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by goldenshale 4y ago
Lame. These are scared opportunists who are going to screw things up for everyone because they are afraid of the unknown. Seriously, do something new and creative if you are an artist. Design your way into relevance.
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by goldenshale 4y ago
Bad ass! A great addition would be some content on tuning pre-trained language models for particular purposes. It would be great to have examples of things like tuning a GPT model trained on language and code to take in a context and spit
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by goldenshale 4y ago
If only we could have an AI do the documentation...
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by goldenshale 4y ago
Yes, Eon! Amazing book. Darwin's Radio is a really fun idea too. Definitely recommend that if you enjoyed Eon. Very different, but equally creative and fascinating.
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by goldenshale 4y ago
Also shouldn't the input argument a be named items instead? From what I can see items is an invalid variable as is.
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by goldenshale 4y ago
- Quantum computing via https://quantum.country/ - Cooking via YouTube (Food Wishes w/ Chef John, and Kenji Lopez Alt's channel) - ML model architectures (AI Coffee Break, and Yannic Kilcher's channels) - Exp
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by goldenshale 4y ago
I think this article hits on some truths and gets a handful of things wrong. First, they are correct that we are in a dynamic profession that requires constant learning and expanding. No doubt the people who choose to stay in software are
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by goldenshale 4y ago
I wonder if this is why the internet hasn't led to the dramatic increase in productivity that one would have predicted a global communications network would have produced? Instead we are turning ourselves into mice with a dopamine fee
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by goldenshale 5y ago
Actually the instruments that come with Sonic Pi are created in Overtone. Sam Aaron and I were expats and best friends living in Amsterdam, and we created Overtone together. He then went on to create SonicPi, and I joined DeepMind as the
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by goldenshale 5y ago
Seems like a perfect pairing for direct air carbon capture systems, which are primarily energy limited.
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by goldenshale 5y ago
The period of US hegemony from WW2 until today has by far been the most peaceful time in the history of civilization. Unlike previous super powers, the US did not take over any other countries or colonize by force. We have done many horri
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by goldenshale 5y ago
If you look at the data, software jobs are growing far faster than new graduates in computer science. A quick google search just found well over 250,000 open positions in the US, with about 50,000 new graduates per year. I'd bet we h
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by goldenshale 5y ago
Find another company to work for. Not making people look bad for being less productive is absurd, and there will be many high performance teams where that is not an issue. Shoot for more prestigious companies, and there will be rewards fo
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by goldenshale 5y ago
Your best strategy no doubt depends on who you are and who you want to be. Do you want to work on a wide range of projects, or stay focused on a niche, like embedded systems for hardware control, audio and music DSP, 3D graphics, games, we
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by goldenshale 5y ago
This idea relates to one of the key results in neural networks, where it has been shown that a sufficiently large single hidden layer network can approximate any function. (In essence a bunch of piece wise segments that can approximate the
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by goldenshale 5y ago
Haskell: recommended by the insight of human astrologers. There’s a poetry in the merging of two new-age religions stemming from different communities. Unfortunately I’m an atheist, and so are most of us here I’d imagine.
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by goldenshale 5y ago
Not really. A ground-source heat pump uses the thermally stable ground below a house to heat in the winter and cool in the summer, while a geothermal power plant pumps cool water down a well and then gets hot steam out another connected we
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by goldenshale 5y ago
Yeah, per-house is probably never going to make sense, but larger scale operations where they can use hydraulic fracturing techniques to expand the surface area could be the solution. They call these Enhanced Geothermal Systems, and basica
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by goldenshale 5y ago
I highly recommend you read (or listen, the audiobook was great) to Conquistador by Buddy Levy. It might change your mind on this point. It tells the story of Cortez from the day they arrive on the shores of Mexico to when they take over
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by goldenshale 5y ago
Yeah, when we wanted to have a kid I quit cannabis and hot-tubbing for 6 months in anticipation of conceiving. It worked, and she's healthy! Sample size of 1, but it felt like kind of a nice way to commit to a family and get in the p
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by goldenshale 5y ago
They've also discovered neolithic villages that were along the shores of lakes in the alps in present day Switzerland that have been dated to as far back as 1,000 BC. They were already living in post and beam homes on stilts, herding
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by goldenshale 5y ago
Wait, so you mean if you take linear projections of today's outputs and costs and extrapolate into the future it seems impossible? No shit. This is basically the case with every interesting technology project. There will no doubt ha
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by goldenshale 5y ago
I'm a software engineer with a passion for botany and growing vegetables. I mostly attribute this interest to growing up with a gardening mother, but I think the mixture of engineering systems, working with equipment, and trying to ba
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by goldenshale 6y ago
What a classic! Back in 1999 I wrote the networking infrastructure for a distributed, evolutionary, fractal art system for Steven Rooke (maybe you remember the fractal absolut vodka bottle on the back of Wired magazine) and I learned every
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by goldenshale 6y ago
It's a free market as well as a land of free speech, so they can just find another hosting provider, or build their own servers. They can enable whatever kind of groups they choose, but that should in no way require other people or or
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by goldenshale 6y ago
My intuitive understanding of these findings is that short term memory works by maintaining a consistent firing pattern in a particular region of the prefrontal cortex. By default a given firing pattern might activate other patterns becaus
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by goldenshale 6y ago
Or maybe this is why Dark is a bad business endeavor in the first place. I would never bet my company's future on something like this, and the toolchain doesn't seem sufficiently powerful to warrant the risk. Sorry, but this is n
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by goldenshale 6y ago
This is the art of being an effective person, let alone doing good engineering, and personally I find building and using this craftsman's intuition to be the great joy of working in software. Contrary to many of the comments here, I w
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Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes(colorado.edu)
218 points by goldenshale 6y ago|78 comments
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by goldenshale 6y ago
Because most recordings are never actually streamed to that many people. My guess is that the popular and expensive streams make profit while the rest cost basically nothing to host.

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