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by slwvx 1y ago
At the start of the internet age, say 30-50 years ago, there was lotsa optimism about internet and web tools being mechanisms for democracy, leading to decentralization of power. Today the internet is dominated by big tech companies, who je
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by slwvx 1y ago
When I was studying electrical engineering, information theory was a senior or graduate-level class; for example see [1]. The MIT class above for freshman is a nice change; giving students useful tools and topics right at the start of thei
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by slwvx 1y ago
What kind of view of the sky does your Starlink have? Seems like it would make a difference if you're trying to connect at the bottom of a box canyon (or a canyon between two massive buildings) or in the middle of a field with no tree
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by slwvx 1y ago
r > g for more, see https://www.ft.com/content/e1b9254e-f476-11e3-a143-00144feab...
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by slwvx 1y ago
> User-Extensible Rank Polymorphism is just beautiful with the broadcast dot syntax ... Just to be clear, I guess that Julia's broadcast (dot) syntax is an implementation of "User-Extensible Rank Polymorphism"; is that ri
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by slwvx 1y ago
Thanks for the further details! Ah, the fact that they are marginal rates makes marginally more sense, but it still seems to me that the SWF in fig 5a has very little relation to the real world. > Also, while there is a complicated tax c
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by slwvx 1y ago
I like the idea of simulating a society! I don't pretend to understand everything that you're doing, so please correct me where I'm wrong below. The right side of Fig 5a shows that your LLM tool has 80% tax for people making
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by slwvx 1y ago
> In this framework, it is shown that the mass of a bit of information at room temperature (300K) is 3.19 × 10-38 Kg. To test the hypothesis we propose here an experiment, predicting that the mass of a data storage device would increase
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by slwvx 1y ago
I think Tim Cook has bad product and design taste [1], and see no reason to think that there are enough good design people at Apple to make a good car. I think they likely got stuck looking at making a car version of the gold Apple Watch Ed
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by slwvx 1y ago
Press release: https://www.blueorigin.com/news/first-blue-ring-mission-to-d... Non-paywalled article: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/...
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by slwvx 1y ago
The integrated circuit is definitely safe in the AI era. Not sure about management.
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by slwvx 1y ago
The ideas of superradiance [1] and superabsorption [2] in the article were new to me. The article [3] compares superradiance to superconductivity, but it's not clear if superradiance is as useful of a property as superconductivity. N
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by slwvx 1y ago
I support nuclear disarmament, yet I think there's a strong possibility that a nuclear-armed humanity can continue to exist without using them. If a nation does use nukes, my guess is that this would be followed by quick condemnation a
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by slwvx 1y ago
I am very skeptical of the claim of 100% recovery rate shown on their web page. This looks like a spammy advertisement rather than a link to anything useful.
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by slwvx 1y ago
> What’s true at the personal level is true at the national level. Americans enjoy greater prosperity than Europeans due largely to longer work hours. So there are tradeoffs at the individual level and for countries. The author of the ar
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by slwvx 1y ago
Sure, a new term will be more clunky and less click-baity, especially to start with. I'm sure "Silicon Valley" once sounded clunky, but some creative person coined the term. It may or may not be possible to get headline writ
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by slwvx 1y ago
> Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)—part of a group of Democrats who had strongly opposed the bill—further warned Thursday that the GENIUS Act prevents lawmakers from owning or promoting stablecoins, but not the president. There are interest
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by slwvx 1y ago
I live in Silicon Valley, and am generally happy with my tiny contribution to the tech space. Even so, I detest the use of "Silicon Valley" as a label for every good or bad thing that Elon Musk (who doesn't live or work in SV
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by slwvx 1y ago
In US sports it is very common in the tournament for a single season, or in a single event to reward better performance earlier in that same season or same tournament. I like this because it incentivizes doing well early in a season. On th
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by slwvx 1y ago
ouch
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by slwvx 1y ago
The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03798-1 Sounds like these guys are aiming at commercialization; looks like they would be doing some of the things that Theranos promised and didn't deliver on.
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by slwvx 1y ago
I think that the Miyawaki Method would work just as well to start a large forest. Here's a possible path * Secure the large area of land * If your budget is limited, plant a few small areas in the Miyawaki Method to get healthy ecosy
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by slwvx 1y ago
I don't think so. You can't just "Montecarlo the hell" out of a post-quantum cryptographic scheme [1] which are also based on lattices. Even if that analogy isn't quite apt, I don't think looking for a good ra
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by slwvx 1y ago
Humans are a bigger risk to coyotes than coyotes to humans. > It would be better to remove the coyotes before this happens. following this logic, we should just kill all coyotes. We did this to lotsa other species, I hope we've stop
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by slwvx 1y ago
Eurekalert [0] gives more details; looks promising. The pubmed page [1] for the article says that several of the authors are with Altos labs [2]. [0] https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088662 [1] https:/&#
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by slwvx 1y ago
The paper linked from Github is at [1]. Section 6.1 gives a fairly practical example of use with a passport, while 6.2 talks about how it might be used with a drivers license. [1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/2010.pdf
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by slwvx 1y ago
Yes, thanks!
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In the title it should be "relieves", not "relies"
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by slwvx 1y ago
Ethereum changes the cost to use the network based on recent block sizes, and allows the block size to go up during high demand. So it's cheaper to use the network when blocks are less full, and more expensive if blocks are mostly full
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https://archive.ph/u3jgv Nice and useful ideas.

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