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by nickcw 3y ago
I read the title of this and thought - yes - at last - Google are going to be integrating LLM capabilities with Google Assistant to make it really really useful instead of occasionally useful with a side helping of frustration at how little
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Switch mode power supplies in space. From the article: > The broad-band features are with high probability caused by other means, such as switched-mode power supplies, communication signals internal to the satellites, or some other elect
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The intermediate numbers never get bigger than 10^10 - if you look at the python program I posted you might find that easier to see.
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Very nice algorithm - no square roots and 1 digit per iteration guaranteed. I converted this into python to understand it better def log10(x): """ Find 10 decimal places of log10(x) using calculator func
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John Carmack on static code analysis (2018)(sevangelatos.com)
5 points by nickcw 3y ago|1 comments
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From https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI/issues/142 > 2023 is going to be the "Make or Break" year. I ultimately need to determine if the project is going to continue. To date, it's n
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If you haven't been keeping up with recent Python changes... For Python 3.8, the biggest change is the addition of assignment expressions. Specifically, the := operator gives you a new syntax for assigning variables in the middle of ex
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Medical isotopes have a very short half life for obvious reasons - you don't want to put stuff into people which are radioactive for very long. This means you don't have long to get them from the reactor to the patient. There is a
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I've read most of Volumes 1-3 of TAOCP. I think you can read at various levels though. When I say I've read most of Volumes 1-3, I mean literally that, I read the text through. At that level it isn't too difficult to read, an
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There is a lot less Lithium in the universe than you might expect being element #3 There is also a lot less Lithium in the universe than our models predict: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_lithium_problem
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rclone can do this with rclone dedupe --by-hash /path/to/files It has various options on what to do with the duplicates, but the default is to ask the user. It works on various cloud storage too, not just the local d
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by nickcw 3y ago
A good question. I've found Bard to be quite good at this type of question in the past but maybe it has hallucinated the answer!
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In case you are looking for the essay on the = sign, this is what Google Bard said: The reference to the essay by Andrey Kolmogorov in the paragraph you provided is: Kolmogorov, A. N. (1930). О понятии числа [On the concept of number]. Mate
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X confuses the masses by removing all details from links(theregister.com)
90 points by nickcw 3y ago|76 comments
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That was very funny (read to the end!). I've read most of qntm's books [1] and enjoyed them greatly. See also hatetris [2] and absurdle [3]. Also qntm invented base32768 [4] encoding which is in use by many happy rclone users to s
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Android is particularly troublesome here with the number of phones out there receiving no updates, and just a single download away from being exploited. For me, personally, it's a race to see if Google can get this patched for my Pixel
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...and the no-ads tier is only available in the US. Looks like I'll be cancelling prime video as no ads is really important to me.
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I tried (2 / 3) * 3 - 2 on my Casio FX-180P [1] (now almost 40 years old!) and on Android Realcalc [2] (which mimics a very similar calculator) and I got 0 on both. Same with sqrt(6)^2 - 6 - 0 on both. (-1)^5 works fine too. So full ma
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Python says this for 0 to 100 kph in 0.956s >>> 100*1000/3600/0.956/9.81 2.961901417494933 So just about 3 standard Earth gravities! This assumes uniform acceleration which isn't likely so that is t
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I only read one of his books, a SciFi novella called "A Very Private Life" which I picked up in a second hand book sale on a whim. I really enjoyed it. SciFi come with the thinking of the time it was written (1968) and some of tha
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NASA bosses admit SLS is unsustainable and unaffordable(theregister.com)
2 points by nickcw 3y ago|0 comments
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LoRa runs in the 868 MHz band (in Europe) - a frequency range known for being line of sight only as the ionosphere doesn't reflect radio waves of that high frequency. However sometimes you can get Troposheric propagation on these high
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by nickcw 3y ago
It does. You can use it with macfuse or with fuse-t. See: https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#mounting-on-macos
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Interesting. I haven't tried a speed comparison but I know we sped up the sftp backend recently.
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I did my Physics degree thesis on computing with Transputers. As part of that I got 3 Transputers (T425 I think) and I designed and built a board to house them plus an interface to the BBC micro computer which acted as the host. We didn&#x2
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When I was a teenager I used to enjoy playing computer games. However the copy protection was really annoying as you couldn't back up the expensive game disks and floppy disks weren't exactly reliable then. So I taught myself how
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> This is by design. The ones where you have to identify a bus, crosswalk etc are all used to train ML models. Your results are checked against other for the captcha, but sometimes you are the first person to see the image and there’s no
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by nickcw 3y ago
I'm the same as you )other than being a Physics graduate). Love Michael Penn. Interesting topics with a good but not pedantic level of rigor. https://youtube.com/@MichaelPennMath
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I've tried to love argparse but it is so complicated. I always have to read the docs each time I use it. getopt has its own brutal simplicity.
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Smooth Subsum Search: A heuristic for practical integer factorization(arxiv.org)
1 points by nickcw 3y ago|0 comments

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