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by gowld 1y ago
Is there a document that explains that color chart? This version shows different shades of colors: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=AS17&...
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by gowld 1y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Galileo-Was-Wrong-Church-Right/dp/097... Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right CD-ROM – September 1, 2007 by Robert A. Sungenis (Author), Robert J. Bennett (Author)
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by gowld 1y ago
For a long time, the YC application asked founders for an example of how they "hacked" (cheated) a system.
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by gowld 1y ago
IMO agreed to cancel the embargo after OpenAI announced.
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by gowld 1y ago
If they failed and remained quiet, then everyone would know that the other companies performed well and they didn't even qualify.
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by gowld 1y ago
I've banked professional success on my superior "Google Searching" ability (compared to my peers) for 20 years. A little but of thinking goes a long way, even when using tools designed to replace thought.
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by gowld 1y ago
Someone who keeps up on AI and finds productivity gains will outcompete someone who doesn't, even for activities that aren't develoing new AI weren't AI-based before. What is an "AI startup"? If you add a chatbot do
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by gowld 1y ago
SteamDeck says what?
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by gowld 1y ago
Most gen ed articles on HN are not new ideas, just articles that could be pages from a textbook.
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by gowld 1y ago
Concurrency implies asynchrony (two systems potentially doing work at the same time withut waiting for each other), but the converse is not true. A single process can do work in an unordered (asynchronous) way.
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by gowld 1y ago
Could your whole village walk to a library in 5 minutes? Regardless of population density, villages/towns/settlements/cities tend to span a mile or more, not one acre with 1-1000 people surrounded by non-residential space. Ho
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by gowld 1y ago
It's a TV show for kids who do NOT read.
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by gowld 1y ago
Contests run by smarter people have a prize pool, with prize selection priority assigned by performance rank. https://usamts.org/about/prizes/
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by gowld 1y ago
The acquisition of Windsurf was cancelled.
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by gowld 1y ago
Whose cash? OpenAI isn't paying, and Google isn't paying, and Windsurf investors already paid.
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by gowld 1y ago
> the US government was prohibiting labs from telling people whether their covid tests were positive or negative. Are you referring to unvetted experimental tests, or something else? https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/
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by gowld 1y ago
It's not a crime when the government does it :-(
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by gowld 1y ago
Pick up a TV license! Something else no sane person would do.
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by gowld 1y ago
ZX-calculus mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44532535 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX-calculus
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by gowld 1y ago
Which chapter is that? It's not in the ToC
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by gowld 1y ago
Presumably, the problem was the truck music, not the ice cream sales. There's a market opening for a travelling ice cream seller who doesn't play loud, obloxously noise on loop after 7pm.
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by gowld 1y ago
No, because Hebrew words are read right-to-left in Hebrew letters, but numbers are read left-to-right in Arabaic numerals. The direction of reading switches mid-sentence, but typewriters only type in one direction.
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by gowld 1y ago
LLMs are already solving this problem using the "thinking" phase. They don't just one-shot an attempt at the output. The left-to-right narrative thinking process edits multiple drafts of the code they eventually output.
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by gowld 1y ago
If you connect Gemini to Assistant, and connect Assistant to Whatsapp, then you have connected Gemini to Whatsapp. https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/9984245?hl=en Documentation is unclear, but it appears
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by gowld 1y ago
Count Apps: https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/dynamic-ventures-inc/id9...
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by gowld 1y ago
Robotic legs are hard, but also pretty wells solved. See Boston Dynamics.
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by gowld 1y ago
Since the article is about VT scientists, not the school itself, the correct term is "Wahoos"
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by gowld 1y ago
Those beepers should be directional. I don't need to hear the beep opposite the direction of movement.
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by gowld 1y ago
Because good materials cost more than "fancy" decorations.
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by gowld 1y ago
Downtown is very low speed but very noisy.

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