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by inasio 4y ago
Someone asked Thomas how he managed to come up with such an awesome prompt [0], and his reply (another ChatGPT promtp) had me laughing out loud in a coffee shop, although it also removed a bit of the magic in the original ChatGPT response [
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by inasio 4y ago
Probably not the angle parent was going for, but CoinDesk is owned by Digital Currency Group, who had significant exposure to this mess (and their Genesis trading arm appears to be currently evaluating bankruptcy), so in some sense CoinDesk
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by inasio 4y ago
Relevant from last week: a (horrific) Ars Technica story about a person that got a foot amputated without their consent (and then died)[0]. The amputation is one of the milder parts of the story, the conditions and neglect that lead to it a
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by inasio 4y ago
As in Encyclopedia Galactica? Interesting name...
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by inasio 4y ago
That was also what they went with in the 3 body problem
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by inasio 4y ago
FTT-USD live: https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=FTX%3AFTTUSD
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by inasio 4y ago
Reminds me of my Starcraft strategy (definitely not competitive, playing vs the computer) to build tons of supply depots as dragon teeth, worked also because advancing hordes would not only open a path, but want to destroy them all, leaving
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by inasio 4y ago
Agree! Reminds me of swimmers going underwater for most of the backstroke event in the Seoul Olympics [0] [0] https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/when-the-backstro...
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by inasio 4y ago
Nice speedup! I'd love to see a comparison between 3.8 and 3.11 of the same script, but using numpy
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by inasio 4y ago
A scenario where all cellphones have this capability sounds a lot like the scene at the end of the Dark Knight.
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by inasio 4y ago
Together with memristors, in-memory compute is likely going to be a big deal. It's already here in some forms, see e.g. Content Addressable Memory in high end networking gear.
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by inasio 4y ago
On that Google Nature paper, I'm not sure if the 5x5 matrix improvement is the more significant result, or that they figured out a way to optimize directly to SIMD/AVX instructions, resulting in faster execution even if not necess
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by inasio 4y ago
Related: Inverting hash functions using SAT and SMT solvers [0] [0] https://blog.lse.epita.fr/2012/07/31/using-sat-and-smt-to-de...
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by inasio 4y ago
I read it as Mark Hamill, and thought yeah, there was that thing with his sister...
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by inasio 4y ago
I still remember the time I opened the box on a new Ipod, and there was no instruction booklet. The contrast with my previous device (a Sony minidisc player) was shocking.
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by inasio 4y ago
Reminiscent of how google maps (on cellphones) killed standalone GPS trackers, this may hurt Garmin InReach type devices quite a bit, not that there is a huge market for that in the first place.
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by inasio 4y ago
The youtube description for each video has a lot more details, especially on how long the different steps take.
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by inasio 4y ago
In the description of the video on youtube he often explains how long the full project took, and clarifying what took longest, it's always much longer than I expect (in the trebuchet video I think the problem was that collecting bark t
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by inasio 4y ago
Back in the day (1960s?) two relatives of mine had a prank battle going on. One of them posted an add in the local newspaper offering to buy old Christmas trees, at the address of their adversary. Half the city showed up, were told trees we
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by inasio 4y ago
In another universe they did use random numbers, but based on the old C rng, people figured out the seed and were able to again find all of the GRU passports
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by inasio 4y ago
There's a story in the news this week about an undercover Russian spy that had a jewelry shop/brand in Italy [0], one funny detail about the story is that the jewelry was actually sourced from Aliexpress [0] https://twi
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by inasio 4y ago
> Getting the Starship itself to survive reentry and landing in good enough condition to fly again without major refurbishment is another story. Something like that has never been achieved before Didn't the space shuttle used to do
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by inasio 4y ago
Reminded me of the book/movie Name of the rose (awesome in both formats). The Macguffin is the single remaining copy, long thought lost, of Aristoteles book on comedy, thought to be a forbidden thing by some of the monks.
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by inasio 4y ago
It's relatively common to see hydrogen Mirai cars in Vancouver (Seattle too?), nowadays they look similar to newer Prius, they used to be pretty distinctive. You can/could buy them used for around $20K Canadian, very nice interior
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by inasio 4y ago
I used to work doing epidemic models, it was torture sometimes to see people abuse mathematical concepts (eigenvalues, r0, etc) when talking about covid
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by inasio 4y ago
During the Covid pandemic health officials occasionally used similar language: The rate of increase in new cases was increasing/decreasing...
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by inasio 4y ago
The first two cured patients (unsure about the third) were also cured by a similar bone marrow transplant from a resistant donor (and I think leukemia was also present?). This is good news, as validation of the other cases, but it still rem
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by inasio 4y ago
Since this is the original paper I'll put my comment here. I used to follow the literature on this subject up to a few years ago, the key issue was that most of the studies had bad datasets. It's one of those things where it'
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by inasio 4y ago
Ontario and Saskatchewan extend pretty far north (Saskatchewan all the way to the arctic circle), very little sunlight in the winter.
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by inasio 4y ago
Recently seen to happen to a DJ in a Canadian radio station [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/canadian-radio...

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