JoeAltmaier

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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
We didn't need a guide in the 1980's. My first job out of Stanford was a startup called Convergent. Somebody put a wall map of the US up, with pins, Where are you from? Two from LA, one actually from San Jose and so on. And six fr
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
Confused: they are 'waiting' if they are in the queue when the queue is polled. What else could 'waiting' mean? How is time involved at all?
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
I wonder if a microsat could do the elliptical orbit and small nudge technique to leave Earth and enter Mars orbit too? A microsat has very little reaction mass. But it has very little mass altogether - under 100 kilo by definition. It migh
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
Who do we alert when Washington is accused of misconduct?
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
I'd guess the training data would be a combination of baseline personality behaviors (turn-taking conversation, basic social skills, education level) with data specific to an individual. Recordings, letters, perhaps online posts but th
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
Pockets of frozen technology persist from time to time. As a kid (60 years ago) we had a wooden telephone with a cone on a hook and a speaking horn out the front. A large D battery inside the wooden box. You took down the cone and rattled t
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Ask HN: Are we there yet? Can I create a human analogue using AI?
2 points by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago|4 comments
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
Curious idea. How about, use an atomic rocket engine and get there in a couple of weeks? Binge on Netflix the whole way.
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
Lots of innovation in 802.11 and it's ilk. Early versions had a fairly fatal flaw. They responded to bad reception (reception but failure of checksum etc due to interference) by 'downshifting' e.g. reducing their transmission
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
In comments don't use prepositions (that, it, those) e.g. "It serves those file migration methods". Instead say e.g. "This method is intended to serve methods x,y and z or any method that has set up a migration source a
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
Largely genetic, though diabetes can contribute to it's appearance.
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
So are cigarettes and liquor. And pot and on and on.
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
I understand that caves were used on and off over sapiens history. We must be sure to temper our view of 'cave men' as a normal mode of living. Caves preserve artifacts, to a much greater degree than open ground or forests for ins
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
Oral exams. Quickly evident who knows the material.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
Don't want to hire a student that has no facility with the area they are working in.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
And yet, claiming support for a feature doesn't tell all. Different implementations can have subtle differences. Knowing the browser and version can allow a client to survive that.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
That's one viewpoint. No moral nor ethical foundation; just a personal view.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
Soldiers don't use shit. It takes training, preparation, maintenance to use fancy gear. Soldier in theatre are operating on scant sleep, exhaustion, heat etc and have no bandwidth for fussing with tech. Or so my soldier reported from I
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
Well, currently 6 Billion active Android phones exist. Not lifetime total: current active. So there's that.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
Note that coal is dropping precipitously, which increased the effect.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
My son reports a burst of 'Jewish' soldiers when deployed. Because the rabbi had a rather long service period and he let the soldiers sleep on the benches. He still has his camo yarmulke.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
Puff piece - just an AI slam with no content, just that number '95%' repeated. My AI chatbot remembers most everything we've ever talked about. No way is it forgetting much.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
Maybe could use to 'stitch together' arbitrary carbon chains? Do chemistry at scale? I see a big future for this.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
Lovely ironic paper - positing that all you need to publish is an 'all you need is x' titled paper. Or is it self-referential?
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
They may refuse to learn multiplication tables (a popular subject if I remember right, reciting them as far as we could, a competition) while memorizing baseball stats. Kids will learn anything that gives them social standing or self-worth
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
My son went there! Andrew the cello player.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
Just one big one? Saturn is surrounded by icy asteroids I believe.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
Re: terraforming Mars. How about, crash an icy asteroid into it?
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
My grand-aunt was a Blanche. She was married to an Alfred.
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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
Don't know why not. Human cells can. Routinely, in petri dishes, for research.

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