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by fl7305 3y ago
I didn't even think about it. I do get stumped on some convoluted headlines, but not this one. The website The Register has its roots in England. My impression is that English newspapers have their own style and idioms for headlines th
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by fl7305 3y ago
> Is this something that has been attempted before? Yes, some file systems implement "deduplication".
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> simply bulking up the ground around the piers That is exactly what they did around the pylons of the large Öresundsbridge between Denmark and Sweden.
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The ship that brought down the bridge had a capacity of 10 000 TEU. It's max weight (DWT) was 115 000 tons. There were container ships with a DWT of 50 000 tons when the bridge was built. There were also tankers with 10x that (500 000
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by fl7305 3y ago
Panamax specifications (320 m length, 32 m width) have been in effect since the opening of the canal in 1914. Some ships were already larger than that back then. The Titanic was about that size. The ship that knocked down the bridge could w
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by fl7305 3y ago
> when this bridge was built boats that large weren’t a risk Doesn't sound plausible to me. Very large Panamax ships were used in the 1970's when the bridge was built.
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by fl7305 3y ago
You're mixing up two different things. If the design requirement for the twin towers was "be fire resistant enough to let most people out of the building", then I'd say they met that requirement, right? If the design req
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by fl7305 3y ago
Sure, precautions might not work as well as intended. But my comment was in regards to having to build a really expensive bridge to make it crash resistant. I pointed out that you can instead build a cheap flimsy bridge and put the protecti
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by fl7305 3y ago
Öresundsbron is claimed to be designed to be resistant against ships hitting it. They have placed artificial underwater reefs around the pylons. The pylons themselves can also take quite a beating.
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> LLMs are plausibility engines. This is one way to look at LLMs. But it doesn't automatically impose an upper bound on their capabilities. Humans are reproductive organisms. This is also true. At a glance, it would seem that humans
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by fl7305 3y ago
> something that fails the libel test And that is the US libel laws. In Sweden for instance, the truth won't shield you from being convicted for libel.
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by fl7305 3y ago
Saw Marshall Faulk attempt a critical two point conversion at Jack Murphy stadium :)
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I had a CS class with him in the 90s, the stories were true :)
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He got his last name from his Norwegian ancestors.
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He was no slouch when it came to programming. He taught classes that going through the actual 68000 assembly to perform the context switch between threads in an interrupt service routine (copy the saved registers from the running thread on
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by fl7305 3y ago
I had him as a CS teacher at SDSU for a class. I had no idea he was a sci-fi author when I started the class. Bought his books and was hooked. He taught me how to implement OS thread context switching in 68000 assembly language. We also had
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by fl7305 3y ago
> the information loss is not deterministic It is technically possible to make it deterministic. The main reason you don't deterministic outputs today is that Cuda/GPU optimizations make the calculations run much faster if you
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by fl7305 3y ago
So if you're a teacher who wants to chat with Heinlein, you don't write to him directly. Instead you tell a student that he will fail your class unless he gets Heinlein to help him.
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by fl7305 3y ago
If you are an organ donor, it will surprise you what kind of research is done using corpses. For example, "body farms".
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According to one news report, he was found in his own truck. If that is correct, he could easily have brought it with him from his home.
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> Ironically, weights and biases are likely not copyrightable. > The courts even have controlling precedents that say "sweat of the brow" is not a valid justification for copyright You might be right for the US, but the EU s
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by fl7305 3y ago
Did Netflix release anything in 2023 that should have won an Oscar?
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> based on the strength of that signal No, GPS positioning uses the precise time information encoded in the data from the satellites.
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by fl7305 3y ago
It is up and running in a music museum in Germany.
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by fl7305 3y ago
Can you cool the water to the radiators? Or will that just lead to condensation and mold?
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by fl7305 3y ago
Also, can't you run some heat pumps in reverse and use them as air conditioners? So there might be a natural path to taming the problem as heating systems are replaced for end of life reasons.
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by fl7305 3y ago
> I don't think you have to worry about it breaking 40C, I don't think that temperature has ever been recorded in for example Sweden. No, it seems you're right. The highest temperature ever recorded was 38C in 1933. It has
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by fl7305 3y ago
> why LLM alone will only ever parrot intelligence. Can you design a text only test that will differentiate between real intelligence and the parroted kind?
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by fl7305 3y ago
The context here is the design of a navigation system that works without GPS. Once you have a functioning GPS, the INS is not needed at that point. The INS can run in standby mode and be continuously calibrated using the GPS positions. If G
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by fl7305 3y ago
In an aircraft, your "velocity" is usually the airspeed. This is often a lot different from the true ground speed.

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