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by jerf 1y ago
The hard part of automated driving is dealing with all the ground clutter that planes serenely fly over. If pedestrians could charge out in front of a 777 going 650 mph at 34,000 feet... well... we'd be living in pretty different world
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by jerf 1y ago
The best time to search for a new job is when you have one. Takes a lot of the stress out of search itself, though it sounds like your current job may be able to make it up. There's a lot of companies out there. Many of them are doing
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by jerf 1y ago
With some effort, you can train yourself to respond to "You are absolutely right" with being offended at the attempt to manipulate. It's good training and has been since long before the AIs came along. For instance, the corre
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by jerf 1y ago
Fair enough. I've gotten out of the habit of thinking exponentially about computer performance. Modify my original post to that 1980s 8-bit era of personal computing. I did intend to compare it on the basis of the RAM available, which
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by jerf 1y ago
It is not quite so terrible as to need to make everyone distrustful. There is an old saying: "You can't scam an honest man." I think a lot of people misunderstand this; it is not that being honest somehow lets you just know w
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by jerf 1y ago
Whoops, yes. I stand corrected. Tack another order of magnitude or so on to the mismatch.
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by jerf 1y ago
Grumbling about how typeclasses could just be normal datatypes has been an undercurrent in the Haskell world for a long time, particularly as a way to solve the orphan instances problem. However, the syntactic grease provided by typeclasses
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by jerf 1y ago
The mismatch between the Ancient Specs of Yore is kind of interesting. The Commodore 64 had 64KB of RAM, but that RAM was attached to an 8-bit, 1MHz CPU. This thing has call it half the RAM of a Commodore 64, but it's attached to a 32-
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by jerf 1y ago
A concept space of 10^43741 needs about 43741*3 bits to identify each concept uniquely (by the information theoretic concept of bit, which is more a lower bound on what we traditionally think of as bits in the computer world than a match),
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by jerf 1y ago
It is a social signal of not really caring about the content, just like people who post in large swathes of bad grammar and spelling (relative to the local environment). It is completely reasonable to read that signal, and completely reason
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by jerf 1y ago
Count how many places have a search on a website that let you run "((A and B) or (C and D) XOR E) AND NOT F". It's not many. The very complaints you are making are kind of my point; that you can even consider making them mean
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by jerf 1y ago
You should stay away from this, in case you haven't figured it out. You're not even in the ballpark of a correct understanding of this situation. Better to just think you could argue your way out of this with a deficient understan
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by jerf 1y ago
Do you see an "artistic expression" exception in the law I cite? Because the Secret Service doesn't: https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/420406-kat... If you think that concept ap
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by jerf 1y ago
At the risk of getting run off this site... Jira's search query widget, which allows in some sense nearly arbitrary SQL while providing syntax completion, making sure you don't run off the rails with actual arbitrary SQL, and supp
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by jerf 1y ago
Imprison you for up to five years and fine you: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/871 They often don't. But it is not wise to attract their attention if you don't need to. https:/&#x2
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by jerf 1y ago
[What was there when I posted this but has subsequently been edited away] can get you a visit from the Secret Service. Do as you like, but I'm not joking.
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by jerf 1y ago
A GZIP "member" is whatever the creating program wants it to be. I have not carefully verified this but I see no reason for the command line program "gzip" to ever generate more than one member (at least for smaller inpu
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by jerf 1y ago
This is very much in the Ha Ha Only Serious vein of humor: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html As someone who is not a Silicon Valley Liberal, it seems to me that "alignment&q
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by jerf 1y ago
This list sees a lot more updates than you'd probably think: https://github.com/publicsuffix/list/commits/main/ I was looking at this in terms of trying to keep an app up-to-date, and there was a lo
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by jerf 1y ago
Rice's Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem Or the "why we can't have nice things" theorem. Colloquially, anything interesting about a Turing-complete program is unprovable. You m
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by jerf 1y ago
After some pondering, I've come to consider it a generally positive thing. If I compare watching a 1x video to my reading the transcript, I am reading very much faster than the person can normally speak. Cranking the speed up makes it
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by jerf 1y ago
Try the video speed adjustments. Most sites offer 2x now. Up to 4x is getting around, and that's generally going to be past what most people can understand for speech, even with practice. I do a lot of YouTube long-form content but I d
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by jerf 1y ago
Improve, yes, fix, no. I was actually already using a model fine-tuned for Skyrim. I didn't go into it in detail, but it isn't even that I got the NPCs to start babbling about Taylor Swift. What is was was just that they knew that
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by jerf 1y ago
There's a number of little games and a major mod for Skyrim that implements this. I've spent a bit of time playing with the Skyrim mod. There are some significant issues with it at the moment. One is that you have to train on vas
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by jerf 1y ago
I doubt it. Local math programs tried to jam those things down sooner, but it doesn't do much good and may do harm. While I understand Piaget is not necessarily the last word in human development, using his terminology, real mathematic
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by jerf 1y ago
Despite my personal STEM focus I'd lean into that. I'm more interested in teaching mathematical modes of thought and some forms of mathematical intuition. I suspect grinding on symbolic computations is intrinsically necessary for
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by jerf 1y ago
High school, and even more particularly, the stuff we serve up to everyone, hence my reference to STEM-specific specialization for matrices. In university you have the specialization to do as you need to do, e.g., serve up matrices to those
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by jerf 1y ago
"But of course, photos and videos take up a lot of space." Videos take up a lot of space. Photos increasingly don't. 20 years of family photos for me takes up 150GB, and that's with me being very slovenly about cleaning
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by jerf 1y ago
I'm not running on a Pi4, but I am running on an N150 which is in roughly the same performance league, and CLIP searching is instant in my ~10K photo set. The expense is at classification time, not search time. Classification was a few
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by jerf 1y ago
A lot of trig. Trig identities is my bête noire , though I would save off one day for them, after Taylor polynomials, to derive a few through practice that way. But I remember grinding on them for quite a while; I would just have one day

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