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871.
by gspr 5y ago
Then hold me responsible if I do.
872.
by gspr 5y ago
I'd quit my job if work didn't let me be root on my work machine.
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by gspr 5y ago
Audacity is dead, thanks to the psychos at MuseGroup. One of the forks will take over, no worries. Until a clear fork wins out, people can always use Debian's version [1], which will of course not contain the the shenanigans as they ar
874.
by gspr 5y ago
> It's not clear even to me, as a student of ML, what it means to release NN weights. While such questions seem reasonable the first time you encounter them, they have been thoroughly answered for similar things: For example, for so
875.
by gspr 5y ago
The former. But if we're talking about $5M instead, I'd be completely terrified of both options.
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by gspr 5y ago
What?
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by gspr 5y ago
Very very impressive! Is there anything similar in the works for a Linux-on-Linux scenario? My usecase is gaming without the host needing the proprietary nvidia crap (pass-through of the nvidia card for doing CUDA stuff in the guest already
878.
by gspr 5y ago
Indeed. I was shocked when I learned how much American university students are treated as children (forced to take off-topic courses, living under high school-like rules).
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by gspr 5y ago
I don't know what you mean by "large" then. In the context of this discussion, I meant train stations served by high speed rail and airports with regularly scheduled commercial service. The former vastly outnumbers the latt
880.
by gspr 5y ago
Large train stations are far more common than large airports in Europe, so you got this the wrong way around.
881.
by gspr 5y ago
Indeed, good point.
882.
by gspr 5y ago
Well, you might say that the circle emerges from the dynamics of that system. Two such spring-masses out of phase draw a circle.
883.
by gspr 5y ago
I know. But they do also reflect geometry.
884.
by gspr 5y ago
That's a discrete space, no?
885.
by gspr 5y ago
The whole point of a system of units is that the vast majority of people working with them don't need to deal with the fundamental definitions. For those who do, there's no system that's any less bad than SI anyway (except na
886.
by gspr 5y ago
Oh I don't know about that. The solution involves trigonometric functions. Are they not geometric in nature? Said differently: periodic things in some sense express motions on a circle.
887.
by gspr 5y ago
OK, that's fair enough, you're not interested in the engineering side of things – but then expect blowback if you decide to comment on exactly that.
888.
by gspr 5y ago
Sorry for adding just noise, but I think this is the most insightful comment I've read on HN this year. Excellent analysis and idea!
889.
by gspr 5y ago
You must not be coding anything important.
890.
by gspr 5y ago
Same for me – but that's usually an indicator that the spreadsheet situation would be even worse. We just suck, apparently, but we suck less with code :-)
891.
by gspr 5y ago
Exactly. A little {insert favorite language} snippet is immediately inspectable, also weeks or months or years in the future.
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by gspr 5y ago
Starlink has little chance of being the cash cow that the muskrats think. Look, it's low latency satellite internet. It's a giant "meh" for anyone not in very rural locations. That rural market exists, but is quite small
893.
by gspr 5y ago
They spread bullshit in a seemingly innocuous way. That's dangerous stuff that undermines society.
894.
by gspr 5y ago
They really are a scary bunch. Moreover, it's terribly annoying how most people in Europe seem to have labelled them as harmless. They're very much considered "ah, those weirdos, I don't agree with them but surely we sho
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by gspr 5y ago
This is indeed great, but keep in mind that this story is about one of the well-known greatest: Init7. They're well-known as a for-geeks-by-geeks service. I was massively impressed by them when I lived in CH.
896.
by gspr 5y ago
At this part you're just armchairing. Lastly: > All I'm seeking here is how to improve communicating math without having to go through the credentialism of higher education. Like I've already pointed out: mathematics is pe
897.
by gspr 5y ago
> For example, using greek instead of latin letters is completely unnecessary. Just to point out completely meaningless overhead. Are you saying the whole field of mathematics (and physics) is wrong, and we're doing something "
898.
by gspr 5y ago
Your assumption is wrong. Lots of really useful math has 0 or 1 implementations. A Julia one may well be first. (Saying this as someone who's done several first implementations, but haven't coded a single line of Julia)
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by gspr 5y ago
> I think a lot of math could be taught with a lot less overhead and in more understandable fashion. It's just that the natural incentives seem to drive people to unnecessary overhead and barriers for those who actually want to lear
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by gspr 5y ago
No. There's a reason: it communicates extra information very cheaply and in-band with the code for people who are intimately familiar with the mathematics involved. This can be better than comments or documentation in some situations (

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