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by dmboyd 2y ago
Isn’t this just ontological then. It doesn’t seem like a novel observation that “measurement devices” collapse a wave function (Schrödinger) if you’ve defined a measurement device as such.
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by dmboyd 3y ago
At least in the early days, every iPhone maintained a local lookup table between ssids and gps coordinates in a SQLite database. https://www.networkworld.com/article/752872/security-apple-o...
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by dmboyd 3y ago
Crossing the border with $40k cash in the 1950s would be the equivalent to $450k cash in 2023 dollars. Sounds like they got that bit wrong or there’s more to the story.
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by dmboyd 3y ago
This is sort of unfair because I’m sure this must’ve been part of the training set. But hilarious nonetheless. https://chat.openai.com/share/6a1fdfb4-9228-480f-961e-fa2c4b...
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by dmboyd 3y ago
On root-cause, I wonder if it’s some variation or combination of “publish or perish” linked to failure averse political and cultural structures? I don’t think the circumstances are unique to SK as you see similar effect globally where succe
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by dmboyd 3y ago
Intuitively this has to be right, ie, stemming, lemmatization plus data pre processing for sentiment has to impact the kinds of reasoning and logic applied. That has to be transitory until models can handle a larger word vocabulary and bett
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by dmboyd 10y ago
Wow, I've mostly converted to DuckDuckGo for the past two or so years, so are these "google assistant" style placements now part of their core product? or is this a setting that you've enabled? If it's part of the c
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by dmboyd 13y ago
This should really have been a separate fix & installed without user interaction. Instead this is 450 Megs & requires a restart. It'll take days for it to get out to those at risk.
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by dmboyd 13y ago
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/12/18/10378...
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by dmboyd 14y ago
This is just a personal anecdote , but I've had a large number of Dell laptops (100+) which all seem to have recovery partitions rather than install media now days. Whenever something fails, it's been a hard drive hardware failure, In which
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by dmboyd 14y ago
Rmagic and octave magic work pretty well in my experience (which rely on Rpy2 and oct2py)
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by dmboyd 14y ago
Bootvis used to be the go-to tool before Microsoft discontinued it. Good to see there's an alternative now for win 7 & 8, but why on earth does it need to be bundled into a 5 gig download?
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by dmboyd 14y ago
It really hinges on whether the game is a discrete artwork, kind of like a book or a movie, noone wants to have to pay to see the ending(pay $10 to defeat the boss), or whether it is a developing story and the Pay to play choices are analog
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by dmboyd 14y ago
How prevalent are bootkit (MBR) malicious exploits though? Surely the right place for this is for windows to prevent boot modification without authentication though UAC or something similar?
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by dmboyd 14y ago
How does the actel toolkit compare with the xilinx toolkit?
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by dmboyd 14y ago
It's probably a combination of floating point errors adding up.
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by dmboyd 14y ago
I've managed to hack it into a semi-vectorised implementation which works up to 700x700 before it runs out of memory. http://i.imgur.com/xzgXW.png
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by dmboyd 14y ago
My attempt using matlab(octave) to generate a 100x100 version of the image (using his function description): https://gist.github.com/3903785 Hadn't figured out if there is a way of vectorising it further. Would appreciate any tips if anyo
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by dmboyd 14y ago
Giving the guy a break, it does look like he doesn't "get" github, as it hosts the sources(not in an easily buildable format) as a binary download. and the content of the repo is just random batch files. And, regarding batch files, if it ge
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by dmboyd 14y ago
Essentially, excel is a functional language, without the ability for recursion. If there were a built in array datatype, that'd be possible. There's a few papers floating around explaining an integration between Haskell and excel, described
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by dmboyd 14y ago
Or there's always the lighter weight option pyspread[1] in which cells are objects, works with numpy arrays and any module. [1]: http://manns.github.com/pyspread/
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by dmboyd 14y ago
Would be interested if its worthwhile/possible using shaders as a wrapper for three.js. All I got when I was searching was there was a mozilla bug report and a hacked patch to expose SIMD through js[1], and a project to add SIMD support to
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by dmboyd 14y ago
Last I looked, the vector math part of 3D wasn't handled by webGL, this uses Three.js to handle that, and looks to be the main bottleneck. Until you can do matrix/vector math using hardware, webGL is pretty much useless.
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by dmboyd 14y ago
I read that into it also. It strips everyone into stars and job-occupiers. But I think it leaves out another really important subset of people who can identify those of their peers who are prodigies, and absorb their thought train and pro
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by dmboyd 14y ago
Another reason to use https, (and to deny telcos the right to run root certs)
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by dmboyd 14y ago
Its worth whatever people are willing to pay for it. It's a perception that you need Windows, and that's going to last a while. That's why there's such a huge market in silly things that you don't need(like Winzip for example), the price ha
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by dmboyd 14y ago
haha, nice!
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by dmboyd 14y ago
All they need now is to bundle in mingw32 + msys.
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by dmboyd 14y ago
Presumably, the service will be better. Banks in Australia usually need a deposit of one years of sales if you take yearly subscriptions. Then you need to go to a payment processor, who charge their own fees structure on top. But the banks
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by dmboyd 14y ago
Does anyone have any idea on the background on who's behind this? The fact that there are no names doesn't exactly instill trust or confidence. Closest I could get to info would be that the Southern Payment Systems Pty Ltd resolves on a goo

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