PopePompus

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by PopePompus 3y ago
Soon you'll remember this time as the good old days, before all technical documentation was hallucinated on X by AI.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Why is long-haul a pipe dream now. It seems to me that long-haul is a simpler problem than city driving. Did some insurmountable problem pop up that I haven't heard about?
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Thanks for the link. Let's hope the Steisand Effect kicks in.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Actually, there are two radio telescopes near the summit, the JCMT and SMA, which can be arrayed with other telescopes around the world (that's how the first black hole image was obtained) and there is a VLBA antenna a bit further down
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Good point! At least the sad husk of HP isn't killing people.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
There is no sadder story in American capitalism than the decline of HP from a wonderful equipment engineering company to a racket for selling tiny little tubs of overpriced ink. Think a young Steve Jobs would be excited to get a job there
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Yes, and websites know that we don't want video advertisements playing everywhere on the screen, but it doesn't matter because we're the product, not the customer.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Yes, that was a disappointment, and I agree it looks like they aren't going to re-enable it anytime soon. However I find that Perplexity AI does a better job of using web search than ChatGPT ever did, and I use it more than ChatGPT fo
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Say what you will, the mom has foresight (she wrote this long before the FTX crash): https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/barbara-fried-beyond-blam... "The philosophy of personal responsibility has ruined criminal j
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Products this strange are an indication that the company has become so large and stagnant that its products are shaped largely by internal political battles.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Wouldn't that kinda make it difficult for anyone to get a mortgage during year 49?
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I used to write (in the 1980s) proposals to the NFS to get money for computer time on computers with a tiny fraction of the compute and storage capacity of my phone. I have a constant low-level feeling of guilt for not running stellar evo
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Yes. Initially the receivers had very long linear feeds, because a spherical mirror focuses to a line, not a point. Later additional mirrors were added to partially correct for spherical aberration.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
God bless Amsterdam for doing this. I had to move because of the noise produced by cars and motorcycles in the city where I lived. The vehicles were intentionally made noisier with "aftermarket exhaust systems". The people who int
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by PopePompus 3y ago
At 100 Hz.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
This highlights a problem LLMs will face if they improve enough to solve their hallucination problems. People will begin to treat the LLM like some sort of all knowing oracle. Activists will fight fiercely to control the model's outpu
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Well, I run iPython on my Pixel phone a lot . When I'm at home, I can ssh into the phone and edit files etc with a real keyboard and desktop display. I have many Python functions defined which allow me to do quick, but fairly comple
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by PopePompus 3y ago
The thing is, if you build a phone out of shitty old components that the manufacturers no longer care about, who's gonna buy it?
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Yes, building a cell phone is simply something a small group of people cannot do successfully. I used to develop software for Openmoko phones, the N900, and other early Linux phones. Those projects had several decedent projects, all of w
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I would say it is completely different. In physics, quantum mechanics gives extremely precise and verifiable predictions of the outcomes of experiments within a certain range of physical conditions. So does general relativity. In contrast
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by PopePompus 3y ago
The KIM-1 was the Raspberry Pi of the late 1970s. I spent a lot of time using them in little automation projects while in college. There was no operating system involved at all; everything from the reset vector on up was my code.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Yes, but I would claim that was when they started going to pot. LONG before the PC era, HP made its own line of computers, which were seldom seen outside of labs, and even labs were much more apt to have a PDP-8 or PDP-11. Their move into c
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Has there ever been another company that declined as much from its glory days as HP? During the second half of the 20th century HP was a fabled brand. They made beautiful equipment for which there was often no comparable quality alternati
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Are you suggesting that Google might abandon a product?
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I am also a member of the EHT project. I'm not saying no machine learning was used by EHT team members. I'm saying that you can process the 2017 EHT data using standard radio interferometry techniques, and get an image showing th
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by PopePompus 3y ago
The EHT has used machine learning techniques, but those were not required to get an image that shows the shadow of the black hole. Just using the "clean" algorithm for deconvolution yielded an image showing the shadow, and that al
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by PopePompus 3y ago
The revenue from traffic tickets and other fines should not go to any level of government. It should go to NGOs. Then law enforcement would cease to be a for-profit operation.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
GPT-4 is very useful to me right now, for small programming projects. Though it can't write an entire program for a nontrivial project, it is good at the things I hate doing, like figuring out regular expressions and SQL commands. I sm
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by PopePompus 3y ago
But the real risk the shuttle astronauts faced was from NASA management failures, not hardware or weather.
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by PopePompus 4y ago
How sad. VMS originally ran on a VAX 11/780 which maxed out at 8 MB. Now it apparently needs almost 1000 times more memory.

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