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by blagie 2y ago
Simplest? Perhaps. Stupidest? Definitely. What one really wants is a target temperature. There are two pieces I'd use here: - Baseline open-loop controller based on power usage (integrated over some time; e.g. past 30 seconds) - Closed
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by blagie 2y ago
Interesting. Is this intended as a way to implement the UX for GDPR cookies / tracking opt-in / opt-out screen. If so, it's brilliant.
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by blagie 2y ago
For me, there are plenty of old-school models which are still plenty useful and which run fine even on a modern, fast CPU and would do well with numpy, and even more so with cupy. Step through: https://huggingface.co/learn&#
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by blagie 2y ago
Is there a good, easy tutorial?
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by blagie 2y ago
Yes. A numpy program will work tomorrow. ALL of the machine learning frameworks have incredible churn. I have code from two years ago which I can't make work reliably anymore -- not for lack of trying -- due to all the breaking changes
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by blagie 2y ago
> they simple cannot fail due to inadequate engineering. (because worst case you fire the whole engineering department and just acqui-hire a random startup and you'll be back to growth in no time.) > ... > of course this take
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by blagie 2y ago
> Almost all big data storage solutions are NoSQL. Most I've seen aren't. NoSQL means non-relational database. Most big data solutions I've seen will not use a database at all. An example is hadoop. Once you have a databas
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by blagie 2y ago
You're confusing planning with implementation. Planning is a weekend, or at most a few weeks.
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by blagie 2y ago
I'm old enough to have built systems with similar techniques. We don't do that much anymore since we don't need to, but it's not rocket science. We had spell checkers before computers had enough memory to fit all words.
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by blagie 2y ago
This is exactly what I try to do and what I've seen successful systems do. Laying out adjacent markets, potential pivots, likely product features, etc. is a weekend-long exercise. That can help define both where the architecture needs
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by blagie 2y ago
> That's exactly what every architecture astronaut everywhere says. In my experience it's completely untrue, and actually "planning for success" more often than not causes huge drags on productivity, and even more imp
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by blagie 2y ago
It's neither. Lifestyle companies are fine, if that's what you're aiming for. I know plenty of people who run or work at ≈1-30 person companies with no intention to grow. However, if you're going for high-growth, you nee
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by blagie 2y ago
Overall, I agree with much of this post, but there are several caveats: 1) Mongo is a bad point of reference. The one lesson I've learned is that there is nothing Mongo does which postgresql doesn't do better. Big data solutions a
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by blagie 2y ago
* The usability issues are 95% CSS issues, and would require a good UX designer. They're distracting for the first 10 minutes, but really need a fix. * I've had students go through two semesters of courses. We ran into two minor e
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by blagie 2y ago
I like the concept. I'd much rather have this built on top of or from something like MOOCulus. https://ximera.osu.edu/mooculus/calculus1 Holistically, I prefer MOOCulus. However, the value-add of Calculus with Jul
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by blagie 2y ago
This is a good overview: https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/Spring21/ The very short story is that it's a language somewhat similar to Python (and, likewise, easy-to-use), but with much richer syntax for expres
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by blagie 2y ago
It's a process: - People want agency. - Once people have comfort and trust that it does things right enough of the time, people no longer want agency. That threshold varies task-by-task and person-by-person.
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by blagie 2y ago
Huh. That took me down a rabbit hole. I wasn't aware this was released as open-source. That solves a few unrelated problems for me. Expanding on the above post: Erable was replaced with Xcas / giac, which is the more advanced CAS
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by blagie 2y ago
If I could use my Android screen with a dedicated keyboard, that might be a compromise. A keyboard is maybe a week's worth of work, all-in (PCB design, installing firmware, etc). I'm not sure how much software work it would be to
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by blagie 2y ago
I really, really miss the HP48 series. It's obsolete now, but it's the best calculator design in the history of calculator designs. I wish there was a modern version. The old ones are starting to break down, and many cost more tod
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by blagie 2y ago
Serious question: What anticompetitive practices do you see Apple engaging in? Especially in China? I haven't heard of Apple doing much bad there; the only antitrust I've heard of were the issues around the app store, payments, et
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by blagie 2y ago
Antitrust law is intended to do this. The general algorithm is: - Company engages in unlawful anticompetitive behavior to drive competitors out-of-business - A few years later, the FTC starts an investigation - Competitors go out-of-busines
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by blagie 2y ago
In general, reciprocity works well across a broad range of international relations, (visas, tariffs, mutual defence/non-aggression/..., and otherwise). As an idea, it's not "too dumb to believe." Indeed, it's o
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by blagie 2y ago
In the age of the internet, what's the difference between local media and foreign media? If I live in Boise, Idaho, and there is a Japanese media company reporting on Boise, Idaho new under boise-idaho-news.com, for anyone interested i
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by blagie 2y ago
> I am for the divestiture (US media should be controlled by Americans) but it does raise questions. Why? And is this universal? Should French media be controlled by the French? Chinese media by the Chinese? North Korean by the North Kor
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by blagie 2y ago
Shameless suggestion: Instead of one free workbook, make unlimited free workbooks, but unusable for corporate settings. I'd recommend binary sharing: - Only I have access (private / personal use) - The universe has access (open-so
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by blagie 2y ago
"Smell" is the heuristic which, in practice, led to hiring discrimination against African Americans in the eighties -- in the period where overt discrimination was no longer kosher, but before implicit bias was widely recognized a
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by blagie 2y ago
I believe I made almost all of my claims completely symmetric. > but most of them are presumably from the community they defend This is not the case. Most woke activism comes from rich, white, progressives (mostly young), who have close
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by blagie 2y ago
> But the tone of the rest of the article smells of a certain kind of conservative smugness that it is your individual responsibility for improving your own situation. This is absolutely correct but he discredits “community leaders” and
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by blagie 2y ago
The interesting piece is how, within about a half-decade, Amazon went from having a reputation as trusted, reputable vendor to a a brand as a sketchy marketplace full of fakes and counterfeits. I'm wondering who will step into Amazon&#

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