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by aeonik 3y ago
I used vim for 10 years (not really an advanced user, but comfortable with it), and I just learned Emacs for the last 6 months... I am now completely confused by the Emacs vs Vim religious war. The two programs excel at completely different
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by aeonik 3y ago
How is the set of tokens selected for various LLMs? My intuition tells me there are important symbolic patterns in different layers of tokens. If they are automatically generated, I'd bet there are interesting insights to be gleaned in
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by aeonik 3y ago
Your point about statically typed languages rings so true to me. I learned Object Oriented programming on Java, then did professional C# with ASP.NET. I changed companies and learned Python because everyone was raving about it on the Web. I
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by aeonik 3y ago
There is a critical point between high and low entropy where life exists: You can increase or decrease entropy, but on either end you seem to have death. High entropy at least has more information. Homeostasis seems to be important. Reprodu
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by aeonik 3y ago
This is a a major field called Digital Signal Processing, and it's fundamentally what a modem or the ADC in your sound card is doing. I'm not aware of any single algorithm or software that can turn any raw signal to bytes. You nee
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by aeonik 3y ago
I've been researching this pretty deeply for the last few years, and I've come to the conclusion that, without a complete redesign, most popular programming languages cannot have direct control of these optimizations in an ergonom
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by aeonik 3y ago
I saw a talk at Defcon many years ago showing this. I think they just used statistics. I can't find the video, but here is the PDF of their presentation: Sniff Keystrokes With Lasers/Voltmeters - Side Channel Attacks Using Optical
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by aeonik 3y ago
I love tree maps so much. It's the only visualization that I've come across that can summarize large amounts of hierarchical data. I really wish there was better 3D and live interactive support for them. We use maps all the time f
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by aeonik 3y ago
They use Lidar to map jungles from airplanes, so the range can be pretty far. I'm not sure what the relationship between resolution and distance is though. I'd assume it's inverse square combined with the Raleigh criterion, o
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by aeonik 3y ago
I've researched LiFi before, but everytime I research it I find expensive commercial equipment, or hobbyists playing with very low data rates on Arduino. I have many questions, especially how a LiFi receiver works. wouldn't this e
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by aeonik 3y ago
I struggled a lot with Algebra, I forged my teacher's signature to not retake it for the third year in a row. I didn't really "get" it until I started programming and learning stats. That's when it all hit me, then
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by aeonik 3y ago
The Author may have good points, but there is still a lot of value in teaching basic statistics, and I don't understand why Algebra is required to understand basic stats. Even just learning the basic descriptive statistics and getting
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by aeonik 3y ago
Somebody should let the CIA know that they probably want to be using one of the new newer SHA standards instead of MD5 to verify the integrity of their files. Approved Hash Functions for government agencies can be found here: https:/&
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by aeonik 3y ago
The problem with the Windows registry, at least back in the day, was that it was a single file that could be corrupted and it would wreck your whole system. I think having a standard utility API for *nix configs makes a lot of sense. I&#x27
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by aeonik 3y ago
I love these symbols because once you learn them you can instantly spot where all your loops are, it really make things compact, and reveals the structure of your code far more efficiently. A solution to the problem if incomprehensibility i
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by aeonik 3y ago
I didn't say that fyi, your statement here does not reflect my feelings. The headline doesn't either, because Earth has been very hot in the past.
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by aeonik 3y ago
When I say totally doable, I mean humanity surviving is totally doable. I guess I was thinking after the current ecosystems are wiped out, it will open up the niche for something else to take hold and evolve in their place. Isn't that
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by aeonik 3y ago
I'm confused, what do you mean there's not going to be a future for them? No doubt there's going to be some challenges, but I thought all that carbon was in the atmosphere and oceans before it was sequestered by plants and al
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by aeonik 3y ago
Most of the problems I'm trying to solve require those pointers anyway. Tracking diffs and versions of data over time: Version control systems and RDMS just don't cut it. Bitemporal databases are interesting to me as well.
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by aeonik 3y ago
I'm reading this book right now. It's really great so far! I've been working a lot with Trees in Clojure, and have been hitting serious limitations of my understanding. I also found this YouTube video from a Clojure conferenc
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by aeonik 3y ago
Not the GP, but Civ is CPU bottlenecked. I don't know how their code is written under the hood, but games slow down as you get farther in the game. If you play too many turns the game can take minutes to process a single turn. I can sa
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by aeonik 3y ago
Same here. I was only home schooled, part time, for science and math in 8th grade. I had failed algebra 2 years in a row and really falling behind. I had been to private school, public school, and a charter school. In one year of home schoo
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by aeonik 3y ago
GNU Guix seems to be an alternative that I've been interested in. The configuration is done with Scheme. I haven't tried it. https://guix.gnu.org/
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by aeonik 4y ago
The quality and productivity of the wine contributors blows my mind. This is THE team that allows me to use Linux as my exclusive OS, and allows me to continue to play games with my family across the country. I can't thank them enough.
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by aeonik 4y ago
Thank you for the link. I definitely need to review the legislation. I definitely remember that the license let's me operatea police scanner while your driving. For example here in Michigan the law explicitly allows ham radio licensees
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by aeonik 4y ago
When I got my ham radio license they told us that listening is never against the law. decrypting anything or transmitting on unlicensed frequencies are major offenses, on the other hand.
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by aeonik 4y ago
I can speak for tcpdump and the answer is no. It only looks at the network interface. Something I often want to do is catch which process sent a few UDP packets. Netstat and ss won't catch it because it's too short of a time frame
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by aeonik 4y ago
I don't think they are unrelated fields. Computer science is the study of computation. DNA, to me, is clearly a quaternary computation system. I think there is a lot for both fields to learn by studying knowledge from each. Bioinformat
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by aeonik 4y ago
Run rm in a bash loop for each file and sync after each iteration? I'm surprised that rm's io would cause that much of an issue. I thought it only removed entries from the partition table.
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by aeonik 4y ago
What you say makes theoretical sense, but many bank systems still enforce weak password constraints because someone enforced those weak constraints 30 years ago in mainframe code that nobody seems to want to update.

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