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by blt 1y ago
This is pretty interesting. I didn't realize so much manipulation was happening after the initial softmax temperature choice.
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by blt 1y ago
As a car audio enthusiast, the biggest obstacle to putting a system into a new high-tech car is bypassing the deeply-embedded infotainment system while retaining decent aesthetics and steering wheel controls. The idea of getting an electric
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by blt 1y ago
The design shows a fundamental misunderstanding of sheet metal. Flat sheet metal is weak. Only curved sheet metal can be strong. Designs that lack mechanical sympathy with the materials in use don't tend to age well.
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by blt 1y ago
Branch-and-bound is an algorithm "from the book" to me. Fundamentally very simple, provided you view the LP solver as a black box, but incredibly useful.
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by blt 1y ago
Sorry for being a grumpy old man, but I don't have npm on my machine and I never will. It's a bit frustrating to see more and more CLI tools depending on it.
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by blt 2y ago
Fully agree. Asahi is pretty good now though, and the list of missing features continues to shrink.
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by blt 2y ago
The prime number code hurts to read. I feel like Bob is living in a different reality than most of us.
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by blt 2y ago
You didn't read the article
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by blt 2y ago
TOSLink was kind of a silly idea because digital electrical signals would also prevent ground loops. The key is digital vs. analog, not optical vs. electrical.
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by blt 2y ago
Excellent choice of aircraft. The 777 is one of the greatest engineering achievements of all time.
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by blt 2y ago
Thank you! I used to use DuckDuckGo, but I had to switch to Google as DDG became overrun with LLM-generated results in the past 2 years. Google has some ability to reject them.
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by blt 2y ago
Google's new "AI overview" takes up about half of the screen on a phone and cannot be disabled. This is one of the most user-hostile choices they've ever made.
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by blt 2y ago
Start with the desire - we want to have an algebra of 2D affine transformations with composition and (usually) inversion. We can represent this with the trick of "homogeneous coordinates", using 3D vectors with the last entry 1 an
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by blt 2y ago
Isn't this the standard way to implement cruise control in the decades before drive by wire throttles?
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by blt 2y ago
Not necessarily, look up "mystery meat navigation". The affliction that produced our current UI woes has existed almost as long as the WWW itself.
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by blt 2y ago
Thanks to LLMs, the death of stylish writing in non-literary fields is assured. I agree, many people seem to view writing as a burden. I have only met a handful of people that can lay out a complex argument from scratch in speech alone. For
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by blt 2y ago
this looks similar to VisPy ( https://vispy.org/ ), are there any major differences?
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by blt 2y ago
The paper's name is shorter than this post title, and summarizes the result much better.
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by blt 2y ago
dang that's a good war story.
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by blt 2y ago
I was going to write a more serious rebuke, but I can't really do any better than yours
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by blt 2y ago
If the author is reading: In the proof, at the end of Step 6, it's confusing that the "uv" term of the integration by parts is suddenly given a range from -∞ to ∞, as if we had previously assumed x ∈ ℝ. But elsewhere in the a
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by blt 2y ago
I don't really agree with that. Facebook was originally about mirroring your real-life social network. In the mid 00's nobody was trying to get likes from strangers on Facebook. Instagram is closer to broadcast, but it was always
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by blt 2y ago
This sentence was almost too perfect. Really says it all.
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by blt 2y ago
Making logins required to view twitter was the ultimate bed shitting move. The whole point of twitter was to be a broadcast medium. Tweets were viewable without following or logging in. There is a huge vacuum in that space now.
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by blt 2y ago
Operator overloading can be bad when abused for non-numeric types. But for numeric types, it is indispensable. It's not hard to remember that `__add__` is using extra resources when I'm working with big matrices in NumPy.
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by blt 2y ago
Julia looks like a great language, but has the "time to first plot" issue been fixed yet? I don't want a REPL-centric workflow.
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by blt 2y ago
I really like most aspects of Go, but as someone who writes a lot of numerical code, no operator overloading is a deal breaker. It's so hard to accept something like Add(Scale(s1, vec1), Scale(s2, vec2)) over s1 * vec1 + s2 * vec2. So
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by blt 2y ago
It's not just the language/library: build systems are also a big obstacle for x-platform GUI apps in C.
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by blt 2y ago
There is no geometric meaning. It's a really bad name.
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by blt 2y ago
stall AoA depends on flaps though?

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