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by brownbat 6y ago
Engineering Explained[0] on Youtube does a good job talking about improvements across both technologies. He says he gets this question a lot when he talks about conventional engine improvements, whether or not they are going to be irrelevan
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by brownbat 6y ago
I vaguely remember a stunt where Koko the Gorilla was used in a mass-chat on AOL. The crowd, enthused at talking to another species for the first time, would ask things like, "Is there a god?" and "What is the meaning of love
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This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)(youtube.com)
2 points by brownbat 6y ago|0 comments
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by brownbat 6y ago
Hmm, what makes for a meaningful broad food category word? Dumplings range from pierogies to xiaolongbao, sandwiches include monte cristos and cheesesteaks and fluffernutters, soup includes vichyssoise and miso and samgyetang. Why do those
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by brownbat 6y ago
Genuinely reassuring to hear. Really didn't want to toe the line into code wars too much, I'm sure there are some features of css that are the result of difficult tradeoffs and hard won lessons over the years, and I know I haven&#
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by brownbat 6y ago
"Later we also discovered that people didn't want to replace CSS and rather wanted to make it bigger." Ha. Just finally got around to using css in something and it felt like the opposite of PEP 20. I hope it gets better over
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KoNLPy: Korean NLP in Python(konlpy.org)
61 points by brownbat 6y ago|8 comments
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by brownbat 6y ago
I've heard this rebuttal a few times, that western values try to suppress emotions, and anger is sometimes good. Eliezer makes this point too. I'm still not sure I fully understand it. The anger I feel when I'm cut off in tra
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by brownbat 6y ago
We are naturally far better at identifying what's plausible instead of sorting out what is likely, and we're better at giving kudos and recognition for the former than the latter even though it's easier. That makes some peopl
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by brownbat 6y ago
> Voting in party primaries and advocating for change within parties, given the state of affairs in US politics, is a better bet for effective change than maintaining a stance of moral purity. I don't see why this would necessarily
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by brownbat 6y ago
Because it's just emotive, "boo mainstream!" which doesn't generally admit a detailed rebuttal. But here goes -- Wagner's main argument takes an action, ties symbolism to it, then denounces that action because of th
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by brownbat 6y ago
> At the last conference I attended, I asked most people I met two questions: > 1. Do you know of any companies that aren't highly dysfunctional? > 2. Do you know of any particular teams that are great and are hiring? > Not
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by brownbat 6y ago
Yeah, passages like this: > A side effect of the fetishization of the industrial is that it aestheticizes the backdrop of labor within capitalism, in many ways erasing labor’s histories of toil and struggle. "Why, of course a white
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by brownbat 6y ago
This is incredible! I noticed that if I try to change stations in Seoul (track forward or track backwards) that part of the interface freezes with a "loading..." message. Tiny bug, probably easy fix. Such a great experience overal
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by brownbat 6y ago
To echo your point, there was an Aspen festival panel a few years ago where a network news rep/owner was refreshingly honest. He said everyone thinks they want the news to be deeply insightful and informative, but the people who would
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Entombed: Mysterious Maze Generation Algorithm for the Atari 2600 (2018) [pdf](arxiv.org)
1 points by brownbat 6y ago|0 comments
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by brownbat 6y ago
Yeah. What's frustrating is I feel like a lot of ports have long load times just coded into them. Sometimes it barely matters if you run them on an NVMe or even a RAMDisk. I'm sure the cost of speeding up loading isn't worth
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by brownbat 6y ago
> "A 100% open and free journal cannot achieve selectivity without having some judgement and bias applied." Establishing reputation is the central challenge for a lot of the internet. Sorting spam from mail, sorting useful sear
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by brownbat 6y ago
This led me down a rabbit hole into the sterile insect technique, where large numbers of sterile insects are released to reduce the population. Looks like Alphabet's Verily has been testing it on mosquitoes in Fresno: https:/&#x
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by brownbat 6y ago
Schuyler Towne has (several?) great talks on this, going through the history of physical security and our assumptions about perfect security vs. social and cultural symbols. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjacHSTd48
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by brownbat 6y ago
I'm surprised those who have survived covid haven't found a way to self-identify, like green wristbands or something that say "immune" or "survivor," and wear those in place of masks. Not recommending this, it
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by brownbat 6y ago
> When I used Google Play Music a couple years ago there was a feature that was broken for YEARS Not sure if this is yours, but mine was that it would often swap out my tracks for radio edits, even though I uploaded the original. I'
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by brownbat 6y ago
Aza Raskin's Ubiquity was such a clear model of how to build voice interfaces the right way, and it wasn't even a voice interface. It was a bit of a launcher that tied APIs together on the web. Let users create and share small com
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by brownbat 6y ago
A group of us once tried to rank cities in Europe by population only to realize that most of them are effectively incomparable. Cities sometimes have clear legal boundaries that feel irrelevant to the question, like the City of London, but
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by brownbat 6y ago
Yeah, if you relay content at scale, your first preference is to do nothing for moderation. After a little taste of that, people get upset and complain, which is just a little inconvenient at first. It becomes progressively more inconvenien
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YouGlish finds video of spoken words in context for language learners(youglish.com)
5 points by brownbat 6y ago|0 comments
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by brownbat 6y ago
I remember a post here a while back from a guy running Bitcoin mining in his dorm room. One day he realized he could offer his spare cycles to grad students with high computing workloads and undercut cloud computing prices while increasing
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by brownbat 6y ago
I've been there. Some article or art really lands with me, falls completely flat with friends or when I post it. I've also experienced the opposite--a focus of this very article actually--creating something that catches on much mo
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by brownbat 6y ago
Trains are far more efficient, less subsidized, safer, less polluting... https://grist.org/article/freight-trains-19th-century-techno... Even if you electrify trucks the tire and brake wear and road degradation contrib
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by brownbat 6y ago
> the IE regulatory situation in Korea I found this from 2013: https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-koreans-use-internet-exp... Anyone have an update to that story? I know in Korea they use a ton of apps to order thi

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