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by buescher 5y ago
Hashlife is a real eye-opener if you haven't seen similar techniques before.
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by buescher 5y ago
>star headed monstrosity pointing to doom from the heavens Could someone please feed that to DALL-E?
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by buescher 5y ago
Another proponent of mechanical television!
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by buescher 5y ago
"The views of Popular Wireless on the subject are too well known to require reiteration here, and our scepticism of the possibilities of the mechanical methods of transmission and reception have frequently been expressed." "W
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by buescher 5y ago
Maybe. Recommendation systems definitely seem to get worse as they scale. Amazon's was incredible circa 2000. Pandora seems to be getting worse and more repetitive. Netflix kept getting better and better until they ended their cont
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by buescher 5y ago
I didn't know about DART. Developed and deployed in eight weeks [edit: less optimistic sources say 23 months]! Is there a good retrospective somehwere with some technical detail?
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Extensive pile of noodles produces an emotional reaction(mymodernmet.com)
1 points by buescher 5y ago|0 comments
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by buescher 5y ago
Thanks! I didn't know about the AOSA books. There are some really nice examples of top-level software documentation in them.
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by buescher 5y ago
It doesn't work on my K&E or my Pickett either.
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by buescher 5y ago
That's a good question. For an honest and complete answer, I'd have to remember the messes I've seen and it's been a couple decades now, so I don't. But simply, everything in setting up forms and reports is more c
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by buescher 5y ago
Microsoft Access is, of course, still around. It would be great if there were a solid way to develop a database, forms, and reports in Access and then deploy it to the web. If you've ever had to work with someone else's Access da
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The Undead (punched cards in 1999)(wired.com)
1 points by buescher 5y ago|0 comments
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by buescher 5y ago
I read that as "with all the good and bad that implies". That others didn't... well that's Fortran for you. Or maybe just hackernews.
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by buescher 5y ago
If I understand your initial argument as implicitly revised here, it's basically "whatever consciousness is, it doesn't happen at the scale of some small number of bits". But some fungi are among the largest organisms o
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by buescher 5y ago
It's a good article. TLDR: you can use even smaller holes than IPC recommendations (large) or internet consensus (somewhat smaller than IPC) for a more consistent break and nicer finished edge. Also keep the tabs small enough for a m
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by buescher 5y ago
Every time I’ve rented a muscle car, I’ve had guys - it’s always guys - come up to me to talk about it. I guess you buy certain performance cars, you are joining a sort of fraternity. Something to consider in the whole when you’re shoppin
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by buescher 5y ago
One of the great lines from the Conan the Barbarian film (1982): "Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult"
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by buescher 5y ago
Got it. I was imagining something else entirely.
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by buescher 5y ago
What's he doing with it?
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by buescher 5y ago
I have no clue what hilbert space memory organization could possibly be - arbitrarily deep hardware support for indirect addressing? - but it sounds simultaneously very cool and like an absolutely terrible idea.
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by buescher 5y ago
That looks like it would be an absolute hoot to experiment with, but I don't know what I could possibly do with one that would generate a return on $150K. What would you do?
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by buescher 5y ago
Folks at PARC designed and built their own PDP-10 clone to get around internal politics. It's hard to overestimate the amount of talent concentrated there at the time. It always looks like all the low-hanging fruit has already been pl
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by buescher 5y ago
It also helps if you are Alan Kay or the other talents that were at PARC back then. What future would you create if you had a custom $100K (2022 dollars) workstation?
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by buescher 5y ago
It depends. Before peecee memory architectures got gud in the early oughts, the Octanes were sufficiently better for big finite element codes than Intel based machines that you'd still see them used for that. But it didn't last,
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by buescher 5y ago
The purely metaphorical interpretation of alchemy is popular in some circles, but alchemy has a clear experimental basis. Newton did some pretty wild alchemical experiments. Metals are weird. https://www.openculture.com/20
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My grandfather thought he solved a cosmic mystery(theatlantic.com)
3 points by buescher 5y ago|1 comments
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by buescher 5y ago
Most impressive: "One of them might even publish a paper soon. Not a proposal for a theory of everything, mind you, but a new way to look at a known effect. A first step on a long journey." Hossenfelder must have the patience of J
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by buescher 5y ago
Like "don't roll your own crypto", the implicit caveat is clear.
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by buescher 5y ago
There was a numerical analyst at JPL back in the day that absolutely savaged NR. Remember, the kind of engineering they do at JPL has to be correct, not just plausible. Also, noncommercial alternatives to things like Matlab (octave, the p
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by buescher 5y ago
I think it's (more like?) an analog finite element solver driven by a microcomputer.

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