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by shoo 1y ago
Watts is an excellent hard scifi author & a lot of his older writing -- including many short stories, the Rifters trilogy (Starfish/Maelstrom/Behemoth) and the excellent novel Blindsight are available to read here: https:&#x2
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by shoo 1y ago
> Although the 'routing' here is nx.shortest_path, which is just Dijkstra, so pretty slow compared to other easy to implement routing algorithms networkx has advantages of being popular, well-documented, pure python (less hassl
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by shoo 1y ago
> Blue-Green migrations for example require a graceful exit behavior. it may not always be necessary. e.g. if you are deploying a new version of a stateless backend service, and there is a load balancer forwarding traffic to current vers
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by shoo 1y ago
It's unclear if increasing the dimensionality is in itself a challenge, provided that the objective function is still convex with a unique global minima -- like these somewhat problematic Rosenbrock test objective functions used in exa
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> we’re in a business context where new features are ALWAYS more beneficial to the business inputs than formal verification. Another way of framing this is "what is the impact (to the business / to the customers / to the u
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I was curious how well the simple momentum step-size approach shown in the first interactive example compares to alternative methods. The example function featured in the first interactive example is named bananaf ("Rosenbrok Function
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by shoo 1y ago
when i interviewed candidates for software engineering roles in $non-tech-megacorp i was primarily interested in how folks did in the problem solving / coding / API design interviews. but, we also asked some behavioural questions
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> In addition to Alex’s relaxation-based solver, we tried several gradient descent-based solvers, which resulted in better convergence. The first was the uncmin from numericjs. Later, we found a version of uncmin that was modified by Gui
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by shoo 1y ago
Another great postal history article: "The Pneumatic Mail Tubes: New York's Hidden Highway And Its Development" https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/pdf/pneumatic-tub... Throughput:
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by shoo 1y ago
That history of the bank of Vernal was fascinating, thank you for sharing. Parcel post offered for packages of up to 50 pounds + price charged to post parcels from Salt Lake City to Vernal being less than half the cost charged by private ca
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by shoo 2y ago
they're manoeuvring to win the vote of American manufacturing robots for 2028. suffrage for manufacturing robots is something the far left & far right could both support, although there may be some disagreement over if the robots
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by shoo 2y ago
I'd be interested to know of applications where RxInfer (or similar approximate variational inference approaches) has been demonstrated to perform much better than competing Bayesian inference approaches -- in the sense of a combined p
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by shoo 2y ago
Previous HN discussion of RxInfer (Nov, 2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38401212
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by shoo 2y ago
Idempotency keys can also be known as request ids [1] or correlation ids. They can help in situations where you have a distributed system with an API provider and an API client and some operation needs to be performed "once-and-only-o
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by shoo 2y ago
Another kind of optimisation is to see if you are solving an unnecessarily general problem, which could be replaced by a narrower problem specific to your actual situation & workload, that might be easier to solve. see also: Mike Acton&
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by shoo 2y ago
We must either increase the production rate of T480-size thinkpads by around 9x or get Lenovo to release at least one special edition extreme widescreen thinkpad specialised for lunar round trips
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by shoo 2y ago
> enough Thinkpads on Earth to probably stretch end-to-end around the moon and back LD, average distance between Earth and Moon = 384,399,000 m [1] C = circumference of moon = 10,917,000 m R := approximate round trip distance =
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by shoo 2y ago
I've seen this happen in enterprise systems integration work, where some data interchange spec is authored as a Word document, and it has tables defining valid string values for certain fields, and Word helpfully replaces plain ascii d
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jawwwt!
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sadly this raises the possibility of the bro-op
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by shoo 2y ago
brief critique of the methodology from a skim-read of the paper: > We first estimate the supply-side value by calculating the cost to recreate the most widely used OSS once. We then calculate the demand-side value based on a replacement
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by shoo 2y ago
The study appears to be this one from Jan 2024: Hoffmann, M., Nagle, F. and Zhou, Y., 2024. The value of open source software. Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper, (24-038). link to HBR summary (published March 2024): https
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by shoo 2y ago
tangent: Inverse Phase's "pretty eight machine" https://inversephase.bandcamp.com/album/pretty-eight-machine... > Head Like I/O was the track that got this entire album started. I was at Ohayocon
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by shoo 2y ago
> you can trivially compute routes from N to M places using N Dijkstra runs to do even better, you can compute the shortest path & distance to M kebab shops from the nearest of N train stations using a single run of a standard shorte
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by shoo 2y ago
another step, that nobody asked for, could be to add multiple systems whispering dialects of enums to each other over the wire https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/enum/ > Enums have two distinct flavors
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by shoo 2y ago
> if you had to use the legal system to merely get what you were owed, it was a net negative economically, right? It depends how you anchor things. If you anchor to the amount you expected to recover assuming a hypothetical alternate re
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by shoo 2y ago
cool, now we want to run N independent test scenarios, and why not run them in parallel, so I guess we want N work lists
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by shoo 2y ago
On a scale of 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend the use of NPS as a metric to a fictitious competitor in your not for profit functional monopoly space?
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> Humanity long time ago decided that infinity * 0 = 0 I'm guessing you don't mean this in any formal mathematical sense, without context, infinity multiplied by zero isn't formally defined. There could be various formulat
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by shoo 2y ago
if you're referring to Nvidia's GPUs - Nvidia doesn't have its own manufacturing capability, they outsource the semiconductor manufacturing to TSMC. Arguably they're better described as Taiwanese GPUs than American GPUs.

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