kkylin

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   by kkylin 1y ago

   Published paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02055-5 Preprint on biorxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.05.543698v1
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   by kkylin 1y ago

   Also, new stuff just isn't designed to be opened up. I took an old monitor that started failing to a local makerspace (which has a very popular monthly repair cafe), and it took some physical force to crack the case open. Once inside
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   by kkylin 1y ago

   Thanks! Do you mean MIT Scheme's C backend? I've used MIT Scheme on and off for a long time and have never touched the C backend & have no idea how it works, so this is interesting. (MIT Scheme also has a native code compile
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   by kkylin 1y ago

   Wikipedia has more details on the artist and the art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hampton_(artist)#Throne_... I was trying to figure out how large this thing was (I found it hard to tell from the picture). And
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   by kkylin 1y ago

   Well, both Guy Steele and Danny Hillis were doctoral students advised by Gerry Sussman. Whether Hillis worked on the Scheme chip or how much overlap they had, I don't remember, but as you said they were all there around the same time.
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   by kkylin 1y ago

   Thanks! This sounds interesting and I looked it up. To save everyone else a few seconds: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2318338.pdf
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   by kkylin 1y ago

   Generally I have used fdesetup to do remote OS upgrades: do this just before an OS upgrade so that on reboot I can still log in.
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   by kkylin 1y ago

   Thanks! I saw that. As the ghotty commit (and another commenter on this thread) suggest, one can set defaults write org.gnu.Emacs NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled -bool false I've been using this for a couple days now. FWIW - Wi
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   by kkylin 1y ago

   It's also remarkably respectful of Bay Area geography -- they got the major bridges right. None of that Dustin Hoffman going the wrong way on the Bay Bridge stuff.
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    Thanks! I'll give that a shot
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    There are also under-the-hood changes that I found truly upsetting: among other things, all the Emacs versions I've tried (stock GNU Emacs or Mac Port, downloaded binary blobs and compiled on my machine) are either immediately unusable
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    [addendum: posted this too quickly & didn't see it in the comment above. duh.]
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    And in the original Jurassic Park! https://www.google.com/search?q=jurassic+park+cm-5
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    Quite agree with the sentiment, and the presentation of science to the public in general. However, that probably also reflects a rather accurate assessment of scientific literacy in the general population on the part of planners. Anyway, a
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    Gradescope partially solves the problem. There are certain kinds of questions that are more amenable to rigid rubrics (e.g., techniques of integration in a beginning calculus course) where the space of correct solutions is rather limited.
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    This is not an uncomon situation in e.g., math departments across the US. Luckily I've not had to grade more then 60-70 in a single term, or ~200 but a select number of problems in a large course. Also, second stapled exams with presc
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    I was around when MIT had its first online catalog. Reportedly hacked together by a grad student over a summer (probably not a whole summer). Anyway I think for the catalog there are no serious privacy issues, and there wouldn't be a
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    https://xkcd.com/224/
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    Addendum: I wrote the original comment after skimming the article but before reading it (and the associated thread on emacs-devel) closely. These memory-related issues are (of course) what the article and the emacs-devel thread are about.
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    I recently noticed deleting a frame doesn't seem to free the associated memory; you can see this by running Activity Monitor and opening and deleting some frames. It's on the order of 10s of MB (exact amount depends on size of fr
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    I spent a lot of time on RC cars as a teen (Tamiya, Kyosho). I've not kept up. Recently on a trip to Japan I visited some stores, and was surprised to see that the tech doesn't seem to have changed all that much. I would have e
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    Some relevant data: https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:...
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    "Let's look for spy satellites / orbiters" was an "application" I wondered about. My second thought about this was: maybe the US (and possibly other countries) already have something like this, but classified?
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    Might one say fish harvesters capture "exponentially more fish"? (Sorry, couldn't resist...)
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    Thank you!
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    I found this comment especially interesting: "The code in an agent that actually “does stuff” with code is not, itself, AI. This should reassure you. It’s surprisingly simple systems code, wired to ground truth about programming in the
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    Paper: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/~anders/publications/katzenberger...
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    Thank you! Just listened to some of the Art of the Fugue & enjoyed it very much
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    Since no one else has done it, I'll plug the Canadian Brass recording -- it's one of my favorite recordings of the Art of the Fugue, and (among many other things) just shows how flexible and instrument-agnostic this music is.
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    by kkylin 1y ago

    C or C++? Ha! I've implemented FMM in Fortran 77. (Not my choice; it was a summer internship and the "boss" wanted it that way.) It was a little painful.