eh_why_not

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by eh_why_not 2y ago
Is there a document/book you can recommend that includes a simplified example/tutorial of this computation process from beginning to end? (Or, what are the right keywords to search for such a thing?) I'm looking for something
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
> from 2 light days distance The distance is currently 22.5 light hours (and increases by half-hour per year.) But it is indeed about 2 days of round-trip time for debugging.
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Trees, Teeth, and Time: The mathematics of clock making (2008)(ams.org)
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
Beautiful work and an excellent writeup! Looking forward to your next project.
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Mars after Viking: mission design and accomplishments, Carl Sagan lecture (1977)(rigb.org)
1 points by eh_why_not 3y ago|0 comments
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
For anyone else wondering: celestial navigation (by the stars) apparently works during the day as well, as the stars' infrared light remains "visible" [0]: > The new systems use infrared rather than visible light for loca
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
Gem indeed! Here's its wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
What a creepy world we have become! It's as if you draw a thousand targets on your back every time you use technology nowadays.
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
> Perhaps the author merely meant it as an illustration. Yes I too was expecting oscillations (since I saw Chebyshev polynomials mentioned on the wiki page). I'm beginning to think that the word "might" in their statement
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
Anyone experienced with the Remez algorithm mentioned at the end of the article? The degree-9 polynomial, said to be a thousand times better than the original Taylor approximation in maximum error, also appears to be very close to the Taylo
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
I'm reading up again to refresh my relativity knowledge. Though: > even though near the speed of light, more and more of that energy goes into higher mass and slower time? This to me does not sound very different from saying the (re
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
> The shutdown means great people with Cloud Native skills are available now. Question from someone with mostly back-end/services non-cloud dev skills: what exactly are Cloud Native skills?
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
Beautiful! For the comments saying we "just" need to maintain a 1G acceleration, should point out that as the ship approaches the speed of light, its mass increases [0]. And as the mass increases, so does the thrust required to ma
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
Precisely. The redditization of HN: activism vs critical thinking.
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
Sure. The statement quoted above, however, is childish.
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
> Women are the ones who invented programming. Hmm?
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
Perhaps the best setup is for restaurants to implement both systems; physical menu available as well as QR. Question for people who prefer QR: how do you know you're not getting priced higher than other customers?
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
First time I hear of "phind", nice that it shows the sources on one side, and the summary/answer on the other. I wonder if the sources it lists are completely authoritative to its answer (i.e. the answer adds no new/hall
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
> I ripped the few shows I had purchased (they were not available on disc) before I left. Mind sharing how (tools/setup/etc)? I have many shows purchased there and would like to have them on disc instead.
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
There was also the cringey "niiice!", "sweeeet!", "that's greaatt", "that's actually pretty good" responses from the narrator in a few of the demo videos that gave them the feel of a cheap 1
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
> ...the level of genuinely well-intentioned work that the public is unfairly (and often viciously) critical of the motives of, and also the (at this point) complete absence of concern for the user, the long term... If there is lack of
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
Given that this debacle turned out to be NOT about AI safety (as Emmet Shear confirmed), the whole "slowing down" angle becomes about interests. Who else had the commercial/totally-for-profit interest in slowing OpenAI down
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood#Color , straightforward and useful.
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
It's mind-blowing that a company of this significance was left in the hands of four people, two of whom are complete unknowns in the field - or at least utterly unclear what credentials got them there.
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
Can someone link to what he said exactly?
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
Maybe naive question: if you never create an account on any of the credit bureau websites, would you be less likely to be an identity theft subject?
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
One point I don't see mentioned: YouTube is not the creator/owner of the content. There are even channels that are actively against the advertising business model and that rely on off-platform subscriptions and donations. I.e. the
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
Off topic: maybe used to reading technical papers too much, but this is an overly long article for a pass-by read, and it has no paragraph summarizing the author's main thesis. What are some good online services that can take a URL and
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by eh_why_not 3y ago
The file is from March 2022, and the article October 2023. Curious why it would take 1.5 years to go from investigation to report.

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