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"pill-shaped cutout ... could disappear entirely." Does that mean "the notch" goes away, too?
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By the same author: "Altered States from the Inside Out: A Physicist’s Embodied Journey Through Seizures, Psychedelics, and Consciousness"[1] [1] https://medium.com/@breid.at/seizures-crystals-psychedelics-...
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Early thinking was in terms of capability handles. As with file descriptors, the handle is only meaningful when passed across a protection boundary to something which can check if the handle is valid. Later, there were encrypted capabilitie
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PSOS. Now that was something I never expected to see again. I'd worked on the previous system, KSOS, mentioned in the article. I wrote the file system and all of the drivers, while at an aerospace company. We'd used formal specifi
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Measured signals seem to be at kilohertz, not gigahertz, speeds.
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The funny thing is that the US is self-sufficient in oil and natural gas. More than self-sufficient. The US is a major exporter. There are some problems with pipelines being in the wrong place and refineries not being configured for the cor
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OK, dualism. Heard that before. The new hard problem: how do biological brains get so much done on such slow hardware? That's a real physics question. We're missing something.
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Yes. Spoiler: Mars attacks. Really.
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So, will the AI companies raise prices? That's the article's main claim. Uber ran at a loss to build market share for over five years after the IPO. So it it not impossible for an overhyped IPO to run in that mode. The AI service
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Definitely see this. The 1970s hardware is archaic, but the concept is still relevant. So is the scale. For the 1980s and 1990s, the huge Colossus system seemed obsolete. The age of the personal desktop computer had arrived. Now Colossus l
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"The economics never worked either. An average Tesla Solar Roof costs approximately $106,000 before incentives, compared to roughly $60,000 for a traditional roof replacement plus conventional solar panels — a $46,000 premium. The pay
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Evaluations of six translators. That's real progress. Here are the test cases for evaluation #1.[1] There's good coverage of the C language, but the individual tests are mostly simple exercises of one C feature. The next round of
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What comes out of c2rust is not intended for human consumption. It's more verbose than the original and harder to work on, but no safer. You lose the C idioms that people understand, while not gaining Rust idioms. It's like workin
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The module with the code mentioned is at [1] This is awful. They have some internal string format borrowed from a Zig library where the address of the item is in the low end of a pointer and the length is at the high end. Why are they doing
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> "Tbh they could've just hooked up zig translate-c to c2rust". Have you ever seen what comes out of c2rust? It's awful. It relies on a library of functions which emulate unsafe C pointer semantics with unsafe Rust. A
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That's a tough problem - distinguishing wet pavement from deep water. Humans make that mistake frequently. Autonomous vehicles should probably be equipped with a water sensor. (We did that in our DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle back in
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Yes, such systems are still struggling with continuity. (There might be a workflow solution to that. Part of the system needs to do the job of what old films list as the "continuity girl". For each shot, there's a blocking di
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Over on the image generation side, "frontier AI" seems to be coming along rather well. Watch this video, which was released eight days ago.[1] Can you find any flaws? Two years ago, just getting hands with the right number of fing
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> AI generated or not, I concur. I rally want to know what Universities will look like in 10 years time. What will be taught there that cannot be taught by an AI (whatever form or interface it has). Computer-assisted instruction been ama
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"As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache." Terry Gou, former CEO of Foxconn. He wanted to use far more robots at Foxconn, but that was a decade ago and the technology didn't work
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Putting info into a spreadsheet is a higher level of abstraction that doesn't require thinking. There are many concrete representations like that. LLMs don't use them much. This is a lack. Can you point a LLM at a body of code, an
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Thanks. The head of MIT needs to be clearer about that. It may be inconceivable at his level to say that fewer people would apply. In the US, school enrollment is declining due to declining birth rates.[1] That's hitting elementary sch
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How good a position can you get from GPS today in receive only mode? You can download and store Open Street Map for individual states. Map data doesn't have to come in over the air. That's not the problem. It's enhancing GPS
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> "new enrollments for next year are down close to 20%." Does this mean that MIT admitted fewer people, or that there are fewer applicants? The article does not seem to say.
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> As a biker, there is sure a lot of peer pressure to have a louder bike. I'm amused by vehicles which are very noisy when barely doing anything. Really, almost all cars today have more acceleration than can be used outside racing.
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"AI safety", as defined here, has most of the problem that "fact checking" for social media had. Many of the same problems the "woke" concern about "microagressions" had. Most of the techniques used i
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Yes to both. Maxwell's "On Governors"[1] is still a good introduction to control theory. See the part "This is the condition of stability of the motion." That's the beginning of understanding linear feedback st
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Bell System historical video on this.[1] This is the popular version, but it's not bad. The more technical version [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS5X5BkIKpM [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Participants were 529 (289 men, 234 women, and 6 identified as other) undergraduate business students with a mean age of 18.14 years (SD = 1.19, range 16 to 37). Sigh. A sample of convenience. Psychology remains the study of undergraduate
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When you lose access to your projects, does Anthropic acquire the intellectual property? It's a real issue when it's in a machine learning system, not passive storage like Github.

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