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by a-dub 4y ago
i wonder if choices amongst metamers might have secondary effects we don't know about... like given two renders of the same image with different metamer selections, are there possibly subconscious impacts to mood or feeling between the
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by a-dub 4y ago
protip for gmail on android users: gmail -> settings -> general settings -> open web links in gmail -> uncheck
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by a-dub 4y ago
i'm enjoying seeing the variety in everyone's mnemonics :)
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by a-dub 4y ago
there have been a handful of infrastructure projects in java: kafka and cassandra come to mind immediately, but there are certainly others. i think what has always sort of steered me away has been a few things: 1) i've long been intere
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by a-dub 4y ago
nah. learning unix was fun. having all the documentation online and in an easily called up and consistent format made it possible. microcomputer operating systems didn't have things like "man -k" and while we can complain all
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by a-dub 4y ago
i've always considered manpages to be sort of part of the unix command line experience. since they're fast, it's no matter. but yea, it took me many years to wire down ln's target link_name semantics for some reason. wha
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by a-dub 4y ago
there was a time when freebsd's networking stack was pretty trendy for use in high performance networking settings. it was frequently used to implement things like software load balancers. quite possibly because of its (pre-linux-cfq)
788.
by a-dub 4y ago
how does the kernel compare these days? pre-cfq i remember the scheduler was far better than linux, but what about raw performance for single and multithread/process workloads with lots of i/o going through the kernel? raw cve cou
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by a-dub 4y ago
NR has long been seen as a sort of necronomicon for scientific computer programming. i don't think it's SE's fault as much as it is a historical rough edge between two fields (computer programming and applied mathematics). t
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by a-dub 4y ago
the manhattan project was a wartime effort, it is not comparable. moreover, if you read feynman's memoirs, it seems there were certainly a lot of people indulging their intellectual interests under the banner of los alamos. (feynman hi
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by a-dub 4y ago
unfortunately, i don't have access to university resources anymore. but i suspect that if someone were to go pull the 1980 annual report for at&t (T) from the proquest historical annual reports database (should be available via onl
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by a-dub 4y ago
janelia is focused on a specific domain. an interesting domain, for sure, but the author is interested in quantum computing and that would be a shoehorn for janelia's mission at best.
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by a-dub 4y ago
i don't think it's a matter of someone thinking it was sane behavior, it's just what falls out from the rest of the rules of the language. it seems that any attempt to fix it would be convenient but inconsistent.
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by a-dub 4y ago
the fact that you can do recursion before even entering the function is amusing. not THAT strange though, i imagine the compiler just gloms a preamble onto the executing function's stack frame. amusing to think that the goal of them is
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by a-dub 4y ago
> thereby doing a full scan of the data for each iteration to calculate the optimal split point > (although they're trying size ranges like [256, 512, 1024] as opposed to turning batching off entirely) > The issue isn’t batch
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by a-dub 4y ago
that's an interesting idea. but at the end of the paper they do an analysis of the effect of different hyperparameters for the nets with their dataset and find that the batch size doesn't seem to matter much. (although they'r
797.
by a-dub 4y ago
more cameras. more physical systems. different settings. more data. :)
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by a-dub 4y ago
> A particularly interesting question was whether the set of variable was unique for every system, or whether a different set was produced each time the program was restarted. indeed! i'm assuming it finds the same variables over mu
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by a-dub 4y ago
this is along the lines of my thinking. people organize and summarize data before throwing it into spreadsheets, where deep learning models do their thing by generating new representations from raw data. in a sense, most data in spreadsheet
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by a-dub 4y ago
yeah it needs to be stretched more. people talk about ESG... imagine what the world would look like if energy company executives were compensated based on the health of the company (and by proxy the health of the economy) ten years in the f
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by a-dub 4y ago
executives should be compensated for the performance of the company in the future, not the current quarter or year. this is the board's fault for failing to set effective incentives.
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by a-dub 4y ago
i find that when i execute a saccadic eye movement while a dlp or similarly color strobed projector image is in view, at the end of the movement i'll see a brief artifact where the colors will briefly separate on certain edges. i'
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by a-dub 4y ago
what does a CTO do at a company of decent size? do they actually have a hand in day to day technical decisions, setting technical tone or otherwise impact the technical environment or are they mostly doing abstract management? is it a role
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by a-dub 4y ago
the call out was more in line with a general disagreement with what i saw as a tech industry apologist take. i don't think people who work in the tech industry are bad people, but if people are losing housing because of their products,
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by a-dub 4y ago
sure, maybe you do get more bees with honey. or more often than not you never get seen. we live in a sad era where the only way to get real attention from large companies is to embarrass them in public. this is by their design. > I care
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by a-dub 4y ago
yikes. old poor people are having their lives upended because technology has infiltrated the processes by which basic business is conducted and the designers of said technology had not bothered to consider them as a real use case, and your
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by a-dub 4y ago
i suspect that basic digital identity and messaging services will eventually be operated by governments. similar to how many major urban transportation systems were adopted and then glued together to provide subsidized public services.
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by a-dub 4y ago
file drop apis weren't so bad. drop a file in the input directory with a unique name, wait for the response to appear in the output directory. with samba these became easy to work with. i wrapped a couple of these with soap webservices
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by a-dub 4y ago
> That 6 MHz is used to encode MPEG-2 frames containing video, color, and audio information that your cable box or TV decodes into picture and sound. If you graphed a single channel provided by the cable operator, it would look similar t
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by a-dub 4y ago
i'd consider going a step further and making the web ui completely optional for configuration after the billing is set up. i know that sounds extreme, but personally that is something i would really, really like. maybe a small cli tool

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