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by greesil 2y ago
Ezra Klein just had a very relevant podcast on this. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
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by greesil 2y ago
Could someone who has domain expertise weigh in here regarding the predictions quotes in CNN? I've only ever seen two meters predicted by any model at the year 2100.
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The Solar Storm Fried GPS Systems Used by Some Farmers, Stalling Planting(nytimes.com)
2 points by greesil 2y ago|1 comments
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The bronze age Trundholm sun chariot(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by greesil 2y ago|0 comments
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by greesil 2y ago
Everything public is "monitored". It's called a search engine.
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by greesil 2y ago
You think it's rent seeking as a block, and not a supply problem?
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Russia accused of using chemical gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers(theguardian.com)
11 points by greesil 3y ago|0 comments
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by greesil 3y ago
Ah cool. I've always wanted one of these but didn't want to either have a teensy print volume or pay $10K. Oh this is fun: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/15eq050/is_it_p... Appare
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by greesil 3y ago
I think the parent comment was concerned about having a closed chamber full of powder when the print is done
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by greesil 3y ago
“So far, we’re seeing basic agreement with our best model of the universe, but we’re also seeing some potentially interesting differences that could indicate that dark energy is evolving with time. Those may or may not go away with more dat
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Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe(newscenter.lbl.gov)
3 points by greesil 3y ago|1 comments
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by greesil 3y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-amer...
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by greesil 3y ago
It's not ancient if you still do embedded development
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by greesil 3y ago
Great name!
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by greesil 3y ago
That was a great read. It was also interesting to read about what happened to the company. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporatio... One thought I had while reading this was what areas of technolo
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by greesil 3y ago
A criminal of the most terrible kind. They should have locked him up and threw away the key. They should have confiscated the car and locked that up too to keep some other potential daredevil from driving that murderous machine. I bet it di
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by greesil 3y ago
It's about keeping stuff on the unit hypersphere
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by greesil 3y ago
I could have done that and moved the cutoff frequency back to, oh let's say 4khz but then I'm adding attenuation at the higher end of the band and nonlinear group delay. That's maybe fine if that's how we processed the t
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by greesil 3y ago
Yep that's it. The main cpu was a Cortex M3 or something like this. It's been awhile so my recollection is a little hazy.
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by greesil 3y ago
I ran into this problem with a codec chip. We had to run the output at 48 khz, and the input and output clock had to be the same. Well we didn't have enough CPU to process the input at 48 khz, we only cared about 8 khz bandwidth for hu
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List of Unsolved Problems in Physics(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by greesil 3y ago|0 comments
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by greesil 3y ago
I'm pretty sure there's too many people on this rock already
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by greesil 3y ago
Having a carefree life of no technical debt is not its own reward? Firefighting is stressful :)
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by greesil 3y ago
Can it do face recognition?
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by greesil 3y ago
It's more like red dwarf. Ruined planets and talking toasters.
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by greesil 3y ago
This could be solved easily by insurance companies
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by greesil 3y ago
I think there's still a bunch of people who have an audience and don't really care about the drama. They're there not to engage, or sell anything, but just to use it as a broadcast medium. But yes why would I ever talk to any
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Past change in Antarctica's ice sheet could mean devastating sea level rise(cnn.com)
4 points by greesil 3y ago|0 comments
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by greesil 3y ago
That makes sense. It could be seen as a ideological filter, but I suspect it's just testing the candidate's survival skills. Same thing, I suppose.
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by greesil 3y ago
Who asks DEI questions? For engineering roles? As a sometimes hiring manager myself I'm genuinely curious.

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