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by quanto 2y ago
I get that PINN is a less expensive approximate solution method. If so, how does it perform superior to many approximate, coarse numerical methods?
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by quanto 2y ago
From a Japanese song Kurumi If only time could wash everything away, 時間が何もかも洗い連れ去ってくれれば a life would be truly easy 生きる事は実に容易い
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by quanto 2y ago
> If installed in floors, it could produce clean energy when people walk on it. This is a bit far fetched as it does not mention any power density figure. Being compressed likely squeezes out micro watts. Off by at least 6 orders of mag
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by quanto 2y ago
What a wonderful demonstration of how a simple UI can create so much joy. Utility to Kolmogorov complexity ratio is quite high on this one.
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by quanto 2y ago
Amazon Lab126's Alexa team had following cross-related issues: 1. terrible tech stack. Absolutely poorly maintained pipeline 2. generally unenthused employees 3. office politicking and broken culture 4. unbelievable amount of penny-pi
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by quanto 2y ago
> To err is human, to forgive divine > Here’s my view: I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life, I don't agree with the racist post; I may not even ag
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by quanto 2y ago
The real surprise is that the quoted budget was only $1.2m. Fixing potholes in my neighborhood is quoted more than that.
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by quanto 2y ago
> the latest work addresses one of the biggest criticisms of the microbial theory of Alzheimer’s: HSV-1’s ubiquity. Alzheimer’s impacts only about 10% of the population — if HSV-1 were causing it, why are there so many people who are rep
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by quanto 2y ago
You are in the right here. Horizontal vectors are common for (some) deep learning docs, but column factors are the literature standard elsewhere.
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by quanto 2y ago
Thanks for your detailed response. Your observations match my own as well. I do think that the foundation is more complex than your quick comment suggests though (kudos to your team and its foundational work for making it seem trivial. t
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by quanto 2y ago
I am aware that FreeRTOS and Zephyr are popular but in your opinion, do these form a comprehensive ecosystem and foundation for engineers build robots? I am not aware of any major robotics projects using these MCU OSes as a paradigm (as op
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by quanto 2y ago
In a similar spirit, what are some progresses in performant RTOSes for robotics? There seems to be relatively less interest in that field. No, ROS/ROS2 is not an operating system and is not what most people call performant software.
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by quanto 2y ago
The real tragedy is the omission of top TrackPad buttons. Middle-click paste is widely used in Linux, and while I tried mouse emulators with limited success, it sure is good to have a physical button at your thumb. With a tiling window man
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by quanto 2y ago
It's difficult to overstate how ground breaking Prius was when it came out; arguably more surprising than Tesla's success and paradigm shift. Before Prius came out, people questioned whether it was even physically possible to h
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by quanto 2y ago
I would go even further and say comparing Apple to Toyota is a high praise for Apple. Toyota, one of the world's largest manufacturers of any product, created its own management and engineering style (e.g. TPS) that continue to edify
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by quanto 2y ago
The Ukraine comment is supposed to be a casual quip, but I suppose it struck a cord with folks here. I am happy to be corrected, but I do see in the data the US as the single largest donor by far on the battlefield. https://www.
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by quanto 2y ago
yes, and they do. Even the US allies in Europe don't completely trust the US with their citizens data, hence the on-shore data requirements. This is despite the US is footing the bill for Ukraine and, by extension, defending Europe r
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by quanto 2y ago
A former sausage maker here. I (used to) design these engagement/recommendation engines for a large corp, did academic research in the field, went to conferences, etc. In general, I wholehearted support the freedom of speech, and if i
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by quanto 2y ago
A quick intuition: magic number 7e ffffff is negating by two's complement both the mantissa and exponent. 1. 7e: the first sig bit has to be zero to preserve the sign of the overall number. 2. ffffff: due to Taylor series 1/(1
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by quanto 2y ago
Please allow me to offer some color from the other side of the table. My colleagues and I are/were/have been hiring managers for the past decade or so. Our recent observations regarding the job market: 1. Incumbent programmers b
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by quanto 2y ago
I agree in substance. I see adherence of hierarchy as a facet of risk aversion. One doesn't wish to stand out too much but stand comfortably behind the veil of rules and orders.
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by quanto 2y ago
I do not know if the Japanese gaming industry is an exception rather than of the rule. I see the game studios as part of the larger entertainment segment in Japan -- anime studios, music studios -- where it is actually very top-down vision
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by quanto 2y ago
I don't follow your argument. PCs weren't popular because they couldn't handle the Japanese language encoding, but somehow, consumer electronics were popular because they could handle the complex tasks with the language? JIS
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by quanto 2y ago
Blaming all ills of any Japanese industry on the keiretsu is in vogue for decades, but at best, keiretsu is a symptom, not a cause, of the underlying risk-averse culture. Keiretsu, even when they were toxically anti-competitive, did not go
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Peter Todd Was 'Unmasked' as Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Now He's in Hiding(wired.com)
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quick math check > 1.6 miles and 44 pounds pure copper density at 9000 kg/m3, wire diameter assumed at 1mm, length at 3000 m (1.8 mi, approx) gives 21 kg, approximately 46 lb. math checks out. > the company claims a 20 percent s
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My sleep issue costed me jobs, romantic relationships, and the finest years of my life. If you are severely sleep deprived, everything seems like shit, and it goes downhill from there. I fixed my sleep issue in my mid-30s and life has bee
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*(2012) and here is the Seung v Movshon debate that the article alluded to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4KrhDZQ088 Seung is the same guy who wrote the famous 1999 Nature paper on non-negative matrix factorization (NMF)
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by quanto 2y ago
I like HN overall. I learned a lot from wonderful people who offered their knowledge. I also try to pay back to the community. However, my problem with some HN comments is deeper that as noted in the post. The post and comments herein ta
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by quanto 2y ago
> Within the next five years I don't think there will be anyone left standing who isn't worth a trillion dollars or doesn't have all their quants augmented by LLMs. What an interesting comment. So, your thesis is that a f

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