college_physics

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by college_physics 4y ago
sticking within a single capable ecosystem is optimal here-and-now but your mileage might vary as we go forward. its always hard to forecast but even if you discount alot of the ML/AI hype, its quite likely that 2-3 years from now expe
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by college_physics 4y ago
Why? This would only be a problem if the student or other participants are unaware of the nature of such an account. In principle the initiative is lowering the threshold of learning about decentralized platforms. Nobody is preventing anybo
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by college_physics 4y ago
Nice to see some gnuplot magic at the end of the rainbow
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by college_physics 4y ago
Fantastic initiative. Higher education and research is a perfect area to experiment with new forms of online interaction platforms as it combines digital natives on the one hand and genuine content generators on the other. From the fedivers
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by college_physics 4y ago
> I use Phoenix only on projects where its real-time capabilities will be the protagonist Yep, that feels sound advice (and motivation). I would add more broadly "federation capability" (in the style of the fediverse / act
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by college_physics 4y ago
The "visibility" of frameworks and the onboarding "ease" are important features for many reasons but there are more attributes that shape people's choices. Talking primarily about open source ecosystems, being able
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by college_physics 4y ago
There is this joke that you don't need to outrun a python, you only need to outrun the humans it is chasing. Elixir does not need to outshine Python it only needs to position better than other "functional style" languages on
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by college_physics 4y ago
> Outside of the Linux desktop space, actors such as F-Droid provide a home for free and open source Android applications on mobile devices. Some convergence of desktop and mobile is plausible over the midterm so it might be worthwhile t
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by college_physics 4y ago
> They might not help you prepare for a black swan type event at some point probabilistic simulations were all the rage in the financial industry and then the financial crisis happened it is a fine art to figure out how to elicit the ben
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by college_physics 4y ago
This is very neat. I suppose it doesnt use SVG at any level (either as internal representation of graphical elements or for the rendering) but is there some way to enable import/export to vectors? The d3/vega family of js librarie
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by college_physics 4y ago
> Sure there are things that largely overlap, but still two vastly independent set. Yes they are by no means the same aspect but the technical (the design part) and "social" domain (how human actors interact using the technolog
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by college_physics 4y ago
thats a strange assertion when the internet was famously invented to eliminate complex failure modes. Quoting from "DARPA and the Internet Revolution" By Mitch Waldrop [0] "Finally, Roberts decided to make the network complet
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by college_physics 4y ago
That would be one of the many issues to resolve in a federated context. But achieving "consensus" is never trivial and compromises and choices underlie its current model too.
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by college_physics 4y ago
there is vastly more (and ever exploding) knowledge than what the current wikipedia model can integrate (talking always about public knowledge). Unless there is a breakthrough in how the open source ecosystem integrates, validates, federa
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by college_physics 4y ago
Wikipedia is maybe the most important open source project ever (competing only with linux, but that is operating at a more hidden technical level) This (non)episode of "wikipedia outage" is as good prompt as any to get our collect
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by college_physics 4y ago
"Each time that we - as a nation, a group, a continent or a religion - look inward in celebration of our specific identity we do nothing but lionize our own limits and sing of our stupidity" Good things tend to happen at the inter
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by college_physics 4y ago
Rates are like inverse temperature. When its cold (high rates) economic reactions slow down or stop. When its lukewarm (an activation threshold rate) interesting stuff might happen [0]. When its too hot (low rates) the primordial soup burns
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by college_physics 4y ago
Is there anything for which our society is prepared for? There is not much evidence we can handle shocks, whether these are self-generated or external The 'AI' might be 'learning' from all the publicly available inform
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by college_physics 4y ago
There are many complicating factors but arguably there were never more people around with the means to sort out the wheat from the chaff if they had the right incentives. Happiness is obviously intertwined with techological development as a
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by college_physics 4y ago
All valid (and depressing) data points. It takes some inate optimism to think that things could be otherwise but I believe the commoditisation of digital infrastructure and the suboptimal stewardship acts against its ongoing tight control
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by college_physics 4y ago
There is a hierarchy of methods to get the job done (to close the production/consumption loop with exchange of information), ranked in order from evil to sublime: * Spy on and and profile people, (mostly unawares) and push ads by findi
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by college_physics 4y ago
Ads are a brute force mechanism to generate consumption demand. But society in the developed world has satiated itself with consumption, maxed out on its credit etc and is not happier, arguably more stress and dissatisfied than before. On t
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by college_physics 4y ago
"i cheated myself like i knew i would" when students get out of the classroom and face the human economy they will find that nobody pays anything for doing something that can be done at near zero cost by a machine
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by college_physics 4y ago
A model parameter is not the same as a "fact". Facts can multiply uncontrollably, but the logical relationships between facts that (at least we as humans) care about are much more economical. It feels that this approach is missing
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by college_physics 4y ago
Why are gazillions of parameters needed in the first place? From an information perspective it feels that there might be some fundamentally inefficient use of parametric freedom. A brute force approach to combinatorial explosion so to speak
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by college_physics 4y ago
While people are (to varying degrees) generous, its hard to build everything on generosity and recirocity. On the other hand once you start bean counting and transactionaling everything and in particular not even accept different types of b
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by college_physics 4y ago
I dont know much at all about erlang but if it cracked this shouldnt it be more prominent in HPC type applications? Is there some other tradeoff?
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by college_physics 4y ago
Maybe there should be an IDE plugin that after you run your code once it makes a list of recommendations for parallelisation, including the possibilities "please rewrite this in language X and style Y" or "forget about it&quo
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by college_physics 4y ago
The first type is what people used to call "embarrassingly parallel". While it should be easy to have this solved by now across the board (after all most cpus are multicore now), arguably it is still not quite trivial or uniform,
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by college_physics 4y ago
Its interesting that while Moore's law saturated many years ago there is still no parallel programming style that hits some sweet spot between productivity and performance for multicore cpus (and thus gets more adopted for mainstream d

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