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by kqr 1y ago
This is why staying out of hazardous conditions is a dynamic control problem, rather than a simple equation or plan you can set up ahead of time. There are multiple controllers interacting with the system (the FADEC computer in the engines,
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by kqr 1y ago
I want to write more about this, but it has been a really difficult subject to structure. I gave up halfway through this article, for example, and never published it – I didn't even get around to editing it, so it's mostly bad str
573.
by kqr 1y ago
In safety-critical systems, we distinguish between accidents (actual loss, e.g. lives, equipment, etc.) and hazardous states . The equation is hazardous state + environmental conditions = accident Since we can only control the system, an
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by kqr 1y ago
I find a useful exercise is to have a cheat sheet of historic flood heights in some area, tell someone the first record high, ask them how high they would make the levee and how long they think it would last. Peoples' sense for extrema
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by kqr 1y ago
There is a max level, and it is three.
576.
by kqr 1y ago
Aren't low-speed slips something that makes planes flip upside-down when not used very carefully? (Inadvertent rudder changes corrected with opposite aileron resulting in a snap roll.)
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by kqr 1y ago
Write it as three dashes instead---that's not what an LLM would do and anyone looking close enough will see the difference.
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by kqr 1y ago
The fun part is where the chain diverges into separate branches for digital logic and the mechanics of constructing circuits.
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by kqr 1y ago
Just last week I was hanging photos with my wife in our home and after she had proposed a placement I told her "I don't like the balance of the negative space there". I could have said "I don't feel like the parts o
580.
by kqr 1y ago
In visual design, it is things that occupy space. The areas left unoccupied by things are called negative space. So if you hang a massive painting, that painting takes up positive space. The parts of the wall that are not covered by that pa
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by kqr 1y ago
> Trump had been threatening tariffs Trump made many empty threats his first term, so many didn't believe he would follow through to the degree he's done this term. > The EMH would assert that a casual observer like me would
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by kqr 1y ago
I used Feeder on my Android phone for the longest time. Recently set up a NixOS server and enabled FreshRSS on it, with FocusReader as the Android client. It is very nice to manage feeds on a server and have the read/unread status sy
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by kqr 1y ago
> Their main purpose is enabling their users to consume content Here we go again... no, "consume content" is what the commercial social networks want you to do so you stick around until the next ad break. (Maybe even what a com
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by kqr 1y ago
It seems like Bookstaber argues not that it's liquidity demand over information change, but that it is both . The tariff announcements are actually a great example, because it was triggered by new information, and diversification stil
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by kqr 1y ago
I think that's what I mean. After the time you talk about ('90s), these languages matured, and they happened to mature around the same time binary package managers became a thing, i.e. in the early-to-mid '00s.
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by kqr 1y ago
But also things like myBody.BothArms.Hand.RingFinger which targets the ring fingers on both hands at the same time, or myBody.LeftArm.Hand.RingFinger.WeddingBand which targets a ring that might not exist, or myBody.LeftArm.Hand.RingFinger.S
587.
by kqr 1y ago
Languages developed in that time matured just as good binary package managers started popping up, is my pet theory. Before that, getting a development environment for a new language was serious work, and people did things like stick to Perl
588.
by kqr 1y ago
Correct. The term "optics" is used by analogy; functional optics let us "zoom in" on parts of a data structure, and "zoom out to" a data structure surrounding a value.
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by kqr 1y ago
Is this by any chance what you're seeing? https://images.wikidexcdn.net/mwuploads/wikidex/6/6c/latest/...
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by kqr 1y ago
Can we please not post comments that are just LLM output with no additional commentary? This is not furthering discussion.
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by kqr 1y ago
But wait, if the problem is the final tokenisation, what would happen if we stopped it one or two layers before the final layer? I get that the result would not be as readable to a human as the final layer, but would it not be as confused w
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by kqr 1y ago
This is one of the most interesting articles I've read ... maybe this year. The author also has another one that is super cool: https://vgel.me/posts/representation-engineering/ I wish I could take the time t
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Representation Engineering (2024)(vgel.me)
39 points by kqr 1y ago|3 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
> The patient was shown two pictures: of a house in the winter time and of a chicken's claw. The pictures were positioned so they would exclusively be seen in only one visual field of the brain. The patient then chose the snow shove
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Black to Play(blacktoplay.com)
3 points by kqr 1y ago|0 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
Strong, publically-funded social safety net is a good start, I think. Using vice taxes to contribute money to it is probably a decent idea.
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by kqr 1y ago
I do not dispute any of that. Many young Americans also get addicted to alcohol. Many young Americans self-harm over unrealistic ideals brought to them by the beauty/fashion industries. Many young Americans get depressed over social me
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by kqr 1y ago
While yes, I sure look forward to the flood of cheap graphics cards we will see 5-10 years from now. I don't need the newest card, but I don't mind the five-year old top-of-the-line at discount prices.
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by kqr 1y ago
I've not heard any convincing arguments in favour of that hypothesis, no. Have you met young women? They self-harm over unrealistic ideals.
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by kqr 1y ago
> taxation. That's much fairer Extortion is more fair than voluntary contributions? Maybe on arguments from regression but it's not obvious. > You buy security against large losses at a moderate price Flood insurance is lite

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