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by inasio 4y ago
There was an interesting fight at the time over the Target trademark, someone noticed that there was a Canadian trademark for Target up for grabs from a failed company and bought it, anticipating Target coming into Canada. Target ended up s
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by inasio 4y ago
I helped put up trail markers on backcountry ski trails, we used orange 3M ones with the micro cube corners that reflected an insane amount of light, life savers when in the middle of a storm. I always wondered what a jacket out of that mat
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by inasio 4y ago
Some of our local farms do corn mazes around Thanksgiving. You can see from above (done) that the mazes make Disney figures or cool patterns. A friend of mine showed me how they do it, it's basically a program that goes on the GPS in t
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by inasio 4y ago
This is a perfect use case for VR, specifically crappy VR, motion sickness is now a feature
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by inasio 4y ago
I tried a few apple watches, and almost got used to the routine of daily charging, but other annoyances made me try others. Eventually I settled for a Garmin smartwatch and the difference that having to charge once every 10-15 days is huge
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by inasio 4y ago
There's also the possibility that the state doesn't really want to stop SBF from incriminating himself, he seems to have been doing a pretty good job so far.
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by inasio 4y ago
Samsung used to have the best regarded SSDs, especially their Pro line, but that's not the case anymore [0] [0] https://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2023/02/02/update-on-samsu...
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by inasio 4y ago
I'm typically a bit wary of Wolfram's posts, but it is very often the case that the content is good enough that I don't mind a bit of self-aggrandizing. This one though I found to be just pure great, super easy and clear intr
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by inasio 4y ago
In this case the latent reservoir was in the central nervous system, cerebral spinal fluid specifically
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by inasio 4y ago
Latent reservoirs are super interesting. They've seen in experiments that they keep copies of all of the HIV strains that infected people go through (HIV is one of the viruses with the highest mutation rates). When people have gone off
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by inasio 4y ago
This is exactly John Bull's trust thermocline [0] [0] https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/garius/status/158811531012453...
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by inasio 4y ago
A startup I knew had someone take professional-looking pictures of new employees, and add them to the Who Works Here page, with a nice blurb. After years of employees being poached by Big Tech the Who Works Here page is gone. To me this is
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by inasio 4y ago
I wonder what's going to happen in the new Vancouver office. Amazon bought the old Post office building that spanned two half-blocks in downtown Vancouver and built two massive towers inside it. Seems hard to imagine they'll need
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by inasio 4y ago
Pina2bo here we go! I think the first 1/4 or so of the book was a riff on the famous `How do I kill 30-50 feral hogs ...`[0] tweet. I did like the book though. [0] https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/williemcnabb/status
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by inasio 4y ago
I've dealt with two large Japanese tech corporations that people here have probably heard about. One thing that I found extremely unusual (on both companies) is that many (most?) people in high level roles got rotated every two years o
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by inasio 4y ago
Hooray for diffs, Molly joked about formatting issues (triple space), SBF probably read it and fixed it
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by inasio 4y ago
High speeds relative to what? The earth orbits at 30 km/s, our galaxy arm is at over 200 km/s (say 0.1% c), I'm not sure relative speed matters at all
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by inasio 4y ago
HN is my `ping google.com`, first thing I check whenever I connect to a new wifi connection (or when I hear my partner complaining that the internet is down).
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by inasio 4y ago
I used to follow Naltrexone trials: blocks opioids by having higher affinity in brain receptors), in principle it can work as a one month injection, but the results were also pretty poor. Even in well functioning medical professionals with
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by inasio 4y ago
An issue highlighted there is that there are very few algorithms where you have an exponential advantage vs classical hardware
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by inasio 4y ago
NetworkX came out of LANL circa 2004, it probably is still being developed from there
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by inasio 4y ago
Just wanted to point out that Scott Aaronson is not one of those anti quantum curmudgeons. Besides bashing on companies with questionable claims, I think he's been pretty open minded about looking for problems and algorithms with actua
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by inasio 4y ago
TIL there was a Jurassic Park trailer where not a single scene there ended up in the movie
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by inasio 4y ago
I remember super pissed off that the movie Reign of Fire didn't feature any Apache helicopter vs Dragon battles, as shown in the movie poster [0] [0] https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTU1ZGE0NmUtZWZjYS0
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by inasio 4y ago
Not really a program, but this year the Tabu [0] heuristic saved me at least on that order of time. I work on combinatorial optimization problem (think traveling salesman), typically we use local search heuristics like simulated annealing o
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by inasio 4y ago
Mysterium (like a mix of cooperative Clue with Dixit, everyone is a medium getting weird messages trying to find the killer)
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by inasio 4y ago
Came expecting a long convoluted argument, Craig Wright-style, but this is like one of those short papers that have the proof in the abstract.
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by inasio 4y ago
reduced Turing test: Writing homework at a good enough quality that an overworked teacher grades it and doesn't notice it's AI
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by inasio 4y ago
I didn't know she ended up picking up McAfee's torch. Hopefully she skipped the pledge.
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by inasio 4y ago
Agree! I found it super interesting when inside photos of one of the seized Russian-owned super yachts came out [0]. This one had a whole hovercraft, a couple of Land Cruisers with appropriate landing vessels, etc. [0] https://lu

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