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by gbacon 1y ago
Flying is easy. Taking off is easy. Landing is tricky.
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by gbacon 1y ago
Yes, there has to be a trail, but not from flight plans. In the U.S., ATC does not receive VFR flight plans (except for the weird special case of the D.C. SFRA, but even those are filed as IFR flight plans), only Search and Rescue. Flying i
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by gbacon 1y ago
As a flight instructor, flight sim teaches lots of bad habits that need to be unlearned at the beginning. Over-fixation on instruments is at the top of this list for VFR operations. I am not at all convinced that a person with only sim expe
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by gbacon 1y ago
*in the name of security theater General aviation, in the U.S. at least, runs largely on the honor system. To fly in controlled airspace these days, ADS-B out is required, and there are definitely records of where people go
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by gbacon 1y ago
I found decent results using multiclass spectral clustering to query embedding spaces. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10500152 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10971523
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by gbacon 1y ago
Tend to avoid Euclidean distance.
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by gbacon 1y ago
Cosine similarity is your friend.
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by gbacon 1y ago
Base 2 is also sometimes abbreviated lg.
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by gbacon 1y ago
No royalty contract is getting an author a thousand bucks per sale. If you have to wildly exaggerate to make your point, then the point isn’t compelling. Books have a resale market. Every “lost sale” isn’t necessarily of a new purchase from
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by gbacon 1y ago
> Breaking the cycle > The best engineering managers I’ve known — the ones engineers actually like — have figured out a few things: > 1. They protect focus time like it’s sacred. […] > 2. They stay technical enough to mak
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by gbacon 1y ago
Who is the victim, and how was that person not made whole?
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by gbacon 1y ago
Cool results. We were told there would be das blinkenlights.
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by gbacon 1y ago
The HN crowd dislikes brick-and-mortar landlords but often sides with charging rent for certain bits. Which side will prevail? Interesting excerpt: > “We will have a trial on the pirated copies used to create Anthropic’s central library
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by gbacon 1y ago
My intuition about the question is related: the set of all Turing machines (algorithms) is countable, but the set of all languages (problems to solve) is uncountable. If you take mathematics to be the bigger, uncountable picture, it’s mostl
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by gbacon 1y ago
Which industry and in what role and context? From someone I’ve hired to design a CRUD or mobile app, I’m not all that interested in a proof that a particular two-symbol Turing machine happens to do the job. It may be an interesting result f
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by gbacon 1y ago
Part of Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation is having an Industrial Advisory Board (IAB). Whether it is a box to be checked or a source of input for thoughtful consideration is another question. Asking ca
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by gbacon 1y ago
It was the verbatim title of the article, and it contains > A 2023 study2 of more than 4,500 PhD graduates in the United Kingdom found that over two-thirds of doctoral graduates were employed outside academia. If 67-33 isn’t a vast dif
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by gbacon 1y ago
That's really not necessary. Everyone here knows where to find the manual, and we all also know it has a considerable volume of information.
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by gbacon 1y ago
Like any language, the best way to learn is by doing. Write small programs at first. Get more ambitious as you grow. Most importantly, have fun, which will aid your learning. Making programming fun is Perl’s best feature.
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by gbacon 1y ago
If you’ll be spending a significant amount of time around Unix or Linux as a sysadmin or developer, it’s definitely worth learning. Like vi, it will always be there. Larry Wall characterized Perl as inhabiting the void between the manipule
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by gbacon 1y ago
Wow, that produced a flashback to using TinyFugue in the 90s. https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MUD_clients
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by gbacon 1y ago
Where do I find lightbulbs anywhere similar to ⍝ in appearance? It looks like a big toe.
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by gbacon 1y ago
https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec#Taint-mode
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by gbacon 1y ago
Definite broad applicability. NP-complete are the hardest problems in NP. Cook in 1971 proved SAT to be in NP-complete. In the worst case for any other problem in NP, we can quickly ( i.e. , in polynomial time) convert instances of that pro
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by gbacon 1y ago
A fascinating chapter in The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg describes market-basket analytics at Target. They wanted to be able to determine whether a shopper is pregnant because that is an event that they believed women to be willing t
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How Did Dennis Ritchie Produce His PhD Thesis? A Typographical Mystery(fermatslibrary.com)
25 points by gbacon 1y ago|2 comments
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by gbacon 1y ago
See also https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3558100.3563839 https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/dmr/ https://dmrthesis.net/
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by gbacon 1y ago
It is unjust. It is destructive. It actively impoverishes all of us. This is where they trot out the cold, detached assertion of Robespierre that one has to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
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by gbacon 1y ago
Even if Amazon pays no corporate income tax (only one category out of many), they pay much more in taxes per year than you would in several lifetimes. The phrase “fair share” is political, which is to say meaningless. The people who have ea
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by gbacon 1y ago
Regarding both perfect knowledge and equilibrium discovery, consider Hayek’s work on what he called the knowledge problem, beginning with “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” No person or entity possesses perfect knowledge of the current stat

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