gnramires

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by gnramires 3y ago
That would work only for a planar distribution of material. A 3D distribution would require multiple layers (I guess it might quickly become infeasible if it requires thousands of layers). In the case of 3D arrangements, I think some substr
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by gnramires 3y ago
Shouldn't an ECC non-correctable error trigger an immediate shutdown, because bad data could be committed to disk? (I guess unsafe shutdown could cause corruption elsewhere, but that seems like a reasonable risk) If attacks are a serio
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by gnramires 3y ago
> People have been claiming short term incentives for decades. If short term incentives were having long term negative impacts the corporate feedback mechanisms would have picked up on it by now. Maybe the mechanisms are working fine, th
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by gnramires 3y ago
I should have been more balanced or nuanced a bit: I also don't think static linking is to be forbidden or completely shunned. As Linus himself says, a combination of both may be ideal. For basic system libraries like GUI libraries the
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by gnramires 3y ago
As far as I can see, it would be unwise to roll back 30 years of (Linux) systems building with dynamic linking in favor of static linking. It mostly works very well and does save some memory, disk, and has nice security properties. Both hav
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by gnramires 3y ago
I'm interested in using Blu rays (maybe M discs, which are far more expensive!) for personal backup, as I generally don't have more than 100gb of really critical data (which excludes everything I could just download on the interne
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by gnramires 3y ago
So... can they give it a bump? :)
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by gnramires 3y ago
Chips, and intelligence in general, is a very special case, because it can be miniaturized retaining the same function (or if you prefer, gain function in proportion for the same area). Other technologies might have some improvements from m
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by gnramires 3y ago
I think your argument may be a little too strong. Would you refrain from discussing, say, happiness, sadness, etc. in your daily life without a formal definition of what happiness is exactly at a structural level? And I say that as someone
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by gnramires 3y ago
Personally, I think ads can be quite predatory, which is why I dislike them (if ads themselves had better ethics and curation, I might think otherwise -- I have less issues with sponsorships elected by creators). That most people choose not
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by gnramires 3y ago
People are saying about 70% of Spotify revenue goes to rights holders, whereas you're saying about 85% of Bandcamp's revenue goes to rights holders. It really doesn't seem like that much of a difference? Maybe what you'r
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by gnramires 3y ago
The number of connected users is different from the number of user connections :) The first is the number of nodes, the second edges.
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by gnramires 3y ago
I think part of this connection reflects an universal (not just coincidental) equivalence: between intelligence, (logical) reasoning and planning. Finding a solution to a logical problem is perhaps similar to finding a path in a motion plan
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by gnramires 3y ago
Science is more than just testing, although testing is an important part of science. I believe the reasoning aspect can, in principle, be made strong enough to be robust, and almost independent of experimental confirmation (essentially from
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by gnramires 3y ago
Correction: I've just realized I've drawn an incorrect conclusion, the energy per bit in the case I've shown is indeed lower than the standard 2 bit encoding, so it's actually a win! Again, for a myriad reasons, I'm
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by gnramires 3y ago
That's true, if you use binary encoding to represent the b states. I were referring to base b representation, in which by definition we use b states to represent log2(b) bits: for example, 4 states to represent bits 00,01,10,11, which
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by gnramires 3y ago
I think the b factor is due to the analog representation: if the base has b values, you use on average b/2 voltage for representation. I would think the mean square value in might have been more appropriate though? (as voltage energy l
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by gnramires 3y ago
It's tricky because as noise increases, large constellations, although perhaps in theory with advanced statistical decoding (where you consider P(Symbol|Received signal)) they're advantageous, become less viable and more demanding
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by gnramires 3y ago
Indeed! I wonder why the system can't just stop giving the process memory when it's starting to become critical? (say, you're over 95% memory used) I really think a more general solution is treating memory (and CPU time as we
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by gnramires 3y ago
Indeed, and I think we should be thinking about pricing the recycling or disposal costs too (even if that's difficult or inherently imprecise), as well as giving incentives for products with effective recycling supply chains (or simply
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by gnramires 3y ago
I assume they want to keep their printers with 3d printed parts for the following reasons: (1) Dog fooding their own printers (in mass production) so they're reliable; (2) Making DIY, modifications and repairs easy on their printers; (
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by gnramires 3y ago
Sure, but it seems this is unphysical if this passage occurs after essentially an infinite time for an outside observer. Before crossing the event horizon, the infalling person sees the whole history of the universe. But the problem is, if
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by gnramires 3y ago
If their light reaches you, your light could reach them, this is a reciprocity condition that I believe is valid in GR too (because effectively light follows null geodesics, and it can always go both ways, geodesics don't have a prefer
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by gnramires 3y ago
Consider this argument: if you can see the person falling in for "infinitely long", then you can actually communicate with this person falling in. For example, through light or gestures. Since you can communicate, this means the i
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by gnramires 3y ago
The schwartzchild solution comes with a bunch of caveats! For example, it is eternal, it's not the result of a collapse solution. As far as I know, no one has an analytic solution yet for black hole collapse of say a star in finite tim
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by gnramires 3y ago
I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil. We have quite bad drug abuse issues as well. I have helped a group that rescued several people (I believe most with drug addiction) from the streets[1]. What they do, and several other groups, and also governmen
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by gnramires 3y ago
It's not that simple. LLMs are great for predicting next word, but this needs a more unsupervised approach. Ultimately, you need to know the environment of whales. Sure, you know the next probable token, and even relationships between
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by gnramires 3y ago
I forgot to add: it's unlikely anything you come up with (while trying to develop your creativity) is going to be legitimately useful or even fun. It's like expecting to play a violin like Hillary Hahn (or <insert skilled music
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by gnramires 3y ago
Creativity can be trained just like any other skills! :) I second taking note of stuff; like most things, genuinely practicing means you will get better. Something that's also overlooked often is (1) Technical knowledge, (2) Methodical
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by gnramires 3y ago
There are services that host those for you, as an alternative to self hosting. I've been using hosted Seafile for a while and very happy with it.

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