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by smaddox 4y ago
Deterioration tends to be roughly linear on an Arrhenius scale, which is basically the scale which is exponential on the inverse temperature. This is because deterioration tends to be roughly linear on the activation energy of defects.
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by smaddox 4y ago
> I kind of feel like it goes without saying that Rust isn't ideal for beginners. I think that depends on, first, what the goal is, and second, what you're comparing to. It think Rust is easier on beginners, in many ways, than
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by smaddox 4y ago
> Yes, the process involves production of Pu-239, which is weapon-grade and may raise proliferation concerns. Not if you use Thorium breeder reactors.
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by smaddox 4y ago
I agree with all of this, unfortunately. I worked for Intel for two years after graduating with a PhD in EE. I learned a lot from the experience, but I can't recommend it. I work in software, now. The PhD was great, though. I loved doi
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by smaddox 4y ago
To be fair, he was likely being paid to sing those praises.
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by smaddox 4y ago
Not a single image when describing how semiconductors work? Here's a better resource: http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
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by smaddox 4y ago
Interesting. I don't have access to the full text of the paper, but I'm surprised the platinum-doped gallium doesn't form a protective oxide shell, like pure gallium does. Perhaps this depends on having very small particles?
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by smaddox 4y ago
> everyone understands that exponential growth cannot continue forever Everyone understands? Why do you believe that? As far as I can tell, most people, especially economists, think it can. If population continues to grow exponentially (
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by smaddox 4y ago
Well, if our energy use continues to grow at the current rate, we'll boil the oceans in about 450 years, so I would say no. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
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by smaddox 4y ago
Keep reading. > Each September the Academy's Economics Prize Committee, which consists of five elected members [...] > Some critics argue that the prestige of the Prize in Economics derives in part from its association with the N
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by smaddox 4y ago
The "Nobel prize in economics" isn't a real Nobel prize. It wasn't funded by Nobel, and it isn't issued by the same committee.
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by smaddox 4y ago
I highly recommend reading Daring Greatly by Brene Brown (after completing your assignments). The book covers this topic among others.
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by smaddox 4y ago
You mean like requiring functions instead of basic blocks in a compiler target?
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by smaddox 4y ago
I don't know if there are any controlled studies, but there's plenty of informal evidence that naive people cope poorly with traumatic events. Resilience is a product (though admittedly not a guaranteed product) of experience.
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by smaddox 4y ago
Are we really sure that humans aren't brute force searching for proofs, through a combination of subconscious processing and network effects (i.e. many people working on the same problem and only some of them happen on to the correct p
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by smaddox 4y ago
Nice. I will definitely be giving this a shot next year.
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by smaddox 5y ago
Not the way I lay out my windows. Most of the time every window is partially visible, and so I switch by clicking on the one of interest. Or I overlay them and scroll the partially obscured one without focusing on it. The only time I actual
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by smaddox 5y ago
Instead of minimizing windows, put them on a separate virtual desktop. Or close them. I never minimize windows on purpose. I think the only reason the concept exists is because it predates virtual desktop switching. Also, instead of Alt-Tab
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by smaddox 5y ago
I like Casey Muratori's view of software architecture being more akin to urban planning than to building architecture. Taking that view seems to alleviate many of the apparent paradoxes.
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by smaddox 5y ago
I highly recommend watching Casey Muratori's presentation on immediate mode GUIs, and his Handmade Hero series (links below). https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0001 https://handmadehero.org/
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by smaddox 5y ago
If real, this is crazy. We have our fair share of problems in the West, but this is next level.
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by smaddox 5y ago
While I was a graduate student at UT Austin, I attended a talk By Dr. C.P.J. Barty, Chief Technology Officer for the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Directorate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, titled “Extreme Ga
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by smaddox 5y ago
The most promising approach I've seen to answering the author's question: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
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by smaddox 5y ago
Good to see this field getting some serious investigation. Last I looked it was still very hypothetical with only questionable characters investigating.
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by smaddox 5y ago
I thought I addressed that quite clearly in the post, did I not? Multistacks relieve much of the pain of stack shuffling while retaining the benefits of concatenative notation, e.g. refactorability. There are also other emergent benefits su
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by smaddox 5y ago
I believe we're a long way from the global optimum programming language and associated tools. I've been brainstorming ideas for improving programming languages for years. Dawn is my attempt to distill all of that into a new langua
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by smaddox 5y ago
Wait... completed in one day? So an ~8 hour task? That's way too much of an ask for an interview, in my opinion.
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by smaddox 5y ago
Very cool. I wonder if you could turn something like this into the ultimate keyboard synth. That would be one hell of a product.
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by smaddox 5y ago
Deep-learning-based image compression is particularly interesting because it turns the problem into a massively parallel one. As GPUs and TPUs become more powerful and more common in commodity hardware, there will be a drive to move many ex
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by smaddox 5y ago
I would say Rust is currently the best overall programming language, period. It is also a great systems programming language.

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