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by dgacmu 1y ago
I had a computer that could talk and make decisions in 1982. It sounded pretty robotic and the decisions were 1982-level AI: Lots of if statements. I'm not really trying to be snarky; I'm trying to point out to you that you'r
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I encountered the search version of this, which is turned suffix arrays, in grad school and was so taken by them I incorporated them as the primary search mechanism for the pi searcher. 25 years later it's still the best way to do it.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I find that odd given that I literally run 3 Synologies and one TrueNAS - I've had the Synologies for over a decade and the TrueNAS for about three years now. They've all been great and do everything I want in a nas. Perhaps you a
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by dgacmu 1y ago
It really isn't, though. 1) there exist viable commercial competitors providing approximately equivalent functionality 2) the roll your own solution with, e.g., TrueNAS, also provides equivalent functionality and is about 90% as easy.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
What you're describing can definitely be done, but it would be really expensive. I charge around $1k/hour for executive education with a custom curriculum, and even that is usually amortized over a small room full of people. My gu
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by dgacmu 1y ago
We have one here as part of a CMU research deployment: https://www.transportation.gov/utc/surtrac-people-upgrading-... > The system applies artificial intelligence to traffic signals equipped with cameras or radars
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Eek, you're right. Also ugh, I should stop talking to my phone, just noticed "Sim links". sigh.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Amusingly, if you look historically, it's also a traditional approach to reduce total binary size - a bunch of small utilities were all Sim links to a single binary, which conditioned on argv[0] to figure out what to do.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Definitely agreed
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Geolocation queries are probably one of the bigger costs. Google is a rip-off here but to use them as an example, they charge $2.83 per 1000 lookups for the first 90k/month. You could easily spend a few hundred per month that way.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Yes. As someone else noted, there's an excellent community on reddit for /r/SolarDIY with a lot of people who do this. The standard setup is to buy an offgrid inverter that will take shore power. Size your unit to handle your
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by dgacmu 1y ago
It's flashcards++: They can have audio attached, for example, and multiple "sides" to the flashcard, but the most ++ part of it is the integrated spaced repetition algorithm(s) that automagically adapt the next time a card is
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by dgacmu 1y ago
It's a backwards-facing business. It would seen better to be investing in the success of the segment of the industry that's by this point obviously going to dominate in the not so far future (electric buses). (At least, globally.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I suspect Google doesn't want to have to maintain multiple sub-versions. It's easier to serve one 2x popular model than two models where there's flux between the load on each, since these things have a non-trivial time to loa
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Language vs system with a language? Mathematica, matlab, maple, octave, etc.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
We did a five day backpacking trip this summer (in Wyoming, with lots of sun) and the solar was great. Kept my wife's iPhone at 80-100% for the trip (some idiot left the usb-c cable for his phone in the car) with mostly only using it a
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I cancelled on Wednesday night. We probably haven't watched anything on Disney+for two or three weeks; the value was getting lower over time (possibly because we've watched a lot of what we wanted to). Had it not been for this eve
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Just to directly address this - the key thing wrong in this formula is that it's ^2*state, not ^state. The state transition table operates both on the current state and the input you read from the tape, so for a binary turing machine w
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I haven't driven through it much since it was completed - I moved out of Boston in 2005. As a now-just-visitor I find driving through the central artery tunnels even more stressful than on the old elevated 93, but that could just be a
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Is the mark of intelligence being able to navigate to BOS, or refusing to drive through the big dig in the first place?
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by dgacmu 1y ago
It is. But in this case the conflict is more fundamental - the NEC has no provision for a circuit that has multiple electrical supplies.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
It conflicts with some of the NEC (national electric code) requirements. That all needs to get sorted out.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
An odd thing about this article is that it ignores the deeper question: what balance of solar over-provisonioning + battery would most cost-effectively cover anticipated yearly needs? I suspect that something like 3x'ing the solar (und
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by dgacmu 1y ago
No, those were round trip times already
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by dgacmu 1y ago
The hard part is realizing that the problem you're solving efficiently maps to a dynamic programming algorithm. You have to spot the opportunity for sub-problem reuse, or else the solution looks something like cubic or exponential (etc
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Network latency in most situations is not 500ms. The latency from New York California is under 70ms, and if you add in some transmission time you're still under 200ms. And that's ignoring that an NYC request will probably go only
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by dgacmu 1y ago
And - having also gone through it - there are legitimate lead concerns with old china. I sold my family's mostly for that reason. Kept the silver for emotional reasons but still haven't used it yet. Probably a sign there.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
They do! But my hands hurt typing at 55 after a while and my children get grumpy. I put a lot of insulation and air sealing into my house when I bought it and our heating bills are ... ok. About $250/month during the colder months to k
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by dgacmu 1y ago
It's like four-ish times per year but - nothing's wrong with it, I just prefer the house being up to temperature when I get home. 65 is more comfortable to us than 50 or 55. (Long trips we drop it to 50, long weekend trips to visi
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I really appreciate mine. My big use case is that we go away for a week or two over winter sometimes and turn the house down to 55F. The radiators take quite a while to heat the house back up from that temperature, so I turn the temperature

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