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by _0ffh 6y ago
Sounds a lot like Minsky's vision of AI systems, btw.
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by _0ffh 6y ago
> yes, everything was slower back then Right, and still I was super amazed that I could send a message to someone halfway around the world, and it would arrive there only a couple of days later! Compared to a letter that's really fa
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Yeah, seems like the 21st century should be 2001-2100.
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by _0ffh 6y ago
So if masking is used, I assume compressing the audio with any modern compression scheme from mp3 up should defeat that shouldn't it (because they drop masked signals to save bandwidth)?
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Thanks, that sure clears things up!
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Well that's true, or maybe he was down-prioritized for donor organs due to his age. I've got a friend who isn't allowed to drive a car because of bad corneas. He also got repeatedly rejected when trying to apply for a donor o
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Given that cornea transplants are routine operations, why was that man left blind for so long? Where there any medical factors precluding the use of a donor organ? Don't get me wrong, this is fantastic news, but something essential has
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by _0ffh 6y ago
I've once read a paper in the late 90s or so which openly said ML research was partly "experimental maths".
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Yes, implicit type casting is the work of the devil. Even the limited case in C is a popular source of trouble, never mind implicitly casting between strings and other types. Similar case with SQL's "NULL".
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Nice! Another (slightly more pessimistic) one is "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster".
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Everything is worth as much as someone else is willing to give up for it.
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Right, I've read the same thing about avoiding that! Talking about additional gotchas: Acidic foods will apparently eat into the seasoning, so one should be careful with those.
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by _0ffh 6y ago
I recently bought my first carbon steel wok and just today I put in the time to properly season it. Naturally, this evening I did my first stir fry with it and it was a blast! Cleaning was pretty simple. After I had finished eating I put so
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by _0ffh 6y ago
I think that comparison would be more confusing than helpful.
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by _0ffh 6y ago
True, but when has the truth ever stopped a politician?
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by _0ffh 6y ago
It seems to me C to K is affine as well. True, it's somewhat special in that the factor is exactly one, but if there's an offset it's not linear in the sense of the sentence under discussion.
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by _0ffh 6y ago
That's the name I couldn't quite recover from my memory when I asked, exactly!
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can remember memory with extra capacity for error detection used to be a rather common thing on early PCs. That really only changed a couple of decades in, in order to be able to
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Didn't really notice any major difference in quality... I was talking ease-of-use and richness of options. What quality differences do you refer to?
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Last time I tried a few years ago, Octave couldn't hold a candle to Matlab's plotting functions. It's a different league.
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by _0ffh 6y ago
I wonder how much of this is due to the availability of the dot-operator syntax beside the extensive libraries and the easy extensibility (just create a new function in the Matlab search path and Bob's your uncle - no further installat
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Sure. But that's still potentially multiple orders of magnitude fewer on-chain transactions than without. I'd call that a quite efficient mitigation.
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Not that I'm aware of. The lightning network seems to be a fairly decentral affair to me. Still I suggest you make up your own mind by perusing https://lightning.network/
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by _0ffh 6y ago
The energy cost is really only a problem for on-chain transactions. Technologies like the lightning network can greatly mitigate that problem.
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Collectibles can very much generate price bubbles. Some of them are quite slow to inflate/deflate, and thus not very exciting/newsworthy, but even those are bubbles.
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by _0ffh 6y ago
There is at least the option to use a more modern language if it translates to C. Nim for example does that, and has compiler options for embedded systems. https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimc.html#nim-for-embedded-systems
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Apart from what has already been mentioned, stuff also gets copyright-struck. Sometimes for ridiculously minor infractions. Sometimes for no real infraction at all. Additionally, there are the vague and ever-changing terms of service. Also,
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by _0ffh 6y ago
I don't use the "watch later" feature anymore. It's always a bit irritating when you want to catch up on the list only to find that a video has been removed in the mean time. So I switched to archiving using youtube-dl.
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by _0ffh 6y ago
Well no, fuck them. If the choice is to get some crumbs of a cake I was vital in baking or to throw the whole cake, I'd throw it unless I was starving otherwise! It is not a good move to let someone get away with something like this. A
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by _0ffh 6y ago
You are a monster! ;-)

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