mikewarot

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   by mikewarot 3y ago

   What's an lvm? Logical Volume Manager doesn't fit.
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   by mikewarot 3y ago

   It's disheartening that data diodes aren't widely deployed to allow for monitoring of critical infrastructure while making ingress of control (and thus hacking) physically impossible. We've known how to do this stuff securely
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   by mikewarot 3y ago

   I believe a (packer[1]) AGI is possible now thanks to the memory prosthesis that is part of MemGPT[2]. Packers are people who memorize facts to cope with the world. My experience working with them is they are very capable people, but when
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   by mikewarot 3y ago

   Restating that: How can we train a Mapper AI instead of a Packer AI? Once you've trained the model, it only has it's context window to work with for long term memory. Adding a memory prosthesis in the manner of MemGPT is likely to
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   by mikewarot 3y ago

   It's the same way we do it, form a number of possible variants and use the ones that work best. They have the advantage of millions or even billions of times more compute to throw at the learning process. Something that might be a one
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   by mikewarot 3y ago

   Learning how deep networks learn features isn't obvious, and teasing out the details is valuable research. Superhuman levels of feature recognition are at play during the training of LLMs, and those insights are compiled into the resul
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   by mikewarot 3y ago

   Ok, so I'll keep using my old solder, and buy the new stuff next time I need more solder. (Unless of course, someone gives me more of the old stuff before then, in which case its best to use it, and keep it away from the landfill)
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   by mikewarot 3y ago

   Mine is broken and I'm waiting until I have enough savings to pay someone experienced to do it for us. I've worked on all sorts of things, but I don't want to risk my health that recklessly.
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   by mikewarot 3y ago

   The shift to other sources, combined with the rising water cut doesn't bode well for anyone depending on output from the Ghawar oil field.
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    Lazarus/Free Pascal, I've run the IDE on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, it wasn't anywhere near as fast as I'm used to on a PC, but it got the job done. It makes small compact efficient GUI and command line applications.
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    I'm so old, my first email address was ihnp4!chinet!ka9dgx I've programmed PDP-11, Z80, 8086, 68HC11, i386 all in assembler. I've programmed in a few varieties of Basic, Turbo Pascal, Fortran, PL/N, Forth, Excel (a decla
12. 1572.▲
    by mikewarot 3y ago

    So you want me to remove all the lead/tin solder from the stuff I'm repairing... and do WHAT with it, exactly? I've been using the same roll of Kestler fine solder since the I got it about 20 years ago at the Dayton hamfest.
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    My current best way would be to put it online in a web site you control... then make sure to have the Internet Archive take a snapshot of it. Tweet it, talk about it in various places, and maybe others will copy it elsewhere.
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    If you want to go all the way down the rabbit hole, you can follow along with John Plant on YouTube, he started with a well chosen rock, and got to an Axe, fire, kilns, huts, and recently has been smelting iron source from the iron eating(?
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    Soldering doesn't involve boiling the lead in the solder. I worry more about the fumes from the flux than I do the solder. I just wash my hands afterward to make sure I don't ingest traces of it.
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    For me, all of the alternatives disappeared over time. First RSS got killed when Google Reader went away. Somewhere along the line delcio.us died, as well as Kur5hin. MetaFilter went woke (or more correctly, intolerant of the non-woke). The
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    I started programming in 1979, and I can't believe I've managed to avoid learning about stack frames all those EBP register tricks until now. I always had parameters to functions in registers, not on the stack, for the most part.
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    Forth has a parameter stack, return stack, vocabulary stack STOIC, a variant of Forth, includes a file stack when loading words
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    Well, it is truly amazing what you can do with a cheap RTLsdr dongle and some time and energy. I used GNU Radio to build a receiver flowgraph that decodes and displays the signal from a nearby VOR aircraft navigation transmitter. It was coo
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    In nearby East Chicago, Indiana, the lead level in some tested soils reached 9.1% (91,000 ppm) [1] If this could be used to capture that lead, and separate it out, you could mine the soil, while you treat a superfund site at the same time.
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    I was curious about the differences, so I found a copy of the story online.[1] (Warning PDF) I find the idea of "variational principle" in physics interesting. https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    The picture shows temperatures up to 316K, which is 42 C.... so likely it's a typo for 46 (or 45?) centigrade. It's the repeating of an earlier mistake.[1] Which apparently partially arises from [2] which is behind a paywall. [1]
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    I'm at the acceptance stage, mostly. I don't want to linger and suffer. I also don't want to force poverty on my family. I've realized I need to avoid repeating the mistake of a late friend, who left a house full of comp
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    Tangentially, and coincidentally (from the last page of the PDF) - Von Neuman in 1956 wrote Since then, the complexity and the sophistication of the weapons business has been increasing very rapidly from year to year. I should l
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    My one claim to fame gets this done years ago.[1] [1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6757828B1/en
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    Ask HN: Can a Mapper AGI be built?

    1 points by mikewarot 3y ago|0 comments
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    At my current state of health? People will start asking questions in 20 years, and I'm not sure I'm healthy enough to go back to working for a living. If I could restart at about 20... oh yeah.
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    Those trees are going to block the solar panels. If they're in series, blocking any one of the cuts your power for all of them. I'm fortunate in that I'm on a ridge, well above the average terrain, in an area (SE of Chicago)
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    and only 6 more days until #HoosierPiDay, 3/20 ;-)
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    by mikewarot 3y ago

    I'm not forcing anything on them. They have done a small bit of scripting to get things to happen in Minecraft and elsewhere. As they move to adulthood, I'll offer programming and repair of electronics, etc.. (outside of the coll