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by dguest 5mo ago
I'll always remember my middle school science teaching telling us that nuclear fusion violates conservation of mass because the 2 protons in a pair of hydrogen nuclei combine to make helium with 4 nucleons. It's not true, but that
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by dguest 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure I eventually either payed or ran one of those keygen-and-virus.exe scripts. At least I also remember Hector thanking me for paying. It got me thinking: could I somehow pay them now? There's some sad news here: one
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by dguest 5mo ago
That's true if it was just cheating. But in this case I was hacking the shareware payment enforcement. Rather than shutting down completely the game would send an invincible and fairly destructive enemy (Hector) after you. It was real
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by dguest 5mo ago
I "hacked" Cap'n Hector in Escape Velocity. The game was shareware and he'd show up to ask you to pay the fee. After the trial period he'd start lobbing missiles at you. There was a basic editor you could open to ad
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by dguest 5mo ago
Photomultiplier tubes have a solid state counterpart [1] but there's still a lot of use for the vacuum tube version. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_photomultiplier
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by dguest 5mo ago
Exactly! They rely heuristics like that they are being served in a clean public restaurant which is presumably following health code, and is staffed by people who follow standard norms on hygiene. In some countries the norm is for the kitch
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by dguest 5mo ago
Most people will avoid sticking things in their mouth by default. They don't wait for the microbial cultures to come back positive to say no. We need a cultural shift toward code hygiene, which isn't really any different from the
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by dguest 6mo ago
I'd believe it. Wikipedia has a similar one [1] but it shows a bit more hydrogen than helium at higher elevation. Awesome graph! Worth stating that the increase in the relative fraction of He isn't so much because there's a l
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by dguest 6mo ago
Space is at the top of the atmosphere right? That place is full of stars producing helium by the teragram. GP ain't wrong, but the phrasing implied we'd have it closer by than it actually is.
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by dguest 6mo ago
Get nervous in 10 days, they won't need a heat shield until reentry.
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by dguest 6mo ago
If only wars would end when all the soldiers on one side were dead. If the people fought before they'll keep fighting, even after their robots are gone.
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by dguest 6mo ago
For better or worse the people working on this don't really use perplexity or accuracy to evaluate models. The target is whatever you'd get for those metrics if you used the discriminants that were provided in the dataset (i.e. th
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by dguest 6mo ago
Yeah, check out the service that www.windy.com uses: https://www.nowcast.de/en/ it's an array of VLF/LF radio antenna.
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by dguest 6mo ago
You could argue that that's what CERN should be. Everyone needs to agree on a place to put the LHC, and a lot of the accelerator team is on sight and probably should be payed by CERN, but they have a clear set of KPIs for that: they
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by dguest 7mo ago
While you are at it: > To meet these extreme requirements, CERN has deliberately moved away from conventional GPU or TPU-based artificial intelligence architectures. This isn't quite right either: CERN is using more GPUs than ever.
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by dguest 7mo ago
CERN doesn't build everything CERN uses: - FPAGs like this one are generally COTS. - All the experiments use GPUs which come straight from the vendors. - Most of the computing isn't even on site, it's distributed around the w
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by dguest 7mo ago
Because every principle investigator in academia works in sales. Some tried to hold out and keep calling it "ML" or just "neural networks" but eventually their colleagues start asking them why they aren't doing any
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by dguest 7mo ago
The LHC has moved on a bit since then. Here's an open dataset that one collaboration used to train a transformer: https://opendata-qa.cern.ch/record/93940 if you can beat it with linear regression we'd be hap
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by dguest 7mo ago
I made it too fun: what I said was at best an over-genarlization. The actual rules [1] apply to acrobatics and say that parachutes are required for everyone when non-crew passenger is on the plane: Unless each occupant of the aircra
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by dguest 7mo ago
FUN FACT: Aviation rules require that any plane carrying a parachute must have at least one for every person on board. Hopefully the reason is obvious. Now given that, do you really want to pay the extra cost of flying with 300 parachutes j
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by dguest 7mo ago
Ig Nobel is doing more for science than Nobel: - It's fun. - The prizes are accessible to young scientists who actually need the career boost from the publicity (as opposed to established scientists who are mostly boosting the prestige
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by dguest 7mo ago
I've almost caved and bought bluetooth because most stores stopped stocking wired headphones above crap-grade. But maybe I can just wait this out, if wired really is making a comeback.
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by dguest 7mo ago
I really like the street sign analogy. But in my case it was the other way around. I work in a Kowloon Walled City of code: dozens of intersecting communities with thousands of informally organized but largely content contributors. It looks
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by dguest 7mo ago
First time I saw this hell was when a junior colleague convinced a rather senior one to use black. Of course senior went bumbling around black-ing every file he touched, including some random thousand-line files in long-lived forks of an es
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by dguest 7mo ago
It's worse than relinquishing: you get a new voice, that of the person needs an LLM to talk. I have similar reservations about code formatters: maybe I just haven't worked with a code base with enough terrible formatting, but I&#x
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by dguest 7mo ago
Is the GIL implemented as a run-time option? I thought this feature had to be enabled at compile-time.
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by dguest 7mo ago
I think Signal (the messenger) is an interesting example: by being free, open source, and privacy centered, there's automatically no room for ads and it's difficult to monetize. Also they have to be very careful adding new feature
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by dguest 7mo ago
People don't like your company. But they'd probably like you. <3
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by dguest 8mo ago
That's another aspect of the regulation but as far as I can tell (from skimming the actual mandate, or the other summaries I found of it) it's doing both. The release itself says > Starting in 2027, consumers will be able to re
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by dguest 8mo ago
That seems a bit less clear to me. It seems to hinge on whether the courts believe that an iPhone is specifically designed to operate primarily in a wet environment.

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