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by loxias 9y ago
Does use of complex numbers really provide improvement? How does this work? (other than cramming 2 numbers into 1... which itself is suspect... the complex plane has the same cardnality as the reals...)
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by loxias 9y ago
This is a great idea, thanks! I've been asking not to be tagged, but this is better. I worry that "not tagging" is somehow adding sparse data which can later on be filled in.
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by loxias 9y ago
Minor point of confusion -- this article refers multiple times to a "data breach". ( "...one of the largest-ever breaches of Facebook data...", "At the time of the data breach...", "...first reported the
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by loxias 9y ago
I was confused by that too. "You used to require a separate board to use PoE. Now you... still need a separate board to use PoE." Oh well. Also, as possibly the only person left who really doesn't care at all about wireles
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by loxias 9y ago
This is a positively fantastic explanation. One of the best I've seen despite being so short. Minor nitpick: It might be a bit more clear if the terms "F", "s", "v" were explicitly defined, as well as a
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by loxias 9y ago
I certainly do! Mean shift ( https://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/05/26/mean-shift-clusteri... ) is commonly used in image/volume segmentation, when you have CPU to burn. I've done a decent amount of
727.
by loxias 9y ago
Nice write up! I think you might see some interesting results using a non-parametric [one that doesn't require specifying the number of clusters apriori] clustering algorithm, like mean-shift. I've never seen an adaptation for di
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by loxias 9y ago
> > I like a bit of extra paranoia > ... three separate vendors and technologies ... > ... does not share a single line of code with ... > ... use two different credit cards ... This person legit thinks about failure modes.
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by loxias 9y ago
B2 is great, I've used it roughly since they came out with it. I rolled my own solution for backups with linux, involving NBD and libcurl, but it sounds like there's other available things now. I'm stoked, they're alrea
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by loxias 9y ago
> Hackernews hates Ethereum It does? I admit I'm pretty ignorant of the nuances of all the little alt coins, but I know Ethereum has something to do with distributed applications, with a VM, and I've always thought that cool i
731.
by loxias 9y ago
I certainly am disappointed. I'm not entirely sure why I expected more from reddit, I mean, comeon, it's not twitter! ;-) My guess is that it's a mixture of illiteracy (innumeracy?) and invested interest. The quality of di
732.
by loxias 9y ago
Is there anyone who's sufficiently qualified in astronomy/astrophysics who could point out what advances in HPC/modelling/signal processing will be necessary to accelerate things like this? I don't know telescopes b
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by loxias 9y ago
Oh! I remembered more details about it if it helps. It has to do with e being the "most efficient" numbering base. The reason e is the "most efficient" has to do with wanting to minimize both the size of the alphabet
734.
by loxias 9y ago
Holy shit! this only reinforces the (probably unfair) stereotypes I have about random comments on twitter (as opposed to other places on the internet).
735.
by loxias 9y ago
The crypto world has certainly inspired me to pursue whole new fields of research. Not in cryptocurrencies, because while the idea of a distributed ledger I think is solid and here to stay, but because at least 90% of these "currencie
736.
by loxias 9y ago
Also, honest question: Anyone know of any exchange or means to take a short position on IOTA? I only did so though "never buying any".
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by loxias 9y ago
I have a vague memory of once upon a time reading a paper alleging that if you could start everything over again from the beginning, that somehow ternary was more efficient than binary for a digital architecture, something having to do with
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by loxias 9y ago
Totally. And not to sound holier than thou, I'm guilty of "unnecessary re-implementation" possibly more than most. I use my own window manager, have written my own high performance disk archival compression, wrote my own (s
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by loxias 9y ago
The market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent.
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by loxias 9y ago
Because IOTA is rekt, it has been for some time, and this is just what you should expect from people who try to roll their own cryptography, then get defensive when a notable real cryptographer points out flaws.
741.
by loxias 9y ago
I know, right? I read through the whole exchange and kept thinking "How are they managing to be so polite, to these rank amateurs who show no respect?" I probably would have informed them of the flaw, informed them when I was pub
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by loxias 9y ago
Confirming basically everything I already suspected about IOTA -- don't trust anything crypto related that's not written by a professional. "You're gonna have a bad time." [Edit to add this plug for Zcash! Made wi
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by loxias 9y ago
Between this link and the other one currently on the front page about malicious AI ( https://blog.openai.com/preparing-for-malicious-uses-of-ai/ ), some days it really feels like we're converging on Stross's Ac
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Why it's hard to stop initiated movement(sciencedaily.com)
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by loxias 9y ago
This is the best answer so far.
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by loxias 9y ago
Similar to the other comment you received, I've also been working on some of the math necessary to do such a a thing! I have no idea how it would be productized there's so many things out there that do "good enough" j
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by loxias 9y ago
Adobe Audition (aka "Cool Edit Pro") from BITD I would even help on such a project, I have DSP and audio editing experience... While I'm dreaming, Ableton too. Desperately. Also, although it affects me far less, I don'
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by loxias 9y ago
This looks glorious in w3m. Thank you NPR!
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by loxias 9y ago
What an interesting idea. Would the final output be raw text, a sort of English summary of what was said? Or, to be useful, would the final output be structured data? (example: pre-filling in a form with set number of fields and data typ
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by loxias 9y ago
"asio requires boost"

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