aWidebrant

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by aWidebrant 3y ago
Documentation of interfaces between components that are owned by different organizations get my full attention and care. Everything else is best effort.
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by aWidebrant 3y ago
I think this is required reading on IQ and g: http://bactra.org/weblog/520.html http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html On efficient markets, I'd recommend: https://economics.northwester
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by aWidebrant 4y ago
"Why did such a bland observation resonate with so many people?" Asked and answered.
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by aWidebrant 4y ago
The study in the topic seems to contradict this, although the summary is a bit confusing: "Considering gender inequality, the authors report that “in countries of higher gender inequality, women’s stronger preference for working with p
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by aWidebrant 4y ago
It seems to me that the main reason to learn C would be to be able to dive deeper into the low-level implementation details of some hardware platform. With that in mind, I would suggest picking a piece of hardware you want to learn more abo
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by aWidebrant 4y ago
"From my experience, what works incredibly well is a partnership between biologists and software engineers: the biologists first come up with the first concept of the tool, which is purely focused on ensuring good results. After this f
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by aWidebrant 5y ago
It's hard to imagine that a powerful self-modifying AI would continuously pass up on the obvious optimization of just giving itself the maximum perceivable reward without doing any further work. I guess computers just can't learn
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by aWidebrant 5y ago
Swedish public television has covered this story quite extensively: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/granskning/
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by aWidebrant 5y ago
Presuming that a large part of those 100 W go to the power amps for uplink transmissions, it seems that it should be possible to make at least that part scale with how much outgoing data the terminal is actually sending. But that may requir
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by aWidebrant 6y ago
Is this just the second coming of cellular automata?
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by aWidebrant 6y ago
In terms of the OSI model, I've gone from working with software on top of layer 7 to working on software and hardware at the bottom of layer 1. It's been a fun and challenging transition, but my job satisfaction has mostly been de
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by aWidebrant 6y ago
Personally, I'll have the former style of business jargon over the latter. Sure, "leverage the innovative" doesn't mean anything, but at least it's not actively infantilizing.
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by aWidebrant 6y ago
In practice, the American revolution did not come about through open debate: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/on-the-rudeness-of-mobs-pogue 'On October 25, the freemen of Essex County, New Jersey, proclaimed that any
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by aWidebrant 6y ago
Putting a CPU core in your hardware accelerator seems more useful when it's stuck on the wrong side of a memory bottleneck. That way, you could run longer programs in local accelerator memory before you have to take the hit of communic
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by aWidebrant 6y ago
For an approachable but not shallow introduction to philosophy via Plato, try Holbo and Waring's Reason and Persuasion, available as a free book and Coursera lecture series: https://www.reasonandpersuasion.com/
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by aWidebrant 6y ago
N+1 and The Baffler both seem to be constitutionally incapable of releasing a bad issue. Highly recommended. Jacobin is uneven, but if you read Reason et al you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy now and then to keep up with ideological w
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by aWidebrant 6y ago
ECDO sounds cooler.
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by aWidebrant 6y ago
I think a better approach is back-front-back, or front-front-back; or front-front-back and then side-to-side.
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by aWidebrant 6y ago
Good job! I recommend that you learn how to speak slowly. This not only makes you easier to understand, but also makes it easier for people to interrupt and ask questions. And as others have said, listen carefully to questions and suggestio
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by aWidebrant 7y ago
I like this a lot. It feels like a much healthier starting point than diving head first into the discovery feeds of the platforms.
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by aWidebrant 7y ago
The main thing that C provides over other languages is direct hardware access. So study the hardware, find out what you want to do with it, then use C to implement it.
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by aWidebrant 7y ago
When it comes to documentation, be realistic about how much time - in terms of product features delayed or not delivered - you have to spend on creating documentation and on keeping it fresh. Also be realistic about how the documentation wi
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by aWidebrant 7y ago
Lightly edited: https://rentry.co/zq4r6
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by aWidebrant 7y ago
Attention conservation notice: Lengthy somewhat tendentious history of Soviet Leninism, followed by an assertion that the confusing twists of cancel culture is down to the woke masses being in thrall to a Hiddden Lenin, and a rapid exit.
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by aWidebrant 11y ago
"Write like you talk" is bad advice twice: It encourages rambling, which - unlike in a conversation - the reader has no means to interrupt, and it offers no clear rules to follow while writing. Orwell's six[1] are, in my expe