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by greenbit 4y ago
Where is the value added, in this? Looks like a means to un-earned income for a very few, by driving up costs for the vast majority.
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by greenbit 4y ago
Think about the waste streams they were embedded in. Any typical household would probably not emit more than one unwanted computer a year, even into the 90s. So you'd expect that the density of C64s or Atari 800s or whatever to be very
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by greenbit 4y ago
Something I'd like to try -- In one session, try asking leading questions and elicit a certain kind of response. In a later session, try leading it a different direction. Will it blithely play along, or will it act cagey, as if it susp
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by greenbit 4y ago
what I'm saying is, RNA, great, that's a Thing. I just don't think that finding a mechanism for RNA to arise is the big step. I think the Big Step is going to be discovery of a set of molecules that use what's available
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by greenbit 4y ago
Maybe it's the sources I look at, which unfortunately tend to be journalistic rather than scientific. So I encounter something like 10x as many items about RNA/DNA for every one about abiogenesis that focuses on something else.
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by greenbit 4y ago
I'm just painting broad strokes, trying to avoid the TL;DR threshold. But re energy gradients, I'm talking about the difference between being able to tap into potential energy in the environment, vs just seeking some kind of equil
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by greenbit 4y ago
Some afterthoughts: In seeking abiogenesis what we're really looking for is the first replicators. Certainly RNA strands can self replicate, but how is a particular sequence alive ? About as alive as a virus, perhaps. Ok, posit a whol
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by greenbit 4y ago
Wouldn't it be fascinating if it happened multiple times right here on earth, even.
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by greenbit 4y ago
I think the whole RNA thing is a bit over hyped. People like RNA because it looks somewhat like computer code, and our technology is just smitten with computers, these recent decades. And right along with that, it makes for such a painfully
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by greenbit 4y ago
I'm with you. I've avoided this accursed virus for two years, not about to shrug and let it have its way with my insides.
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by greenbit 4y ago
Idk, the amounts are small, not really enough to spur any great new thinking, but maybe what's going on here is that there are a lot of people with ideas and opinions already, who might just share their thoughts if someone bought them
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by greenbit 4y ago
There's a quite significant difference between having one pulse that lasts a quadrillionth of a second, and sustaining a quadrillion pulses per second ..
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by greenbit 5y ago
There are the useful ones we know about, like pi or e, which can be described to arbitrary precision, but you cannot "write them out" bc that would require infinite paper and a lot of pencils. But they're useful, they have me
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by greenbit 5y ago
The true pixel resolution of the Model I was 512x192, comprised of 64 columns by 16 rows of 8x12 pixel character cells. But of course the processor only had access to the character cell array, not the individual pixels. The pixels were crea
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by greenbit 5y ago
Truth! Without nonlinearity, each layer is essentially just a matrix multiplication. You could just as well use a single equivalent layer that represents the product of the layers' matrices. Nonlinearity lets a single node partition th
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by greenbit 5y ago
Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it, how many kids were given horses back in the 1910s 1920s, that they just ignored?
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by greenbit 5y ago
You had to create, because there was just so little to consume. This is a deep problem. The Internet isn't just the biggest thing since fire , it's bigger even than fire. It's the most world changing thing the human race has
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by greenbit 5y ago
Indeed. I had the 4K 'Level I' from RadioShack, and there wasn't much that could be done with that . But the allure was that there was literally nothing else you could do with a television that was interactive, save for mayb
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by greenbit 5y ago
Point is, if you Don't turn the key, you sleep well at night knowing it's Not Being Written. Contrary to the apparent belief of the developers of New Products, a good many of us are sick to death of everything "as a service&q
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by greenbit 5y ago
If we just had flash that was write protected unless a jumper was moved, this kind of thing just would not happen. "Oh, but the average user is incapable of that" and "Corporate IT are unwilling to do that" are the two b
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by greenbit 5y ago
20-25 years ago there was at least lip service paid to the idea of "how do we improve software quality", but somewhere along the line that got lost under "move fast and break things", which paved the way for "as a s
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by greenbit 5y ago
What's the frequency, Kenneth? What part of the spectrum are we even talking about here?
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by greenbit 5y ago
No. I'd rather walk.
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by greenbit 5y ago
Ftlog not another round of 'let software do it', please. How about, when a couple of dead simple switches will do it, DO NOT stuff an embedded Linux SoC in. A toaster, for example, should not require one single bit of software. Ca
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by greenbit 6y ago
Oh absolutely. Part of what I was getting at was that this larger meta-FSM often 'just happens', w/o really being fully intentionally designed. But of course the product that you actually ship is that meta-FSM, so it's
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by greenbit 6y ago
Yeah, from that angle, yes, you'd do that. But within any one of those devices, would you carve the insides into independent FSMs? Probably a 'yes' qualifed with 'if they were very independent problems anyway'. I di
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by greenbit 6y ago
Having been both an EE (first) and a software engineer, I have noticed this: as an EE, I would never randomly attack a problem with multiple independent FSMs. Whereas in the s/w realm, I've seen seasoned professionals, without h
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by greenbit 6y ago
Idk about other areas but I suspect my local stations are fairly representative of at least the north eastern quarter of the US. All of them burn the better part of a minute with a 'teaser' piece that reveals essentially nothing,
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by greenbit 6y ago
Yes, I agree. Why is 30% to 40% of the time slot allocated to matters that are as ephemeral as the weather and of no long term consequence whatsoever? (For that matter, the weather segment has become much longer than it needs to be, but I d