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by cr0sh 7y ago
I find this to be yet another example of why the GPL (in general) was created, and why licenses like or similar to the BSD license are flawed. The way I see the GPL is that by modifying and publicly releasing the modified version of the bin
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> While it would be kinda neat -- as an experiment -- to see how a city would develop without zoning, Houston sure as heck isn't that example. Kowloon Walled City would probably be one possible outcome...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
You have the qualifier of "probably" - but money may not be the only thing holding someone back. For instance, I want a 220 outlet in my garage so I can have a proper welder out there. I don't have an electric car (and even i
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by cr0sh 7y ago
The thing I hate most about Apple's updates is that if you say "try again in an hour", rather than prompting you if you want to update again, it just starts the update! My PB is supplied by my employer, so I'm using it a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
...or encourage them to dissent. /when you don't have any dissent, manufacture it
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Honestly what we need is the re-instatement of the Fairness Doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine Between that and maybe some kind of regulation of websites or other internet media that purport
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by cr0sh 7y ago
<conspiracy tinfoil hat> Is it possible that there may be some kind of political angle to all of this; that archiving this information for the future might allow someone to find out something that someone else doesn't want to com
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Here I was this morning just thinking about this - weird how that happens. My wife got this gift recently, that at first looks like a snowglobe, but actually has fine sand and seashells inside. You can kind of shake it or rotate it about, a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Heh - they don't have the one I created, so it's missing at least one! Don't worry, though - I'm not proud of it, it was one of my first Perl scripting efforts, and interactive web-site efforts too (perl cgi - ugh). So i
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> What's the lower bound of complexity at which consciousness kicks in? What about supraorganisms such as insect hives? Human cities? An ecosystem as a whole? There's also the question of the nodes and edges of the graph; does
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I see it as the result of a biological process, much like digestion. To stretch this analogy (perhaps a tad too far): You can simulate digestion on a computer but it will never produce a real shit for you. While not a simulation, but i
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Regarding copying - try this thought experiment: What if it were possible to probe a single neuron and copy its exact functioning - that is, the actual neuron and the artificial copy both act the same to the same inputs, and produce the sam
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> every time I wake up from the un-consciousness of sleep. Do you not dream when you sleep (I mean, when you enter REM state)? I know there are people who don't - but most of us I believe do dream (and some of us can become "co
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> This OP's writeup is just about the simplest exposition that doesn't miss the point, and it misses the major transition when you go to layers with nonlinearities between them. Well - the activation function appears to be line
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by cr0sh 7y ago
What this particular model shows is probably about as simple as you can get; the activation function (what is called "predict" in the code) is a simple linear model (very similar to RELU - which has other important properties valu
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by cr0sh 7y ago
@trekhleb: Can you modify the images used in the README.md - they seem to be PNG files with a transparent background and the formula (or whatever is there) in black; on github in "dark mode" (or with a stylus or similar css modifi
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Not just "a dozen random jurors", but rather "a dozen random jurors who individually usually don't want to be there and just want to go back home to eat and live their lives - and by the way, when is lunch?" I'
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> These days you can get a similar spec (within approximately an order of magnitude) in an Arduino: 8,000 or 16,000 kHz with 32kB (rather than the 7090's 144kB) of RAM. That's 32K of flash memory, not general purpose RAM - the
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> If I owned a single-family home and had a bunch of time on my hands, I'd probably engineer a drop box of some kind that shippers can drop my packages into, but that other people can't get them out of. If you honestly gave tha
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> If you have access to a large research library you could also try that. It would be great if public research libraries were more common - to be honest, I don't even know if such places exist. I know that research libraries exist a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I used a form of this system to take notes when I participated in the first cohort of Udacity's "Self-driving Car Engineer Nanodegree" a few years ago. I found it very useful, and ended up filling about 3 notebooks (one sided
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by cr0sh 7y ago
My best guess would be that more people buy external drives than internal, and those that "manufacture" external drives (ie - buy internal drives and repackage them) purchase in larger volumes than those that sell bare internal dr
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I dont think I'll ever again feel that thrill of being called to the principal's office for hacking. Once you become an adult, the "principal's office" is much less interesting place to be. If you still want to
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I don't even know what the baseline is for satisfying programming jobs. For myself, it's always been about the team I was a part of. When you are part of a team that takes pride in their work, and they perform well together,
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> You can probably manufacture that thing quite easily from basic sheet metal, when you have limited machinery and labour on another planet. Not if it's made of stainless steel - stuff is hard to cut and hard to weld (though might b
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by cr0sh 7y ago
There's also that Chinese baby a few years back who had a severe form of "transverse facial cleft" deformity...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Then you graduate, grow older, perhaps go on to university, grow older still, perhaps marry and have kids, continue to grow older, and if you're lucky... ...you realize that you still "know not that you know not, know that you kno
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I recall playing with it, when I first heard about it: "You mean I can create a native-looking app that's actually browser-based?"... This had to be sometime in the mid-late 1990s? I recall the documentation about everything
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I think Gen X (from my perspective, since I'm a part of that gen) did get their "cyberpunk dystopia"... ...it's just less Neuromancer/BR/etc and more David Brin's "Earth".
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by cr0sh 7y ago
The trick the Bose Acoustimass system uses is a form of resonance. While it is proprietary, it is fairly easy to build for yourself. In the 1980s, Popular Science (or Mechanics, I forget which) had a review of these speakers, and they told

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