DougMerritt

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by DougMerritt 2y ago
Yes. One source I just double checked says that a 300mm silicon wafer weighs 840 grams, which seems to be in the right range anyway.
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
Right, but he assumed he knew a technical term when he didn't, which is unwise.
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
Lisp CPUs had type bits stored with values, but I can't think of any typed CPUs still in use. What are you thinking of?
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
Aha, I had missed that! Thanks.
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
You really cannot expect audio processing to yield color information. Beyond that, you are correct that the 3D shapes themselves cannot be derived perfectly accurately (see my other post)
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
That's not an unreasonable question, however the larger point is that this sort of thing cannot be done perfectly accurately. This was established mathematically, answering an old 1966 question from famous mathematician Mark Kac: &qu
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
On raw hardware, yes, but they're talking about running on a Samsung hypervisor.
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
"Continued on next scroll"
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
To a first approximation(see note) all natural languages have similar complexity, it just comes out in different parts of the language. Languages with fewer moods make up for it with synonymous constructions that use more words. (note) ling
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
> The whole industry has swung from fat clients to thin clients and back since time immemorial. The pendulum will keep swinging after this too. Indeed, graphics pioneer and all-around-genius Ivan Sutherland observed (and named) this back
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
Zot is (at least in part) from the old comic Wizard of Id and (by the same artist, Johnny Hart and Brant Parker) BC. It was the sound of a lightning bolt (natural or wizard-created). Reprint cover of "Ala Ka Zot!": https:/&#
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
Sure, but not all interactions are observations, yet they can still cause collapse.
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
Hi there, long time. I'm a big believer in crafting whatever you personally need, whether interpreters or generators.
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
What is this month's best choice to run at home?
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
That hexapodia business seemed like a hint in a murder mystery; some of the connections to the rest of the story were reasonably clear, but I always felt like I was missing some insight there.
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
Hmm. In light of that, maybe it would have been more accurate if I said he was famous rather than popular, and for all I know it was only the Science Fiction Book Club that gave him that degree of fame? His stuff is weird, and therefore a
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
> Dick's genius was recognized only after his death Yes and no. It should certainly be noted that he was very popular during his life, not a nearly unknown author. Book clubs selected multiple of his novels, as one of many example
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
James Tiptree Jr (yes, aka Alice Sheldon) is often forgotten? That would be criminal!
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
People who aren't familiar with the Sokal affair may miss the critical point that word salad was the author's whole intent, to expose the problem. 'a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal...to test the journal&
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
I agree, but mind you, libraries have always been consciously desired and heavily implemented. Lady Ada did it. Historically but more recently, the first operating systems began life as mere libraries. But the worst problem I ever had was
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
I strongly agree, but then again "generation" has always been a highly imprecise unit, enough so that I wouldn't outright call "30 years" wrong . We have lots of examples like that, for instance lots of people comp
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
Yep. IIRC the ubiquitous 8051 originally took 10-20 clocks just to execute a NOP, and everything else was even slower. For example.
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
It kind of does, all else being equal. What else do you have in mind? Parasitic capacitance on signal lines?
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
They very likely will not elaborate, since I see that since 2018 they've made only about a dozen comments, 3 of which were nothing but "."
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
Yes? What is the state of the art?
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
I think it's at the level where one has to say only humans have non-trivial fully recursive grammar -- word order has to matter. Various animals have been shown to have fairly impressive language abilities otherwise. A long time ago on
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
> I don't think I'll dox myself, since she kept to herself a lot. It took me very little detective work to determine that you ...(drum roll) are me. No wonder I almost posted the above. > I judge books by their covers. On se
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
Thank you; that does make more sense.
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
You're absolutely right. On the other hand, really extensive meditation can have some very strange effects on sleeping and some other things, so I personally withhold judgement. If nothing else, take into account the studies that said
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
Ok, you're joking, but still, are you referring to the 1987 Liskov Substitution Principle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle

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