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691.
by foota 3y ago
This is a really interesting article for anyone interested in error correcting codes. My TL;DR is that there are some codes that are able to reconstruct data with a fixed number of queries (i.e., limiting the fan out of reads for reconstruc
692.
by foota 3y ago
Isn't plywood cheaper than solid wood?
693.
by foota 3y ago
Hydro is mostly (not entirely) tapped out for power generation (not, of course, for pumped storage, which doesn't require rivers). Creating reservoirs is also ecologically damaging, and releases a lot of methane (although I'm not
694.
by foota 3y ago
It's not mentioned in the article, but I wonder if part of this is about stealth. I imagine the moving control planes might create additional cross section vs not having them?
695.
by foota 3y ago
It's DARPA, its probably intended for a drone.
696.
by foota 3y ago
The advantage of combining them though is that you might be able to treat different subparts of the problem differently (which is the hard part), so that you could use an approximate algorithm for the hard part of it, and an exact algorithm
697.
by foota 3y ago
They mention paralleling them, so it's only as expensive as the slowest write.
698.
by foota 3y ago
There's been attempts to use different embeddings for numbers, which helps a lot. E.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37936005
699.
by foota 3y ago
20 thousand positions per second is still a lot compared to a human though.
700.
by foota 3y ago
Will those comment eventually update once the blog is appended? :-)
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by foota 3y ago
Maybe the answer then is to find what these hard cases are and use them in heuristics or approximate algorithms? If we could tell when part of the problem is hard, and maybe bound the error for them, and use an exact algorithm for other par
702.
by foota 3y ago
Maybe they did this to help the phone find it's owner?
703.
by foota 3y ago
Schrodinger's nuclear missiles?
704.
by foota 3y ago
From [1] "Not every character qualifies for trademark protection, however. For a character to be trademarked, the character cannot be too similar to other existing trademarked characters and must be used to brand products or services.
705.
by foota 3y ago
I don't think you can broadly use trademark protection though, can you?
706.
by foota 3y ago
I think there's a handful of Soyuz launches per year, and those don't have a nuclear warhead that needs to be maintained.
707.
by foota 3y ago
I can't see it being superhuman, that's for sure. Chess AI are superhuman because they do vast searches, and I can't see that being replicated by an LLM architecture.
708.
by foota 3y ago
Distance is a limiting factor for memory bandwidth and other long circuits, but I'm not sure a speed up of 2x is feasible?
709.
by foota 3y ago
I think the issue here is that it's always possible to perturb the model inputs to mess with the output if you have the weights. I guess in theory you could have a model that isn't vulnerable to this, but I'm not sure the tra
710.
by foota 3y ago
real CV programmers edit their QR codes with a sharpie
711.
by foota 3y ago
Parent is saying that noncompetes affect more than finance companies, and other companies may not pay for them in the same way.
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by foota 3y ago
I assume they've split it out so much to better allow smaller systems over larger ones. In theory this should allow better access patterns, for instance for the electricity, the AdjustElectricityConsumptionSystem has to consider each
713.
by foota 3y ago
On the flip side, look at all the systems with no dependencies on the left!
714.
by foota 3y ago
In some ways I think this is a tricky problem since you want users to get deeper into some topics, but not ones that are considered "problematic", but defining those is inherently political. It seems like you could define some ide
715.
by foota 3y ago
I realize this is a contentious topic, but I don't think it necessarily deserves to be flagged.
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by foota 3y ago
If chromium were abandoned they wouldn't really have a choice, would they? I guess they could migrate edge to run on top of firefox, but I'm not sure if they'd want to. It's actually a little interesting, why did they ch
717.
by foota 3y ago
It's generally better because revocation lists are assumed to be smaller than valid lists.
718.
by foota 3y ago
This may not mean what you think it means. From wikipedia: "they were acting "at the order, request, or under the direction or control, of a foreign principal" and proved that the alleged foreign agent engaged "in politi
719.
by foota 3y ago
In my mind a Java is the main language that shares the same niche as C#, and I think for a long time C# came out ahead while Java stagnated, but in many ways I think Java has now pulled ahead imo.
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by foota 3y ago
This is what confuses me though, people don't write things like: What is the most relevant sentence in this book? I have a vague understanding of the mechanisms here, but I just don't think I get how it goes from "the most re

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