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by boloust 4y ago
> They almost certainly use heuristic algorithms that are more efficient than Disjkstra’s of course There are techniques like contraction hierarchies[1] that can efficiently compute exact shortest paths on extremely large road network gr
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by boloust 4y ago
> The one on the left looks great. The one on the right looks awful. This is also just a mere assertion of "feelings", with nothing empirical and no data to back it up. As long as those are the rules we're playing by, I&#x
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by boloust 4y ago
Semaglutide is a new drug that results in ~20% weight loss. Previously, only surgery could accomplish that kind of reduction in a single intervention. It's going to be an absolute revolution in the fight against obesity.
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by boloust 4y ago
At one end of the spectrum: ZeroMQ[1]. No broker to run, and everything can stay within your local network. Just add the library to your microservices and expose a port. It gives you a socket interface with well-engineered queuing primitive
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by boloust 4y ago
The Hubble image of SMACS was a 10 day exposure, the Webb image was a 24hr exposure and is far superior.
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by boloust 4y ago
More than a decade ago, some HN commenters claimed "StackOverflow could be thrown together in a weekend", which is very similar to the sentiment expressed here. StackOverflow employees reply here: https://blog.codinghor
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by boloust 4y ago
> I didn't realize that there are (common?) tools to OCR screenshots. Retrieving text from images is literally the definition of OCR.
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by boloust 4y ago
That is very interesting, I'd love to know more about how this works. - How does it decide which servers to deploy to? - Does it scale up the number of servers if the deployment is too large? - What happens when a server dies?
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by boloust 4y ago
What "secret sauce" did the Apple Watch have that made it more compelling than all the previous smartwatches that utterly failed to gain any traction? Pancake optics and Apple silicon will probably play a key role in Apple's
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by boloust 4y ago
> I highly doubt I'd feel comfortable using a full VR headset regularly unless it was a "full dive" experience where I don't have to use a controller. The Quest headsets already have accurate controllerless hand track
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by boloust 4y ago
In most cases you can fix this with the service upstream annotation, which has existed since 2017: https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/257
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by boloust 4y ago
Flashy/ status clothes are valuable to the extent that they are a reliable and costly signal of wealth. The experimental design had participants believe the branded (virtual avatar) clothes were acquired at zero cost, making them usele
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by boloust 4y ago
Propensity for addiction varies significantly between individuals. We've discovered a large number of genetic correlates of addiction susceptibility. Once you grant the existence of individuals that are outliers in susceptibility to ad
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by boloust 4y ago
The results of Convex functions are cached, which means they only need to be recomputed when the data they rely on changes. This is by no means a panacea, but it does result in different performance characteristics than one might expect.
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by boloust 4y ago
There's many good recommendations for books here. But if you're a developer without much mathematics experience, I think you can harness your dev experience to learn far more efficiently than a standard approach. Basically, go thr
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by boloust 4y ago
With most tiling WMs, multiple workspaces are necessary since there's often no way to minimize windows. So without virtual desktops you'd quickly run out of space. If you're using a standard overlapping window system, virtual
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by boloust 4y ago
I didn't really want to get into the specifics of the article, since I believe the entire analysis is fundamentally misguided. But I think the article's specific claims about image recognition (they use the example of identifying
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by boloust 4y ago
> Amazon already did that, it is called mechanical turk. That's what the "MT" stands for :) > the whole point of AI is that it lets us create slaves that we don't feel bad about abusing. Yes, that's exactly ri
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by boloust 4y ago
Their careful comparison of the efficiency of AI vs the human brain is hilariously absurd to me. It seems to assume a disembodied "brain in a vat" model, as if brains aren't ordinarily attached to a large clump of flesh that
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by boloust 4y ago
Is there a reason to consider the use of a noisy signal as a strong sign of a low-quality study, without addressing whether the noise is correlated with the outcome? Do we think this study would be improved if it did not control for genetic
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by boloust 4y ago
For your sake I hope your salary isn't low enough that it makes moving a few small VMs to Hetzner even worth talking about.
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by boloust 4y ago
This study held calorie intake constant, so it supports the standard "calories-in/calories out" model. However, many claim that reducing calorie intake is much easier under TRE, so that's something else that could be stu
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by boloust 4y ago
Principled, explicit handling of various function colours. If implemented like Fantasyland, probably a terrible idea.
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by boloust 5y ago
> > The same query's behaviour can be utterly different depending on the distribution of the data it runs on, and the parameters, and the currency of the statistics, and maybe memory and cpu pressure, and more > Yeah, but it i
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by boloust 5y ago
> Password managers rely on a cool technique called “Zero-Knowledge Proof" In case anyone gets confused, this is not true.
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by boloust 5y ago
No, I think the argument was pretty clearly that "the program failed but it can't possibly be expected to work under every conceivable scenario".
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by boloust 5y ago
It does not.
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by boloust 5y ago
The bug is not that the program failed, it's that the program failed but reported a success.
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by boloust 5y ago
The author is Michael Huemer, a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, so would be very familiar with "the nuts and bolts of deontology".
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by boloust 5y ago
The IntelliJ vim plugin has over 11 million downloads. For comparison, the most downloaded plugin is Kotlin, which has 34 million downloads, followed by Scala, which has 22 million downloads.

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