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by fernly 8y ago
Missing some of the best of the 60s (maybe Byrne's too young at 66?). Malvina Reynolds, "It Isn't Nice" performed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvC4xq32AX8 lyrics: http://www.lyricsochords.
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by fernly 8y ago
"Distributed Web" -- Wikipedia fails me, but some clarity emerges from https://ipfs.io/ "IPFS aims to replace HTTP and build a better web for all of us." https://medium.com/textileio&#x2F
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by fernly 8y ago
Can we talk about BradFrost's choice of TB3 dock station[1]? It looks capable with the single exception of the miniDisplayPort for video. In particular, no DisplayPort/HDMI connector. Isn't that a problem? [1] https:/&#
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by fernly 8y ago
There is currently an excellent podcast exploring these ideas: "The End of the World with Josh Clark"[1]. Nicely produced, fairly deep content -- including audio quotes from Nick Bostrom among others. This link is to episode 1, bu
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by fernly 8y ago
Clearly this is a bad estimating rule for some processes. The one that popped into my mind is the probability of earthquakes (guess where I live...). This would have the probability of an earthquake declining with each quake-free year that
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by fernly 8y ago
Hmmm... quote, > The basic concept for e-krona is as follows: it would be digital, and have a 1-to-1 conversion with an ordinary krona held in an account at the Riksbank or stored locally, for example on a card or in a mobile phone app.
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by fernly 8y ago
...or, the usual IQ tests of the 1950s did not adequately measure whatever Feynman was particularly good at.
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by fernly 8y ago
"My neighbor had just got a dog that was always barking. So I got tweeter, built up a simple 30kHz oscillator using a LM324. Set the two LM383 to swing rail to rail. Got a lantern battery that could put out the power. Then connected t
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by fernly 8y ago
Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana[1] is a classic intro. Altho the free version at the link is called "rather dated" -- really, how "dated" can meditation instructions be? Anyway, I found that edition h
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by fernly 8y ago
I appreciate the author acknowledging -- if belatedly -- the inbuilt essential bias of the training set, > Training on photos of celebrities of Hollywood means that our model will be very good at generating photos of a predominantly whit
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by fernly 8y ago
What are the aerodynamic abilities of a drone swarm? That is, to what altitude can a swarm reach, to interdict an incoming aircraft? How fast? My impression of current drones is that they are fairly small, less than 2 metres diameter, which
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by fernly 8y ago
At the linked site, click "Find a repair cafe" for a map of the many local ones. In particular for the SF Bay Area note Palo Alto and Mountain View ones. The Palo Alto cafe[1] is particularly active with quarterly events that are
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by fernly 8y ago
What a nasty website. * video that floats over the text as you scroll * empty gray thing that drops down from the top for no reason (prob. trying to display an ad, but UBlock Origin stops it?) * when you page through the image gallery every
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by fernly 8y ago
The concept of the "global log" is mentioned many times in the article, but not much detail on this critical piece: > ... the consensus protocol is only being used for inserting transactions into a global log. For every other p
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by fernly 8y ago
Oddly, megalith.co.uk, specified in both the OP page and on the github header, is now "for sale". Edit: 8086tiny.freeforums.net is functional and has had a few recent posts.
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by fernly 8y ago
The FAQ[0] provides a better overview, > CHERI refers to Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions, an Instruction-Set Architecture (ISA) extension that implements a hybrid capability-system model providing fine-grained memory prote
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by fernly 8y ago
Source? Edit: the site ( https://www.eastwindblog.co/?page_id=56 ) says "founded on May 1st, 1974" Anyway, if so (and certainly similar communities were a thing then), some of the founders from then must be 70+ by n
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by fernly 8y ago
Right: "Our total medical expenditure came to $50,138. This works out to $686.82 per member per year." They don't break the membership down by age, but that's a number for a young healthy group, and completely unrealisti
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by fernly 8y ago
He quotes Scott Alexander on "Moloch" (an essay I haven't read yet), "In some competition optimizing for X, the opportunity arises to throw some other value under the bus for improved X. Those who take it prosper. Those
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by fernly 8y ago
I love this understated line: "He regained alertness once the car crashed..." Yeah I bet he did.
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by fernly 8y ago
Which projects do you work in? It's been a few months since I gave them any time (seabird watch, science gossip) and a whole bunch of new projects have been added ( https://www.zooniverse.org/projects ).
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by fernly 8y ago
I'm on Yosemite and I don't see anything like that in the energy saver preference pane.
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Peter Norvig, "Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle"[1] by constraint propagation. [1] http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
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Need the NPC in the next seat who wants to tell you about Jesus, or sleeps on your shoulder. Also, the more times you play it, the smaller your bladder is, and the more likely there will be a food cart in the aisle between you and the toile
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by fernly 8y ago
Definitely going to show in "Science or Fiction" in next weeks SGU...
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by fernly 8y ago
A couple of years ago I wrote a lengthy deconstruction of a Heinlein story[1], and had to note a number of unfortunate anachronisms that result from the basic fact that this future world had no computers, none. Their absence shows up in so
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by fernly 8y ago
Some background, including (and kudos to the eds) a paragraph on the above-linked paper of 6 August: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
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by fernly 8y ago
I am incorrect, in a subordinate document [3] he compares his ISA to RISC-V, Open RISC, and others. [3] https://www.forwardcom.info/comparison.html
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by fernly 8y ago
I see he has a design for "a new open instruction set architecture and the corresponding hardware and software standards" [1]. It occurred to me to wonder if it had any relation to RISC-V, another open-source ISA [2], but apparen
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by fernly 8y ago
This! As the introduction doc coyly says, > so as a user we usually just concern ourselves with editing the values and a friendly developer takes care of specifying the names for us. :) The friendly developer gets the job of conveying -

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