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by ballooney 2y ago
I'm from the dark ages and am interested in this for non-AI things like CFD. What is the state of SDK support for these chips? Is there a nice rust or C++ library that abstracts the hardware and lets you just do very big Matrix multipl
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by ballooney 2y ago
Spectacular still by modern standards.
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by ballooney 2y ago
Things already are that bad, you’re standing an inch beyond where the previous wave washed up to and saying “well if it gets here in the next few waves then suddenly we become in deep shit’ while all around people are shouting at you about
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by ballooney 2y ago
Not in any intrinsic way, it’s just a mildly better way of representing attitude if your state vector includes attitude.
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by ballooney 2y ago
They’re both quite basic building blocks in state estimation and as SV’s focus shifts from web apps to drone warfare it will only increase in frequency.
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by ballooney 2y ago
This website is 99% the sort of not especially socialised young men who for various psychological insecurities are prone to the sort of hero-worship that she refers to in the video.
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by ballooney 2y ago
I did wonder the other day when the Jurvetson PR/rehab effort might begin.
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by ballooney 2y ago
+3 to -3. I will continue to shout at the tide. In the age of trump we must consistently and patiently push back against all the wrongness.
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by ballooney 2y ago
You want to play within your abilities, not right at the very edge of them. This technique nudges the edges out.
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by ballooney 2y ago
_biased_ is the adjective, bias is a noun.
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by ballooney 2y ago
As I said here a few years ago, I support this sort of company. VCs are basically stupid, especially for companies that are more complicated than gluing javascript together, and so it’s only just and right that some actual engineers have so
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by ballooney 2y ago
'Partake in' - you mean drink? What's the issue?
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by ballooney 2y ago
No, they were working on the latter (skylon) most of the time, though the new management that came in after their £60M investment quickly dropped SSTO in favour of more immediate RoI applications. The passenger plane was LAPCAT which was a
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by ballooney 2y ago
The GP isn’t, a major part of Boom’s initial PR was that they’d enable domestic supersonic by solving the sonic boom issue through technology. Over the years aviation watchers have suggested they might have failed at that and are looking to
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by ballooney 2y ago
"Maybe there's still value in writing for its own sake?" I hope this doesn't need an answer!
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by ballooney 2y ago
You still shouldn’t post that kind of thing. Especially not that fraudulent bullshitter host.
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by ballooney 2y ago
Rather frustrating to read - as if intentionally written for nine year-olds. I was surprised to see it was Eric Berger, I don’t recall this affected style from him before, though I’ve not paid close attention.
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by ballooney 2y ago
I don’t think you’re using the word tribulate correctly here.
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by ballooney 2y ago
I can, it doesn’t.
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by ballooney 2y ago
Absolutely and completely fascinating and highly worth a watch. Reminds you how glorious engineering can be.
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by ballooney 2y ago
Yes, for the same reason that I can look into a 5mW LED but 5mW of laser can blind me. Your neighbour's WiFi routewr might be entirely DoS'd by the Maser of RF coming through the wall at it from your phased array, even thoughh it&
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by ballooney 2y ago
Right, so your citation is specifically density-impulse which is rather different to specific impulse, the conventional metric when discussing 'efficiency' of an engine, but of course you can define efficiency to be many things de
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by ballooney 2y ago
I’m not sure that’s quite right (I work in this field and we also give all new employees a copy of Clarke) - unless you really squint about your metric for ‘efficiency’, adding Mercury would be a disaster - the specific impulse (how much ve
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by ballooney 2y ago
For the same reason they’d probably be against baking a steak.
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by ballooney 2y ago
He does pay for prime. The fact that they have done a bait-n-switch and now _still_ show you adverts, despite you paying, is reprehensible.
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by ballooney 2y ago
Always in awe of these people lugging plate cameras up unexplored mountains
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by ballooney 2y ago
You’ve put the schitzophrenia thing into GP’s mouth. They didn’t say that.
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by ballooney 2y ago
> When I built out an A/V and networking rack for my house Asside: where has this american-english prediction for adding random prepositions come from? Everyone now builds ‘out’ things instead of just building them, hates ‘on’ thing
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by ballooney 2y ago
Ludicrous, deeply confused, and wrong bro science.
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by ballooney 2y ago
Do you genuinely think that this is the worst economy ever?

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