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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Modern in the art & design world is actually quite retro.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
I read somewhere that the visual design of Windows 8 was based on the works of Mondrian, because they wanted a design that didn’t just look like the Swiss School that Apple had adopted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Nevertheless in solid conductors it’s the electrons that move, while the nucleus stays put. If the nucleus starts to move it means your circuit is melting!
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> Charges are made out of quarks Only in Hadrons. Leptons also have charge and they aren’t made of quarks.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> Try to do the same with meat. People have been doing that for decades, the earliest efforts go back to the 50s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiking_neural_network
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
The layers don’t have to be non-linear, but you need a non-linear activation function between them. People often overlook the importance of the network topology and the activation functions. The weights alone are not a complete descriptio
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
This has always been true of software, particularly games. You can get a 5-6 year old game for a fraction of the price, and run it on modest hardware. But the industry wont sit on its hands for 5 years, there will be newer software that r
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> you are made to not feel welcome, odd rules, buttons to press etc Or closed for years at a time due to construction.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> Is it to counter terrorism? They’re worried that if there was an incident they might get sued for having inadequate security. I’ve spent a lot of time going to places with security like this (airports, museums etc) and getting a belt w
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
People betting that the price will go up because they think other people are doing the same thing.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> Demand for law related things isn't elastic. Of course it is. When someone is thinking of suing someone else the first thing that gives them pause is the potential legal costs.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
That’s a comprehensive list of single user devices.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Airports see more traffic every day than spaceports have seen ever, in all of history. So it’s partly just down to constant repetition and experience.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
If New Glenn ever launched people they’d build the escape system into the crew module, much as SpaceX does with Crew Dragon.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> you can use electric motors to propel a craft to around 500 km/h before ditching the wheels and starting your chemical rockets. Makes me wonder if you could accelerate to orbital velocity using something like a maglev train and no
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> There have been notorious cases in spaceflight where the issue was 'identified' and 'fixed', only for the same thing issue to happen In software development this is your average weekday.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Waiting until you need something and don’t have an easy replacement is how you end up with delays and bottlenecks.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Someone should invent a drinking game based on how long it takes for someone to drop Elon’s name in a thread about a totally different aerospace company.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> In that scenario AI and robots produce everything, the owners of those AI companies can trade their AI's output with other AI/robot companies, robot and chip manufacturers and commodity owners? So 10000 people world-wide are
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Not possible if they still require goods and services from the non-AI part of the economy. They’d still have to come up with something of value to exchange with that part of the market.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
LMGTFY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_physics Cloud formation is probably interesting example of spontaneous symmetry breaking, but that doesn’t seem to be much studied.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
Press releases are often written for lazy publications to copy and paste.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
Tell that to the EPA, the CDC, the FCC, the BLS, the FRS.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
It’s very limited. Only a few buttons to push, unless you roll up your sleeves. For instance there’s a button to have it summarise an email, but having it search through all your emails requires writing scripts.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
Hallucinations and other errors are a real problem. I’ve tried tinkering with Shortcuts (which get you more direct access the models) to generate AI responses to messages and emails, but it’s unreliable. The biggest problem is it has trou
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
> This is why China is eating the West. Nothing to do with cheap labour.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
> Meanwhile the AI fad is seeing huge layoffs. This is really the only point I disagree with. Layoffs are being blamed on AI, but they are really a hangover of the covid hiring boom, and subsequent bust. All the tech money is going into
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
There is a strain of science fiction where the human protagonist (usually a white male) (possibly a boy from backwoods moisture farm) saves the universe, (including all the other dumb luckless species). A notorious example is Battlefield E
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
> And Ryan Gosling's character is a fucking moron. You're supposed to be a molecular biologist, and you're basically a reddit-gag line? The thing about very smart people is that they can still manage to miss the bus. And i
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
I have memories of using a hex editor to edit the save file to get enough money to buy a docking computer because even as a kid my technical abilities were much better than my hand eye coordination.

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