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by niccl 3y ago
There's a neat novel that has the Marie Antoinette Breguet as a core McGuffin. Written a few years before the timepieces were recovered: The Grand Complication, by Allen Kurzweil.
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by niccl 3y ago
And sometimes you get Prompt Side and Opposite Prompt, which are _usually_ stage left and stage right respectively, but it depends on the theatre, with some having the prompt on the stage right.
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by niccl 3y ago
and me, in NZ, trying to tell a friend exactly when the launch window opened: 12:00 UTC on 2023-04-17 translates to midnight on the night between 17/4/2023 and 18/4/2023 NZ time. I ended up telling the friend that the wi
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by niccl 3y ago
OT, but for once, Betteridge's law of headlines is proved wrong. I often do a mental check, and I think this is the first time I've noticed it in a year or so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_la
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Can We Identify a Person from Their Voice?(spectrum.ieee.org)
5 points by niccl 3y ago|2 comments
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Evaluating GPT-3 and GPT-4 on the Winograd Schema Challenge(d-kz.medium.com)
1 points by niccl 3y ago|2 comments
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by niccl 4y ago
I think there are two things at work. First, if you pay someone to find problems with a study, they're going to want to find problems with the study to justify their existence. Associated with that is that many people don't consid
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by niccl 4y ago
plus the helicopter access (since almost by definition these new sites are in hard-to-access places) for cleaning the solar panels and other maintenance. snow on solar panels can be an issue, as well as just dust and other
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by niccl 4y ago
up until last year I was supporting a system for a client that would only run on Solaris 2.5.2 from 1996 or so. (finding working versions of the hardware was becoming _really_ hard). The system was retired last year, replaced by something t
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by niccl 4y ago
These comments seem to make a gloriously meta confirmation of the article's point. The article is saying that engineers (among others) have been known to optimise for the wrong thing. He uses a possibly inappropriate example of faster
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by niccl 4y ago
A friend of mine dries it with some fruit extract and makes a really good fruit leather. Not sure of the details, but I am sure it tastes great
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by niccl 4y ago
so evidence for a grandmother cell ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_cell )
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by niccl 4y ago
for me, yes, 1+1 = 2 is platonic. I start going all formalist when thinking about the continuum hypothesis [0]. The more I try to understand what's going on with the number and size of infinities, the more it seems that they're no
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by niccl 4y ago
no, it was made of rings of polythene (I think) plumbing pipe, which were then split. they just twisted the ring so the split opened, linked as needed, then let the twist go. Then metal coated everything. The people doing it wore their fing
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by niccl 4y ago
As I understood the article, they made no assumptions abut connectedness. They basically tried all combinations of 4 galaxies out of their sample set, and counted the handedness of all those. some clever maths required to deal with the comb
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by niccl 4y ago
For a while in Wellington NZ you'd see people walking around with Jackets saying 'Gore Techs' on the back. They were special effects people from Weta Workshops working on the Lord of the Rings films
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by niccl 4y ago
total nitpick, but it's unfortunate that he didn't credit XKCD for the image ( https://xkcd.com/2347/ ), since it's under creative commons with attribution licence ( https://creativecommons.org&#
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by niccl 4y ago
things that I don't like about it: * git diff doesn't work in any sensible way * if you forget and do `git add` instead of `git annex add`, everything is fine, but you've now spoilt the nice thing that git annex does of de-du
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by niccl 4y ago
The other Hofstadter gem is Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies.
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Deep Learning Could Bring the Concert Experience Home(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by niccl 4y ago|0 comments
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by niccl 4y ago
I understand that the Peter Jackson Beatles documentary did some very clever things with ML to separate the voices and instruments to make a decent soundtrack from a fairly mediocre input stream.
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by niccl 4y ago
And if it's really important, have one person doing what it says in the checklist, and another reading what's to be done next, making sure the first person did it, and _then_ ticking it off. And finally storing the dated checklist
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by niccl 4y ago
Also look at Nielsen Norman Group ( https://www.nngroup.com ). The 'Norman' is the Don Norman who wrote the book, and NNG have a bunch of research that you can look at.
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by niccl 4y ago
beavers, rats, etc.
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by niccl 4y ago
I do a lot of that sort of thing, and my go-to tools are grep (with full regular expressions), sort, uniq, head, tail, sed, and, the 200 pound gorilla (not as heavy as it could be) awk. Then if all else fails, Python
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by niccl 4y ago
Anecdata: I've been using it for a couple of years and not had any concerns with speed. I don't know what faster would be. I occasionally have to use firefox or something else on corporate machines and Vivaldi doesn't seem an
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by niccl 4y ago
upvoted because this is a really good example of how to respond to criticism
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by niccl 4y ago
One of the questions I ask candidates is what text editor they prefer. I don't particularly care what they use, but I do care about whether _they_ care. I think it touches on the passion thing: do they care enough about what they do to
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by niccl 4y ago
Little known fact: They made the AC/DC's original Hell's Bell for the Back in Black tour. Touring with 3,000 kgs of bell in a flight case made for some interesting experiences
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by niccl 4y ago
plus, there's a cost to the parent in making the egg shell arbitrarily drop-proof, so there's a balance of resources required to survive drop versus genetic benefit of surviving the drop

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