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by mapt 6mo ago
Didn't we already invent much of this with wavelength division multiplexing and optical routing switches, the invention that pierced the tech bubble by quite suddenly increasing bandwidth of in-place fiber pipes by ~100x during a large
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by mapt 6mo ago
We can tune them slightly with differences in temperature if I recall correctly, but there are limited uses for a few nanometers up or down in wavelength. If there's now a versatile multi wavelength generator for numerous specific dis
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by mapt 6mo ago
Is there a single person here interested in photonic computing that wants to explain to the class if there's any "there" there?
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by mapt 6mo ago
On your tongue: "what exactly can we do?" On theirs: "Just for the sake of making the numbers work, have you tried putting in 'kill all the poor'?". https://youtu.be/s_4J4uor3JE I am increasing
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by mapt 6mo ago
Death rates are particularly hard to compare because part of the idea of El Salvador's system is that people are expected to die there - there is no release policy - yet most of them are young healthy men recently detained. If we just
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by mapt 6mo ago
But does the oxidative effect of rare short-lived impact atmospheres match the other chemistry associated with being exposed to billions of years of hard (blackbody) sunlight, solar wind, and cosmic rays on the surface of a body without muc
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by mapt 6mo ago
This sort of scenario, which was thought too improbable to plan for, even by an organization as psychotically obsessed with astronaut safety as NASA, is exactly why human spaceflight was important for exploration. Because astronauts could
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by mapt 6mo ago
Now think what Lavrenti Beria and an LLM could have done with that.
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by mapt 6mo ago
And then didn't (publicly) come out against suppressing the Whiskey Rebellion.
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by mapt 6mo ago
Microsoft just force-updated my operating system (despite declining every option and prompt) and the first thing I noticed working differently was it offering, in an OS popup, to "connect" the computer to "Facebook". The
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by mapt 6mo ago
"General Purpose Computing Device" A car houses numerous Turing-complete computation systems.
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by mapt 6mo ago
The point is to communicate that it's not a steep step change. In the original caffeine-only model, it's a smooth exponential decay function. There is still measurable caffeine in your blood N hours later, at levels approximatel
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by mapt 6mo ago
In the hypothetical Anarcho-Capitalist finance world, the remedy for a breach of fiduciary duty (corporate graft / insider tips) looks more like Jim Bell than Chuck Rhoades.
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by mapt 6mo ago
This is a distinct claim. Caffeine can disrupt sleep even 48 hours later, a little bit; It is traditionally modelled with an elimination half-life of 5 hours, meaning 1/2 effect at 5 hours, 1/4 effect at 10 hours, 1/8 effect
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by mapt 6mo ago
> Exercises by chapter Click on a chapter to download: Chapter 2: Python programming for physicists Chapter 3: Graphics and visualization Chapter 4: Accuracy and speed Chapter 5: Integrals and derivatives Chapter 6: Solution of linear a
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by mapt 6mo ago
What reasonably competent PDF-reader applications are not competent enough be Turing-complete?
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by mapt 6mo ago
The purpose of Palantir is to watch over Mordor and the other lands of Sauron. He's only got one eye, one attention span, he needs intelligent agentic processing to administrate the realm. Who are you going to entrust, Gorthak The Or
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by mapt 6mo ago
Are they somebody else's livestock when they're on your property and they lack any kind of brand or identifying mark? If they are somebody else's livestock and they're attacking your person en masse, which law enforcemen
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by mapt 6mo ago
The rules are that a large corporate AI company is able to scrape literally everything, and will use the full force of the law and any technology they can come up with to prevent you as an individual or a startup from doing so. Because hav
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by mapt 6mo ago
"I'm going to start spraying imidacloprid if I keep getting stung"
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by mapt 7mo ago
I think a basic principle with limited plans that offer the ability to buy extra data is "You should be able to actually load the account platform at the 2G hobbled speeds in order to pay". The heavyweight website/app for th
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by mapt 7mo ago
The difference between your positions is not about acute vs chronic, it's about tolerance. If a drug for a long term condition has short term effects the first few times and then they fade under regular use, it's less of a valid
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by mapt 7mo ago
Neither SAR nor high resolution optical sensing are trivial at panopticon scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GTpBMPjjFc is a good overview of what's up there so far, and what's coming as they really try to sc
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by mapt 7mo ago
There are enormous piles of money looming around every corner seeking a return on investment. If you have users that are enjoying a service, one of those piles of money can buy out the owner, double the price, implement ads, and sell all t
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by mapt 7mo ago
> It is the most Degenerate form of gambling out there. There is no skill, no human factor, no nothing. Just pure random numbers. Never go to Nevada.
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by mapt 7mo ago
It's a matter of market size and the inherent goal of the market; The factors are implicitly at odds. A small market is not at all efficient - it's unlikely to incorporate available information to attain accuracy. A large market i
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by mapt 7mo ago
We don't care about (TBW/TB) at the consumer level, we care about (TBW/$), and 3D TLC was far, far cheaper per TB, so much so that TBW/$ was not a numerical advantage of Optane. That left ONLY the near-RAM-read-latency,
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by mapt 7mo ago
You're conflating two things. Yes, Optane would survive more writes. But it wouldn't survive more TBW/$, because much larger flash drives were available cheaper. Double the size of the drive using identical technology, and
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by mapt 7mo ago
This sounds like the early Sidewinder or other 1940's/1950's attempts at infrared homing missiles.
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by mapt 7mo ago
Write endurance of the drive would be measured in TBW, and TLC flash kept adding enough 3D layers to stay cheap enough, quickly enough, that Optane never really beat their pricing per TBW to make a practical product. I have to wonder if it

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