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by piyh 5y ago
The Dark Forest is the sequel to the Three Body Problem which is part of the trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Path
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by piyh 5y ago
There is a virtual world in there though. There's rules, objects, processes and people to talk to. There can both fooled apes and a nested world to explore. Occasionally we take something out the simulation and interface it into the
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by piyh 6y ago
Why not both?
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by piyh 6y ago
Members of my family are dry and drink NA beer. I buy it to have it around for them, but honestly it's great for having a beer with lunch, or wanting to drink something that isn't sugar. Even going over to a friends place while
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by piyh 6y ago
It's not just the robot though, it's the millions or tens of millions of dollars of wheeled or tracked equipment he already has.
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by piyh 6y ago
80% of the species was gone, but that's doesn't mean 80% of the genetic distance from species to species was wiped out. You could cull from all the branches of the tree of life evenly and keep wild genetic diversity vs killing off
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by piyh 6y ago
Drones do not seem like a logical step for me. I'm not a laser expert, but seems like the energy storage needed to kill hundreds to thousands of something with light is heavier than flying would realistically allow. Wheels and tracks
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by piyh 6y ago
Farming goes from broad selection against pests with chemicals to introducing a massive selection pressure towards biological mimicry and adversarial image attacks.
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by piyh 6y ago
Back them up on a old gameshark or something. I lost all my gamesaves and wish I still could revisit them.
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by piyh 6y ago
I can build my grocery list in my memory high school and neighborhood. The skip list could be built as an acronym built out of first letters taken from named areas.
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by piyh 6y ago
He wrote Tricks of the Mind and that was a great book. One piece that has stuck with me for ~15 years now is the 20 word series that I can recite forward or backward after spending 5 minutes visualizing them in a "linked list".
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by piyh 6y ago
I'm all for organ donation, but it's something we'll look back on in 60 years and marvel at how complicated and crude it was compared to growing new ones with the patient's own cells. In the mean time it's definitel
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by piyh 6y ago
I came onto a team to support such an overengineered project. On the plus side it keeps me busy, and teaches me new skills. On the negative side my job is to keep the plates spinning on a rube goldberg machine.
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by piyh 6y ago
Flashback to Gal Gadot tweeting with an iPhone while having an Android sponsorship.
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by piyh 6y ago
I'm not blocking the canal, I'm testing robustness! Also in the big picture with covid not being as deadly as it could have been, could serve as a nice dress rehearsal for a captain trips.
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by piyh 6y ago
Wow, there's Richard Stallman level Epstein/pedo comments, then there's this. I don't know why she has a job right now. I get that some people have rough childhood, go through things that a normal person can't com
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by piyh 6y ago
I feel like a fairly competent Linux user and within 2 months had my Arch install broken to a point where I didn't want to invest the time to go down that "why is right click broken along with all these dependencies" rabbit h
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by piyh 6y ago
This guy is a consultant giving a talk to a mobile game company and has slides titled "Use of Coercive Monetization". It's pretty much an evil TED talk on dark patterns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zex3b2
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by piyh 6y ago
At least with ebay the items are cheaper and I know I'm buying bottom of the barrel stuff.
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by piyh 6y ago
There's so much ego involved. "I'm a misunderstood genius" is enough of a trope that it translates to "I'm above average intelligence, stubborn and can't relate to people" in my experience. >In 201
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by piyh 6y ago
Let's say X engineers making 200k a year work on this. This is a 5x return on your money in 5 years if it took 8 people working the full year to complete it. Sounds like a solid business case to me.
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by piyh 6y ago
Cameras are pretty cheap, the custom board is probably decently expensive, but if FSD is a 10-15k upgrade then it doesn't take much to sell that portion of the hardware at a loss to make it back in software options.
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by piyh 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what was the use case where they were trying to get these marginal gains out of their program?
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by piyh 6y ago
Goatse
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by piyh 6y ago
Lose weight, loose the hounds.
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by piyh 6y ago
Building incentives to not truthfully report into those contracts with uptime guarantees like the WHO and pandemic bonds.
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by piyh 6y ago
Or the more direct, "Do you shit with the door open?"
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by piyh 6y ago
The magic of M1 is its x86 emulation speed with it's memory flag which I'm guessing is not something that has been on the roadmap for Qualcomm until recently. Even then you need integrate all the hardware/software partners i
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by piyh 6y ago
I developed an application on APEX to make a new front end for our old payroll database. Thanks for making my life easier.
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by piyh 6y ago
Context is a hard problem and even the best chatbots don't nail this.

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