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by briansm 1y ago
The old 1980s computers also had no equivalent of flash storage though, the RAM had to store the program being run as well as act as scratch-space.
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by briansm 1y ago
I believe youtube still uses 40 mel-scale vectors as feature data, whisper uses 80 (which provides finer spectral detail but is computationally more intensive to process naturally, but modern hardware allows for that)
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by briansm 1y ago
that's not true, consumerism is only growing, people are not giving up anything in that regard. The planet is getting trashed and 'the children' are doomed. Individually We try and help, driving less, recycling and so on, but
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by briansm 1y ago
Reminds me of the Pentium FDIV bug from 1994.... a half-billion-dollar 'ouch' for Intel were many hard lessons were learned. Surely math libraries and optimizations have been a solved problem for the last 20+ years.
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Show HN: Simple Speech-to-Text with an Arduino Nano(github.com)
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by briansm 1y ago
I would disagree. The dark ages were hundreds of years ago, the electric grid is much less than a century old. Plenty of countries have unreliable supply and rolling blackouts and have adapted to it or have just never became accustomed to t
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by briansm 1y ago
Bit ironic when the path to ketosis is fasting (i.e. not using products).
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by briansm 1y ago
and yet an article about a 'safe' language has code examples full of 'unsafe'... wut.
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by briansm 1y ago
Surely the point of Rust is 'safety at the price of performance' and if extra performance is required, don't use Rust. Don't bodge the language to accommodate!
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by briansm 1y ago
Yuck. In my mind, 'using C and not using Rust in the first place' is the escape hatch and Rust shouldn't even go there. Jeez, what a mess.
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by briansm 1y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but I thought the whole point of Rust was to be a 'safe' modern alternative to C, so all new buffers would be zero'd at a neglible-these-days cost. Why is rust half-assing this?
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by briansm 1y ago
The AI hardware requirements are currently insane; the models are doing with Megawatts of power and warehouses full of hardware what an average Joe does in 20 Watts and a 'bowl of noodles'.
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by briansm 1y ago
"This is pretty useless to be honest." I remember saying that about Bitcoin 15 years ago.
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by briansm 1y ago
Cool, hopefully before their wide-scale 3G switch-off starting August.
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by briansm 1y ago
Makes me wonder if the generous copyright protections afforded to artists had not become so abhorrent (thanks, Disney) then this kind of thing might not have happened.
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by briansm 1y ago
One annoyance with O2 UK is that they don't support VoLTE for legacy pay-as-you-go customers, only pay-monthly. Now I'm actually kind-of glad for that.
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by briansm 1y ago
The 'value' in them is that they demonstrate that energy is currently so cheap and abundant to Us that we can waste it frivolously. It's a sort-of flex, showing off, a demonstration of (energy) wealth. Humanities's peaco
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by briansm 1y ago
Maybe I didn't explain it well, gold and bitcoin are the 'memory' of used energy, they are not energy sources themselves. I think of them as representations of the idea that energy is (currently) so abundant and cheap that we
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by briansm 1y ago
Strictly speaking, directed energy is the ultimate. Both crypto and gold are both just embodiments of energy, gold being the physical embodiment (via mining and refinement) and crypto being the virtual embodiment.
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by briansm 1y ago
Maybe my memory is failing me but I could swear that somebody has already won an Ig Nobel prize for similar research to this?
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by briansm 1y ago
Douglas Adams predicted this in 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyAQgK7BkA8&t=222s
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by briansm 1y ago
Interesting that the verified 4-quintillion range is well within 64-bit integer math range (18 quintillion or 9 quintillion signed), no need to go beyond regular 64-bit computing any time soon.
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by briansm 2y ago
I would assume the kind of people who need a replacement heart are already on beta-blocker drugs, which clamp the peak heart-rate down significantly, so their body would already be used to a very limited heart-rate range.
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by briansm 2y ago
And in another drug-parable 'The Matrix', Cypher is actually the hero, advocating the acceptance of the blue-pill retreat into synthetic chemical fantasy as opposed to the harsh depressing truth of reality. His failure ultimately
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by briansm 2y ago
'pain-free' and 'organized' perhaps, but don't fool yourself, it's never 'dignified'. Makes me think of this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0606035/quotes/?ref_=tt_dyk_qu
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by briansm 2y ago
In evolutionary terms, being taller, fatter and more muscular is advantageous, but in practical terms it's just a lot of extra weight to drag around for a lifetime, along with all the extra calories of energy needed to do so.
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by briansm 2y ago
I find the obsession minimizing bicycle weight funny. It's not the bicycle weight that matters, it's the combined weight of bicycle and rider that counts. Rider weight massively outweighs the relevance of bike frame material, espe
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by briansm 2y ago
... or a world where grown adults pay millions of dollars to watch grown adults fighting like school children. In fact, what am I even doing in this thread? - close-tab.
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by briansm 2y ago
White-Knighting for 'fucking morons' is not a good look though. You'll end up in a world where packets of peanuts have a label on saying 'may contain nuts'.
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by briansm 2y ago
The codec parameters remind me of the ~300bps NRV military speech codec from 2010. It also uses 120ms (8hz) frames, vbr encoded using 16KHz audio (closed source though). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5680311

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