ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
C'mon it was right there! From the article -- consisting of experts from EPFL's Archives of Modern Construction (Acm) research group, Archives of Modern Construction Engineering (ACME) :-) I am glad that this is being investigat
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
There is a vanishingly small chance of your battery disposal box being the source of a fire in your house. The Fire Cause Analysis have reported one for sure, and another possible in the years 2017 - 2022. Out of all the fires that is a sma
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Exactly, at a previous job I suggested that if someone spent less than their budget the surplus should be added to their budget for the next fiscal year, then managers could plan for big changes, go lean for a couple of years and then have
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Cincinnati when the Turkeys fell.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I think this is one of those times when my Mom, understanding my desire to be understood and to ask questions about motives and related understanding, would observe the, oblivious to me, effect of inflaming the conversation and say, "C
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I think I could adapt to that. But it would be an interesting experiment.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is a really interesting use case. I could definitely see this as a service for content providers to get more reach and I think you could justify a subscription price for the service based on this. By keeping creating speaker specific t
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I look forward to the day where I'm wearing my headphones in a foreign land and hearing all of the discussions in my own language. The "universal translator" which was part of Star Trek and a lot of other Sci-Fi I was exposed
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
First one to stimulating the pleasure centers wins the 'wire head' prize :-) The links from Sarah Constantin are awesome, thanks!
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Narrators voice: It was always the ultimate spec, it is now becoming more obvious to more people. One of the interesting things for me is how memory "operations" (which is to say transactions of the memory controller) can complete
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I periodically search Craigslist for them and I've asked the local gear reseller (Starving Musician) to be on the eye out for a "dead" one. I seriously doubt having one shipped would be cost effective :-). There is a $50 one
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is an interesting result. It makes me wonder if you could grow a silicon ingot in this way. If so it would cut the cost of silicon solar cells significantly (a big chunk of their cost is the cost of the ingot, the ingot cost is a funct
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Our lab totally preferred "searching for the treat" exercise way more than "run around" exercise :-) The killer though was while camping and taking him on a hike for 5 miles and him sniffing all the sniffs? Totally wiped
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is Oscar's (he is the creator) website: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11 This is a great kit and a lot of fun. I have one (and one of his PiDP-8's and as soon as they are available o
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Sorry I wasn't clear, I was think just the electronics at $1 per key. The action for the keyboard would cost more than that. In my alternate life I find a broken/disused KX-88 and rebuild its keyboard :-)
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I was thinking more like the burgeoning mechanical keyboard business for computers. If the mechanical structure was there your could provide arbitrarily low latency (some of the high end 'gamer' keyboards are sub-millesecond). Giv
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
The sound of a DX7 not the 10 ton keyboard[1] :-) The ability to re-create these sound flavors "on the cheap" is really something. I keep wondering if someone is selling nice keyboards that one could pair with these sound module
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I agree strongly with the sentiment of this article, the author missed the fully open source programmable systems like the Lattice ECP5 and 40K FPGAs. There is something magical about using the LiteX "make me an SOC out of this board&q
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I love these books, my favorite is the Engines[1] one but this one is a close second. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Engines-Inner-Workings-Machines-World...
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
In terms of cost it seems way way cheaper. The water is stored near where it is needed (so no canals to dig), and you can throw up another one for $125K vs the millions of $ to build a dam. So I'm guessing the evaporation challenge isn
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I got that but I was interested that climbing steps trained it better than wind sprints? Or better than rowing? So was wondering if there was something specific about step climbing that was triggering the heart conditioning.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
So 250 steps a day can immunize you completely? :crazy-face-smiley:. [1] I wonder what the mechanism that the burst activity causes to engage. Dislodging plaque? Pressurizing arteries? [1] I know, its just 32.768% :-) [2] Note to self: even
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
It wasn't particularly transferable outside of Google's scale. They have continual failures in their fleet of machines which cycle through a repair queue. It's fairly automated, dispatching bulk repair requests to people in t
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I agree with your thoughts on a superintelligence, I just don't think the first AGI will be any more intelligent than humans are, it will just think billions of times faster and live in the planetary networking and computing infrastruc
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
No worries, got to use something as the holder of the definition. FWIW I read a similar essay that discussed cooks and chefs and came away seeing the many parallels with programming and coding.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
That would be good. It would be great to develop a test or indication one could use to see which #3 it landed on, yours or mine.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I can heartily recommend everyone read "The Adolescence of P1" it is a work of fiction where the author thinks about these things in depth. I really enjoyed it.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
> Gaining sentience is not the same as gaining infallible super-sentience. Can you define "super-sentience"? I think regular old human level sentience would be sufficient to carry out all of these steps. Imagine how much easier
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
If it is sentient, I think weaponizing it would require convincing it that being a weapon was in its interest. I struggle to find a way to reason to that position without using emotional content and I presume a sentient AGI will not have em
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
That would be a non-harm scenario. So useful to consider but you don't need to plan for it. I would be surprised if an AGI had emotions and it seems that emotions are an essential element of nilhilism but I freely acknowledge my dept

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