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by a-dub 3y ago
no, unfortunately not. it's been a while since i've looked but i think mpld3 and plotly were the best bets when i last was trying to make use of notebooks. i've personally never been a big fan of the horizontal breaks in the
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by a-dub 3y ago
matplotlib supports interactivity if you use the qt backends.
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by a-dub 3y ago
scatter3? matlab provides a slightly esoteric yet incredibly consistent and lightning fast environment for analysis and visualization. it's kinda like unix in that regard.
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by a-dub 3y ago
this is probably a dumb question, but why not just store a secret seed that is used with an on device prng to generate as many secrets as you need where a sequence id gets shared with the counterparty?
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by a-dub 3y ago
the early xing mp3 codec famously cut everything off above 18khz, but that was out of spec. :) instead perceptual audio compression typically filters out frequencies that neighbor other frequencies with lots of power. deleting these neighbo
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by a-dub 3y ago
while work has been done to characterize frequency sensitivity across species (which does vary quite a bit, especially in the higher ranges (>20khz)), i haven't seen any work that has been done to explore frequency domain perceptual
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by a-dub 3y ago
i guess an interesting question is: can you coax a network into learning a better perceptual compression transform than the dcts in jpeg?
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by a-dub 3y ago
very cool! was actually contemplating what it would take to build something like this for myself! personal text processors are a great direction for NLP based AI!
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by a-dub 3y ago
lol. it tends to be pretty flimsy proof, especially in light of the expanded horizon.
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by a-dub 3y ago
i think this would be much better written if it compared and contrasted the pros and cons of building a fun and sustainable small business vs. taking investor funds with the hopes of doing something more ambitious.
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Ask HN: Should HN one-tap actions require confirms on mobile?
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by a-dub 3y ago
it would be pretty cool if someone released a 10 or 15 year chromebook.
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by a-dub 3y ago
kinda hard to square with oil companies pulling record _profits_ in the wake of oil shortages due to turmoil in eastern europe and well, how those high energy prices drove a ton of cpi inflation. you can't blame it on labor or desirabl
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by a-dub 3y ago
passwords are not fine. my user agent should do otp on my behalf with clean, hassle free and reliable ux. my secrets should auto-rotate on a regular schedule and i should be able to force a rotation at any time in the event of a compromise.
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by a-dub 3y ago
notably the pixel has moved off qualcomm to google silicon and now has 5+ years of support. if you want the _pure_ android experience, aosp support for pixel hardware has traditionally been very good. (google posts signed binary blobs for
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by a-dub 3y ago
snarky gen-x attitudes can be fun, but i think these days there's a high of a risk that they'll be taken the wrong way. but yes, this is the lament of the senior developer or manager. the ideal is that people have the freedom to e
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by a-dub 3y ago
on the flip side i've sometimes wondered how useful a syscall time manipulator that injects delays in order to explore the space of concurrent execution sequences would be. either something systematic or a just a simple stochastic sch
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by a-dub 3y ago
i think they are referring to automated abuse scanners which have been "made of ai" for decades. i strongly doubt that this language would support the use of private repositories for training generative systems.
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by a-dub 3y ago
i really like the filter definition as selection rectangle on time frequency plot ux,
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by a-dub 4y ago
you'd be surprised how many professional programmers these days work exclusively in high level languages and know nothing about using operating system features to their fullest. but to your point, until technology itself actually repl
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by a-dub 4y ago
i like this! really captures the spirit of the fun, collaborative, distributed and humanistic internet.
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by a-dub 4y ago
at least apple ships security updates for older devices. last i looked, they go back at least 7 years. before the pixel 6, qualcomm pixels capped out at 3 years. it should be a legal requirement to unlock bootloaders and possibly even open
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by a-dub 4y ago
any thoughts on a custom DSL for defining and verifying abstract state machines and then machinery for generators for different languages/libraries/environments/visualizations?
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by a-dub 4y ago
reminds me of when i had an art student/architect from austria rent a room for the summer. he carried a pocket map book and a pen, and proudly referred to it as "my iphone." what was cool was that at the end, he had an awesom
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by a-dub 4y ago
sure. but think about it this way: most real world data is actually highly structured. in the space of bits that aren't encrypted, the real stuff lives in a very, very small subspace and good hash functions seek to avoid collisions in
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by a-dub 4y ago
it does, it just works on estimates of percepts rather than bits. you can think of a perceptual hash as two functions. a perceptual function that maps differing collections of bits that appear the same or similar to the same bits, and then
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by a-dub 4y ago
regular (non-secure) hash functions do two things: they compress (very lossily) and they make things that are near each other in their domain (inputs) map to things that are far apart in their codomain (outputs). the first condition is sati
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by a-dub 4y ago
ThumbHash? seems more like MicroJPEG maybe? hash implies some specific things about the inputs and outputs that are definitely not true! cool idea to extract one piece of the DCTs and emit a tiny low-res image though!
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by a-dub 4y ago
is it O(n) for those lists/posters or O(log n)? they're usually sorted, aren't they?
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by a-dub 4y ago
> Is this typical for CS undergraduate degrees because you get to pick your own classes? probably. although these were all topics that i taught myself through books and practice anyhow. there are great resources for learning these topics

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