andrewla

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by andrewla 2y ago
Impulse Labs has built an induction range that has super high power; their trick is that they have a battery that they recharge from the mains. Might be expensive but the same technique could work for a toaster (or for a water kettle) to ba
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by andrewla 2y ago
I feel like this is very underspecified, The very first example: $ echo 'cat' | trre 'c:da:ot:g' dog Feels strange. What is happening here; the grammar says TRRE <- TRRE* TRRE|TRRE TRRE.TRRE
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by andrewla 2y ago
I think philosophically this is a good rule of thumb; the problem is that the euphemism treadmill (or whatever) has done its work. "Accountable" is meaningless therapy-speak now. CEO says "oh, this was a big problem, that we
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by andrewla 2y ago
In the early days of radiocarbon dating these were pretty much the exclusive source of calibration curves (since the coverage is so comprehensive). There were many problems encountered through this that led us to using a combination of diff
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by andrewla 2y ago
Is there a source on this? This is the second of two conspiracy theories I've heard, the other being that Reagan is somehow responsible for getting rid of the communal dumpsters that are claimed to have once existed.
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by andrewla 2y ago
This might be related to or be an offshoot of Fomenko's alternate history? One of the tangents in his theory, as I understand it, is that there was a large pseudo-Russian or proto-Russian empire that has largely been erased but was inc
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by andrewla 2y ago
Fomenko's theories, mentioned in the article, are pretty fascinating. I love the romance of the idea that history is all wrong and that everything was made up at a variety of chokepoints around literacy and access to original documents
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by andrewla 2y ago
That particular quote does not really support the presumption here. In that debate, as with most ratifying debates around the constitution and the bill of rights, the concern is that the federal government not usurp the ability of states to
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by andrewla 2y ago
I think the most likely good faith version of this is that the LACSD wants to prevent people that are bad actors from obtaining the licenses. Where this touches on abuse are people who are not convicted of any particular criminal offense re
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by andrewla 2y ago
Agreed; this is the default belief of anyone who has interacted with a dog. If someone were to advance the thesis that dogs were incapable of understanding words I would require some pretty strong evidence before I would believe them. The s
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by andrewla 2y ago
I mean, the company happens to be Chinese but I don't think that's why anyone is using it. The "little red book" app was a flash in the pan because it was hyped as a successor, but the download charts are ephemeral. The
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by andrewla 2y ago
I feel like I'm grokking the rules after a couple of runthroughs and a peek at the help page (the button on the bottom right). I'm liking the idea of this game but need to make better use of the monster counts that you see in the
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by andrewla 2y ago
If you want to try it out, here's some quick and dirty code. Install the qrcode python package and run this code: import qrcode bar = qrcode.QRCode(border=0) bar.add_data('bar') bar.make() bar_mat = bar
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by andrewla 2y ago
I can't seem to find a reference at the moment. I think I saw a talk on this years ago. The idea is that the circuit complexity of adders is high because of carry cascade but since Gray codes only ever flip a single bit on increments,
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by andrewla 2y ago
Almost all of these analyses of ternary hinge on the idea of efficiency of representation, being the (number of possible symbols) * (number of digits to represent). But it seems way more useful to use the log of the number of possible symbo
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by andrewla 2y ago
That it sounds nicer is equivalent to saying that a native speaker uses it this way. There's no why to it; language evolves based on how it is used. The aesthetics are downstream of the fact that this is the way that native speakers us
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by andrewla 2y ago
> Are you expecting the people to be inprisoned? I mean, there are in-patient studies but they are obviously massively more difficult to carry out. I expect rigorous methodologies to be employed before conclusions are drawn or held to be
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by andrewla 2y ago
The study you point to here is a guideline on conducting studies. It was unfortunately not available online so I can't evaluate their recommended methodology. Looking for actual studies that tried to do randomized feeding trials, I fou
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by andrewla 2y ago
You can create your own using PARI/GP. To render the HN prime (a prime that has "HN" graphically with some garbage at the end, just go to [1] and type in: a = nextprime(0b1\ 0000000000000000\ 0100001010000010\
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by andrewla 2y ago
If his desire is for the contestant to lose, then he can't really do better (formally) than winning 2/3 of the time by simply opening the door that they choose. In practice, always opening a goat-door and always asking to switch f
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by andrewla 2y ago
Chasing this tangent a bit -- I have never been happy with the Monty Hall problem as posed. To me the problem is that it is posed as a one-shot question. If you were in this actual situation, how do you know that Monty is not deliberately t
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by andrewla 2y ago
The amazing thing continues to be that they can ever answer these questions correctly. It's very easy to write a paper in the style of "it is impossible for a bee to fly" for LLMs and spelling. The incompleteness of our under
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by andrewla 2y ago
I think this is likely, but easily validated -- you'd probably see a couple of clusters or some latent variables, but the raw data would still likely be useful for getting average response characteristics.
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by andrewla 2y ago
Oklab is mentioned in the article as also being flawed in this sense.
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by andrewla 2y ago
It seems that this would be well-suited to a simple online test -- show a square with one color and a square inside of that with a different color, and ask the user whether the inner square is brighter (or too close to call). Aggregate this
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by andrewla 2y ago
I've played around with this a little bit while trying to engineer the "perceptually loudest ringtone sound". I thought a square wave or pulsed white noise would work well, but I found that the bell-like "telephone ring&
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by andrewla 2y ago
My only response to this is that I don't like the even-more-pay-to-play aspects of RSS. To even up an RSS feed requires a commitment that is an effective bar for 99% of individuals that would be interested in participating in public di
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by andrewla 2y ago
The Supreme Court has made only very narrow rulings around Bills of Attainder. To me this bill seems problematic on that front in two directions. One is that it explicitly names a target of the ban. Secondly, it grants the president power t
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by andrewla 2y ago
I think the walled garden is a flawed metaphor. I would argue for Twitter over a spotty collection of RSS feeds just because there's ironically more of a democratic aspect -- anyone can start tweeting about whatever. They can go viral
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by andrewla 2y ago
As far as I can tell the only reference to something that Fisher said was a clip from a newspaper article where he said that criticizing smoking was terrorism. The rest appears to just be other contemporary evidence that the cigarette execs

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