marmakoide

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by marmakoide 3y ago
I am easily distracted (as in, ADHD-like), I enjoy very sparse work spaces in general. Tools with lots of icons, windows, and other widgets are very uncomfortable to me. I prefer typing commands, I believe a well written command language an
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by marmakoide 3y ago
A stochastic parrot used to generate variation of a program, to do hill climbing on programs. The magician lose some its charm when you know his trick. The Earth used to be the center of the universe, now it's circling an average star.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
I don't see this creating new algorithms (as in, not in the training corpus), but maybe giving the kind of answer you would expect from Stack Overflow, without all the social fluff around it (comments, badges and so on). The day one of
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by marmakoide 3y ago
I say he is not a providential man, that it's a team effort, and that it's in line with current industrial needs and capacity. That is not an expression of hate, I think.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
I believe it would have happened, with or without Musk. Credit where credit is due, SpaceX seems to be a very well managed operation. I don't believe in providential people, at all. I don't know why my political beliefs are mentio
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by marmakoide 3y ago
That's not one man dream, it's a team of engineers and managers funded by a rich guy who likes what they can do. Some serious backing from the US government is part of it with research work, contracts and grants. The dream is coll
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by marmakoide 3y ago
Naturally occurring lakes of algae tasting like wheat and similar sugar content, and metabolized by fermentation from micro organism.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
"grill" in France is used as an anglicism, ie. words imported straight from English, with the meaning sometime distorted beyond recognition. Here, it's used to imply that something have a flavor somewhat related to barbecue m
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by marmakoide 3y ago
Maybe a more rational, objective argument against "plant meats" is that they are usually heavily processed food. Once in a while, they are unlikely to make any problem, but as a daily staple it's not ideal, health wise.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
The language itself is decent enough for seasoned programmers, accessible to beginners, copy-paste friendly and the ecosystem covers the recent popular needs and hypes.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
I helped my Dad doing just that ! It was fairly easy, it just need patience. It's South West France, in an area with sandy soil. All it took was ropes, shovels and buckets. We connected it to drain pipe buried in the garden, to capture
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by marmakoide 3y ago
The scientific literature pretending that gut feeling does not exist, is, in my own opinion, a legend. Most discoveries/invention were stumbled upon by collective efforts, a bit of intuition, lots of work, and a share of luck. Once som
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by marmakoide 3y ago
The whole tirade on rigorous proofs and colonial mindset puzzles me. From my understanding (I am European ...), rigorous proofs were increasingly seen as a need because as things like calculus progressed, any loose definition had a tendency
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by marmakoide 3y ago
It's useful. It just need a note about the cyclic nature of it and the place of ego * Forget about glory and peer recognition. One day you'll die and as time passes you'll be forgotten, including anything you made. Don't
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by marmakoide 3y ago
Reminds me of the book "The Last Ringbearer". It tells the story of "The Lords of The Ring" from the perspective of Sauron, Saruman, and the Orks. Turns out, Mordor was a nation in its early industrial stage, of people p
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by marmakoide 3y ago
The STEM people will just need flashy robes, long grey hairs and market themselves as the magicians that can read the runes, command to the machine spirits of yore, and make the food grow. It's good fun to pester the nerds until the wi
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by marmakoide 3y ago
There are fairly old takes on that idea. For example, the evolutionary algorithm community knew the relevance of using steps size drawn from a Cauchy distribution, for example "Evolutionary Programming Made Faster", Xin Yao et al.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
I glanced at the paper. Does the paper focus on semidefinite programming, where the objective function is linear, subjects to linear inequalities constraints ?
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by marmakoide 3y ago
In Mandarin and Vietnamese, you can build new words by concatenation of words with broad meanings. Say, a plane is "flying machine", a mobile phone is a "hand machine", and a fridge is a "cold closet". In pract
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by marmakoide 3y ago
For niche embedded devices, you often end-up with a half-baked C compiler and assembler, nothing else.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
There are small projects, hobby projects, and large industrial projects. For hobby projects in C, I am myself very happy with a shell, make, a text editor, git and valgrind. Imagine developing an embedded device for medical or aerospace har
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by marmakoide 3y ago
Quite OK JS Plotting Library (QOJSPL, nice, sounds like my cat walking on the keyboard). With an intuitive, documented API that doesn't require you to dig through tons of examples on sites that take ages to load. Because, no, a massi
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by marmakoide 3y ago
I think that most of those points applies for most science and engineering projects, not merely spacecraft design. As many wise set of rules, a lot of rules contradict each others, so that it is universal and intemporal.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
It might be that the process to make LK99, produces a fraction of the Good Stuff, which went under the radar until recently. It would not have been the first time. If it is confirmed with the proper methodology ... right now it's too e
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by marmakoide 3y ago
Yeah, nah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_affair National pride and science are not a very good mix
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by marmakoide 3y ago
I guess it's a mix of - It's a good opportunity to gain visibility by working something grabbing the news. 1st room temperature superconductor, that's big - (Under)graduate lab interns can be thrown onto any crash project
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by marmakoide 3y ago
Use the Python interactive CLI most of the time. I still have a TI30x around for the few times I don't have my laptop around, like when doing electronics or wood working. I could use my phone for that, but I really prefer using a prope
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by marmakoide 3y ago
In the late 90's, my Dad bought Visual Studio 6 to learn C++. I knew my way around Turbo Pascal, i386 assembler and C/DJGPP on DOS, so I figured I could try to code for Windows, "I am Big Boy now". The Visual Studio 6 bo
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by marmakoide 3y ago
In 320x200 or 320x240 VGA, you could had essentially the same trick for scrolling window over the VRAM, checkout Mode X VGA. The Allegro library had baked-in support for that, at least in the early 2000's.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
I don't think it's 48h from scratch. Making the prototype for scrolling a tile map, a tile editor, etc might have taken more time. 48h sounds more like the time to capture sprites and slap them using already made tools/code.

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