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by boxfire 3y ago
Damn. One of the most powerful experiences of my life was working for someone with ALS. They could only communicate via moving and blinking their eyes slightly as I cued them. This person pivoted their career and was actively researching th
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by boxfire 3y ago
Ugh the first paragraph kicks off with a missing bit of information. Min Nan has at least 5 subvarieties. In my spouse's it's pronounced "de" not "te" (and she is Min Nan as a first language). She laughed and s
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by boxfire 3y ago
3090 does 4x nvlink each way, ~100 GB/s bidirectional data
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by boxfire 3y ago
Scroll scroll scroll and... https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15412
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by boxfire 4y ago
Do check this discussion the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34816184#34826067
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by boxfire 4y ago
She and yes this is right.
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by boxfire 4y ago
Wish I saw this write-up in like 2009. The terminology in Cohomology was pretty opaque to me until I (much later) learned the concepts via a backwards mapping from learning deeper applications of algebraic geometry. I would have learned tha
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by boxfire 4y ago
Would this model offer improved predictions for the SGP and SDP models used in Two Line Element ephemerides for satellites?
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by boxfire 4y ago
Yeah I chuckle every time people keep rediscovering Hilbert's functional analysis and the idea of orthogonal basis for functional spaces (goes well beyond Hilbert's widest dreams too!!). Also Re the person who said no to you... Wa
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by boxfire 4y ago
Which is prescient... this is a tool by the NSA after all. I would be disappointed if it wasn't back-doored... Anybody working on a feature-parity FOSS alternative from scratch?
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by boxfire 4y ago
Agree on the density, also initially I had that cool holographic cover facing out the open side of my bookshelf to the living room until one night a passing headlight beamed across it in the dark and I realized how absolutely incredibly cre
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by boxfire 4y ago
It's very worth pointing out and in fact advocating for the compiler options -fwrapv and -ftrapv Which both make signed integers take the expected two's complement behavior, or traps signed integer overflow, respectively. N.B. lef
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by boxfire 4y ago
Just wanted to point out at JPL there are many 25-year-old people commanding spaceships, rovers, and landers. Sometimes room-fulls of them. Not a great example.
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by boxfire 4y ago
> However, just a couple of months into my project, I figured out, I wouldn’t find anyone to discuss my research with: My supervisors have a rather superficial understanding of Quantum Computing, and I feel like their idea to start a pro
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by boxfire 4y ago
That second Mars Rover with plutonium is Perseverance, not Opportunity. Oppy was solar and lost to the great dust storm of 2018.
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by boxfire 4y ago
Moreover this doc makes it more apparent how much he waxes without real references: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20090007797/downloads/20... > Routine calculations were made using slide rules.
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by boxfire 4y ago
I read the article hoping to see examples of reasoning that the slide rule instilled. It reads more like a jealous rant than anything else. He fails to cite why those plans developments were so fast (hint it wasn't the magic of a slide
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by boxfire 5y ago
The top post on HN when I last checked was about Mercedes removing all liability from the driver while it's engaged. When I first read that I imagined all the people who would have stories like this. This is the second link I opened, i
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by boxfire 5y ago
Not knocking the significance of this, but there are a lot of 'answers' that would get a straight up F for a university test: > Original Question: Let rands denote the two real roots of x^2−x√(5 + 1) = 0. Then determine r^8+s^8
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by boxfire 5y ago
MD5 is a 128 bit random number no one would ever have thought would collide. 64 bits is peanuts especially when message types are being defined dynamically
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by boxfire 5y ago
This architecture was also used in the link referenced when bringing up alternative implementations: https://github.com/google/mediapipe/issues/877#issuecomment-...
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by boxfire 5y ago
> But who's going to work without AC (other than crazy HoTT people)? Yeah... Those crazy HoTT people, trying to actualize the goal of putting mathematics on an actually firm foundation and removing the rest of the gobblygook handwav
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by boxfire 5y ago
So what happens when someone makes a transformer network that can read fanfics and animate them live trained from the whole collection of MPAA movies? I mean its inevitable. Given the history of the MPAA, I don't think they're gon
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by boxfire 5y ago
Nice this does the job, probably could be done more efficiently, but I like that its not a kitchen-sink library. Unfortunate that the data generator is certainly not "clean C"... perl, ruby, and julia, all to generate character wi
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by boxfire 5y ago
5th bullet of "Who is this library for?" at the top of the documentation [1] had me excited: > you want to work with higher-level primitives (code points, graphames) when iterating text that do not break your text apart; In rea
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by boxfire 5y ago
Okay so this is one thing that boils me about quanta magazine. The authors obviously have enough background in mathematics to know the nature of the field, yet they do these very long winded, vague intros, which serve to mystify the subject
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by boxfire 5y ago
To not invent new ambiguities I would phrase this succinctly as the solution having intrinsic complexity vs extrinsic complexity.
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by boxfire 5y ago
I wonder what kind of placement accuracy that arm gets, both relative and absolute? Seems like that arm is doing better than I would expect for the size/weight of the actuators. Not something you'd be able to do without an extreme
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Mars Rover Engineer by Day, Space-Rock Musician by Night(rollingstone.com)
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by boxfire 6y ago
Yeah, I find it circuitously poses similar questions over and over, with vague allegories towards hypothetical application, and provides no real conclusions. For example in the part about evaluation order, a long walk through all the differ

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