JRKrause

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by JRKrause 5y ago
One method of making a chip 'tougher' is to physically increase the size of the semiconductor elements (e.g. transistors, FETs). This would seem incompatible with highly-integrated ICs.
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by JRKrause 5y ago
I manually filed a revision to a previous tax year in which I had accidentally double-payed state taxes on a schedule K-2 disbursement two years back. Without any background in this I was able to follow the IRS and state-gov websites to get
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by JRKrause 5y ago
Zillow purchased a home in my neighborhood for $370K, is now trying to sell it for $410K. Prior to this purchase other houses with a larger footprint in our exact same neighborhood were selling for $250K(literally just months before). For s
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by JRKrause 5y ago
You are under-estimating the long-term traumatic psychological effects a bad trip can have. Not to mention the inability to properly control dosage in a large-area dispersion scenario.
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by JRKrause 5y ago
Coming from a semiconductor crystal growth background, I really love these articles. I wonder what could be accomplished by further controlling the growth environment. From my understanding, the growth-rate of these crystals is limited by t
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by JRKrause 5y ago
Purely anecdotal but my loss of taste,smell came nearly two days after the primary COVID-19 symptoms had passed; making me wonder about the role immune response played into those apparent after-effects. Tangentially related, an acquaintance
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by JRKrause 5y ago
Just wait another 46,000 years and it will rebuild itself in a certain sense.
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Cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment launches new game development company(venturebeat.com)
2 points by JRKrause 6y ago|0 comments
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by JRKrause 6y ago
I am not making, and do not explicitly agree with, the statement that only human brains are imbued with 'creativity'. However, the core of the alphaGo algorithm is just a monte-carlo tree search of the game initially populated wit
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by JRKrause 6y ago
This comment, that AlphaGo showed "creativity", seems so ridiculous to me. Alphago is operating purely on bayesian statistics (with very good priors) so it's decisions are exactly the opposite of creativity.
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by JRKrause 6y ago
Tangentially related, ketamine was what they dosed the kids stuck in the cave with prior to dragging them out last year.
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by JRKrause 6y ago
If we keep a complete record of all player inputs we can also replay the exact game after the fact, a great feature that arises as a consequence of this design choice.
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by JRKrause 6y ago
This isn't true. Alphastar achieved super-human APM, in excess of 1500, in short bursts. Even if it's average APM was lower than a human this is still not a good comparison because it's value-per-click (e.g. not misclicking)
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by JRKrause 6y ago
The most significant separator for me is that, from my understanding, Feynman was an actual practicing scientist. I am struggling to think of anyone in an analogous position today who has received this kind of attention.
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by JRKrause 6y ago
"it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos." I find it hard to imagine a world whe
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by JRKrause 6y ago
I attempted to read this book some years ago, the writing is very nearly incomprehensible.
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by JRKrause 6y ago
This becomes especially complicated when some folks (such as myself) have, for better or worse, developed a gag reflex that is triggered by overly emotional or manipulative content. Even if we agree with the message it can be hard to willin
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by JRKrause 7y ago
I am no means an expert but my take was that many people from grass-roots esports backgrounds balk at the numbers set by ATVI for OWL team licensing (20mil for a team iirc?) and associated player salaries (reaching upwards of 200K in some i
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by JRKrause 7y ago
Is the global propagation of a contagious pathogen actually considered not that interesting? I ask because some coworkers have the same attitude and I just assumed it was them reacting to the pop-medias (assumed) obsession with it.
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by JRKrause 7y ago
Agreed that the generated sample is superior to similar outputs from GPT-2. Looking at the additional samples in the publication, my first thought is that the model cannot easily stray from or modify the context. Once a fact is stored with
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by JRKrause 7y ago
I disagree, the biggest barrier to commercialization of this technology is that it's technically infeasible. For the projection to make it through your pupil onto the retina your eye needs to be carefully aligned with the projection be
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by JRKrause 7y ago
From my understanding it's just for reflecting the laser light. The lasers are shining parallel to the lens surface initially and thus need to be redirected towards the pupil, this is done with a film.
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by JRKrause 7y ago
The photo you are referring to is the laser painting directly onto the sensor array of the camera.
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by JRKrause 7y ago
I don't see how they can hope to overcome the alignment issue. This idea has been prototyped before, iirc carmack built a simple one during very early development of the Oculus.
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by JRKrause 7y ago
Is there any part of this footage that can't be explained by a bit of matter stuck on the FLIR lens? Even it being apparently "cold" seems well explained by the dust/bug whatever casting a shadow onto the IR sensor array
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by JRKrause 7y ago
Anecdotally: a new plasma donation center was constructed just by my office on high-value real-estate directly on the light-rail line. Everyone I've seen using the debit cards issued by the donation company look terribly beat.
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by JRKrause 7y ago
From my observation, even the largest GPT-2 model has difficulty retaining any long-range relationship information. In the "unicorn" writing example that was published originally, the model 'forgets' where the researcher
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by JRKrause 7y ago
If you are really worried just drop a few dollars on spares for all the internal parts. Most everything can be found on Amazon. It's hard to imagine drying enough clothes to wear out the heater element more than three times in the aver
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by JRKrause 7y ago
I'll just leave a tip for anyone planning to vacation in iceland: if you plan to visit the Blue Lagoon, try and arrive just as it opens early in the morning, preferably while it's still dark out. It will be mostly empty and this r
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by JRKrause 7y ago
At least in the case of Overwatch, role queue feels more like an attempt to assure a minimum level of viability for each team and less like an authoritarian approach to controlling how the game is played.

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