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by a-dub 3y ago
kickstarter is skymall for the daring...
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by a-dub 3y ago
professor friend says that the pandemic really messed with preparation and that the effect is marked, clear as day and very sad. glad to hear there are attempts at addressing the problem.
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by a-dub 3y ago
i mean, haven't they been doing it forever for antispam, antiabuse, ads and discovery systems anyway? ai hype is exhaustingly stupid.
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by a-dub 3y ago
i don't really type passwords into remote connected terminals anymore and haven't for some time. shrug while shoring up the existing holes is worthwhile, people should really be using keys or difficult to type passwords in 2023.
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by a-dub 3y ago
i'm trying to remember what 80286 era dos/windows PC applications actually made use of the optional FPU and find myself coming up blank. maybe autocad?
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by a-dub 3y ago
it is completely unnecessary and emblematic of a culture that does not respect the idea of finite prefrontal cortex energy and willy-nilly will choose to disrespectfully waste it on a frequent basis. it's like when you have to deal wit
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by a-dub 3y ago
i call it "choice-gas" and yes it does run low and is expressly frustrating when it's constantly taxed needlessly. a good example is microsoft outlook. meeting invites would pop a mandatory three way choice of "send the
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by a-dub 3y ago
> The core value proposition of copyrights and patents is to make middlemen money. they also protect smaller and potentially more innovative operations from being out-executed by large capital pools. i know that often times patents have
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by a-dub 3y ago
"downloading a video" probably sounds almost as weird to a gen-z as "recording a song from the radio" sounds to a millennial. pretty wild when you think about it.
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by a-dub 3y ago
bag of words style representations actually can work quite well in many document classification tasks. wouldn't surprise me at all if affect bleeds through word choice and indicates some emotions like uncertainty or overconfidence that
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by a-dub 3y ago
my favorite are shepard tones, which literally look like the barber pole illusion in a spectrogram.
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by a-dub 3y ago
very nice! I'm also a big fan of the vu amsterdam deep learning lectures on youtube. less systems focus but a really good intro to modern neural network based ML.
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by a-dub 3y ago
some covid datasets were published as git repositories. the cool part was that it added a publish date dimension for historical data so that one could understand how long it took for historical counts to reach a steady state.
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by a-dub 3y ago
no that's actually true. in the mid 80s, it was the only personal computer that actually had preemptive multitasking built into the operating system. serial communications were interrupt driven which didn't lend itself well at all
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by a-dub 3y ago
i think the bigger problem is that the seed is easily guessed or found, so all the output can be regenerated. so it's not even 32 bits of entropy, it's some tiny fraction of that. (system times for a few years interval)
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by a-dub 3y ago
hah yeah. now that i think of it, i bet the word high with no punctuation that is immediately adjacent to a document separator is probably extremely correlated with the topic it fell into. i wonder what other sorts of atoms with similar i
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by a-dub 3y ago
i suspect that "awfully high" drove the inference trajectory right onto the edge of the dopey part of the internet/compressed representation and random chance allowed it to fall right on in...
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by a-dub 3y ago
computability proofs could be a fun one for kids.
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by a-dub 3y ago
i remember when this phrase started confusing lots of westerners during the central asian global IT (and support) boom of the early aughts. it was not uncommon to see these phrases appear in support tickets. i wonder if western phrases lik
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by a-dub 3y ago
don't miss the prolific author's fascinating web archive hosted at columbia university: homepage: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/ history of computing at columbia: http://www.columbia.edu/cu&#x2
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by a-dub 3y ago
i was under the impression that they had made massive investments and really turned that around ... or is that ironically only windows? (or just a mistaken impression?)
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by a-dub 3y ago
i've often wondered if my phone could drive large external displays and become a thin client. would be pretty cool!
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by a-dub 3y ago
hmm: mac os: numeral generation: variable google: eXperimental! malcom: variable elon: hey yo, check it out i tried to register x.com and actually got it! the question is... chitter or xitter?
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by a-dub 3y ago
ten fingers, ten toes, base ten arabic numbers
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by a-dub 3y ago
mac os x 10 is actually a pretty special number
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by a-dub 3y ago
computing a single matrix right divide is probably faster done in place with the cpu using vector math instructions.
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by a-dub 3y ago
it's a known issue and science in general is improving on the reproducibility front. i think that technological complexity kind of snuck up on many fields and it has taken time for the very competitive research culture to adapt. releas
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by a-dub 3y ago
where? i couldn't find them on the openssh webpage and my distro has not released a new openssh either. edit: nvm. i see the release now. just no release for openbsd itself it seems.
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by a-dub 3y ago
why publish this before the patches are out?
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by a-dub 3y ago
big organizations are dysfunctional as many lose sight of any real goals due to the pressure to jockey for position. film at 11.

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