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by dekhn 9mo ago
While leaving space is nice, the person on the highway already typically has right-of-way.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
I just had to hard brake a few days ago. A driver a couple lanes over on 101 slammed on their breaks, rotated 90 degrees, and came to rest across a couple lanes (one of which was mine). Fortunately, I was alert, driving the speed limit, a
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by dekhn 9mo ago
His noodly appendage touches all.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
They could have called it "An Accounting of Justice" which works in several ways at the same time.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
they let a thousand tortoises bloom.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
Realistically, the physical limits to computation are the speed of light and energy dissipation.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
But that doesn't disprove the hypothesis that in principle you can have an effective self-improvement loop (my guess is that it would quickly turn into extremely limited gains that do not justify the expenditure).
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by dekhn 9mo ago
We don't need to optimize algorithms beyond their computational complexity limits to improve hardware.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"
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by dekhn 9mo ago
That quote sounds like special pleading for artisans.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
Note that rsync on many small files is slow even within the same machine (across two physical devices), suggesting that the network roundtrip latency is not the major contributor.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
The simple model for scp and rsync (it's likely more complex in rsync): for loop over all files. for each file, determine its metadata with fstat, then fopen and copy bytes in chunks until done. Proceed to next iteration. I don'
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by dekhn 9mo ago
Single file overheads (opening millions of tiny files whose metadata is not in the OS cache and reading them) appears to be an intrinsic reason (intrinsic to the OS, at least).
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by dekhn 9mo ago
google buys nvidia GPUs for cloud, I don't think they use them much or at all internally. The TPUs are both used internally, and in cloud, and now it looks like they are delivering them to customers in their own data centers.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
If you're asking whether their training data includes situations like this, and whether their trained model/other pieces of runtime that drive the car include that feature as part of their model, the answer is yes. But not in the
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by dekhn 9mo ago
It's not particularly meaningful to ponder the subjective experience of the waymo driving computer. Instead, focus on its externally visible behavior.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
I used to work at a biomedical institution that did cancer treatment experiments on dogs. There was basically a kennel and periodically they would take a dog and irradiate it. That was fine in the abstract, but there were computational lab
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by dekhn 9mo ago
No (excluding some circumstances like delivery vehicles).
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by dekhn 9mo ago
In this situation, the car was already driving under the legal speed required for a school zone (25mph when children are present) [edit: some comments in the post suggest there is a 15mph sign, which is sometimes posted; to me, driving 17mp
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by dekhn 9mo ago
I simply cannot see a technical path to achieve what you're describing.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
I think this is one of the expected outcomes of "Science by Press Release" (universities motivated to maximize their grants and IP), combined with media/press that wants clicks (articles that talk about cures for cancer get c
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by dekhn 9mo ago
This sounds ethically questionable to me. I wouldn't rule it out entirely, but I'd want to see a well-reasoned argument, both technical and moral, that it was likely to lead to greatly reduced suffering for patients. Even then..
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by dekhn 9mo ago
Cool project, but just how many polygons are you talking about? Also, my guess is you did meshes, instead of breps- they are far more efficient in my experience. The largest mesh I worked with in Fusion 360 is a digital elevation map of Ca
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by dekhn 9mo ago
Oil comes from algae (and other tiny marine organisms) not dinosaurs.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
freeCAD is brep based and scriptable.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
The challenge with CAD kernels is mainly in the edge-cases. There's a lot of person-years invested to make the existing kernels robust in weird situations. Those come up surprisingly frequently when modelling.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
If you have a 3d printer, I think one of the most practical things you can do is make UC2 cubes (or just buy them). It's simpler to print, a bit more flexible, and a good introduction to the various technologies.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
It's not super practical to make objectives. While I suppose it's technically possible, what you produce will almost certainly be worse, more expensive, and more time-consuming. $65 for a good lens is really not a huge amount of
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by dekhn 9mo ago
This ... looks like either AI-generated slop or a troll.
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by dekhn 9mo ago
My favorite is whenever you need to do anything remotely complicated in settings. It's like travelling through layers of archeological digs. For me, it's the network settings and audio settings that are the best example.

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