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by mlsu 3y ago
I'm in embedded also, I started this journey at work doing board bring-up. I wrote drivers mostly, not doing any direct electrical work, but after reading the schematics I thought, "oh wow, so that's how they do schematics pr
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by mlsu 3y ago
I'm learning PCB design, and embedded Rust to go along with it. Building a flight computer for an RC plane (I've been working on laying out and programming the computer for almost a year now -- haven't even started the airfra
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by mlsu 3y ago
The line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every person
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by mlsu 3y ago
Wow, fascinating read. 1999 Would a monkey who knew the n-gram frequencies of the letters in English where n is large be able to produce credible English text? Furthermore, does this monkey "know" English? If the N-gram monkey is
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by mlsu 3y ago
For a coast to coast flight, at least 30-40% of the flight time is spent getting to the airport earlier to de-risk the TSA line, or standing in the TSA line. Or, going outside to hail a cab to the airport, sitting in airport traffic, and dr
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by mlsu 3y ago
Only one of the companies you listed makes chips.
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by mlsu 3y ago
None of those people have car insurance.
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by mlsu 3y ago
Tokyo has roads, but household car ownership is 41% prefecture wide; that's well under 1car:1person. In inner city, it is probably close or above 90%. That inner city traffic is pretty much taxis and commercial vehicles. The same is tr
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by mlsu 3y ago
If Tokyo is hell why did so many people choose to move there?
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by mlsu 3y ago
Most people move to the Bay to get a good job, which is only possible in a large, vibrant, globally connected city. Everyone -- every single person -- who buys or rents a house in the SF bay today does so because they either have or want ha
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by mlsu 3y ago
I think we agree. But the car is a much bigger part of it than you're letting on. The reason we zone this way is because people are unable to imagine their lives without being able to drive around. The very first thing people say in my
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by mlsu 3y ago
We only have 2 cities in the United States that even approach a "medium sized" Asian metro in population. Los Angeles and NYC. Only NYC has a usable public transit system. This is actually an argument for transit systems. Los Ange
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by mlsu 3y ago
Why is it a problem for large corporate investors to develop? I've never understood this. New things are being built, who cares who builds them?
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by mlsu 3y ago
It's not a win for you then. It is a win for the 100 people who can move into that apartment building. Are you really that important?
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by mlsu 3y ago
It comes across harshly. The demo is genuinely technically impressive. But may I suggest: apply devin to your own codebase first -- then decide if it's something you want to gift to the rest of us.
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by mlsu 3y ago
After devin "figures out" 10 issues, what does the code look like? Those are the easy ones, and if you haven't fixed them cleanly, the next 10 will be more difficult to solve, for human and for robot. Now do this for several
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by mlsu 3y ago
Running predictions in parallel is just doing prediction and we're back at square one. Why do things in parallel in that case? At that point, you are just training an "opportune injection model" with the existing token stream
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by mlsu 3y ago
We don't have a model for "Where the conversation is going," we have a model for "What's the next token" which implicitly models "Where is the conversation going." The difference is significant here,
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by mlsu 3y ago
Writing this out made me think immediately of speculative execution. Interjection, similarly, saves "conversation cycles," by speculating about the future of a conversation and computing a response which occurs in the most likely
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by mlsu 3y ago
Interjecting requires planning ahead. The way a human interjects is that you have a parallel thought chain going, along with the conversation, as it's happening in real time. In this parallel chain, you are planning ahead. What point a
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by mlsu 3y ago
I think what's so fascinating about academia (really, university life in general) is the juxtaposition of intelligence with the cheating and fraudulent behavior that occurs. I have never, ever cheated in school. I was really surprised
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by mlsu 3y ago
Really awesome to see that we have collectively decided to double down on huge, wasteful, & dangerous trucks and SUVs. I'm glad that they aren't even pretending that this is eco-friendly, the way most carmakers do. I wonder ho
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by mlsu 3y ago
I actually have tried the DIY loop with the older insecure Medtronic pumps that could be controlled over radio. It was openAPS. I'm not sure if there are others or how they work. It ended up being fairly inconvenient. My setup was a pi
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by mlsu 3y ago
I'm bet they probably do collect e.g. your phone's operating system and use that to figure out which market segment you belong to. But as far as I know Dexcom doesn't have any agreements with anyone to sell their user's
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by mlsu 3y ago
No calibration is required for Dex G6/G7. I think you can optionally calibrate the G6 but I never have nor have I ever had to. I am going to be biased: I both work on and use the t:slim X2. It is well worth it, especially if covered by
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by mlsu 3y ago
It actually may actually be the other way around, at least for newer CGMs. Try doing a few fingerpricks in a row. The variability will surprise you!
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by mlsu 3y ago
That is impressive control, especially with no CGM!
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by mlsu 3y ago
They sell the data to nobody. It's considered PHI so covered by HIPAA. Dexcom has to trace custody of the data from the sensor to app to wherever it goes, so it is encrypted the whole way. Nobody has access unless the patient wants the
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by mlsu 3y ago
Wow, that article is wild. For those who are not aware, ketoacidosis is when your body metabolizes fat for energy in the absence of insulin. This produces byproducts (keytone bodies) that raise the pH of the blood. So, having ketoacidosis f
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by mlsu 3y ago
Dexcom and Freestyle both have options (G7, FSL2) that have a much narrower form factor than the old sensors. They end up being far more reliable, because the sensor doesn't dislodge. The new Dexcom sensors are more accurate. Less drif

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