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by martincmartin 3y ago
What are the pros and cons of llamafile (used by OP) vs ollama?
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by martincmartin 3y ago
No need to dig out the books, they're available online, well formatted and a pleasure to read: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_32.html
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by martincmartin 3y ago
Couldn't someone make a Docker instance that, inside it, contains the 2-3 other docker instances? I hear it's docker all the way down.
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by martincmartin 3y ago
What's the best Zigbee repeater, to get signal to a different part of the house? I used to use a smart bulb, but people kept turning it off at the switch or moving it.
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by martincmartin 3y ago
Your Adam Savage Tested link is wrong, it's the same as the Belndo (1995) link.
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by martincmartin 3y ago
2022
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Easy Quantum Entanglement: Simplest Description of Classically Impossible Result(martincmartin.com)
1 points by martincmartin 3y ago|0 comments
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by martincmartin 3y ago
Keep in mind that Einstein was a German Jew, and 1939 was after Hitler had come to power, passed all sorts of extreme anti-Jewish laws, and then started World War II. So it's a fair bet this is really about "how could so many peo
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by martincmartin 3y ago
When you estimate small tasks, most of the estimates will be accurate, but once in a while, you'll overlook something and a small task turns into a big task, e.g. you need to switch APIs or the customer wanted something that sounded si
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by martincmartin 3y ago
Edit: I misread, sorry.
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by martincmartin 3y ago
So this can tell you what food is in an image? Like Shazam for food? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codylab.se...
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by martincmartin 3y ago
OP here, thanks for your kind words! Yes, the display is intended to look at when you're about to go outside and deciding what to wear. It's not intended to replace a weather app. Also, when my kids were younger, we had a LaCro
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E-Paper Weather Display for Invisible Computers(github.com)
5 points by martincmartin 3y ago|2 comments
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by martincmartin 3y ago
It's easy to generate all proofs in any system, just pick any axiom, then apply any inference rule, and repeat. So if you ever generate both P and not P, then you've proven its inconsistent. So if it's inconsistent, it'
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by martincmartin 3y ago
Douglas Hofstader, the author of Godel Escher Bach, thought the task of creating fonts could only be solved with general AI. https://www.m-u-l-t-i-p-l-i-c-i-t-y.org/media/pdf/Metafont-M... The Letter Spirit projec
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by martincmartin 3y ago
true.
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by martincmartin 3y ago
Also, how does weather.gov compare to OpenWeatherMap.com? I'm starting one of these "weather on an e-ink display" projects, and wondering which API to use.
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by martincmartin 3y ago
How accurate is the weather.gov forecast? Compared to other regular consumer apps like weather.com or wunderground.com.
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by martincmartin 3y ago
The FAA release is very short, only 3 short paragraphs. The third sentence is: Zipline is an FAA-certificated Part 135 operator and will use its Sparrow drone to release the payload via parachute.
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by martincmartin 3y ago
"When preparing a defense, the good Samurai doesn't leave any weakness. The great Samurai leaves one weakness, so he knows from which direction the enemy will attack." I was given that advice when preparing for my Ph.D. defe
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by martincmartin 3y ago
John McCarthy was Moravec's PhD advisor.
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by martincmartin 3y ago
For me, the big problem is libraries. Even a personal file of common functions doesn't seem that well supported, and there just doesn't seem to be a way to get third party libraries. When I start needing helper functions and spli
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by martincmartin 3y ago
But MongoDB is webscale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs Edit: what happened to highscalability.com?
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by martincmartin 3y ago
Is the diamagnetism itself useful? In other words, even if it's not superconducting, does this have industrial applications?
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by martincmartin 3y ago
I learned a lot about programming by taking this book and, since I didn't own a computer, figuring out how the code could produce the example listing. That's where I learned things like, to swap the values of two variables, you c
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by martincmartin 3y ago
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra As someone who
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“BASIC Computer Games” code in modern languages(github.com)
255 points by martincmartin 3y ago|88 comments
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by martincmartin 3y ago
Couldn't cargo ships use wind? A wind turbine on the ship? A kind of modern re-imaging of how sailing ships of old were powered. Is the problem that wind isn't reliable and you might go days without it? Or you wouldn't fit
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American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate(economist.com)
75 points by martincmartin 3y ago|113 comments
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by martincmartin 3y ago
pseudo/true random number generator and initialization It's not just the generator and initialization. If you do anything multithreaded, like a producer/consumer queue, then you need to know which pieces of work went to wh

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