VLM

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by VLM 4y ago
The problem with random as a word is it covers user intents ranging from "crudely load balance well enough most of the time" or "add a small variable delay to smooth the load over time" up to extremely security critical
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by VLM 4y ago
Its the classic 'perfect is the enemy of good enough' derailer.
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by VLM 4y ago
We just spent 20 years using guns for close air support, wouldn't call that useless. The problem with BVR is there's zero room for risk and zero room for error and BVR missiles are pretty random/shotgun weapons. If BVR missi
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by VLM 4y ago
Everything that's not "space aliens abducted my dog" is too politically charged in 2023, so they have to push tabloid content to avoid being cancelled.
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by VLM 4y ago
You're thinking sawtooth VCO frequency variation because its the simplest way to teach how distance ranging works with FMCW The "real world" radars usually use a triangle wave. If no movement, the delta on rising and falling
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by VLM 4y ago
Wikipedia disagrees and claims the last BVR missile engagement at BVR range was 30 years ago and BVR missiles are usually combat ineffective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond-visual-range_missile BVR is kind of a c
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by VLM 4y ago
The only other criteria missed in the otherwise excellent article would be commentary on the design rules for those services... If they tell you not to do something and you ask them to do it anyway and the result is 'meh' its har
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by VLM 4y ago
Yet, no factual errors, and the entire product category literally benefits no one except shareholders, certainly of no medical or dietary benefit LOL.
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by VLM 4y ago
tritium is quite expensive, makes gold look cheap, runs about "one new car" per gram. Its quite valuable. It would be like accidentally losing some gold coins in my backyard, that's not anti-enviro garbage dumping that&#x27
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by VLM 4y ago
The group of people who are unbanked (not funding a bank that funds the FDIC) and only interacting with other unbanked people and but are paying taxes must be rather small. Its the same failure mode regardless if played via everyone paying
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by VLM 4y ago
That's another common Matt Levine (the article author) theme that very large index funds are a weird form of insider trading. I subscribe to his email mailing list which is literally his articles from the website without the infinite a
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by VLM 4y ago
The three topics you propose are hard to teach, maybe hardest. You have to shove the entire thing in the head at once to do much of any of it. By entire thing I mean architecture, coding, unit testing, exception handling, and especially d
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by VLM 4y ago
Could an old timer help me out? I was involved in Second Life around the turn of the century. I've been ignoring the metaverse since giving up on SL a long time ago. Obviously the resolution, frame rate, and software integration in m
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by VLM 4y ago
"Descent" goes back 28 years and I remember getting pretty disoriented and a little nausea, worse than I ever experienced flying a small airplane. "Descent" was the game where you blast robots in a very 3-d mine. One odd
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by VLM 4y ago
Its impossible to avoid the late Fred Brooks, if they spent $1B the due date would have been X, and spending the next $35B made the due date later. For a given technology you can only sensibly produce a product of complexity X, beyond which
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by VLM 4y ago
> this completely cripples them in the future when they could otherwise have had great careers > It's good that students are turning away now Conspiracy theory: the powers that be, are not dumb, they know this, and rely in this
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by VLM 4y ago
Their cultural technology grew to allow them to concentrate power beyond a stable level, result, turmoil. Even the most powerful guy in the civilization could get assassinated.
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by VLM 4y ago
I've blogged as a form of a research journal and it forces me to finish projects or at least document a great excuse for stopping, and it forces me to understand what I'm learning well enough to write a blog post where I won'
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by VLM 4y ago
Probably not. This is gross simplification of how counterfeit photocopied money is detected, but human visual acuity for yellow dots on white paper is pretty weak compared to red dots, so color photocopiers and color printers have/had
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by VLM 4y ago
Most people don't read online news. Online news is a subculture at this point and they're not interested in happy stories so happy stories are not produced.
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by VLM 4y ago
Isn't the graph of magazine subscriptions pretty rough looking over the last decades?
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by VLM 4y ago
I think the psychological aspect of first failure and injustice is rough on grad students. Hypercompetitive to get into a good enough BS program to get into a MS program yet unlike post-BS tracks like med school, 98% aren't getting tha
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by VLM 4y ago
To me, creative fine woodworking is making a cool idea based on the world around me and experiences I've had that balances engineering needs with artistic form. Then I spend 95% of my hobby time tediously sanding boards and applying fi
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by VLM 4y ago
> minimum amount of skill to produce something passable Look at the history of woodworking for inspiration. It used to take human sweat to make flat straight surfaces. Something like a walmart flatpack bookshelf would have been VERY exp
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by VLM 4y ago
From a scalability standpoint how does one accumulate, and then utilize, a quarter million photos? I'm a bit older than most, but that would be a photo every other hour since the minute I was born... Kind of a digital hoarder moment.
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by VLM 4y ago
Have to hold multiple concepts in head at the same time. If you're "far away" with gravitational potential energy and get "close" to the atmosphere that potential will have to go somewhere and it'll go into spe
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by VLM 4y ago
You all in the comments are rediscovering Lagrange points the hard way. L4 and L5 are stable, BTW, and we have a relatively famous space telescope at L2 which requires active stability control to stay there. https://en.wikipedia
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by VLM 4y ago
The 7th point which is unfortunately yet another lawyer analogy is chatgpt for software development is kind of like a magic "nolo publishing" where you can ask for any very short programming textbook and chatgpt will push it out.
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by VLM 4y ago
I'll toss out a 6th point that AI as I've seen it so far is beyond useless at answering "I" questions, but OK at answering "groupthink" questions. Ask AI if "I" should use AWS, GCP, Azure, private clo
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by VLM 4y ago
I would suggest a 5th that AI tends to be very poor at models and security/error detection. AI is pretty good when there's no errors, no security problems, and no semi-malicious-ish users, but pretty bad under real world conditio

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