s_gourichon

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by s_gourichon 5y ago
This is probably real, although I'm not certain this can often happen. Still, bees with their hard-coded set of neurons have surprising cognitive abilities: explore, memorize position of food source (angle and distance from the hive) a
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
... only when people agree on their hallucinations. Summary of a talk by brain researcher Anil Seth: https://youtu.be/a54QHJYC8lM
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
Since you ask for an example: moving the cursor in a terminal-based text editor requires #2 string length. That said I understand your point about focusing on what is actually needed.
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
Dhall seems to gather some praises, and not fall into the pits mentioned here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523623
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
Video from 1994: https://youtu.be/fAsAWoency8
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
I can see both sides of the argument. On one side, using ML feels like huge overkill when a simple trick exists. Plus AI can freak out in some circumstances. On the other side, it may find other, less obvious cues giving something more robu
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
One word of the title is not obvious. Here's how it is defined in the text: > Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1938, is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
Used Guietta for a small project. Looked simpler to code and to "package". Nice you mention it.
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
Yes, a both funny and insightful lesson on how weak basic indicators (mean, standard deviation, correlation) can be, the interest and limits of box-plot with quartiles and whiskers, the benefit of the violin-plot. Definitely worth a quick l
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
It's "explained" to the reader of the comics. The title had me expect it was "explained scientifically", in other words "solved by the scientists".
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
Definitely a huge market for a startup then! ;-)
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
So, Co-pilot generates text including secrets it has seen. For a comparison point, afl fuzzer actually generates never-seen , valid JPEG files "out of thin air", see http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/11&#x
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
It does not generate secrets. The Twitter conversation does not mention that word. Most certainly, it regurgitates secrets it has seen on crawled repos. Can the title be adjusted, please?
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
Percentage are broken in many cases because they are ambiguous, and often difficult to compose. +50% then -50% is not identity but ratio 3/4. A plain explicit ratio is sometimes better. Ratio in decibel, or "doubling number"
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
Website content on a web browser: > This website is literally about JavaScript. I mean what did you expect, a .NET application? This website is 99.9% poorly optimized and highly questionable JS. And yet, you have JS turned off. Yes, a we
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
"OS" is not specified. Page mentions "COM objects" which suggests OS is Windows.
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
Calling it "not forking" (saying what it's not) instead of what it is adds some unnecessary cognitive burden. (It might be hard to find a good name, still.) The overall kind of situation it offers to solve is somehow familiar
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
> This is why CD audio has 44.1 sampling rate - common divisor for fitting 3 samples per line of video in both 50 and 60 field rates. Indeed. Naively multiplying the line frequency (15734Hz in NTSC, 15625 in PAL) by 3 doesn't fit, b
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by s_gourichon 5y ago
Isn't the shorter https://github.com/mbarkhau/lib3to6 a better URL? Because that one shows a README, not only a list of file names. (I like and use Gitlab,too, yet the gitlab link is not better because without Ja
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by s_gourichon 6y ago
CDG (North of Paris) is on the railway that joins Brussels, Paris, Rennes, Tours, Bordeaux and a number of other major places in France. ORY has a connection with Paris suburban railway network, no direct access to one distance train.
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by s_gourichon 6y ago
TL;DR IMHO author does not know the basic tools, suffers consequences and invent something that does not even fixes the problems they created. Proper use of "git gui" and "gitk --all" makes doing the right thing (indepen
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by s_gourichon 6y ago
threadreaderapp.com opens quickly, works on a browser without Javascript, doesn't nag about installing an app. twitter.com on a browser fails those criteria (especially on mobile). So, win for threadreaderapp.com.
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by s_gourichon 6y ago
Do you mean dpkg/rpm/apt/yum/pacman/etc? These require root access and per-manager, and often in practice even per distribution version, specific instructions. Not meaning to bash them, I still like them, but the ac
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by s_gourichon 6y ago
Website plays https://fixmyspeakers.com/static/tone.mp3 Spectrogram shows high energy at many frequencies. Waveform shows saturated curve, no surprise. Might have been just recorded from some analog circuit.
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by s_gourichon 6y ago
Getting a more accurate value was not the point. Measuring a gravitational force between those tiny spheres, distinguishing it from experimental noise was the point. Impressive experiment. Deducing a value for g that’s not wildly wrong wa
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by s_gourichon 6y ago
The better syntax being uncommon is not a reason to not adopt it. Sometimes the wide majority can be unaware of the better choice. I would rather see the change suggested as an opportunity to educate the developers.
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by s_gourichon 6y ago
What is the point in selling the 12 chapters individually? Plus the book at $40 or $50 makes one chapter for $30 feel silly at best.
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by s_gourichon 6y ago
This might make sense for "big" projects, with already several languages and an important need. Else it's not obvious if the burden of having yet another dependency has a favorable benefit-cost result. In other words, the dan
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by s_gourichon 6y ago
You can talk plain text protocol through a TLS or SSL-encrypted connection, even interactively. Example: { echo GET / HTTP/1.0 ; echo ; sleep 1 ; } | openssl s_client -connect www.google.com:443 Or just : op
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by s_gourichon 6y ago
A well known reference, Eric Raymond's "jargon file" a.k.a. "hacker's dictionary" offers 9 definitions, much broader and seemingly older than keypress timings: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon&#

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