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by ska 2y ago
Hardly surprising because the idiomatic usage of "open source" predates OSI.
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by ska 2y ago
Tomographic reconstruction is in principal pretty straightforward (Radon transform). MRI is much (much), fwiw, though RF not optics. I don't think wavelength filtering will help you here, as you don't control the input at all. S
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by ska 2y ago
Especially in large organizations, you'll typically end up with more interesting/rewarding work if you help define it, than if you wait until something is handed to you.
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by ska 2y ago
> Sometimes you can make something appear magical by spending far more time on the effect than anyone would ever think to do. This is as good a definition of stage magic as anything, I suspect.
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by ska 2y ago
Empirically, people can't manage even gamma properly, so imagining device dependent spatial orientation aware xforms seems like a stretch.
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by ska 2y ago
> It’s not just being a gullible true believer ... “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” - Upton Sinclair (1930's ?)
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by ska 2y ago
And some aren't; it's not a list of "commonly encountered" constants, just a list.
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by ska 2y ago
Spend some time doing math and you'll pick up a few without noticing. Somewhat path dependent, but they do crop up. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_constants
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by ska 2y ago
Totally different typical usage: RTFA == "you should have actually read the article instead of wasting everyone's time" TFA == "referring specifically to the [original, in this context] article"
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by ska 2y ago
It's really not that simple. But it's fair to say that while a masters can often be a very straightforward training to get you ready for a particular job, you really shouldn't go into a PhD program without a good idea of a) w
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by ska 2y ago
AI/ML techniques in medicine have been applied clinically since at least the 90s. Part of the reason you don't see them used ubiquitously is a combination of a) it hasn't worked all that well in many scenarios so far and b)
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by ska 2y ago
> but sometimes, "red tape" exists for a reason. Pretty much always. And a lot of the time, the reason (if not the implementation) was pretty good. But these things almost always grow, and interact, and are very hard to updat
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by ska 2y ago
> Should we build larger codebases just because we _can_? The history of software production as a profession (as against computer science) is essentially a series of incremental increases in the size and complexity of systems (and teams)
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by ska 2y ago
> I suspect "better defaults" won't happen because it's not a continuing problem users have As the plethora of startup kits and re-configurations show, it's also not something people can agree what the right thin
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by ska 2y ago
I’ve tried apples , agree it does less egregious stuff than Spotify but doesn’t really meet the bar for “good” in my experience. This stuff is probably really dependent on what you are looking for I imagine .
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by ska 2y ago
Not my experience at all, fwiw.
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by ska 2y ago
I think you are kind of both right. When TJ’S started they intentionally wouldn’t sell things like milk and eggs because they couldn’t compete with big chains. The niche they were after were “over educated and under paid”. So they were famo
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by ska 2y ago
> Are LLMs actually good at music recommendation? As far as I can tell, the only thing actually any good at music recommendation is (some) humans.
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by ska 2y ago
That’s really not true, unless you are really mincing it or making a paste .
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by ska 2y ago
The problem is how to get roughly equal sized pieces from cutting an onion. If you cut towards the center the inner pieces are much smaller than the outer.
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by ska 2y ago
You have to do (a variant of) one or the other, no?
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by ska 2y ago
Almost nobody is “making bank”.
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by ska 2y ago
Assuming your compiler implements TCO properly, also.
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by ska 2y ago
This is backwards, increased margin would allow exactly that without all of it being covered by increased cogs.
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by ska 2y ago
By increased margins? Common enough when your target market is not consumer.
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by ska 2y ago
Are you claiming that the delta is entirely covered by the fees payed to manufacturers to add apps, ads, etc?
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by ska 2y ago
Readily available at a good premium. You can sometimes get a great deal on these during liquidation though.
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by ska 2y ago
Eliza effect is alive and well, also.
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by ska 2y ago
His research group has a long history of trying to tackle these problems. Some interesting reading , even if much of it hasn’t (yet?) panned out .
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by ska 2y ago
Definitely not, although most laces I’ve lived they have a superficial at most involvement with single family homes.

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