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by abetusk 6y ago
Interesting read. They're basically proposing that our anti-rational behavior came out as a type of 'hyper-socialization'. I can believe it and, if true, would point to why things like changing the Overton window [1] and othe
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For others wanting a very "computer science friendly" introduction to the Ising model, Rice piles and other critical and complex systems (in the physics sense), I would recommend "Complexity and Criticality" by Christens
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Aka "tabloid journalism" [1]. NYT and Vice are not tabloid publications nor are their journalists generally considered to be tabloid journalists. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
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by abetusk 6y ago
Presumably the submitter of this link is also the author? Do you have any suggestions on what areas are good for innovation? I also find myself at a complete loss for what technologies are actually out there, how they're used and wha
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by abetusk 6y ago
Vice doxxed Naomi Wu a little while back [1]. It seems like reporters are increasingly becoming unethical to push their stories forward (or maybe they were always this unethical?). [1] https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg&#x2F
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by abetusk 6y ago
I'm no expert, but if it is a memory alignment issue, isn't this undefined behavior? If the string is unused, isn't the compiler free to allocate or not allocate it (unless it has some 'volatile' directive or someth
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by abetusk 6y ago
I found the book "Practical Electronics for Investors" by Paul Scherz [0] to be one of the better ones. My problem with learning electronics, and, to a lesser extent, electricity, was that most of the guides gave an 'ad-hoc&#
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by abetusk 6y ago
I think this gets at the licensing issues and the "non-commercial" sentiment of that type of usage, whether it's explicitly CC-NC or otherwise. Notice the "Buy me a coffee" link. Is this considered "for profit&
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This is an absolutely fabulous idea, great job. Some observations: * I chose 'Berlin' and when I selected the 'street noise' it played music. Viewing the video, I see the YouTube video has music rather than street sounds
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> Isn't "the amalgamation of many smaller problems working together and building on top of each other" a fair description of the theorical Unix system? Yes. Note the success of Unix and the ability to scale, do work and pr
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Intelligence is the amalgamation of many smaller problems working together and building on top of each other. * Facial recognition/detection * Facial synthesis (deepfakes) * Speech synthesis, including mimickry * Speech recognition * N
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I think you're being pretty ungenerous in your reading. Under the section "3. Necessary Software": > If the licensed design requires software, embedded or otherwise, to operate properly and fulfill its essential functions,
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by abetusk 6y ago
Open Source Hardware is not limited to just the PCB design. Here is an excerpt from the definition provided by OSHWA [1]: > Open Source Hardware (OSHW) is a term for tangible artifacts — machines, devices, or other physical things — whos
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by abetusk 6y ago
I've often thought about doing this or something similar. Can I ask, how long have you been at it? How did you pick your initial round of public domain pictures? What was your growth curve like? And did you automate the print/prod
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by abetusk 6y ago
Yeah, that's an interesting point. I think the information gained from the first sacrificial game is enough to reduce the search space so they can plow through the remaining games. There's obviously some tradeoff for a generalized
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by abetusk 6y ago
This was surprisingly awesome. There's a "battleship" like game in Zelda that is "required" (I guess) to be won three times in quick succession for a complete speedrun. Trying to get three wins in a row is too slow,
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I've seen that interview before and that quote in particular resonates with me but at the same time there are basic economics to consider. I want to be clear, what I meant by 'quality' above is functioning systems. If there&#
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by abetusk 6y ago
Thanks for this, a very interesting insight into the Windows ecosystem. I won't be able to speak with any authority on Windows systems and I certainly don't want to get into a language/OS war but I would like to point out a f
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by abetusk 6y ago
I think this hits the nail on the head but I wanted to add a few examples of what I believe to be this effect in practice: * Roman numerals vs Hindu-Arabic numeral system [1] (aka base 10 number system) The Roman numeral system is essential
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by abetusk 6y ago
Copyright was originally set up to protect artistic works and not ideas or devices [1] [2]. Hardware in this context (PCBs etc.) is, I guess, considered an idea or device rather than a piece of artistic work. I think this is why we have the
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by abetusk 6y ago
It's not exactly what you wanted but they do have a "strong town test" [1] that looks to have at least some semblance of a quantitative aspect to it. [1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/11&#
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by abetusk 6y ago
Yeah, no. Sorry to be so contrary but this sounds like nostalgia, not reality. In many ways, we've reached the "plateau of productivity" for many of the promises of the 80s and 90s and I suspect that's why this sentiment
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by abetusk 6y ago
Stanislaw Lem is one of my favorite authors. "His Masters Voice" is one of my favorite books. "Cyberiad" and "Mortal Engines" are also great books but much more playful and probably geared towards a younger aud
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For me, this type of thinking does the exact opposite in that it has a chilling effect on finding solutions and correctly assessing reality. While some of what Al Bartlett says is true, that unfettered exponential growth can't go on fo
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Just a word of warning, the central limit theorem is a bit misleading. Assuming the sum independent and identically distributed random variables converges to a distribution, that distribution is not necessarily the Gaussian, but a larger
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"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" More and more, I'm realizing this applies more broadly than just for code. Abstraction is a form of optimization and shouldn't be done before the space has been properly e
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Thanks for the comment. This project is not open. A non commercial license is in direct conflict with what is the commonly accepted definition of "open" (source or hardware) [1]. Normally when hardware projects claim to be "o
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I haven't used it but apparently there's a `sonic-pi-cli` project that has a command line interface to Sonic Pi [1]. It's unclear to me whether the Sonic Pi IDE has to be running to use it, though. I agree the documentation c
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Sam Aaron [1], the creator of Sonic-Pi, just released v3.2.0 [2]. I've only played around with Sonic-Pi a bit but I find it exceptional. It has the sound quality that I would expect from a more professional tool while still being acces

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