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by m0zg 5y ago
Not just "plausible". I'm talking about near exact, not just "plausible" simulation of the signals they will consume and produce, in time domain, at an arbitrary time resolution. There's no "package"
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by m0zg 5y ago
Note that compared to real neurons this is very, very crude, and it does not replicate their functionality in full. The key thing to understand is that a real neuron is not a constant thing, it is subject to its environment, meaning that if
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by m0zg 5y ago
The reason why we don't have such a book is simply because nobody has the slightest clue as to how things work at the macro level. We got as far as figuring out a few dozen cells at a time, but beyond that it's really anyone'
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by m0zg 5y ago
I don't see why he would necessarily be against relicensing, frankly. His rejection of racial discrimination (which LLVM indirectly supported in that case) has nothing to do with licensing of the code.
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by m0zg 5y ago
> That made it impossible for some companies to contribute. It did all right regardless. Why bother with coddling the companies? As someone who wants software patents to die in a fire, I think coddling of this kind is counterproductive i
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by m0zg 5y ago
More like bread and bread-like things. Sugar has to pass through your liver first, so it's not instantly available. Nuts, which are often recommended, are also energy dense, but harder to fully digest, unless you chew them really freak
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by m0zg 5y ago
> is it always necessary to model our systems "exactly" on the natural physiology To replicate their effects? Probably not. "Probably" because it could very well be that evolution came up with something that anything
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by m0zg 5y ago
> and contemplated the mistake I had made Reminds me of my own "contemplation" on the way back out of the Grand Canyon. Getting down there is hard. Getting back up is way harder. And the only "food" I took with me was
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by m0zg 5y ago
I took a computational neuroscience course many years ago and discovered just how primitive our understanding of neural circuitry is. Case in point: at the time (don't know how it is now) it was not possible to precisely model more tha
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by m0zg 5y ago
Speaking of, can someone explain why the TSA security theater does not include body temperature measurement (or any other screening for COVID symptoms) nowadays? The whole airport situation is weird: mask enforcement in the environment wher
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by m0zg 5y ago
Yeah, how about we don't go there in the first place? Of all the obviously bad ideas, the "world government" strikes me as a particularly bad one.
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by m0zg 5y ago
> work ethics and attention to detail This, by the way, is immediately apparent if you are traveling in Japan. You get the impression that the Japanese don't goof off at work. This is especially noticeable with folks who work outsi
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by m0zg 5y ago
I'like to point out though that "zstd" is itself an abbreviation, and "zstandard" would be quite onerous.
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by m0zg 5y ago
> I realized how mediocre and untalented I was Read Peter Thiel's "Zero to One" and rejoice then. One of the key ideas in the book is that to be successful you have to avoid competition, and build a monopoly on something t
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by m0zg 5y ago
I'm not the one who came up with the extension. It just sort of organically happened I guess. I'd prefer "zstd" myself, but, frankly, "zst" is fine as well.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Zstd is an amazing bit of work and all I ever use for data compression nowadays (or LZ4 when speed is even more critical). Several times the compression/decompression speed of gzip, approximately the same compression ratio with default
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by m0zg 5y ago
But you aren't "spending time" with that person. You're spending time with that person's poorly rendered avatar. You can't even hear them properly. You can't see them at all. You can't touch them or r
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by m0zg 5y ago
The CPU emulator looked like Valgrind judging by the output. So you'd have to stretch the definition of "original code" to the max for it to hold up.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Which itself is a carbon copy of BeOS, as far as UX is concerned.
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by m0zg 5y ago
My wife is a goddess of "Excel abuse". She (a financial analyst) unearths and uses the kinds of features in Excel I didn't know existed. But she can't code and isn't interested in learning how to do so. It's a
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by m0zg 5y ago
Who's the user for this? It looks too "dumb" for a "real" programmer, and way too "smart" for everyone else. There's no way a real user will be able to navigate that "formula bar". Source: h
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by m0zg 5y ago
I also switched my dev team to it once it grew sufficiently large (at a now acquired startup). The primary thing it enables is actually having a structured conversation about your changes, and having several _revisions_ of your changes thro
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by m0zg 5y ago
Yeah, I knew a guy who got his legs destroyed by it. Given how well the polio vaccine is tolerated, and how grim the prognosis is without it, I don't think there'd be any issues with vaccine adoption. Measles one could argue eithe
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by m0zg 5y ago
> has caused a lot of people to forego their vaccinations Citation needed. I think people forego vaccinations due primarily to how hard they are being pushed, and due to almost 2 years of pretty much nonstop incoherence (or even outrigh
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by m0zg 5y ago
Sure, but my point is "consensus" doesn't necessarily mean "truth", even though the vast majority of people use the terms interchangeably. "Everyone but one person is wrong" is a situation we've seen
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by m0zg 5y ago
Most scientists/doctors believed at one point that ulcers were caused by "stress". My father lost half his stomach to an ulcer surgery. Nowadays ulcers are cured with antibiotics in the span of a week. Don't put much sto
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by m0zg 5y ago
That's the point. As long as I'm lucid I should have full bodily autonomy, including the decision to shuffle off this mortal coil. In fact I already have control over this decision. > and there are forces in society So? You&#x2
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by m0zg 5y ago
And there will be approximately zero non-gimmick software for them until at least 2032, if it ever materializes at all.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Half of these are on their way into "valley of disillusionment" before they become generally useful, though perhaps not as grandiose as originally promised. And longevity research is not even a real need - we already live too long
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by m0zg 5y ago
Age happens to be the only way to obtain life experience, unfortunately, although the reverse is not true - a lot of people never actually learn of the deeper issues in their lives in that meta-cognitive way. Some just keep doing things mor

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