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by Lichtso 3y ago
I think you can very well extract work from having a membrane and selectively let one substance mix into the other but not the other in the first [0]. It is called Osmosis [1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiper
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by Lichtso 3y ago
I think the most unintuitive even unsettling aspect of entropy is that the entropy of black holes is proportional to their surface area, not their volume [0]. That is only briefly mentioned in the video and not discussed any further. [0] h
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Seriously? Is that just language semantics or does it actually make sense to apply this definition of (fluid) water being dry? Also, doesn't water touch itself and is thus wet too?
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Well in both your questions it depends on how you define speed. It is commonly understood to be the first derivative of position, or the quotient of distance divided by a time-span. But how do you define and measure distance and time-spans?
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Isn't this kd-trees with arbitrarily oriented (not axis-aligned) hyperplanes?
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by Lichtso 3y ago
UV cameras exist. Obviously the additional colors are mapped into our visible range, so that is not exactly the qualia a bee feels. Search for "UV photography flower".
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Not just the representation is much better than IEEE 754, which is awful (e.g. having negative zero and wasting lots of combinations on encoding NaN even though a single one would do). And not just that, it seems they also standardized arit
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by Lichtso 4y ago
You don't even need the complex part for this. You can do the infinity-projection trick on the real numbers alone as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectively_extended_real_lin... A similar trick (point at
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by Lichtso 4y ago
> Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use increases its demand, increasing
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by Lichtso 4y ago
I did. My first "real" job (as in not an internship). Two and a half years and counting. Edit, found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038518#24042409
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by Lichtso 4y ago
Well another possible interpretation of the naming scheme is: - (Planet-)ship gets you around different places on the same planet. - Starship gets your around different celestial bodies in the solar system. - Galaxyship gets your around dif
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by Lichtso 4y ago
Technically, from 10% of something to 35% of something is a 350% improvement or a 25 percent point improvement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_point
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by Lichtso 4y ago
One style that haven't seen discussed is a hybrid / mixture of in-code (e.g. printf trace-logs) and out-of-code (using external tools like an attached debugger) debugging. What I do is I encode conditional breakpoints in the sourc
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by Lichtso 4y ago
One often overlooked interesting property that comes naturally with many mechanical computers (and also applies in this instance) is reversibility [1]. Meaning that not only the input can influence the outputs but also vise versa. Furthermo
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by Lichtso 4y ago
I totally agree that there is a lot of low effort and consequentially low quality stuff out there in the world already. However, it still costs to make that. With this form of automation getting better it will simply become a lot cheaper to
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by Lichtso 4y ago
I think in both domains there are parts which are purely technical (wrong or right) and others which are well ... an art. In art these parts are often overlooked, but they are significant none the less. E.g. getting the proportions right is
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by Lichtso 4y ago
I strongly disagree with the first point: As a society the more we discover, the more we increase the surface of the discoverable and the more we can combine things. It only gets harder for the individual because it takes longer and longer
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by Lichtso 4y ago
Thanks! You can also checkout the "feature/ui" branch in GIT [1] to get the UI framework prototype. [1]: https://github.com/Lichtso/contrast_renderer/tree/feature/ui
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by Lichtso 4y ago
Shameless self promotion plug, I developed a GPU accelerated 2D rendering framework in Rust as well. It even comes with an experimental UI framework on top, which you can try in the browser if you have WebGPU enabled: https://git
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by Lichtso 4y ago
I wonder how much this can be improved if metadata is taken into account as well. Especially the distribution of common post dates and times modulo a week, which also exposes in which timezone somebody probably lives.
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by Lichtso 4y ago
Not an exchange, but still a decentralized system which can be used as off- and on-ramp: https://bisq.network/
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by Lichtso 4y ago
A true comedy gold mine IMO, is not page of, but the tropes of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLife
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by Lichtso 4y ago
It follows by contradiction of the opposite statement: Lets say that all "you"s across all branches perceive all the other branches as well. That means that they do influence each other. In other words they are not separated and n
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by Lichtso 4y ago
> I don't see how relabelling "collapse" to "separation" and adding more or less infinitely proliferating universes solves the problem. MWI isn't just renaming the collapse. Copenhagen is fundamentally diffe
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by Lichtso 4y ago
It is true that it would be called AoT in the traditional sense. However, our requirements are others: Instead of a few programs with many complex functions we have lots of programs with simple functions. Thus, we do the runtime analysis an
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by Lichtso 4y ago
If you are asking if the algorithm can be generalized from 1D to 2D or even higher, then the answer is yes. For example, one could take the BWT of all rows and then all columns (using a different terminal symbol for each dimension), and tha
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by Lichtso 4y ago
Not only that, the suffix array [1] is using counting sort O(n) instead of a comparison based O(n log n) sort. That is because they assume integer alphabets. For general alphabets they can only achieve O(n log n). [1] https://arx
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by Lichtso 4y ago
All these cable stories always make me wonder: Is it possible to design a safe gender-less power plug? By that I mean one that has no male and female end but two symmetrical ones. That would not only be safer but also more convenient as the
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by Lichtso 4y ago
I assume you don't live in / know about the situation in France. Here most of the nuclear fission power plants are down because during the heat wave the rivers have dried up and don't provide enough coolant anymore. Yes, they
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by Lichtso 4y ago
Actually, I think we have already moved away from pure text a long time ago. Think about it this way: If "text" (so only the sequence of tokens) was the valuable representation, then we would all program without any formating (no

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