arithmomachist

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by arithmomachist 5y ago
> At no point were the American public consulted by the intelligence agencies when they did these operations. That's exactly the problem! Once the federal government started conducting secret projects during the world wars, it stopp
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by arithmomachist 5y ago
How stable is the entrainment effect they plan to use in their engines under high winds, rain, changes in atmospheric pressure, etc? Accelerating air by creating a low pressure region seems like a pretty delicate setup.
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by arithmomachist 5y ago
I wonder if this is connected to the Russian military buildup on the Ukrainian border.
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by arithmomachist 5y ago
Haven't the Ukrainians diverted important rivers upstream on Crimea? Undoing that could be the concession Putin is hoping for.
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by arithmomachist 5y ago
From the Akoin white paper: >Akoin has chosen to only issue 10% of tokens in this public sale. To accomplish this, the remaining token supply will be used to drive adoption amongst merchants/vendors and to bring value to the platfor
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by arithmomachist 5y ago
Quite the opposite: such complicated games are an outlet for creativity and cleverness that's stifled by our repetitive, heavily automated society. Most people don't get to make a movie or conduct a particle accelerator experiment
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
Nuclear definitely should be paired with energy sources like wind and photovoltaics. These sources are aren't consistent, so you need something to balance the load at night or when the wind isn't blowing. I find it hard to imagine
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
Three Mile Island and Chernobyl loom very large in the imaginations of the boomers and gen x, respectively. Nuclear plant meltdowns are world news on the few occasions they've happened, whereas horrifying explosions and accidents at fo
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
The invention of credit scores and their use to screen people for renting apartments and getting jobs brought in a coercive system of similar magnitude to debtors' prisons. Credit scores should be only used for evaluating potential loa
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
Hmm, so it might be out of reach for me. I have a PhD in pure math, and no experience as a software engineer. I've coded for research, but never for production.
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
Thanks, that clarified it. Do you know how people typically get into that role?
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
What is the difference between data engineering and data science? The terms frequently seem to be used interchangeably, but apparently they're not synonymous.
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
How extensive a code portfolio would someone need for you to consider them? How much experience would they need? I got my PhD about a year ago and have been retraining myself to become a data scientist when postdocs didn't happen, and
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
If the image classifier it's training has learned that mailboxes and parking meters are the same thing, I wonder if there's any way to fix that without starting over! Now I'm wondering about adversarial responses to captchas
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
The relatively low energy density means it won't be replacing li-ion batteries in vehicles any time soon. Where I could see this technology shining is in low-power consumer electronics. For example, since it's flexible, it could b
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
Being able to steer the car effectively is only one part of an enormously complex engineering problem. A fully autonomous vehicle would need to: 1. Be robust to bad visibility, not an easy task in computer vision. 2. Have access to extremel
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
> Companies should be paying for this directly: if pyca/cryptography actually broke on HPPA or IA-64, then HP or Intel or whoever should be forking over money to get it fixed or using their own horde of engineers to fix it themselve
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
The internet of lead.
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
>Nvidia immediately swept in and picked their carcass clean, mostly for their patents in this space, so they would have more ammo/leverage against competitors going forward. That's surely not a healthy situation either. Courts
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
Aren't there lots of NP problems that have this property?
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
At the very least the proof of work ought to compute something useful.
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
I'm a little surprised no one has fought a duel there.
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
Given that carriers are increasingly boxed out from shore by anti-ship missiles and drones are a lot smaller than crewed aircraft, I wonder if this design concept is due for a revival. I could imagine drones launched vertically with single-
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
Fascinating to see the highest state of the art of pre-digital cryptography, right before it was rendered obsolete. Very evocative that volumes 4-6 were planned but never completed, presumably because the first crop of modern encryption sch
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
I'm tempted to install Turbo Pascal for a deep nostalgia trip. I grew up in a small-ish town in Appalachia, and when I ran out of math classes to take in high school I started learning to program. They had put together a little "c
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by arithmomachist 6y ago
What a crazy story! I suspected this was, under the surface, the tale of a douchey foreign archaeologist pissing off the locals, but no. Ruth Shady Solis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Shady ) is Peruvian, and teac