michaelerule

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by michaelerule 5y ago
Is the 6 years measured in the time-frame of a passenger on the spacecraft, or as observed from Earth?
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by michaelerule 5y ago
I've been working on a P50 since 2016; It is holding up. Flaws: - There is cosmetic degradation - The laptop is gradually losing hassle-free hardware support from the latest popular Linux distributions. (Trackpoint crashes randomly in
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by michaelerule 5y ago
How do you submit your papers to scihub?
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by michaelerule 5y ago
If an Arduino can do it, how bad can it be (: https://crawlingrobotfortress.blogspot.com/2021/10/semigraph... (Blitting unicode glyphs to screen is not hard or slow; In this project, the glyph rendering code turne
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by michaelerule 5y ago
I don't listen at 3× speed to learn more, I listen at 3× speed because anything slower is uncomfortably boring. (ADHD.)
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by michaelerule 5y ago
If I understood correctly, I think I agree with your loose analogy. I've tried combining some error correction with ongoing re-learning. It stabilizes things against drift, but not indefinitely. This is all in an extremely preliminary
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by michaelerule 5y ago
My understanding was that these experiments didn't completely rule out the possibility of a stable sub-population. Also, the olfactory bulb projects to other areas besides piriform, and those might support long-term stability. My extre
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by michaelerule 5y ago
I think part of the mystery is that computers can copy binary information losslessly, ad infinitum. So they can move information as often as needed with (almost) no error. We don't think neurons are as reliable, and excessive copying i
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by michaelerule 5y ago
I think the point is that there are smells that we do remember for a lifetime, which must be explained. Either these stable memories aren't mediated by the cells in piriform that Schoonover and Fink recorded, or there is a mechanism th
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by michaelerule 5y ago
I'm (weakly) leaning in this direction as well. But, there are other proposed functions of dreams that are hard to reconcile with this. Some people think that dreams prevent overfitting and/or sample the negative gradient in a con
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by michaelerule 5y ago
I'm working on this at the moment; Reconsolidation should work, but requires that representations/memories be periodically re-activated so that the neurons can re-learn how to encode them. Still very preliminary: https:/&#x2
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by michaelerule 6y ago
Not a lot of content in the comments yet, so I thought I'd just copy-paste the Wikipedia note regarding this controversy: > Palantir has come under criticism due to its partnership developing software for U.S. Immigration and Custo
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by michaelerule 7y ago
When I last looked into this, it seemed as if the delay was programmed into the firmware on the keyboard.
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by michaelerule 13y ago
It is my understanding that gamma correction occurs in the display driver ( or possibly display itself, in some cases ). The colors that your application manipulates are the "raw" colors. Linearly interpolating in this space is co
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by michaelerule 13y ago
To me the generalizations in this article come across as ironic or satirical.
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by michaelerule 13y ago
I believe that statement is made in irony.
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by michaelerule 13y ago
idiomatic? ( I am unfamiliar with the meaning of "idiomatic" in this context, I suspect this is programming language jargon? )
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by michaelerule 13y ago
the only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves
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by michaelerule 13y ago
I could see how some people might interpret it as such, but my impression was that tripzilch was aiming for a more general metaphor. The term "stockholm syndrome" might also have been fitting. I interpreted it as a general statement about v
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by michaelerule 13y ago
There is something to be said for opening discussion about coding practices in large companies. His essay was descriptive. Even if it did hurt his own personal career prospects, having it out there helps the community better understand what