MarkMMullin

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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Paraphrasing Mr Adams - “The story so far: In the beginning LISP was created, .... and then Guy wrote the Common LISP Bible. This made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” - or, Common Lisp - the LISP communit
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
As an independent researcher in machine vision, I take strong issue with your first statement - the gateways to science controlled by a beauty contest/club membership is fundamentally horrible science. However with your third paragra
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
The original idea of the internet as a highly distributed fault tolerant system that could route around localized failures. I will admit that part of that philosophy emerged when leaving arpanet and trying to get stupid bang email addys an
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
We failed over but there was nothing there so we can't fail back -- eek, we're dead :-)
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
L5 is L5 - if the system can't tell, then it ain't L5 - and the driver 'connecting' won't work - it's basically 'please doze for three hours and then deal with a crisis within the blink of an eye'
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
As for Elon being one of the driving forces behind the transition to electric - Rock on Elon, nice damn job - as far as L5 AV - umm, you're so full of it you need to drag a septic tank - I'm just a little fella, and I do admire th
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
This might help..... or it might add further to the confusion -- http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Publications/Treaty-of-Orla...
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Another upvote - Hello Fresh for exactly those reasons - I know how to cook, I like to cook, but it comes with a lot of baggage - this lets me focus on the parts I like :-)
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
I do recall from days past that some of the content came of the Keiwit games scodelib :-) Too bad Bridge never got ported, that game smacked the crap out of my Dad :-)
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
First time I met him was at an OOPSLA conference when C++ was just starting to get traction, while Smalltalk80 still ruled - so at the end, he's sagged back against a pole and we're all excited, asking if this ain't just gran
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
OK, non-productive and snarky, but I always thought this hit the spot with Personal Home Page -- https://toggl.com/programming-princess
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Zactly - Elon has been leading the charge to 'fear the killer AI' and has also made the claim that Tesla will have L5 autonomy in two years - for a car not only with the problems you point out, but a laughably poor ability to do
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Hmmm - one serious thought - 'makers' thinking of playing with 1+ watts should also seek out videos of what happens to normal consumer and better non laser grade optics when used as focusing or steering elements - I knew of a la
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Nice - I was taken by the "acceptable accuracy" comment, much less stomach acid inducing than "numerical stability" :-)
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
I would argue it's not a one size problem - I use Fira for machine learning heavy code, which is primarily math, and ligatures for the various multicharacter operators make it more readable. Judge me, fine. But judge me in context p
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Been awhile since I used MM, but I do remember this - personally, I like using Fira with my code, but that's because there's a disgusting amount of math in it and it makes the reading a lot easier - your implicit separation betw
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
By that logic the gamma knife that has saved many people with cancer would not exist - before practical applications comes laying the basic foundation, and once that foundation is down, the genie is out of the bottle - I'm working on
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Question - do you see any potential that horizontal versus vertical (with respect to system, not just euclidian space) has to do with cognitive stacking ? For example, is it low level feature detectors in initial visual processing that cau
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
I once attended some talk or other and that question came up - the answer given was flippant, but I always thought it was oddly perceptive...... "Dreaming"
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Facebook is capable of monetizing current ML capabilities to do things like constantly tune individual news feeds so that its profit is maximized. Certainly counterproductive to some degree for modern society, but it is profitable. Straight
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
A key Chinese collaborator of mine on this https://hackaday.io/project/21966-quamera and I have chatted about the 'old' China and the 'new' China - he thought up, designed, and built a company aroun
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Friendly jab - it was old when I started my career in the '80s :-) And yeah, firefinder is a radar
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Desperately sought just an extra 4K of RAM to see if a LISP expert system would get through a diagnosis on a Huge Aircrash Firefinder maintenance guide - had a kernel license, dug around and found a magic flag for a 4K block - tested it,
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
One thing I believe that's not being properly considered is the fact this is really a multilevel problem - if you want to make a smart IoT device you still want a reliable device. "On top of" is absolutely the best concept.
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
I was once told a long time ago that analog is proof that god hates us :-)
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
For the record, Boston's mass transit is not always 'viable' - it pretty much hates 'weather' and we do get that here :-)
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Oh I dunno - I kinda like the engineering casualty turn of phrase :-)
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Lot of good comments here - CV is heading in that direction, but in addition to the other mentioned problems, the needed data bandwidth rises exponentially - my own take is that we go broad in some ML work where we should go vertical (I b
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Thanks for posting that - nice add to my collection, and I'd argue they work out some of the math far more than others (it's implied in other places, but its nice they actually worked it out instead of another bloody exercise for
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
One issue is dynamic range - rolling shutters tend to have a higher DR

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