Isamu

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by Isamu 3y ago
I think it looks like a worked core, because of the flat bottom which would be the striking platform (upside down). The flat striking platform is made first, and then flakes are struck from the edge working around the core. This doesn’t rul
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Dendrochronology(en.wikipedia.org)
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Japan is saved by Hana Fuda but the family is saved by MATH.
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Summer Wars also features a glimpse of Carnegie Mellon University (with one L) as one of the characters is a professor there. I never figured out why CMU would have enough name recognition in Japan to show up in an anime. Don’t miss the sce
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by Isamu 3y ago
This is interesting >The 2024 GPS Testing for Critical Infrastructure (GET-CI) event is set for the fall of 2024. >This event provides an opportunity for CI O&O and manufacturers of commercial GPS receivers used in critical infras
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by Isamu 3y ago
Agreed, and research agrees also, that the largest determining factor in skills is the time and effective work put into developing that skill. Unknown factors are a much smaller component and can give someone an edge at the highest performa
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Thank you! This context is so much more valuable than the empty quip that you hear everywhere.
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What? How so? Explanations of reasoning and math often appeal to intuition as a shortcut and to connect with the student, but that is not the foundation.
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True, The “band” is a range of frequencies, from lower bound to upper bound. You can have a single frequency carrier that you modulate, in which case your bandwidth has more to do with your modulation scheme, and the rates implied by that
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Just 30 years after the great AI Winter, the AI Boom
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This is especially true if you find it hard to start conversations and connections. I would feel very lonely in a large unfamiliar group at university. But go walk through the woods and the loneliness is gone.
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It’s still used in PNG, it is part of the spec. There’s a trade off, Huffman is relatively fast and easier to get right, and the gains from increased compression may be considered marginal. This is a classic engineering trade off.
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by Isamu 3y ago
Of course, Apple have had some bombs. And it is instructive to look at them and assess where they went wrong versus the the times they were right. But the commentary that happens every time they launch a new product is not very predictive o
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by Isamu 3y ago
This is essentially the Colossus argument, from “Colossus - The Forbin Project” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project Machine gains super intelligence, and so makes new goals to use nuclear weapo
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by Isamu 3y ago
>Because the competitors are spinning wool that hasn't been processed, it still has lanolin in it. This makes the wool greasier and more difficult to spin, so the ideal is finding a sheep with less lanolin to begin with. Ha! Exactly
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by Isamu 3y ago
The Roman Governor famously found nothing wrong with Jesus, that is to say nothing threatening to Rome, and washed his hands symbolically to say Jesus is dying because of the demand of the crowd and the religious authorities. He was dangero
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by Isamu 3y ago
Jesus didn’t speak against the state, but saw it as something different that didn’t interest him. He spoke more against religious authorities, and against the strict enforcement of harsh religious laws. I say this because lots of people see
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This is a good point, it happens because newer models are able to use larger and larger context - long range correlations in text. This amounts to finding more redundancy in the source text, driving down the estimated entropy. Language mode
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Thanks to the Internet Archive, a volume of Piranesi’s etchings: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_piranesi_oper...
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I was thinking the same thing.
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Tucker and others like Hannity are not considered journalists, and I even remember Hannity being careful to make this point- they are opinion show hosts. This was also made clear in a lawsuit a few years ago. Like the opinion section in a n
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by Isamu 4y ago
This article says that 70% of Cobalt comes from the Congo and “no way” can they avoid the taint of this. So no, they don’t care that Apple changed suppliers for Cobalt to avoid this very issue. Also the recent news that Apple is aggressivel
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by Isamu 4y ago
>how can you prove humans are any different? This IS a big chunk of what people do. Especially young children as they are learning to interact. It’s not much of a put-down to recognize that people do MORE than this, e.g. actual reasoning
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by Isamu 4y ago
Well I’m sold, I am tired of crappy clippers, and have plenty of complaints. There’s categories of products where the market is flooded with minimum quality choices because most people are satisfied with the cheapest option. And if I find m
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by Isamu 4y ago
Early electric service was less reliable than gas. My house had mixed gas lighting and electric, and there were even fixtures that were both. Not sure how long this transitional period lasted. Adoption of phone service was even slower. Firs
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by Isamu 4y ago
>Born in Five Points, Manhattan to a Black mother and a white father who left soon after his birth, Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825–1875) grew up in poverty that deepened after his mother died of cholera when he was six. Isn’t this the se
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by Isamu 4y ago
There were dialup BBS sites all over before the web took over. And sharing images was popular.
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>differential flatness I am trying to understand this a bit better. Do you have other examples?
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Thanks for posting, this is chock full of links to more info about robots I haven’t read about. And it’s in a pretty convenient format, I’d like to see the same for other schools.
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Corporations were developed as a legal entity to take on responsibility and rights on behalf of a group that previously were only associated with a person. But it is more of an analogy, and like all analogies it falls apart at some point. I

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