mvanaltvorst

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by mvanaltvorst 5y ago
You're right, the camera was in front of the actual finish line. My point is that Wout was ahead for the /entire/ duration where the front wheel intersected the camera line. The wheel's diameter is bigger than 20cm, so t
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by mvanaltvorst 5y ago
Is it just me, or is it really obvious that Wout won? https://i.imgur.com/g78YNla.png Each pixel column is a specific point in time. I added a few landmarks: when the front of the wheel passes the camera view, when the axis
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by mvanaltvorst 5y ago
The top-of-the-line Apple Watch is $529. You can go higher than that, but that is purely for aesthetics (upgrade to titanium shell, stainless steel clasp, etc.).
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by mvanaltvorst 5y ago
There's an image on their website[1], pretty huge water pumps. "To solve the 70-year-old problem of wafer-scale, we needed not only to yield a big chip, but to invent new mechanisms for powering, packaging, and cooling it. The tra
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by mvanaltvorst 5y ago
The fastest available ARM device in the consumer Windows ecosystem, the Microsoft Surface Pro X, is significantly slower than a virtualised instance of Windows on a MacBook Air. There is a penalty, but it doesn't matter that much in pr
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by mvanaltvorst 5y ago
You could also remove the whole AirTag?
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by mvanaltvorst 5y ago
The fact that it works with any iPhone /is/ the innovation. I would imagine less than 0,5% of iPhone users has the Tile app installed. A worldwide network of connected iPhones will make this technology finally worth using.
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by mvanaltvorst 5y ago
If you take this CPU with its 280W TDP and scale it down to 18W like an Apple M1, you get a score of ~7200 while the Apple M1 gets 7700. Actually pretty amazing how close the performance per watt is to be honest; totally different form fact
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by mvanaltvorst 5y ago
Not screwing over ~9M wallstreetbets users, possibly resulting in a short squeeze, nets you millions of loyal customers for life. On top of that, the whole reason the stock is currently priced so high is the lack of available shares. Releas
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by mvanaltvorst 5y ago
China has always been extremely good for its top students, providing them with all they need to excel. Once China becomes a global superpower, I'd imagine many of them go back to working for China if they get the chance to with their n
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by mvanaltvorst 5y ago
>Chinese middle class will demand the same standard of living like people in the West Will they? As far as I know censorship has been amazingly successful
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
That sounds interesting, but I would imagine it would become very complicated once you start applying nontrivial functions (discontinuous functions, for example). In that case the range of possible values could actually become discontinuous
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
Correct, and judging from someone else in this thread, it was even possible to use wildcard matching to get access to an entire list of users at once.
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
People have gotten taller and healthier because of better nutrition, there is no reason to believe people haven't gotten smarter as well.
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
Do you really feel like you would be constrained by the amount of shortcuts on a keyboard without a numpad? There are so many different combinations you can make once you include control/alt/fn etc. Sure, if you're used to sh
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
You don't have to know how much gas it requires to /complete/, you can just run the program and check whether it runs out of gas before it exits. You do not need to solve the halting problem. Actually, it's pretty trivia
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
I have never had carpal tunnel-like symptoms yet, though I just realised I've only used left ctrl for the past 10 years. I'll definitely be more mindful of that. Do you have any more resources on avoiding common typing pitfalls, o
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
What would the implications of FHE be for the average consumer?
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
This effectiveness of product has been debunked half a year ago [1], though the technology is very interesting. [1]: Bui, S., Geitung, L., Oppedal, F., & Barrett, L. T. (2020). Salmon lice survive the straight shooter: A commercial scal
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
Take the money, pile it all up and directly give it back to the citizens, where every citizen gets the same amount of money. Effect: households will have the same amount of money on average, but people will be nudged to substitute their car
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
> solve [...], otherwise everything will keep going up This implies that markets going up is a problem that needs to be solved.
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
TSMC
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
Apple could use DDG as leverage though. If Google stops paying those 9bn, Apple has no reasonable alternative search engine it could resort back to. By quietly continuing development on DuckDuckGo for ~500mn/year, it could be some dete
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
Huh, you're right! The current #500 system [1] consists of 1496 20-core Xeon processors, for a linpack performance of 1316TFLOPS. The GPU of an iPhone 12 is ~800GFLOPS for FP32 on the GPU, which implies that ~1600 iPhone 12's comb
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
You differentiate both sides of the equation given above with respect to t. Differentiating 1/t yields -1/t^2. On the LHS you apply the differentiation inside the integral.
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
I prefer this one: http://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/chart/UDR/UDR.html
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
Of course, I had accumulated all other pruning strategies under the "other optimisations".
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
You can imagine playing chess as a tree. You start with a game state, and every possible move is an edge to a new game state. Unfortunately, the amount of game states grows approximately exponentially (e.g. for every game state there are ap
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
Say that Pfizer were able to simulate 50 possible mutations and put all of them into a single vaccine, would there be any risk that the antibodies could interact with each other in some way that makes the vaccines less effective? Also anoth
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by mvanaltvorst 6y ago
Gradient descent is a subset of survival of the fittest, described by Darwin in 1800-1900, and has been in applied in computer science since the 70's. An AGI will probably use some form of gradient descent during its training, yes, but

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