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by ot 4y ago
Do you have a reference for point 2?
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by ot 4y ago
This might be the thing that makes me jump ship from Spotify. Catalog there is not great and the track listings are all useless, you need to wait 30 second for the text to scroll before you get to the useful piece of information.
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by ot 4y ago
Error correcting codes will be able to perfectly recover the original data as long as the error rate stays below a threshold, but past that threshold they can't recover almost anything. If you combine EC codes with a standard image cod
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by ot 4y ago
I think it means that they do not cause lightning that would not have happened if the rod wasn't there. They just steer sparks that would have happened anyway.
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by ot 4y ago
Yes, every insurance works like that: deductible, then coverage, then you're on the hook again.
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by ot 4y ago
You're right. The page mentions comparisons with optimized SVGs, but I didn't realize that the downloadable examples were not in fact optimized.
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by ot 4y ago
I did mention that Zstd numbers are very close to gzip numbers for this data.
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by ot 4y ago
The author would make an even stronger case if they showed the results after compression. On the few examples in the home page, which I compressed with gzip -9 (zstd performs similarly): tiger.svg.gz 29834 tiger.tvg.gz 20533
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by ot 4y ago
Yes, the code is linked in the paper: https://github.com/ot/semi_index
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by ot 4y ago
> Or write a custom little program that streams data from the JSON file without buffering it all in memory. JSON parsing libraries are plentiful so this should not take a lot of code in your favorite language. Several years ago I wrote a
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AI Goes to the Shrink(shrinkai.di.unimi.it)
2 points by ot 4y ago|0 comments
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by ot 4y ago
Yes, that’s why it’s funny
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by ot 4y ago
I can't tell if it's all tongue-in-cheek, or it's accidental due to not being a native English speaker. For example, this line is also pretty funny: > If you have learned Taylor Expansion or Fourier Transform in Primary Sc
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by ot 4y ago
Reviewers are also often quick to dismiss a paper when it hasn't done its homework of thoroughly reviewing all the related literature and explaining how the proposed result compares. This may seem pedantic, but it is important to limit
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by ot 4y ago
> There are fully generic methods for constructing (minimal) perfect hash functions [...] However, they tend to use lookup tables to construct the hash itself. To be slightly pedantic, this solution uses a lookup table too, but it's
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by ot 4y ago
As I explained in another comment, if the author was a Meta employee, they wouldn't have had to sign the CLA. It's all in the PR.
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by ot 4y ago
Yes you're absolutely right. I went by another comment that seemed to confirm the contents, but that could be trolling too.
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by ot 4y ago
If they were a Meta employee they wouldn't have had to sign the CLA.
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by ot 4y ago
In case it's not clear what's happening here (and from the comments it doesn't seem like it is), someone (not Meta) leaked the models and had the brilliant idea of advertising the magnet link through a GitHub pull request. Th
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by ot 4y ago
It gentrifies even the occupants! https://imgur.com/a/CduMyPo
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by ot 4y ago
> Frame pointers have some corner cases which they don’t handle well (certain leaf and most inlined functions aren’t collected), but these don’t matter a great deal in reality. > DWARF unwinding can show inlined functions as if they a
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by ot 4y ago
When people say 20-30 years ago they actually mean 40-50 years ago, because it's the same people that have been saying the same thing for 20 years, picturing in their head the handcrafted assembly QuickDraw routines.
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by ot 4y ago
This thread is surreal. You started with "Tipping is a system in which customers explicitly, optionally, and variably share some of the cost of labor.", and now we got to no, actually, there is no optionality or variability, why w
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by ot 4y ago
> how might I find myself on the losing side of it? Like I mentioned above, by having your livelihood depend on the whims of customers that may be offended by not having been treated with sufficient deference. > abolition of tipping w
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by ot 4y ago
You're fine playing along because you're on the winning side of the deal. Say you were a software contractor, would you be ok with working for a customer based only on an "expected price range" with a 4x spread, over whi
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by ot 4y ago
Those same arguments apply to several other professions where it is not customary to tip. The reality is that tips are expected only for the lower social/economic classes, where it is acceptable that the price for labor is set based on
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A Concurrency Cost Hierarchy(travisdowns.github.io)
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Abseil / SWE Book Freely Available(abseil.io)
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HyperReel: High-Fidelity 6-DoF Video with Ray-Conditioned Sampling(hyperreel.github.io)
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by ot 4y ago
That's the joke

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