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by sandgiant 3y ago
Curious how much you backup, which version of restic you're running and why you think the deduplication is borderline unacceptable. There were several major (orders of magnitudes) improvements made to pruning within the past ~1 year, t
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by sandgiant 3y ago
Exactly. Space is not static. Also everything is moving relative to each other. Finally distances are measured using the "distance-ladder" of astronomy which depends on a bunch of model assumptions. Therefore astronomers typically
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Bear 2 Is Here(blog.bear.app)
2 points by sandgiant 3y ago|0 comments
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by sandgiant 3y ago
I've often had to tape over LEDs on various external hardware. Some of them will light up my entire room at night.
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by sandgiant 3y ago
Sounds interesting! Do you have a link? I can't seem to find it anywhere. I've had decent success with "The Science of Good Cooking"[1]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Science-Good-Cooking-Illustrated-Cook...
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by sandgiant 3y ago
Fair question. I sometimes envy the amount of time people without kids have. But even for all the time in the World I would never trade the experience of having my three year old daughter. The pleasure I get from her is beyond anything I ev
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LambdaPi: GPT-Driven Serverless Code Plugin(github.com)
2 points by sandgiant 3y ago|0 comments
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by sandgiant 3y ago
I get you point, but I'd still argue that SSD+Arq is a lot simpler than any NAS setup. Wether the migration is worth it is up to personal preference I guess, but there's certainly a risk of spending more time and money in the end.
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by sandgiant 4y ago
PRIMO is a way to fit models to the data in image-space. Since the models are very expensive to run it's not feasible to sample the model parameters directly in order to find a fit to data. Instead they take a library of model outputs
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, but the techniques they are using are not new and are not related to artificial intelligence. They use a 120 year old numerical technique to "super-sample" their expensive simulations, which allows
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by sandgiant 4y ago
This is not the "AI" part though. The thing that the press is calling "AI" is the principle component analysis (PCA) which they use to sample their model without having to generate a full MHD simulation at each grid poin
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by sandgiant 4y ago
The point of the Event Horizon Telescope (ETH) was actually to attempt to produce something like an image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy, so in a sense it was a pretty-picture mission. The point of this study was to attempt t
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by sandgiant 4y ago
The title from AP is misleading. They are not using any "AI" but a simple principle component analysis and a Monte Carlo minimizer. > In this approach, we apply principal components analysis (PCA) to a large library of high-fid
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I asked ChatGPT what it would respond and it produces something very similar, down to the same sentences, to the comment above. So this definitely looks like a ChatGPT response.
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I bought a used 2019 VW instead of a new model for this exact reason. I'm afraid it's the last VW I'll own unless they roll back touch controls.
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by sandgiant 4y ago
Of course, that makes sense. So you could revoke the key for each app individually.
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I'm curious about this too. At least now I have fairly decent confidence that when I send an iMessage to someone, Apple protects their identity to whatever standard they have. Whatever trust I put in Apple, at least it's a single
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EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)(protocol.com)
399 points by sandgiant 4y ago|625 comments
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To Teach Computers Math, Researchers Merge AI Approaches(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by sandgiant 4y ago|0 comments
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by sandgiant 4y ago
In the first code snippet in "Introduction to Sockets", shouldn't it be `close(conn_fd)` in the while loop? That confused me a bit. Otherwise this looks interesting, thanks for sharing.
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I agree with this, but also note that a lot of children's books written by humans (I suppose) are terribly bland. My daughter has some Disney books which has illustrations from the films, and the writing in those is exceptionally bland
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by sandgiant 4y ago
There might be someone able to better explain this, but one way it could work wold be to say that for small samples any bad assumptions you make (such as variables or measurements being independent) will affect the result more than if you h
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by sandgiant 4y ago
The community was created in the 70s. Back then it was more political, today it's more practical. The age demographic is more or less flat (0-85) with a dip around late teens (we're in the countryside to most young adults choose t
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by sandgiant 4y ago
We live in a community of ~100 people. We have a room full of other people's left over things that we can take (or add to) for free. 90% of the gifts and clothes for our, and other people's children, we source from that room. We a
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I have a VW from 2019. I think it's the last generation to only have Bluetooth connectivity. Still, every time I talk to an official VW employee they ask me to install their app and update the car firmware, so they can spy on me. I pol
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by sandgiant 4y ago
This argument makes no sense. Why would "less than average" referees block a paper? And why would editors select referees from the population at random? I don't know about other fields, but that's certainly not how thing
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I don't think anyone looks a biological systems and thinks they are well described by P(reproduction|environment). ChatGPT, on the other hand, is P(text|internet) more or less by definition (it's more than that, but not much more)
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I love projects like these! I don't have anything to add to what others have already said about nostalgia and simpler times, except I watched the Civilization intro and almost started a play-through. The original Civilization tile set
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by sandgiant 4y ago
It's even more astonishing (depressing?) to me how little credit people give humans these days. If the consensus is that ChatGPT pretty much passes for a human, my definition of a human is very different from that of the consensus. At
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by sandgiant 4y ago
So let me understand this. You're saying that the primary feature of human brains is deductive reasoning, and that deductive reasoning is equivalent to calculating chess moves. Since ANNs are a lot better than humans at calculating che

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