Torkel

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by Torkel 2y ago
He addressed this well in this post: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1778153659106533806?s=46&t=QIb...
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by Torkel 3y ago
Aluminium was once more costly than gold or platinum, and bars of aluminium were exhibited alongside the French crown jewels at the Exposition Universelle of 1855. The fact that something is ludicrously expensive today when manufactured in
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by Torkel 3y ago
Hey! I just learned they are actually doing exactly that for V4 - Yay! https://electrek.co/2023/07/26/tesla-confirms-supercharger-v...
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by Torkel 3y ago
In Sweden this is a pain at super charger locations that allow non-Tesla vehicle charging. The almost randomized charge port locations makes lots of non-Tesla vehicles park in the wrong place and take up two spots. Not really sure what can
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by Torkel 3y ago
"China" is "planning" to do this...? A better title might be: "Researchers in China studying 1600-core chip".
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by Torkel 3y ago
Pet theory: With future advances in material analysis science we will be able to sift through the soil surrounding artefacts as this, and understand and digitally reconstruct what soft materials were around it. This folows a trend where as
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by Torkel 3y ago
So, why is it? Such a nerd snipe this one. 400+ comments and still could not get the answer.
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by Torkel 3y ago
Maybe, but not necessarily. Good oldfashioned computer vision can go a long way. When it comes to photography "AI" is a spice best used in moderation, cf eg https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/2/2398529
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by Torkel 3y ago
Human depth perception only works up to ~7 meters so should be ok.
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by Torkel 3y ago
They have a lidar. So they have very accurate depth. This gives some limited possibility at extrapolating and showing things from different viewing angles. I think this is also how they can give a good stereo experience from cameras that ar
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by Torkel 3y ago
Bob Colwell is awesome! I remember seeing an online talk he made... must be 25 years ago now. He talked about the development of the out of order architecture at Intel, and in general about engineering. He has some really fun anecdotes! Hon
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by Torkel 3y ago
That is, unfortunately!, not how these things work. But it allows people to do more targeted studies, and (many years of research later) perhaps find a drug that can have some impact.
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by Torkel 3y ago
"Remarkably, the microenvironmental change and the functional decline of mid-old cells could be reversed by a young cell-originated protein, SLIT2. Our data identify functional reversion of mid-old cells as a potential method to preven
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by Torkel 3y ago
RUDimentary jargon
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by Torkel 3y ago
I work in a small team with increadibly good programmers. ChatGPT as of right now is not good enough to replace asking one of them for help when I am stuck. But it is good enough to replace stack overflow. Look forward. A year ago I would h
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by Torkel 3y ago
Sibling comments are on to this too, but I think an important detail here is that the water in lakes, river and ground in the nordics is so clean that the extra cleaning needed to make it "tap water" isn't really as big of a
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by Torkel 3y ago
If it isn't a story from the US, it will be Celsius.
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by Torkel 3y ago
With special designs you can build up energy over time and then release it all at once, to reach sporadic super jumps. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvHXwTa5-DA (But for all but extreme designs I fully agree with
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by Torkel 3y ago
Egui is great, and the eframe way of writing small apps is so nice! I cranked out my own custom video player (for tagging video) the other day using it and the ffmpeg bindings. Very pleasant experience.
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by Torkel 3y ago
Yeah… but I think what he misses is that it’s a line drawn by a pen. It has a certain analog appeal to it? Vinyl is worse in every way to lossless digital. As is an analog film camera. Or a mechanical watch for keeping time. Still though.
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by Torkel 3y ago
Post about pen plotter without video. Hmm, I feel cheated. Random video of old school pen plotter in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cd3GsZlOBg My father still fondly talks about how the crispness of a true pen plo
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by Torkel 3y ago
Are you saying that it is backed by statistics that good CEOs need to be good managers of people and also implying that engineers are not good managers of people? I would be interested in seeing that statistics. It feels wrong to me. In fac
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by Torkel 3y ago
"The SpaceX thing to defence" - SpaceX introduced reusable rockets and e.g. builds their own rocket engines... I feel that I can explain unique things that set SpaceX apart from legacy companies. And that those things are not just
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by Torkel 3y ago
What is the big vision at Anduril? SpaceX has the goal to make life multiplanetary, which sets them apart from the old crop of rocket companies. This drone looks no different than what comes out of Lockheed?
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by Torkel 3y ago
The word "small" in the HN headline ("Microsoft blames outage on small staff [...]"). I am not native English, but the image in my head was of the staffers being physically small. A bit curious how a native speaker reads
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by Torkel 3y ago
Here's a study where healing of wounds is three times faster using electric fields applied to the wound site: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/LC/D2LC0... Cell movement seem
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by Torkel 3y ago
Yeah - I should probably have pointed out more clearly that the author there seems to be a bit of a partisan jerk... I did see it, and I did try to point it out, but obviously not well enough. The point I was trying to make was that there a
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by Torkel 3y ago
Apparently there's a new translation of the Iliad coming out. A thread on it came up on twitter. The thread author strongly dislikes the new translation - be that as it may, author seems a bit biased tbh. But the thread has images of t
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by Torkel 3y ago
Really? Interesting! I tried with at least two different EU (Swedish) visa cards back in July and none of the cards I had worked. Not in Japan anymore otherwise I would have tried again. This article, linked to from a sibling comment here,
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by Torkel 3y ago
Same with EU-issued visa cards! As I learned when visiting in July. You can charge up the iphone suica balance using cash in the machines... a bit weird but that's what I did. Getting back home first thing I did was get a mastercard to

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