jcynix

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   by jcynix 3y ago

   Yes, I expect full text extraction and normalization to be computationally expensive. I did some simple minded experiments on Usenet feeds back in the 90ies and it was quite some work for the VAX it ran on.
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   by jcynix 3y ago

   Remember "folksonomy" ...? So I would like to see some kind of automated keyword extraction for each blog to allow selection of topical blogs. OK, keywords would need to normalied (e.g.plural to singular, plus maybe a bit of abstr
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   by jcynix 3y ago

   I'm not the one who posed the question. And: file, filename, inode, ...? What's what and what's exactly to be counted?
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   by jcynix 3y ago

   Good first attempt. But: counts two links to the same file twice. That is: touch foo; ln foo bar Is this one file or two "links" to the same file? ;-0
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   by jcynix 3y ago

   Granted, there are some niche applications where autonomous vehicles exist. And some level x assisted driving on prepared roads. But I was talking about "real self driving" cars, i.e. cars on any street in any city or even in rura
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   by jcynix 3y ago

   OK, if two "self driving" cars meet they can negotiate somehow, nice. But they will have to cope with all those older cars and often older drivers in rural areas. Or cows, sheep, or snow drifts or landslides. I soon will be on hol
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   by jcynix 3y ago

   I would not call it "a nice idea on paper" but a wet dream of some control freaks who neither understand tech nor people outside their bubble. And yes, it's prone to all kinds of abuse by all kinds of "interest groups&qu
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   by jcynix 3y ago

   Depends on one's definition of "self driving" and as a computer scientist with AI training (although that happened during last century ;-) I still see no real self driving cars, just highly assisted driving where a human alwa
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   by jcynix 3y ago

   Also interesting to watch: "Why the US mandating all new cars having a remote ‘kill switch’ by 2026 is problematic" https://youtu.be/a50GHA_uchU
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    by jcynix 3y ago

    I doubt that real self-driving cars will ever be a thing. OK, assisted driving on prepared streets (e.g. highways today or wie roads with some electronic markers in the future) but as soon as you enter smaller roads which are at most as wid
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    by jcynix 3y ago

    > Who is going to scrub the toilets and change adult diapers in the meantime? Read B. F. Skinner's "Walden Two" for some ideas how to handle this. For example, a society could dynamically / periodically adjust revenue
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    by jcynix 3y ago

    While "Taschen" is the German (plural) word for "pockets" it is the last name of the book publisher too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikt_Taschen
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    Ah, a Tomra machine. They too produce the machines which collect returnable bottles. Those are installed in each Supermärkte in Germany, for example. And here's documentation on machines which sort grapes intended for wine production:
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    You could always convert them to NFTs ...
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    IMO "The Society of Mind" is one of the most intriguing concepts, and should be required reading for discussions of consciousness, free will, etc. Gruss aus dem Rheinland ...
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    Nothing in mind? Go read Marvin Minsky's excellent "The Society of Mind" and reconsider this statement ... According to Minsky the mind is composed of tiny "components" (which form the "subsconscious" one
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    And as (American?) English speakers tend to abbreviate almost everything ("app", "fridge" ...) we might end at "cantos" then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canto ... I'm currently rea
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    Now that's an interesting topic for photographers who like to experiment with anamorphic lenses for panoramas. An anamorphic lens (optically) "squeezes" the image onto the sensor, and afterwards the digital image has to be &q
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    Everyone has it (produced) when needed, as far as I can derive from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucine_rich_repeat_containing... But maybe different people generate different amounts at different speeds?
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    You can check wind conditions with https://www.windy.com to find out …
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    > I often have trouble choosing my favorite between the three. Same problem of choice here too, and that's where the somehat tedious manual post-processing in-camera comes to the rescue, if needed.
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    Film simulations are cool. While I always take RAW images, I often use the builtin film simulation bracketing of my Fuji X-Systems to generate three JPEGs at the same time. This often gives me nice JPEGs which I can immediately pass on to f
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    Thanks, looks much better. Ideally we could choose the two colors from a set of four or five colors. Another option would be to use different forms, e.g. a round stone combined with a square one. Anyway, nice game!
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    >It flew over huge areas of empty fields, it certainly isn't safety. Ok, but having it drop into water should increase the chance to retrieve less damaged parts to investigate then. I'd call this thoughtful, not indecivise.
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    Before everything "online" a bookstore would order books from a wholesaler. often via paper. Giving the wrong number would either result in order forms being sent back and force or wrong books being delivered which had to be retur
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    Emacs is available as an installable package in Termux, so yes, org works too. And besides that there are dedicated Orgmode apps, e.g Orgzly. But those dedicated apps aren't as flexible as a full blown emacs.
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    It's text, so no proprietary binary format. Text-based formats survive OS changes, death of applications, updates of either. Many learn that the hard way over time ... It's my notebook, structured text, an outliner with programmab
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    Or with two brackets instead of four parens: $[i+4] And, btw, res=$(command) instead of those pesky backticks res=`command` ,-)
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    I do backups with Termux (a Debian Linux inside an app) f-droid version nowadays) and rsync everything over ssh onto a desktop machine. Works like a charm for most data, but a caveat: you should prefer apps which store their data in the pub
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    by jcynix 4y ago

    A timeless oldie but goldie is Sid Sackson's "Can't Stop" and, speaking of Sid Sackson, his book "A Gamut of Games" is still my most favorite collection of ideas of simple (in the sense of no complicated or cos