SteveJS

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by SteveJS 2y ago
there’s a quote at the end, saying this establishes a fundamental connection between two objects which are central to computer science. The quote leaves those two objects unnamed. Are they supposed to be “graphs” and “groups”?
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by SteveJS 6y ago
ACLU lawsuit: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-sues-federal-agents... Restraining order issued against attacking journalists: U.S. District Judge Michael Simon today blocked federal agents in Portland from disp
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by SteveJS 6y ago
Operation Legend Federal officials stage a major law enforcement operation in a city with zero coordination with the mayor of that city, who instead learns about it from twitter. https://www.npr.org/sections/live-update
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by SteveJS 6y ago
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-us...
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by SteveJS 6y ago
How does that explain the quantum eraser experiment? a photon that has been "marked" and then "unmarked" will interfere with itself and produce the fringes characteristic of Young's experiment. https://en
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by SteveJS 6y ago
It is fair to say this group is the reason we didn’t have an even worse outbreak, and it was solely due to defying the Federal officials: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/03/em... “By Fe
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by SteveJS 6y ago
Seems like the results in this blog post would be of interest. https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2741 Not so much in avoiding the halting problem while allowing complexity, but instead using it and actual runnable
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by SteveJS 6y ago
According to the article revenue from advertising (junk mail) is down 40% while local businesses are mostly closed.
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by SteveJS 6y ago
My understanding is, unlike any other government agency or business, the USPS is required by law to fully fund 50 years of pensions. If that requirement were removed, it would be fine.
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by SteveJS 7y ago
I wrote something for myself that removes the editor entirely. This gives a word sprint of 15 minutes with a visible goal of 1000 words. Hitting ESC leaves it ready to paste elsewhere. No backspace, no delete, only enough feedback to know y
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by SteveJS 7y ago
68% of ‘independent investors’. Would the vote have been less than 50% under an ordinary structure as well? I can’t tell if Zuckerburg would still have been fine under ‘normal’ circumstances.
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by SteveJS 8y ago
Jef Raskin's book "The Humane Interface" is basically the book-length version of this article.
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by SteveJS 8y ago
Visidata seems like an example of the kind of UI this author thinks would be better. http://visidata.org/ A former coworker used this as his project while on sabbatical at the recurse center. It is mostly GPL v3, except for
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by SteveJS 8y ago
The term Carroll uses is a weakly emergent property. You can watch both dennett, carroll and others discuss here: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/naturalism2012/
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by SteveJS 8y ago
I found Metzinger’s ‘The ego tunnel’ immensely helpful in identifying the constituent parts that we mean by consciousness. Everything the physicist Sean Carroll says about consciousness rings true to me. It is only an illusion in the same
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by SteveJS 8y ago
Thomas Metzinger’s ‘The Ego tunnel’ is a very good book picking apart the phenomenon of consciousness.
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by SteveJS 8y ago
Compat in windows was a highly engaged technical problem, in a way that would be considered ‘hack on top of hack’ in linux. Windows ability to shim is significantly more sophisticated then maintaining a stable abi. It can present a facade o
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by SteveJS 8y ago
Understanding whether your reports are happy or not is part of being a manager. It’s a core reason to have 1-1’s and if you don’t ask reports if they are happy, doing what excites them, and whether anything should change, you shouldn’t exp
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by SteveJS 8y ago
I remember a fly wheel battery concept from the early 90's. Spin light weight tiny flywheels on magnetic bearings in a near vacuum and take advantage of the fact that energy storage is linear with mass, but the square of velocity. Put
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by SteveJS 8y ago
I really like sun basket, and it seems to me it’s solving a simpler logistics problem with a higher value proposition then munchery. Logistically it’s not on demand, but rather delivery with reasonable advanced notice. For me the value prop
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by SteveJS 8y ago
I use keybase to store a keypass db locked with a yubikey and a passphrase. I have a backup yubikey, and a paper backup in a sealed envelope in a safe to recreate the required yubikey. I also keep the pass phrase in a different keypass db
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by SteveJS 8y ago
There is a paper that indicates Earth mover, aka Wasserstein-1 is better for convergence of GANs: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.07875.pdf I tried it out on one of the Udacity Deep learning assignments using the Wasserstei
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by SteveJS 8y ago
‘Attention is all you need’, was the first thought i had when i read the title of your paper. It might be worthwhile to have a small bit explaining the distinction between attention and context as you view them. If i understand correctly
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by SteveJS 8y ago
Thoughts without sensory input is basically what people are going for when they pay money and schedule time in a float tank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank
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by SteveJS 8y ago
On a similar note: I want summer clothing that does a better job holding an iphone.
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by SteveJS 8y ago
I took this to heart when it was published and ensured I schedule full team meetings that are as short as possible, and either start a day, end a day, or are directly adjacent to lunch. I also ensure there are 2 days of no scheduled meetin
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by SteveJS 8y ago
Not the meat of the issue, but when I see ‘what is BGP?’ I like the TLA expanded. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol
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by SteveJS 8y ago
It lowers the cost and effort, on an incredibly effective form of lying. It is effective because it engages a set of senses we have a harder time questioning ... and for good reason ... it’s (currently) easy to spot these unless you are rea
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by SteveJS 8y ago
I should probably not care, but i do: Emacs, not emails. I should also not write these on an iphone.
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by SteveJS 8y ago
I agree with you and poorly worded this for a larger audience that doesn’t have the full context of design decisions on the feature. As an example ... for a ‘professional programmer’ there is an argument that allowing E&C to work if you

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