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by chronolitus 6y ago
I wonder why we ask this of mathematics and not, for example, physics. We all kinda understand how real Physics is: the universe does weird things, we find rules and equations that fit these things. If planets go in circle (the Real - the T
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by chronolitus 6y ago
Should be noted that this series is more a tutorial on control theory than on flying cars. Very interesting still!
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by chronolitus 6y ago
I remember having to code a 2d Lattice Boltzmann fluid simulator in Matlab for a college course, how fun and interesting that was! https://github.com/danieldugas/Lattice-Boltzmann-Simulation/...
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by chronolitus 6y ago
I have a feeling you would enjoy the All Gas No Brakes episode about bigfoot hunting in Minnesota. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsXhk1xmYAI Having watched it, I suddenly have little doubt that we as a species are very ca
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by chronolitus 6y ago
This makes sense, but how do you assess what WSB is going to do? For every post, there's another calling on the inverse, and a third calling on inversing the second.
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by chronolitus 6y ago
Warning: The video contains graphic footage of a person being shot in the neck at close range.
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by chronolitus 6y ago
If there is indeed no way for aliens to "see" the chess playing process (precisely: to make measurements which confirm/reject hypotheses about details of the game), then the best model they can ever come up with is a black bo
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by chronolitus 6y ago
Self driving on highways. I know many companies are focusing on tier V, everywhere. but it's starting to look like an AI-hard problem to me, and might not yield a usable solution for a while. Meanwhile, I believe cars could do motorway
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by chronolitus 6y ago
An interesting biologically-inspired alternative to backpropagation is STDP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike-timing-dependent_plastic... ) However, it's still quite hard to get useful results from it in practic
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by chronolitus 6y ago
Another perspective on the question "what is ROS?", having worked with countless ROS nodes: In a nutshell, ROS is a library that allows you to send and receive messages. The two most used methods in the API are Subscriber.subscrib
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by chronolitus 6y ago
Your description sounds close to the Surface Book. I'm suprised Apple hasn't come up with a contender. I guess the market for that kind of device is just not big enough for them?
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by chronolitus 6y ago
lesson 7: http://www.dansmc.com/bible1.htm I don't really mind, it adds a personal touch to his website and he seems like a fantastic guy. To play devil's advocate, it might be that in secular cultures its a littl
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by chronolitus 6y ago
I hear chanting coming from outside my prison. Sure, it's a soft prison, of keyboard-only specialized-interface goodness. but a prison, still. I've heard chanting before, but this time it's different. It's louder. Could
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by chronolitus 6y ago
A counterpoint: what if emojis are an evolution of our written language? It used to be time-consuming to draw complex, colorful characters onto paper, so our written language evolved away from them (although, some pictogram-based languages
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by chronolitus 6y ago
@dang: so far googling these posts' texts does not lead me to the linkedin page or profile. Please redact this if you believe it constitues doxxing. The linkedin post text is something like this: "Shrill Season 3 will be filming a
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by chronolitus 6y ago
For comparison getting to LEO (low earth orbit) is ~10km/s, getting from LEO to moon is ~6km/s, from LEO to the sun is ~30km/s.
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by chronolitus 6y ago
There's an interesting caveat here, the phenomenon is well known to apnea practitioners: - Hyperventilating, then holding your breath underwater can easily be deadly. - Doing the same without hyperventilation is much safer. The differe
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by chronolitus 6y ago
Quote from the first part: "I will do my best to capture changes in metal-working techniques in the medieval period. What I am not going to cover in detail is modern steel and iron-working (that is, post-industrial-revolution), though
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by chronolitus 6y ago
Here's the TOMM quote for convenience "Lewis [prosecution] again berated Kopelman [psychologist] for not having paid sufficient attention to malingering. Kopelman replied that not only had he used his experience and clinical judge
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by chronolitus 6y ago
A master and a student are sitting in a forest, reflecting. Two men walk by, vehemently discussing whether a household item's design is acceptable. After they pass, the student tells the master: "The opinionated user-experienc
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by chronolitus 6y ago
This kind of argument always ticks me off, because it's technically correct, assuming your brain can care and focus on infinitely many things. But I know that I can't: I can care very effectively about one thing really well (typic
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Should You Drink Acetone?(lesswrong.com)
20 points by chronolitus 6y ago|2 comments
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by chronolitus 6y ago
you might also be interested in vimv and vimcp https://github.com/thameera/vimv https://github.com/danieldugas/vimcp
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by chronolitus 6y ago
and here's a breakdown of the architecture: http://dugas.ch/artificial_curiosity/GPT_architecture.html
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by chronolitus 6y ago
I am similarly confused, Is Richard's paradox really a paradox, since the 'diagonalized' mapping of texts to reals is not the same as the implied 'meaning-based' one? 'meaning-based' mapping is not bijecti
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by chronolitus 6y ago
For example, I encounter this bug every day when I open Firefox (latest version) on i3wm. "Opened 9 years ago." https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686747
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Show HN: Vimcp – Batch-copy files with vim
1 points by chronolitus 6y ago|1 comments
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by chronolitus 6y ago
These kinds of visual, well thought out explanations of topics which are often taught with terse, obscure and uninviting methods are a gift. On a tangent: I remember asking my Calculus 101 professor what the "intuitive meaning" of
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If the Earth Was Flat(dugas.ch)
2 points by chronolitus 6y ago|0 comments
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by chronolitus 6y ago
I am not sure what the OP specifically meant, but here goes: when I talk about "culture" in my city, I am usually referring to how often I will end up at events which broaden my perspectives, simply by tagging along or following t

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