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by aabajian 1y ago
Max nostalgia. When I was ~12 years old I had an 386 PC we got for $5 from the thrift store across from the dump (a bargain for sure even at that time). I had to self-teach myself about DOS, BASIC, Win 3.1, etc. I somehow broke the Win 3.1
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by aabajian 1y ago
From the paper, "Notably, for multiplying two 4 × 4 matrices, applying the algorithm of Strassen recursively results in an algorithm with 49 multiplications, which works over any field...AlphaEvolve is the first method to find an algor
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by aabajian 1y ago
The other existential question I've asked is, "How do I know any of you are conscious?" It may be in fact, that I am the only one who is conscious.
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by aabajian 2y ago
I'm curious, is it the AI that should be blamed or the prompter who asks to generate something based on copyright? For all of the examples, I knew what image to expect before seeing it. I think it's the user who is at fault for re
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by aabajian 2y ago
People play up Bill Gates’ connections, sure, but next to no 16-year-olds could program BASIC in assembly. Microsoft’s success was as much to do with them being a programming languages company first . DOS, Windows 3.1, and even Windows 95
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by aabajian 2y ago
I agree 100% with the comment about the McDonald's food ordering system. It is legitimately the worst of all the major fast-food chains. It is slow, ad-heavy, and there are certain things that you cannot order.
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by aabajian 2y ago
Does the problem boil down to selecting the real part of a complex number? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the conjugate of z is merely 2*Re(z) - z. For example, the conjugate of a + bi is 2*a - (a + bi) = a - bi.
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by aabajian 2y ago
My master's degree in computer science technically says, "Theoretical computer science" as the specialization. I was a mathematics undergrad, and generally enjoy doing proofs, albeit I'm not the best at them. With that s
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by aabajian 2y ago
Neurosurgeons are extremely smart, hardworking, and (usually) amicable physicians. They are also in short supply and can determine whether an entire health system makes or loses money. Neurosurgery is the hardest residency, and the hardest
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by aabajian 2y ago
There are no websites that let you make offers on houses by yourself. If you want to make an offer on a car, a boat, even land , there are ways to do it without an agent. Real estate (save land) seems the lone exception where you have to
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by aabajian 2y ago
I've purchased two condos and one house in the Seattle area. My first condo I bought remotely and my agent toured a couple of places for me. Agent was very valuable in this case as I was in medical school trying to buy a place for resi
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by aabajian 2y ago
You've taken it further than I was even thinking. There are a lot of potential applications. A micro-drone swarm could aid in construction by moving building materials into place. They could grab a beer from the fridge for you. The onl
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by aabajian 2y ago
I personally know Raffi, he was my roommate in college. If ever there was a CEO you wanted to back (or someone to help you buy a home), he is it. Some highlights: - Not from a wealthy background, he got where he is due to hard work. -Paid
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by aabajian 2y ago
Why not make these much, much smaller, and have the battery swap be part of the design? Connect 100 bee-sized platforms together in a grid. Any one of which could be the "battery swapper" bee and keep the rest of the flock afloat?
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by aabajian 2y ago
I get the application being a touch sensor, but the real breakthrough is the embedding of magnetic particles with parallel orientations in a flexible medium. A few immediate questions: -The company that makes Magnequench presumably knows th
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by aabajian 2y ago
IANAL. Is it legal to create derivatives of copyright work and then post them on public online forums? For example, I can certainly write , "Mickey Mouse got food poisoning from his Big Mac." But, if I ask an AI generator to &quo
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by aabajian 2y ago
If you want a real surreal experience, I suggest visiting Carlsbad Caverns, or a similar enormous cave system. I suspect the awe the author felt was the same sensation as being in an enclosure larger than any building. Think about being in
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by aabajian 3y ago
The blue background on messages sent between two iMessage users has to be one of the most brilliant vendor lock-in strategies. It is an artificial form of discrimination. I feel a slight annoyance whenever a non-Apple user forms a group c
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by aabajian 3y ago
I too think about this all the time. Even as a post-doctoral graduate, I still could not make a spoon. Even given a piece of sheet metal, how would I cut, bend and form it into the right shape? And that's a static object made out of
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by aabajian 3y ago
All three authors are PhDs or PhD-candidates in mathematics. The notation is extremely dense. I'm curious who their target audience of "students and scientists" are for this book.
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by aabajian 3y ago
Note that you don't have to assume constant deceleration. You can just assume that the kinetic energy lost by the first car is the same as the second car. I think this is the more reasonable assumption given we know nothing about the b
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by aabajian 3y ago
The MLSes in the US are all under the Realtor group. The selling agent has to agree to pay the buyer agent's fee in order to list. This is one of the main points of the trial. Sellers cannot list a house in the most popular (only?) lis
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by aabajian 3y ago
This was part of the evidence used in the case. They had recordings from buyer's agents who called about non-MLS homes. The agents were on-tape saying things like, "I am going to make sure no other agent shows your house." Al
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by aabajian 3y ago
"Most MLSs are owned by the REALTOR® association that formed them." See: https://www.reso.org/blog/mls-faq/ Read the Redfin post. The rules the REALTOR association imposes to get access to MLS data is mo
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by aabajian 3y ago
If Redfin can create a competitor to the monopolistic MLS (owned by Realtor.com), more power to them.
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by aabajian 3y ago
Drop-down lists (called pick-list in PowerScribe speak) are very common. The issue is that they are completely separate from the image viewer and have no knowledge of the current patient's findings. Admittedly, even a simple classifier
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by aabajian 3y ago
I'm just finishing interventional radiology training and I moonlight as a diagnostic radiologist (not to mention having an undergrad/master's in computer science). Almost 90% of the diagnostic studies I read could be pre-draf
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by aabajian 3y ago
Dogs aren't allowed on buses.
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by aabajian 3y ago
Recipes!
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by aabajian 3y ago
I don't know if I agree with the article. I recall when Google IPO'ed, nobody outside of Google really knew how much traffic they had and how much money they were making. Microsoft was caught off-guard. Compare this to ChatGPT:

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