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by fasa99 3y ago
I was recently in Amsterdam (you know, the place where they said "welp we'll never fully outlaw prostitution & drugs so let's allow but regulate") and appreciated a series of very public urinals. Which I assume foll
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My thought is they have 50-200 systems programmers where it's like "Hey George, I know you like to contribute to linux, have at it, we just need you to put a little pinhole here here and here" Then they have 5-20 security gu
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by fasa99 3y ago
People always sell Sear, but myself, I'm a fan of presearch.com I have no affiliation with them whatsoever or financial interest. I have no interest in their crypto based business model. In fact I think their lack of google or bing s
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by fasa99 3y ago
On top of this, most times when I am renting, is via an airport. Airports are everywhere, but not everywhere. They're 1-6 hours from whereever you're going. And if your destination is say 4 hours from the airport, necessarily o
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I enthusiastically agree with this. Try having your car/vehicle stolen, the offending party caught and pled guilty, ordered by a judge to pay back the damage they have done ... and do nothing (despite making, technically, massive unta
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As a level 12 necromancer, I myself am a fan of necrobiotics: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202201174 Spiders move not through direct-muscle limb manipulation as we do, but something more akin
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You'd want three LLMs, one to create the bugs, one to report it, one to fix it. I joke of course but on the other hand this is potentially a worthwhile architecture from a self-training perspective - a bug-creating LLM means your trai
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This particular submarine may offer some reprieve from the april fool's joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland-class_submarine Which innovately uses the very classic stirling engine, an engine which operates
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by fasa99 3y ago
>In contrast, rents are a more reliable indicator of a shortage, no speculation there. Take a look at the Bay Area. One major distortion: property tax is fixed at the time of purchase. So all these people who bought a house in 1980 are
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by fasa99 3y ago
I completely agree, there's no reason any engine can't have VVT. I believe that famous northern european supercar guy, I think "Keurig" or something like this is is name - he took an old beater car 4 cylinder engine and
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For cancer and forces of nature, there is anger, there is a sense of unfairness, but we ask "why" and the instinctive answer is there - force of nature. To the robber metaphor, for example I've had cars try to run me off the
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by fasa99 3y ago
Farmers can generally be tree friendly in certain circumstances - if a road with some traffic passes through or by the farm, isolate it with tree wall (many suburban houses do this) - trees near major erosion sources / streams Putting
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to me the most exciting thing is that if is training that is speed up on the order of 100x-1000x, a large cluster may be well suited to gradient-descend hyperparameter tuning parameters by LLM training again and again at scale -- this is t
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>So we need some better argument for why it sometimes seems to work under the conditions it does. And that's arguably more about getting the physics right than it is about math. Douglas adams solved it though, he understands why thi
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"- just how unpopular would it be to abandon Baltimore?? " I mean I'm from the Baltimore area and.. well.. I mean some of us would consider that town somewhat abandoned already, think Detroit. It has some pretty rough parts.
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Also note in New Orleans, Daddy Longlegs is a nice man who can remove bad juju from a customer for a fee using that dark Tom Cruise witchcraft.
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Here's the thing. If you come in with low-mid trust and say "Expectations are 9-5, 5 days a week, in office" that's what you'll get. If you come in with high-trust and say "four day workweek, flexible hours, re
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by fasa99 3y ago
It's fine, there's a roadmap for it - "the 1000 quark" node should last as a good 10, 15 years until we get to "1 quark" Then we move onto the "10,000 planck length node". That should easily get u
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by fasa99 3y ago
I feel like there needs to be a "Gordon Moore" of marketing let's say Mordon Gore's law, that says for every X% decrease in actual size there is a 2^X% claimed by marketing. I can't wait for the day when marketing n
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I think it's the right chain of thought. You could either have 0/1 and then have additional nodes with negative activation functions, or -1/1 -1/1 is appealing to me (0 = -1) because bit hackery could be used instead of
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Well I think it's an interesting idea, and to add to that, the "-1" values would correspond to an inhibitory neuron! What neurons can do though is integrate over time, so your output can be one spike, or 3 spikes very quick,
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So LSL2 came out in 1988, Linux in 1991, so definitely NOT a reference to Linux. However both the game and Linux are a reference to Unix (Bell Labs, released in 1970s). The LSL2 developers clearly knew about Unix. And the play on word &q
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gamma ray burst is a fun one (though unlikely thankfully!) -- a similar one that gets me excited is "false vacuum collapse" whereby the "energy" of the fabric of space itself is at a local but not global minimum. So in
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The Carrington event was about 7 days, so one could assume this would affect EVERY country. So the hypothetical nation state here would need a ready-to-go plan ready to roll out at any time, and the plan must assume the native country also
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big name in the JHU CS community (small as that is relative to all else)! Also of note, at JHU, an "intersession course" is a kind of mini-semester taking place late december-early january (hence intersession, between fall and spr
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I used to work with a guy like that in 1997, during the bubble, Higgins was his name. He'd claim you could fit every movie ever onto a CD-ROM, at least one day in the future it would be possible. Higgins was weird. I can still recal