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by jbandela1 2y ago
One area that 128bit points would be useful for is tagging. This could be used to improve memory safety. For example, a pointer inside a range could potentially include its bounds.
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by jbandela1 2y ago
Here is some background to better understand what this is about. There are two main types of strokes, ischemic and hemorrhagic. In ischemic stroke, the blood supply to the brain is blocked. In hemorrhagic stroke, you have a brain bleed. One
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by jbandela1 2y ago
One issue that can happen that the article didn't mention is running out of AST node identifiers in Clang. Clang uses a 32-bit number to identify AST nodes. If a single translation unit is large enough, it can overflow this and you can
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by jbandela1 2y ago
I would say we don’t really know what AGI is. As humans, we are basically working with an N of 1 and trying to figure out what is the essential part. At one time, being able to do math might have seemed to be it. Maybe playing chess? Maybe
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by jbandela1 3y ago
>Maybe take a shot at parsing JSON in C++ and see if the nostalgia survives the process. I have used this library in the past and was actually pretty easy https://github.com/nlohmann/json
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by jbandela1 3y ago
And Erythritol is linked to heart attacks and strokes via enhanced platelet activity. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02223-9
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by jbandela1 3y ago
I believe statistically, you are almost certain when you are peeing in the bathroom to be peeing out some of the exact same water molecules that exact same Neanderthal who is in the tile peed out when they were alive.
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by jbandela1 3y ago
I thought XP was a downgrade from Windows 2000.
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by jbandela1 3y ago
I am not sure what “AI” means but: Yes, yes. It is past time we do it. People are producing plausible sounding bullshit because of ease of just cranking out and iterating code quickly. And we have made it way too easy to incorporate potent
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by jbandela1 3y ago
I actually wish the airlines did the reverse: allow 2 free checked bags but charge for carryons that don’t fit under your seat. It is the carryons that make boarding stressful, where everyone worries that if they are not at the front of the
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by jbandela1 3y ago
One big concern I have with this is that the state of LLMs because of issues in where it can go horribly wrong, requires someone who is familiar with the subject to evaluate their output. For example, the code generation via LLM is most use
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by jbandela1 3y ago
Also the Czars of Russia. The Romanovs were descending from the niece of the last Byzantine Emperor (Sophia Palaiologina niece of Constantine XI). So you are right that WWI can be argued to the real end of the Roman Empire!!! One of these d
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by jbandela1 3y ago
> Geoffrey Chaucer wrote one of the first major works of literature in English, but 99.9% of Englishmen alive today wouldn’t be able to understand a word of it because of how much English has changed. That is true for Beowulf, but not fo
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by jbandela1 3y ago
I would argue that the vast majority of functions in real world software are maybe functions in that they can fail. You need to be able to deal with failure. Not only can the user not be logged in, there can be a network issue, etc that mak
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by jbandela1 3y ago
I am not sure this is not just a marker for already damaged arteries, similar to coronary artery calcium. See https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/heart-scan/about... Basically, if you have high calcium in
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by jbandela1 3y ago
> Hasn't it been shown that facts don't change people's mind, but (generally) makes them hold tighter to their view? I think that is a very lazy dismissal of people you don't agree with by characterizing them as irrat
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by jbandela1 3y ago
> Education was once broader than just some kind of ladder that led to a cubicle, it was about creating people with a penchant for lifelong learning, a challenge that tested people and improved them, a means to share information and disc
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by jbandela1 3y ago
Also Apgar score which is used to assess newborns is named after Virginia Apgar. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apgar_score
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by jbandela1 3y ago
Also Publix tends to have pretty nicely maintained shopping carts. Part of the reason might be that they provide complimentary cart service where someone will push the cart out to your car and help load the groceries.
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by jbandela1 3y ago
I don’t think you’re naive. Providing detailed instructions to computers to accomplish human/business objectives is the hard part about being a programmer. But the level of abstraction has been increasing. It started as physically flip
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by jbandela1 3y ago
> But Joy's superpower is so unusual that researchers all over the world have started working with her and have discovered that she can identify several kinds of illnesses — tuberculosis, Alzheimer's disease, cancer and diabete
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by jbandela1 3y ago
They forgot Visual Basic. In terms of number of windows applications created, I would guess, Visual Basic accounts for a plurality of not the majority.
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by jbandela1 3y ago
> But you will usually read little in them about all the things that provided the basis for the success stories but which had nothing to do with the protagonists personally, like being born to wealthy parents in a socially and economical
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by jbandela1 3y ago
I think 1 banana should be 16 requests per second. This is because a banana has around 12 - 18 Becquerels of radiation. 16 is a nice power of 2 number.
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by jbandela1 3y ago
On the other hand he did go from being known as "William the Bastard" to being known as "William the Conqueror". It is also illustrative of the advances in medical science. As one of the richest, most powerful men in the
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by jbandela1 3y ago
My survey of papers revealed from around 25% to 90% depending on who you read. I think a lot is dependent on which patients you choose since some other diseases can mimic NPH. I think my anecdotal experience is around 1/3 to 2/3 h
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by jbandela1 3y ago
I am not aware of clinical studies on that. One thing that to me makes me think it might be more correlation than causation is that the nasal turbinate pathway is not the major CSF absorption pathway. We know this because people who have bl
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by jbandela1 3y ago
> We aim to investigate in a reliable animal model whether activating the cervical lymphatic vessels through pharmacological or mechanical means can prevent the exacerbation of Alzheimer’s disease progression by improving CSF clearance.
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by jbandela1 3y ago
This seems to dependent whether you learned programming In Unix or Dos/Windows. On Windows QBasic/Turbo C/ Turbo Pascal/Visual Basic/ Visual C++ all came out of the box with a nice integrated debugger.
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by jbandela1 3y ago
Also, std::atomic is one of those special types. It is deeply integrated into the C++11 memory model. The compiler has to know about the semantics of the type to make sure it doesn’t reorder operations around it.

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