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by asxd 5y ago
This is often called "suspension of disbelief" and is an integral part of becoming immersed in some forms of art. When you watch a movie, for instance, you know that none of it every really happened. You probably can guess the tri
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by asxd 5y ago
Honestly. I may have just not heard the right sales pitch, but at the moment a smart home is a clear case of "if it's not broken don't fix it." I'd like my software issues to be minimal after 5pm! Like you allude to
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by asxd 5y ago
This is me being obtuse, but it seems like an appropriate time to ask... What is the difference? You mention that each value has one known type in a strongly typed language. Isn't this the case for Javascript as well? I'm having a
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Microsoft Xbox 20 years later: Looking back at the original 2001 review(cnet.com)
2 points by asxd 5y ago|0 comments
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by asxd 5y ago
Maybe just encode it as a bitmap, and then use other types of compression like RLE. Dithering reduces the color palette, so in combination with a bitmap it would reduce the memory footprint of each pixel.
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by asxd 5y ago
Yeah, I thought about this as soon as I saw this article compare dithered JPEGs to non-dithered JPEGs. Dithering is going to amplify the high frequencies in your images. JPEG is not the target type of compression for dithering.
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by asxd 5y ago
Equally impressed. I feel like there’s a part of my brain when I try to learn some new tech that nags “are you sure this is this the best way to spend your time? There might be an alternative tech X that would be better to learn in the long
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by asxd 5y ago
I highly recommend checking out diffusion networks for image generation. It's hard to put in words the difference between diffusion and something like VQGAN, but the images have a much more organic quality. Here's a mish-mash of i
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by asxd 5y ago
I appreciate the conversation around WA this Ask HN has started, but yeah you've basically completely answered the original question by pointing this out.
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by asxd 5y ago
As others have alluded to, DNA matching likely isn't going to take away your anonymity in public spaces (or private for that matter) anytime soon.
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by asxd 5y ago
That's fascinating. Looks like this is due to the clean city law put in place in 2006 that removed upwards of 15000 billboards and other outdoor ads. The wikipedia entry [1] contains an account from a local reporter there. Here's
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by asxd 5y ago
Good golly, you're right about the space and page down keys. I've seen quite a few websites with this scroll-dependent content, and always found it pretty annoying to have to strain my middle finger to keep scrolling. Scrolling by
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by asxd 5y ago
> These cameras are hot rods rather than tools, which benefits nobody For what it's worth, I was thinking about getting this. I'm not a photographer, but I'd really like to try flying this around and trying my darndest to
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by asxd 5y ago
I was in a similar boat, and spent a decent chunk of time during adolescence going through that trial-and-error process. At one point we tried Ritalin, which ended up just giving me horrible headaches and causing my grades to plummet. Dexed
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by asxd 5y ago
Thanks for this thoughtful reply. I should probably not have commented on frequency of meth prescriptions, my only reference point is that it's never been brought up to me by my doctor and don't know any friends who take it for AD
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by asxd 5y ago
Oh my, that's hilarious, in a twisted sort of way. I was aware that meth was prescribed, but I guess I had no reference point for how prevalent it might be.
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by asxd 5y ago
Maybe you mean Adderall? I've read methamphetamine is sometimes prescribed, but my understanding is it's extremely rare. There is a real problem with some drugs that become physically addictive. A person can fairly easily drink al
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by asxd 5y ago
Presenting two choices as mutually exclusive, when they are not, is definitely a false dichotomy.
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by asxd 5y ago
On the hardware side, I think delta-sigma ADCs [1] might solve the same problem. They only sample 1-bit at a time, but they do so at a much faster rate than conventional ADCs. I'm a bit out of my scope here, but I think the concept is
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by asxd 5y ago
I could imagine a scenario where you have many clients sending you information repeatedly, and you’d like to restrict the size of each packet. I think what this post is saying is that during the initial client setup you could add an arbit
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by asxd 5y ago
I think the motivation here is still compression. You know you’re going to have a bunch of input values coming in, and this is about how to minimize the size of each value. So the overall throughput required does go down in the end.
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by asxd 5y ago
The problem is a variation of that, which makes it possible, as explained in the post. The large caveat is that the accuracy is probabilistic, and it’s expected that the receiver is getting many 1-bit from various sensors that are all measu
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by asxd 5y ago
What would a sub 1-bit weight update look like? I’m having trouble wrapping my head around the concept of (what I assume would be) a fraction of a bit?
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by asxd 5y ago
To be fair, that is the exact intention of this article.
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by asxd 5y ago
This is a band-aid on top of the searching issue you described, but it's a godsend when a youtube video is nicely subtitled, so you can open up the transcription and ctrl+f to find exactly when a specific word/phrase was said. You
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by asxd 5y ago
To get a little pedantic, the DOM changes in that the size of some element gets modified after the page loads, causing other elements to shift around visually. I can empathize with the developers, but I would prefer if they sized out those
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by asxd 5y ago
I'm not sure it's an obsession, but I do like the simplicity of just text content. There's fewer distractions and annoyances (off the top my head: the aggressively annoying habit some sites have of modifying the DOM a few sec
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Sound Localization in Owls(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by asxd 5y ago|0 comments
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by asxd 5y ago
It seems obvious in hindsight, but that's an interesting insight I hadn't thought of before. This got me curious about how we can roughly determine if a sound is coming from above or below us even without tilting our heads. A qu
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by asxd 5y ago
I've had a lot of fun having it generate weird web pages without me writing any code. Stuff like: // Add 100 divs to the DOM in random places ... // Randomize the color and text of all divs every 1 sec

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