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by abetusk 2y ago
This is a very welcome counterpoint to a lot of the cryptocurrency hate that tends to be promoted. I think this is more along the lines of a "strong man" argument for cryptocurrency.
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by abetusk 2y ago
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was "look at your data". Sometimes it's hard, sometimes you need to come up with novel visualizations, sometimes it can only give partial insight or just be noise, but I always stri
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by abetusk 2y ago
I'm no expert and I don't like engaging in arguments to authority but Terrence Tao is one of the leading mathematicians of our age, akin to Erdos. When he's excited about a result, that should be a high signal indicator that
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by abetusk 2y ago
This probably deserves its own article and might be of interest to the HN community.
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by abetusk 2y ago
You're pointing out that their license is not open source. I agree. It's not. My point is that they're not claiming it is. I'll concede that the README is misleading but, as far as I can tell, it's not making any cl
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by abetusk 2y ago
Note that the repo itself doesn't claim it's open source, it's the title of the link that (incorrectly) claims it is.
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by abetusk 2y ago
Another way to say that is that "planning for success" is prematurely optimizing for scale. Scaling up will bring its own challenges, with many of them difficult to foresee.
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by abetusk 2y ago
Rodin died in 1917. There's been over 100 years to carry out his wishes with his works. His works are now in the public domain. Regardless of what you think should have happened to the works, they are now in the public domain and being
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by abetusk 2y ago
Yep, this is how both MP3 (and Ogg-Vorbis) and JPEG all work. Picking the weights for which frequencies to keep is, presumably, chosen based on some psychoacoustic model but the coarse description is literally throwing away high order frequ
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An American's fierce fight to reproduce sculptures of the Rodin Museum for free(linforme.com)
14 points by abetusk 2y ago|8 comments
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Hobby's algorithm for aesthetic Bézier splines (2020)(jakelow.com)
75 points by abetusk 2y ago|28 comments
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A Demonstration of the Hobby Algorithm(weitz.de)
3 points by abetusk 2y ago|0 comments
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by abetusk 2y ago
Thompkins county in NY is the red area in the bottom middle. This is where Cornell is (Ithaca, NY), so has a lot of college students and a lot of bars.
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One Hour One Life: End Game Update(onehouronelife.com)
1 points by abetusk 3y ago|0 comments
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by abetusk 3y ago
Fiber laser. Even a 20W fiber laser will ablate copper. 30W-50W are now avaiable for under $2k, maybe even dropping still. You'll be limited to single or double sided, without vias but considering its rapid prototyping, these are the c
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by abetusk 3y ago
Conway's Game of Life (GoL) provides a clear demonstration that simple rules can lead to complex behavior. The complex behavior is deep in the sense that Conway's GoL is Turing Complete [0]. The local update rules provide an analo
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by abetusk 3y ago
This is not a question about GoL directly but more generally about CA. Do you have a sense for what the probability of a random CA is to be TME? Do you have any idea of how to automate the process, if not in general, then at least for a cla
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by abetusk 3y ago
You're not addressing the core issue that I brought up. They use the term "open source" inappropriately. They could have said "fair licensing terms" but instead chose to use "open source". If their licensi
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by abetusk 3y ago
With restrictions that prevent it from being open source. From the LICENSE file on Llama 3: """ Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Meta Llama 3 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services m
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by abetusk 3y ago
No, it doesn't meet the Wikipedia description, nor does it meet the OSI definition. From the Wikipedia article [0]: """ ... Licenses which only permit non-commercial redistribution or modification of the source code for
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by abetusk 3y ago
Llama 3 is not open source [0]. The commonly accepted usage of open source is that it is available for commercial reuse and alteration without restriction [1]. Llama 3 puts restrictions on types of commercial use that are acceptable as well
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by abetusk 3y ago
The constraints stated: * You can never make an integer greater than the largest integer in the original list. * You can never make a move that results in the same integer appearing in the list more than once. You can make a negati
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by abetusk 3y ago
> This is only for driving galvo motors. And analog makes a lot of sense for that. Complexity is moderate too. Yes, sorry, I was trying to highlight that with the "... digital controllers ..." bit. I'm no electrical engine
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by abetusk 3y ago
I would love for this to exist and, in my opinion, there's absolutely no theoretical reason why this shouldn't exist, but this sends off scam vibes to me. They've come out of left field, with, as of this writing, little to no
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by abetusk 3y ago
Thank you so much for this link. I was having trouble following some of the notation that came up with automatic differentiation and I think this clears it up.
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by abetusk 3y ago
Does anyone have experience with how well this works?
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by abetusk 3y ago
Ha! I think Lem had this idea 50+ years ago, with some scientists claiming that the universe was conscious and filling out consistent scientific theory as our tools got better. I can't exactly remember but I think it was near the end o
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by abetusk 3y ago
I do this quite a bit and have many small sites that I manage and create. My go-to VMS hosting service is Digital Ocean (DO) [0] as they offer reasonable rates ($5 - $10/mo) for reasonable machines and have a very nice interface. Ther
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by abetusk 3y ago
I'm no expert but I suspect this is wrong. To me, this is like saying you don't need to worry about integer overflow because your operations are only working on fixed integers. Really? You don't care if you multiply or add tw
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by abetusk 3y ago
I don't know why this answer is getting downvoted. This is absolutely correct. W. Miller has a paper discussing, under conditions of numerical stability, O(n^3) multiplications is necessary [0]. Any algorithm that gets sub cubic runtim

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