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by bhickey 1y ago
The second shuttle would've flown with a crew of two, working with the knowledge that their ship was even more vulnerable than the one they intended to rescue.
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by bhickey 1y ago
I've had Go's garbage collector free memory that it never allocated in the first place.
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by bhickey 1y ago
Probably the same way many other models are trained: autoregression or autoencoding. You'd either predict the next symbol, or you compress it into a latent space and reconstruct the original. My assumption is that birdsong is sequentia
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by bhickey 1y ago
In the pre-LLM days a friend's lab worked on a joke detector for The New Yorker. One measure they used was trigram surprise. Roughly P(AB) + P(BC) >> P(ABC). For example, "alleged killer" and "killer whale" ar
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by bhickey 1y ago
Glock, unlike Sig, uses a trigger safety. It doesn't just require any trigger pressure, the lever safety needs to be pushed back. Is this bad? Of course. The Sig flaw is sig-nificantly worse.
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by bhickey 1y ago
That's because they externalize their costs leading to high builder ROI.
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by bhickey 1y ago
> pretty much every one mentions that their apartment is too small and too expensive. This is due to under supply of urban housing due to bad zoning law designed to inflate rents. > When construction becomes cheaper, it will be more c
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by bhickey 1y ago
Time to dust off CloudyFS, the first filesystem to put the clouds in your files. https://github.com/bhickey/cloudyfs
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by bhickey 1y ago
The simple answer is: they didn't. In Rwanda the killing apparatus was set in motion so quickly that people didn't have time to react and offer organized resistance to their neighbors. Only in Bisesero was there meaningful fightin
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by bhickey 1y ago
Sheldon Silver. Former NY Speaker of the House.
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by bhickey 1y ago
In this case I coincidentally spent a few hundred hours of hobby time over the last year designing hydrogen alpha telescopes.
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by bhickey 1y ago
The tiniest of corrections: Ha is 656.28nm not 565.
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by bhickey 1y ago
At least Shel Silver's reign of terror is over.
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Traitorous Eight(en.wikipedia.org)
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by bhickey 1y ago
I assume that this was approved by the CMO or at very least at the VP level. Previously I was the eng TL for house ads at a big co. We would've run anytime vaguely controversial all the way up the chain.
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by bhickey 1y ago
Fun. Scored 35/36. Have you considered an endless mode where you keep playing until you make a mistake?
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by bhickey 1y ago
Density, conductivity, x-ray. Density alone won't rule out bars that are spiked with tungsten.
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by bhickey 1y ago
The parabola of a telescope mirror generally deviates from a sphere by tens of micrometers at best. Figuring happens after grinding and after polishing. Slumping is neat, but I've heard from the grognards that they can shatter if the t
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by bhickey 1y ago
Were you thresholding the naïve Bayes score or doing soft distillation?
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by bhickey 1y ago
> They are so many orders of magnitude too slow for so many uses On hardware with AES primitives this is simply false. Yes, embedded cases are different. There's some neat work on probabilistic computing that uses a xorshift RNG in
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by bhickey 1y ago
I was citing the micro benchmarks because they provide a pessimistic comparison in favor of other RNGs. My recollection is that it appeared as a conference paper, but I'd need to ask the author.
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by bhickey 1y ago
Years ago a player figured out how to decode the RNG state in dungeon crawl. This allowed them to essentially God mode the game because they could determine when a monster would land a hit.
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by bhickey 1y ago
You've made yourself susceptible to hash flooding.
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by bhickey 1y ago
This library appears to be insecure by default. I think there are vanishingly few use cases for non-crypto RNGs. We made absl random secure by default using randen: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02227 The algorithm is pro
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by bhickey 1y ago
Some of the non-determinism mentioned above manifests as sensitivity to _where_ data falls within a batch.
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by bhickey 1y ago
https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2013/02/21/toxic-vapors-found-...
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by bhickey 1y ago
You can change the link: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hidden-messages-paris-luxo...
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by bhickey 2y ago
I haven't used them yet, but the University of Louisville's Micro/Nano Technology Center has competitive pricing. They guarantee down to 6um and depending on the design can hit 4um. It's $375 for a 6x6 and $225 for 4x4.
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by bhickey 2y ago
Yes, I'm using a photomask vendor to fabricate the objective. It's in the low hundreds of dollar to get 7um features, a bit more expensive to reach 4um and bloody murder to get 1um (~thousands). Currently we have some tiny photon
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by bhickey 2y ago
My club, the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston (atmob.org), holds weekly mirror grinding sessions at our clubhouse. Along with another club member I'm working on a diffracting telescope and hope to see first light this spring.

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