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> the hypothesis postulates that previously a species different from ours had achieved high intelligence and technological civilization on this planet An interesting special version of this hypothesis is that if a species has achieved tr
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Is this similar to pysheets? From a quickscan it seems that its running client-side via rust/wasm but where are the data stored? Interesting to see all those different takes on the spreadsheet metaphor.
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The Paper Pro looks gorgeous, but its specific use case and the closed nature of the platform (despite it being a linux OS) makes it less appealing. It would be nice to have a paper tablet that is, indeed, focused on what it does best, but
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> You'd better not dare write your desktop application in HTML. What has this world come to??? Ok thats clear. But then ten sentences later: > Of course, you aren't going to write your UI in C, only an idiot would do that. I
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Oligopolistic / Competitive vs Short-termist / Long-term are rather orthogonal dimensions and derive from different types of regulations and incentives.
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> we collectively spent hundred of billions on it Remember the Metaverse? We are talking about entities that can burn billions on speculative projects and it is just a rounding error on quarterly profits. Let alone that frequently the ou
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Explainability towards users is essential if there is any sort of responsibility for what the model produces. But explainability at a deeper level is also critical towards developers, to close the feedback loop and iterate towards better mo
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Alien feel (and even unsettling at times). I guess we have grown used to this by now, but from the Moon landing pictures, to the Mars rovers and the various asteroid and planetary missions the objects of the Solar system are now vivid, comp
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How about it becomes a squeaky clean non-profit, gets classified as a digital public good and gets funded by the widest collection of public sector / ngo's. We are talking about the literal window to the digital world, with potent
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> Full implementation may be years away given the effort involved This is the challenge with pretty much all ideas and initiatives about deepening integration in the European Union. It is a drama because the rest of the world is changing
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Since everybody else would try to preserve what is really important , I would go for a random sample. So that future archeologists can form their own opinions about what this era was really about.
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Some billionaires will get touched by this report and will buy a country's worth of forest to become "carbon-neutral" /s Seriously though, its not the absolute value of direct impact that matters here (or even the indire
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Despite the enormous popularity of Petra the Nabateans are still a bit of a mysterious corner of the ancient world. This Italian temple sort of binds them to the "known universe". It is also an interesting example of so-called pol
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(zx spectrum) BASIC: nothing like the first contact with AI C++: pointers, OOP and so much more - good and bad - all in one package Fortran90: vector programming for humans Python: general programming for humans Biggest disappointment: Scra
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> I don't know why Bluesky hasn't added the federation systems that would enable freedom of exit to its service Is this entirely up to the Bluesky team? In the activitypub universe there are many independent implementations o
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What a vitriolic and absurdly pseudo-scientific reaction to the mere suggestion that the concept of bugs breaking machines may have been more literal in past, wood-dominated eras... The probing question is whether such failure modes (from
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Fine as an exercise but for a range of use cases what you really want is the smallest alternative to the bloated reactive js frameworks and alpine.js seems to be occupying that sweet spot.
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Moving beyond statistical association to establish causal relations i non-trivial. Their very first reference is Judea's Pearl's work who pioneered this domain. Pearl, J. Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference (Cambridge Univ
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Berkshire clearly thinks the risks are on the downside and they act on this thesis. Whether it will prove genious risk management or failure to appreciate the "new normal" will transpire sooner or later.
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For the longest period machinery involved wooden components (wheels, shafts etc). Maybe the term "bug" originates from wood-eating bugs that were literally eating parts of the machinery or at least affecting its function?
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> replacing judgment with numbers I would phrase it otherwise: supporting judgement with numbers. Its not about altering conclusions, but making more transparent the factual basis and associated reasoning from which they are derived. T
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> the corpus of research papers and citation links is this knowledge database yes, I think so too. In the typical fashion of "pre-digital" information management systems it is extremely economical in the way it encodes things,
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> Archeology is not code nor is it physics. Indeed, but after scanning this article that pulls in all those pieces of indirect evidence I wondered whether some type of structured knowledge database (that encodes the innumerable pieces of
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> Humans are machines which make errors. Indeed, and one of the most interesting errors some human machines are making is hallucinating false analogies.
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Not sure "acquisition" is the right framing in the open source space but one could certainly think of more partnerships, coordination and/or sharing of various components among the various big players and ecosystems. FOSS on
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Recklessness seems like a good case study of misunderstood "stupidity". The fact that younger people tend to be more prone to it is already an important clue. On the one hand their need to stand out in a competitive society create
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People can pretend to be stupid if it suits them. People can seem to be stupid if their reasons for action are not known. People can't help but be stupid if deprived of factual information or if presented with false or confusing
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how are Ubuntu's Flutter integration plans evolving these days? https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/refreshing-the-ubuntu-desktop...
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There is a nice Python library for survival analysis [1] and of course lots of R packages [2] [1] https://lifelines.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2] https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Surv
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Tragedy of the (Data) Commons(stackoverflow.blog)
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