hughw

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1. 151.▲
   by hughw 2y ago

   Yeah, a good tech bookstore was a golden way to spend an hour.
2. 152.▲
   by hughw 2y ago

   My first cut at conceiving is to answer "how long would it take a really fast computer to count to that number". The answer for 10^4000 is still something like 10^3978 years. So, a still inconceivable time. (100 tera-ops computer)
3. 153.▲
   by hughw 2y ago

   I feel frustrated that we cannot conceive of numbers like 10^80 (atoms in the universe) or 10^4000 (number configurations for a system with 4000 variables having 10 states each). Maybe there are superbrains out there in the universe that ca
4. 154.▲
   by hughw 2y ago

   also https://clearsky.app/
5. 155.▲
   by hughw 2y ago

   Good example
6. 156.▲
   by hughw 2y ago

   Gaussian, Gaussian, Gaussian. Important to understand Gaussians, but also to recognize how profoundly non-Gaussian, in particular multimodal, the world is. And to build systems that navigate and optimize over such distributions. (Not compla
7. 157.▲
   by hughw 2y ago

   So, if CrowdStrike licenses didn't say "We're responsible for nothing" and if all affected users sued them, they'd be worth negative 90 trillion dollars or so right now. iow out of business. I can understand the fru
8. 158.▲
   by hughw 2y ago

   So, why did our little company's (little used) two Windows machines not BSOD overnight? They were just sitting idle. They run CS Falcon sensor. Did the update force a restart? Didn't seem to happen here.
9. 159.▲
   by hughw 2y ago

   And so I just now learned that the Baader-Meinhof Gang of the 1970s gave its name to the phenomenon of frequency illusion, where once you hear about a thing you notice many more references to it.
10. 160.▲
    by hughw 2y ago

    I've mostly become adept at traversing six mile long compile error crawls to find the bit in my code causing the STL/Thrust complaint. clang is more legible for this than gcc. Still, I keep learning new patterns.
11. 161.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    I would bet most people who have used it would wish its use were more universal, say by politicians or corporate executives -- anyone with power.
12. 162.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    I admit I am susceptible to this thinking though.
13. 163.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    USV is doomed because Worse is Better[1] (edit: fix url) [1] https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
14. 164.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    I have not yet read the linked paper, but seismologists have used the Schroedinger wave equation in seismic imaging since at least the 1970s [1], certainly a "classical" system. [1] https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org&#x2F
15. 165.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    Yes, that might be adequate, thank you. I can't quite put my finger on what I like about the menubar app, but I do click it 30 times a day. Maybe just habit now. The hotkey is very responsive. Nice!
16. 166.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    I'd love a macOS menubar icon for Heynote. I currently use Evernote's Quick Note feature from its menubar app.
17. 167.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    The screenshot was from MDN [1] but today the support table is all green; no caveats for workers. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/structuredC...
18. 168.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    A screenshot of caniuse or similar is in the linked article.
19. 169.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    Looks like Webkit doesn't support it in workers. Does anyone know why that would be difficult?
20. 170.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    Judea Pearl wrote a book, Causality, introducing Bayesian networks to address the inadequacy, even refusal, of Fisher's statistics to model causes and effects. Here's a lecture he gave almost 30 years ago [1] that's entertain
21. 171.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    legal@23andme.com rejects my email with the message "Account disabled". So yeah, definitely cc the other address.
22. 172.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    "Country risk" is a term used in the oil industry. Is it common elsewhere?
23. 173.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    You can make monthly donations to the Mozilla Foundation.
24. 174.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    I'm still aiming for the 100 under 100 list.
25. 175.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    Win98 had pretty great Unicode support, didn't it? Or am I confusing it with general multibyte?
26. 176.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    I guess though, a lot of organizations never develop a cohesive leader at all, and the orgs fall apart. They never had an irreplaceable leader though!
27. 177.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    In 5 years or so, after the current OSs those machines run go EOL, having an open source alternative OS to go to could become important for some uses.
28. 178.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    Maybe Toyota's bet on hydrogen will pay off after all.
29. 179.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    Is that true for Bing? Do most Windows users the default Edge and leave default search on Bing?
30. 180.▲
    by hughw 3y ago

    The information content of the weird program is the same as that of the original cleartext, so I wouldn't expect zipping a transpiled program to compress better than compressing the original.