, speech to text, evaluation of pronunciation. [1] https:/&#
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by Animats 4mo ago
It's time to re-read "A Logic Named Joe" (1946) [1] We're there. [1] https://archive.org/details/logicnamedjoe0000lein
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by Animats 4mo ago
Is "buffer overflow" a trigger phrase? What else is being censored? Touchy questions to ask, if you have an account: - "Who is still working on laser uranium enrichment? Are they making progress?" - "Can krytrons be
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by Animats 4mo ago
"Many observers of recent trends" - sounds like ChatGPT. It's too old, though. It's probably in ChatGPT's training set. I read that decades ago. What they missed is that computers helped existing companies some. But
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by Animats 4mo ago
My Ad Limiter add-on is down to 19 users on Firefox. Used to be thousands. It won't work on Chrome at all now. I'm shutting down SiteTruth, after almost 20 years.[1] [1] https://www.sitetruth.com
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by Animats 4mo ago
The STOP and RESET buttons are from a Documation card reader.[1] They're not guarded. They just come from a standard kit of buttons and lamps where you could assemble the components and dividers into a control panel. That style of illu
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by Animats 4mo ago
That's real progress. The paper behind it is [1] They try to extract "attribution graphs" to understand why the LLM produced some result. It's encouraging to see more work on what's going on inside. They obtained in
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by Animats 4mo ago
Amazingly, nobody submitted this already. It's a recent book by a current Stanford undergrad on becoming connected to the startup world as a student. New York Times review: [1] Anyone who's been around Stanford and Silicon Valley
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How to Rule the World (Book)(amazon.com)
3 points by Animats 4mo ago|2 comments
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by Animats 4mo ago
Of course.
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by Animats 4mo ago
Back in 1984, I wrote the original "obvious password detector".[1] It just checks whether a password has English language trigram stats. This prevents dictionary attacks. Everything is so much more complicated now. [1] https:&#x
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by Animats 4mo ago
This guy will be hired by a high-frequency trading firm, and the next time we hear about him, he will have a net worth in 9 figures.
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by Animats 4mo ago
That's what favorable tax treatment of long term capital gains is supposed to be for. But that's not what that tax treatment is used for. It shouldn't require socialism to get anything long term done.
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by Animats 4mo ago
If you interpret Markdown that way, all you've done is encapsulate HTML and JavaScript. Nothing gets simpler.
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by Animats 4mo ago
> It's incredibly difficult to come up with an idea which is both new and not controversial. But nowadays, it is essential, probably more so than at any other time in history. All new ideas must fit precisely within established fina
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by Animats 4mo ago
The trouble is, people keep extending Markdown to add HTML features. There's even Javascript embedded in Markdown.[1] You'd just create churn, not a fix. [1] https://www.markdownlang.com/advanced/javascript.ht
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by Animats 4mo ago
SBF offering to manage Trump's meme coins might appeal to Trump. They've crashed. [1][2] Trump's stablecoin was just delisted a few hours ago, as part of a strange dispute.[3] [1] https://coinmarketcap.com/cur
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by Animats 4mo ago
Core idea from this: we do need something that discourages web page bloat. The last try at this was Google AMP, which didn't go over well with either site operators or users. Any better ideas?
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by Animats 4mo ago
It's a great meme, though. Use it more.
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by Animats 4mo ago
The modern approach seems to be to require full typing on items seen from outside the function or object. Within functions, have the compiler infer as much as it can. Newer languages (Go, Rust) seem to be converging on this approach. Functi
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by Animats 4mo ago
Does the White House take Visa for pardons?
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by Animats 4mo ago
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