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by j1mr10rd4n 20d ago
From the macOS 27 release notes in the System Settings app: System Improvements Discover lots of little ways your Mac is even enjoyable, like faster and smoother experiences across the systems. Doesn't anybody proofread copy
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by j1mr10rd4n 1mo ago
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by j1mr10rd4n 6mo ago
There's another good reason that hasn't been detailed in the comments so far: expressing intent. A test should communicate its reason for testing the subject, and when an input is generated or random, it clearly communicates that
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by j1mr10rd4n 11mo ago
You should definitely also read "Permutation City" by Greg Egan[1] if you haven't already! Amazing book... [1] https://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/Permutation.html
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by j1mr10rd4n 11mo ago
Geoffrey Hinton's recent lecture at the Royal Institute[1] is a fascinating watch. His assertion that human use of language being exactly analogous to neural networks with back-propagation really made me think about what LLMs might be
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by j1mr10rd4n 1y ago
> learning when I can be doing something more efficiently hardtime.nvim[1] (or vim-hardtime[2] if you're old-school) do exactly this but within your editing session. There's an associated blog post[3] explaining the rationale b
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by j1mr10rd4n 2y ago
LISPy REPLs are awesome. Babashka is another amazing tool for interacting with a shell with clojure (or a very close dialect thereof). https://babashka.org
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by j1mr10rd4n 3y ago
some amazing auroral displays seen from tasmania over the last couple of nights https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-24/strong-naked-eye-auro...
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by j1mr10rd4n 6y ago
i'm getting intermittent 200/500s - australia
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by j1mr10rd4n 6y ago
Rich Hickey's talk about this is enlightening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
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by j1mr10rd4n 6y ago
I was just racking my memory and searching through my library of interesting links to find exactly this! Paul Chiusano gave a nice introductory talk at strangeloop last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWtkvDQ2ZI
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by j1mr10rd4n 7y ago
I thought Renegades of the Empire was a fascinating look into the internal machinations at Redmond and a bit of DirectX history too https://www.amazon.com/Renegades-Empire-Software-Revolution-...
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by j1mr10rd4n 9y ago
Some recent posts have been talking about what happens to classical encryption in a post-quantum scenario. This article demonstrates a system capable of creating and distributing quantum keys at megabit-per-second rates. phys.org link here
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Provably secure and high-rate quantum key distribution with time-bin qudits(advances.sciencemag.org)
2 points by j1mr10rd4n 9y ago|1 comments
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British IT contractor tells of 946 days as Iraqi hostage(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by j1mr10rd4n 14y ago|0 comments