Matumio

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by Matumio 2y ago
The sad thing is, there is no real obstacle to building a fast SPA. It's certainly not harder than to do it all "the old way". But you have to pay attention to performance. If you just implement as many features as you can in
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by Matumio 2y ago
It's worth to distinguish writing for yourself (to think) from communication. Recently I discovered a lecture about technical writing in academics (from my "writing to think" folder: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by Matumio 2y ago
For me the metaphor is DRAM and swap. To hold data in DRAM you have to pay the occasional refresh cycle, or else it may fade away. You swap your thoughts to paper (or disk) to get rid of that nagging feeling that you're about to forget
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by Matumio 2y ago
If you wonder whether you could at least capture CO2 directly from the combustion process (instead of out of thin air), well yes that's cheaper but still too expensive. The current CCS projects use highly concentrated CO2 sources, whil
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by Matumio 2y ago
If you read the mathematical theory of causality (e.g. Pearl), you'll learn that you must have the ability to make interventions "from outside" (at least in theory) before you can talk about causality. You have to define what
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by Matumio 2y ago
That's my impression too. There was a flock of academics and relatively non-tech folks joining a few years ago. Most didn't stay, and a few of those who did are now flocking to Bluesky. But the others seem to be very much at home.
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by Matumio 2y ago
I would say when Facebook arrived. But it wasn't so much "shift to corporate-owned", it was more that it allowed non-techies to put stuff on the internet for the first time. Us techies, we already had our hand-coded html web
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by Matumio 2y ago
Kind of? Text search will also find commented out usage, docu, changelog, and my .org file with refactoring ideas from last month. (For better or worse.) It will also show when a class with the same method names exists elsewhere - which you
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by Matumio 2y ago
We can't agree whether Portia spiders are intelligent or just have very advanced instincts. How will we ever agree about what human intelligence is, or how to separate it from cultural knowledge? If that even makes sense.
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by Matumio 2y ago
Indeed. And the cute fox almost doesn't need the credits. When you recognize David Revoy's style on a project page, you know the project is probably a community-driven effort, and is worth checking out if you value that.
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by Matumio 2y ago
Can confirm. I've played around with differential evolution and a few others. Nothing was able to beat CMA-ES. At best, after some manual tuning it was just barely matching the untuned CMA-ES. (The task was to optimize a small neural n
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by Matumio 2y ago
If by "modern" you mean a desktop/server CPU, the problem is the complexity that exists because of optimization for average throughput. Do you really know how long you will wait, worst-case, if three different cores flush the
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by Matumio 2y ago
I generally agree with you, if you want someone else to do the checkout for you because you don't like doing it. But if you also buy clothes only made from hand-spun yarn, I mean, it was a problem for the yarn-spinsters back then, and
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by Matumio 2y ago
Do you read your password manager's code every time it updates? Probably not, because you trust the author's reputation. I wouldn't trust this page with my passwords either, but not because of the reasons that you mention. I
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by Matumio 2y ago
Hm, it's probably true that recommendation algorithms do something similar already, training on "human likes" that were influenced by the previous generation. But "human language" is a richer medium to carry informa
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by Matumio 2y ago
I think they meant culture in the sense of knowledge that gets passed down from one generation to the next. Not a human culture of using machines, but a machine culture of using human languages.
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by Matumio 2y ago
In theory. But if everything is in the password safe, the malware can just grab that and upload? And cover its traces. As opposed to patching every application/service you might use, and get access only when you use it.
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by Matumio 2y ago
Not everyone can afford to just walk away more than once or twice. And people may perceive the uncertain alternative of not getting that job right now as much worse than it would actually turn out, and agree to stuff they don't really
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by Matumio 2y ago
energy plus buildings are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-plus_building
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by Matumio 2y ago
The question is when you consider planet Earth "destroyed". Most likely it will remain blue and keep its atmosphere. Life will continue. It could be "destroyed" in the sense that humans sustainably sabotage their own lon
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by Matumio 2y ago
When I read "evolution strategy" I was pretty sure to find some variant of the Canonical Evolution Strategy (as in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.08842 ) or maybe CMA-ES or something related. But the implementatio
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by Matumio 2y ago
Then probably you know about NEAT (the genetic algorithm) by now. I'm not sure what has been tried in directly using combinatorical logic instead of NNs (do Hopfield networks count?), any references? I've tried to learn simple loo
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by Matumio 2y ago
What I found interesting is that storing almost-pure CO2 (which is what they are doing) looks pretty economical. They are a special case that allows to separate pure CO2 as a side-product of their process. But standard combustion processes
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Is Carbon Capture and Storage more expensive than we thought?(industrydecarbonization.com)
2 points by Matumio 2y ago|3 comments
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by Matumio 2y ago
Can confirm from personal experience. It has been years, but Deevad was a joy to work with. He will discover your niche project, test your betas, give feedback after trying to work around the quirks and spending time actually using it. He w
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by Matumio 2y ago
I've played Quern for several hours but couldn't bring myself to care as much about the puzzles or, more importantly, walking around the world. It was not too bad, but my memory of Riven is so much stronger. Maybe I should replay
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by Matumio 2y ago
Warning, FTL can be addictive. It has a heavy luck dependence that makes you want to try again. That said, the game mechanics are really well done and give you options for creative problem solving. For example your pilot increases the chanc
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by Matumio 3y ago
Agree, nice catch. Also, there are many other opportunities in this patch to hide memory safety bugs. This is the kind of optimization I might have done in C 10 years ago. But coming back from Rust, I wouldn't consider it any more. Rus
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by Matumio 3y ago
You mean we'll have hardware accelerated ternary instructions? https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid... (Okay probably those are not ready to be used as NN weights if the
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by Matumio 3y ago
When studying electrical engineering (during all the advanced control theory math and stuff) we were told that this is the official way to do it. If your PID controller doesn't work at first, second or third attempt, you don't run

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