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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I'm confused, are you claiming it's OK that my x86 Intel platform (and whatever data passes through it) exists in a "monarchy" of sorts (along with other phone-home drones), and that I should find it acceptable? ( "
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Having a mental picture of the DAG of any execution is the sort of spatial intuition that we're generally good at, I agree, it's the "implicit" graph we tend to build by association. I've very little experience with
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Indeed. The underlying economics (the harshness of no business model, i.e. no profit = wrong idea insofar as reality/markets won't have it) make it a very difficult proposition — sometimes I'm in awe at the fact that we could
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
If I were snarky I'd tell you that UX on both mobile and desktop in general is hurtingly bad compared to what it could be. There are great domain apps (e.g. medical, games, professional audio, amateur astronomy to name a few I'v
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> Could you tell me more about those 'recursive' traps? Well, these feel like 'traps' insofar as you suddenly fall into a crawl where things were fine just a step before. It's really a hands-on engineering kind
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Ah, I see now, thank you very much for the detailed explanation. Having used Excel for years as a barebones "logical framework" of sorts (before I knew better, in my teens, to solve various optimization problems in games notably l
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Anecdotal maybe but so common at the same time (we have stats on schools and universities, massive and now old data, and it's pretty clear writing notes helps). I think both the Bayesian and the frequentist agree, here. And this is pos
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I've worked with music software GUIs, these are notoriously plagued by feature-creep. For a desktop paradigm, there is always a way to do better with GUI as you add more features; but you'll refactor / redesign a lot on the
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Ah, awesome, thanks for the feedback.
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> there's a DAG underneath Would you or someone care to elaborate? Do we mean the 'linking' between 'nodes' (cells) as an interpreter/compiler would do over a file/object structure? Thus I assume, ope
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I'm trying to get a sense of magnitude, here. Let's say 10-20 commits per day per dev. Over 5~10 hours that's what, on the order of 1 commit-test-release cycle every 15 to 60 minutes? (subjectively for each dev) What do we ac
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
At the same time, it's pretty clear we need to get out there (ultimately much beyond the galaxy itself) if we are to solve certain questions. And there's a general idea that a purpose of life may be to "spread" through t
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
This statement generalizes quite well all around the world to the other kind of law, that's voted in parliament/congress... haha! ;-) More seriously, I think the word OP is looking for is theory. Nuggets aren't theory, they
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I often ponder how much of the "old world" will get "digitalized" — translated in numeric form, bits. And how much will just disappear. The question might seem trivial if you think of books, but now think of architecture
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I've been following MEDCram¹ on YouTube recently. It's a medical channel for students by doctors I believe, but currently it's all about COVID-19 obviously². It often speaks to other medical practitionners. The quality of inf
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Fair point; sure, there you go. (in no particular order, I'm probably forgetting many greats) ### Tech: - Lex Fridman — AI podcast: hall of fame of AI speaks there, and I really like Lex. https://www.youtube.com/user&#x
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Suggestion for this: Sennheiser 6XX series are very lightweight, open cans (thus no extra pressure in the ear, but people may hear your music around a little bit). About ~$200 these days, and these used to be world's best a decade ago.
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> it's a brain drain and time suck in most of the ways that TV was for everyone in the same routine 20 years ago I mean, I won't claim I never lose time on YT same as I used to on TV, occasionally, but as far as "brain dra
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Yes, the prevailing assumption is that "everything is factored in price", including all the irrational (like some aggregate of our prediction of the future, which includes investors thinking like OP).
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I think the author is basically describing the "meta" as what is mathematically sort of a conformal space to the game space — loosely the idea that a conformal description of the game space lets you operate transformations on
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> 7 bits of dynamics might not sound like much but I'm not confident in any known musicians ability to express dynamics with more than 127 discrete levels lol... Think one step further: when I hit a key on the piano, or a fret on a
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> MIDI 2.0 delivers more nuanced expressiveness for electronic instruments. It’s now possible to convey the same kind of subtle expression normally associated with acoustic instruments, thanks to higher-resolution dynamics and control da
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Well then you're probably the kind of person who would instinctively give signs that someone like me can open their big nerdy mouth, that this is safe territory because we're all engineers trying (this thing with error in the cycl
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Anecdotal, but a couple years ago I spoke with an engineer working at the BBC and he had nothing but praise for the kind of state-of-the-art work they were doing (our initial topic was GPU clusters), most of it on Red Hat Linux — in sharp c
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I find it's the strawman that many (most?) Go "opponents¹" respond to. Every language has its die-hard cult of a few who claim it should be the one and true only language in the world (and the claim is always wrong). But G
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I'm gonna say this with all the respect in the world for the technical view —I'm a nerd and I agree with you guys 100%, a huge upvote for the whole thread— but experience taught me something along those lines: There are such situa
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
It's a bit late but I would like to commend you and kragen for this unusually great exchange. HN at its best, thanks to the both of you. Your ontology in particular is very interesting. I'll probably spend some time looking into i
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I very much doubt that early proponent of fission-powered electricity in France or anywhere else had CO₂ concerns in mind, but countries who made that choice certainly ensured a much less dramatic energetic transition circa now . That&#x27
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
This is an old issue since XP (iirc?) and I remember it as one of the first reason that pushed me to hypothesize: "patent law is broken. worldwide. it's no longer serving its purpose, it is actually detrimental to its first and se
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> Ford’s move toward electric vehicles was complimented by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has always noted that his company’s competition does not lie within other EVs, but within carmakers who refuse to adapt to the electric revolution. This

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