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by guyomes 3y ago
Mark Changizi had an interesting insight on how some illusions work [1]. What we see is a reconstruction by the brain interpolated from our sensors. The idea of Mark is that the image is not only an interpolation of the present, but actuall
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As a user, I would emphasis the importance of analogical input and feedback to musical instruments. The more analogical input means the more freedom to express nuances. Some but few electronic instruments include easy to use analogical inpu
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The book "Your Life in Numbers: Modeling Society Through Data" by Pablo Jensen provides an interesting insight on this, notably the chapter "We are not social atom" [1]. The author argues notably in an interview [2] that
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This is very interesting, especially considering the energy-time tradeoff. I wonder how it compares to optical computing [1], where FFT can be done efficiently [2], or to analog computing for linear algebra [3]. [1]: https://en.w
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> It’s their space. Changing anything is like someone’s snuck into their house at night and remodelled their lounge. This reminds me a discussion with a landscaper. He was wary of landscapers who wanted to go against the flow and who vie
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> If the keys are not too long, radix sort is O(n) and faster. More precisely, if the key length is w, then radix sort is O(w n) operations. In particular, if the n elements are distinct integers for example, w is greater than log(n).
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Even though I would not like to ditch freedom with a cashless system, I would not like a cash only system either, and it is not about being lazy. An advantage of a system where cards or checks are widely used is that it decreases significan
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This is an interesting related letter [0] from Don Knuth in 2003. Don Knuth was part of an editorial board that resigned from a journal out of protest to the pricing policies of the publisher. The letter gives detailed arguments. [0]: http
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Given the long and controversial history of bloodletting [0], this might do more harm then good. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting
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> There is much more external reasons for young american females to feel sad right now. Fully agree. A sci-fi novel from Robert Heinlein [0] was describing end of life as a discontinuity. In this sense, with the very rapid changes of soc
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Logicomix [1]. It's a nice comic book focusing on the formalisation of mathematics, starting at the end of the 19th century. This was a foundational quest to solve paradoxes such as the Russel paradox [2]. This also rised questions su
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> A hacker news rumor was that they are paying $5M-$20M per year to the top neural net experts probably to make some exotic architectures to surpass transformer This reminds me a TV interview of the author Patrick Modiano, just after he
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Quadratis [0] is a set of 2D twisty puzzle inspired by algebraic topology. It is mostly an experimental game so far. Here are some slides that give some insight on the principles of the game [1]. [0]: https://apps.apple.com/
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by guyomes 4y ago
If the command is not restricted to text only, but use text and geometrical context, you can remove a lot of ambiguities. This is often done in video games with contextual interactions. After all, using the Blender GUI, you can do a lot usi
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As a side remark, it is probable [0] that Brunelleschi built his understanding of perspective from the Books of optics [1], written by Ibn al-Haytham around 1020 AD. [0]: https://doi.org/10.1017/S106279870800015X [1]:
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An interface based on voice only has an issue: people tend to not live alone. As children they live with their parents. As adult, many want to live with a significant other. Having somebody else in the house speaking out loud each time they
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by guyomes 4y ago
You might be interested in this related recent work [1] that fits simple ellipsoids to images and then use them for the pose estimation of a camera. [1]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9127873
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Example 4 mentions that the result might be different with the same code. Here is an example that is particularly counter-intuitive. Some CPU have the instruction FMA(a,b,c) = ab + c and it is guaranteed to be rounded to the nearest float.
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Example of 1D gear used in planthopper used for syncing the movement of the legs [1]. Even there the gears are only used for young planthoppers, and adults use another syncing mechanism after their skin molts away. [1]: https://w
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> all of these concepts become much easier working with "offset from an array" rather than a pointer directly This reminds me of this article [1] that summarizes very nicely several data structures that represent sparse tensors
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Moreover, if strings are the only thing to print, and speed is the only thing to care about, then "puts" is a good alternative too.
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Is Seeing into the Future More Than an Optical Illusion? (2008)(brainblogger.com)
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Also Olinuxino from Olimex, chosen [1] to host the solar-powered website low tech magazine [2]. [1] https://homebrewserver.club/low-tech-website-howto.html#serv... [2] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
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> Make the collection itself illegal, give users control about their data Here is another idea that could give users control about their data, and that could be more easily accepted by governments and companies. All the data of user X li
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The game Cursor * 10 [1] also requires you to cooperate with previous version of yourself to solve puzzles. It was a fun small game. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor*10 *
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The excellent Live Coding in Python plugin [0] also comes to mind. The space tracer [1] in particular is handy for debugging. [0]: http://donkirkby.github.io/live-py-plugin/ [1]: http://donkirkby.github.io&#
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One of the goal of mathematics is to introduce tools that represent problems in a way that is easy to grasp for a human mind. For example, geometry is a good tool to get some intuitions on the problem of classifying sets of data. Also, a we
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This looks lovely! One nice addition would be the ability to record sounds and link them. This feature in ScratchJr [1] allows children to make animations with cute voices. [1]: https://www.scratchjr.org/
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For further reading, this list [0] of resources on how to write scientific articles includes notably this excellent set of slides [1]. The author notably presents full fledge examples of rewritten sentences and paragraphs that are enlighten
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> I've tried pretty much every brand I can find at local stores, and some that I have to order online [...] I've actually tried it at a friend's house recently, and really enjoyed it. Aggressive subway advertising can inde

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