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by K0SM0S 9y ago
This is what happened to me as well. I used to spend several hours per week on average looking for new music (new for me, might be old releases) and Spotify's AI basically does the job for me now. Well worth 10 bucks per month. Also, t
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
This talk is incredible food for thought: On the spectrum of abstraction by Cheng Lou (react-europe 2016) [1] If you've read some of the classics, such as Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1979, Gerald Jay Sussman
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
That was so acid . ;-) But besides my pun, "fast" code is a moving target relatively to the end result (see how performance considerations about Java running in a VM became moot because of hardware improvements notably on the CP
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I can see this as a way to revive the Starcraft e-sports scene, considering how SC2 pretty much failed in this regard (not an expert myself, just reporting what I heard from commentors and pundits very much into competitive SC such as Total
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
While the error is fairly mundane to spot (still good on that kid for even looking at the data!), this story is a perfect example of the power of crowd-sourcing big data analysis. Imagine for instance if all states/govs published most
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
You're essentially arguing for an ontological approach to learning and knowledge in general and in that I 100% agree with you. It would make most people much more efficient (and feel safer intellectually) in this ever more complex worl
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Do you have sources about that? My current understanding is completely otherwise. Taken from the general wiki article[1]: > The study of reinforcement has produced an enormous body of reproducible experimental results. Reinforcement is t
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
It's everything that's wrong with regulation. Even the logic of punishment rather than reward is flawed (you train humans with positive feedback/reinforcement, the negative kind works comparatively worse or not at all). Edit
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
The concept of "singularity" in this context is so much out there that basically, should it happen, it will be obvious. Think the Matrix, deus ex machina (literal, proper meaning), Skynet (whether benevolent or not), Wall-E, etc.
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Ha sorry I indeed failed to catch your irony... My bad too, then. I'm actually quite interested in the fact that any equation can be "sanity checked" by solving it for units only (without values). It's always handy to ma
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
> They don't really have any massive gaps waiting to be filled. Except the Standard Model is at best incomplete, at worst flawed, considering for instance galaxy rotation discrepancy (i.e. a need for dark matter possibly super-symme
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Miles is a unit of measure, ultimately meters in the SI. A gallon is a volume, liters in the SI, or more fundamentally a fraction of cube-meters (m^3). m / m^3 = 1/m^2 Which is the unit for fuel efficiency. It's express
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I should probably have elaborated. I was a bit emphatic because I'm considering the general culture, i.e. beyond (thus before) current news stories. A couple examples. Keep in mind none of this is absolute, with close to a billion peop
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Frankly, seen from Europe, most things 'police', 'safety', 'justice' are nothing short of wtf-grade in the US. It's surreal, it's one of the closest thing there is to dystopia (of the wrong kind) in
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
They're moving damn fast about it. Protests and Moby's posts are one thing, but when an administration/state gets involved, and more importantly when money is put on the table, you can tell things are happening. I don't
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
What you're describing is usually called "sociology of deviance" [1] by scholars. Formally, > In sociology, deviance describes an action or behavior that violates social norms, including a formally enacted rule (e.g., cri
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Agreed you need a bit of pre-thinking going into this. - I don't see much activity on the root volume, most of it in my case is either from VMs or userland. - For VMs I use discrete subvolumes, different fs/snapshot/backup st
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I can only speak for myself, but here's the gist of it. (Not an expert in this field so please bear with me if I'm too fuzzy or not rigorous enough). - COW[0] + snapshotting[1] basically give you git-like rollback/failsafe ca
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
It's actually a double-edged security sword. By not allowing developers to patch their app 'on the fly', directly, without going through a new version in the app store (which is a very lengthy process, almost forever in secur
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Oh yeah, just like it's an open secret that the best programmers are socially awkward, introverted nerds.... and all DJs are stupid, like athletes. ;-) Or maybe we just confuse cliches with averages and averages with individuals. It tu
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
That's typical damage control though, not really legally binding; you'd have to prove that x or y viewed/shared said content. Proving/knowing this is either going to be nigh impossible or downright obvious, thereby placi
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
> Problem-solving is not a mechanical task Food for thought: how sure are we that this statement is true? What does it even mean, seen from a cybernetics perspective? How complex does a task need to be until it's not considered mech
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Exactly, and just we wait for mainstream VR/AR. I believe we'll see quite a lot of animation skeumorphism (is that a thing? I mean realistic animation/appearance relatively to a real world setting, e.g. gravity on objects, d
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
No, currently monitor technology is evolving fast so GPUs at the are struggling to meet the highest interface requirements, notably 3440x1440@144Hz and 4K@60Hz (and don't even think about more frames at 4K). I have a GTX 1070 mostly fo
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Indeed! Lost my ~~~~ on this one, 01/26: > 1.1B Taxi Rides on Kdb+/q and 4 Xeon Phi CPUs An internet posts a resume-building exercise with no practical value or interesting results or useful methodology. Hackernews debates the
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Honestly I don't see how a low-level paradigm takes over a field when every other trend is towards ever more abstraction. Sure, wasm has its rightful place, like DX12/Vulkan, but it's a tiny fraction of apps/projects. Mo
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Could work as a preprocessor on the dev side for quickly outputting each native API code from a more general form, probably designed as a superset above SPIR-V (bound to be a bit more verbose than pure native code, but even a 100% larger pr
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I think you're onto something with domain-oriented real-time feeds. Finance is one huge cake, perhaps not the only one. Sports, politics come to mind.
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
It may sound egotistic, but it's also a solid way to build something akin to a 'book' albeit in a discrete blogged form: you tend to quote yourself not to make the same point over and over again in so many different phrasings
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
No but seriously... so much this. Pardon my casualness. Whenever we strive for both 'quality' (of information, talk/debate, etc.) and 'brevity', we end up with the exact opposite of books: traits d'esprit as

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