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   by smokel 2y ago

   It says "Original Lego parts" on the page. Apparently, it was created by Rick Lenssen [1], who works at the Development & Engineering department of ASML. It seems more likely that he used existing bricks, instead of molding n
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   by smokel 2y ago

   To be fair, the referenced comment (in Dutch) blames management: > Helaas is het probleem bij Northvolt echt gewoon te herleiden naar slecht management (ex-Tesla), en bijgevolg een slechte keuze van leverancier van productiemachines (Wu
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   by smokel 2y ago

   How is this different from previous periods in which technology companies harmed people and society as well? (Think coal mines, cars, television, what have you). I fail to see what is so special about our current day and age, apart from us
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   by smokel 2y ago

   > P.s. how much is an exaflop or petaflop 1 petaflop = 10^15 flops = 1,000,000,000,000,000 flops. 1 exaflop = 10^18 flops = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 flops. Note that these are simply powers of 10, not powers of 2, which are used for
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   by smokel 2y ago

   This flocking behaviour is indeed an annoying trait of most humans. As a nice counter example in this context, Zalando has tuned the quadrant categories to their specific way of working. Their categories are: Datastores, Data Management, I
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   by smokel 2y ago

   To be fair, I don't think the idea here is to follow this advice without doing some proper research. The radar helps me to find interesting developments, and to sift through the enormous amount of garbage that is out there.
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   by smokel 2y ago

   I love this initiative. We thought it would be a great idea to have a radar specifically for our own internal projects. Turns out that many companies are doing this already! ThoughtWorks even provides open-source tooling to help you set t
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   by smokel 2y ago

   People sometimes combine two fields of study to create something novel and intriguing. However, such combinations often fall short, failing to satisfy the standards of either field. Unfortunately, the typical art audience rarely appreciates
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   by smokel 2y ago

   I tend to agree with you that it's very likely that the cars are operating autonomously most of the time. However, I don't think this kind of math helps much in actually proving (or disproving) that. We don't know how many o
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    by smokel 2y ago

    Apparently the controversial post is a bit unfounded. California legislation requires filing the events where an autonomous vehicle required human intervention. The reports for 2023 are in: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal&#x2
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    by smokel 2y ago

    The logical conclusion being that we should look elsewhere for AVs to take off?
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    by smokel 2y ago

    If those 3000 employees work full-time (40 hours per week), they could theoretically serve 150,000 trips of up to 48 minutes in length, which seems reasonable, no? Another interesting statistic here is that Waymo apparently has only 700 veh
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    by smokel 2y ago

    Why so sour? This particular article doesn't seem to ignore a lot, it even references the Nvidia work that inspired it, as well as a recent benchmark. Someone was just having fun here, it's not as if they present it as a general
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    by smokel 2y ago

    There is some more information on their GitHub page [1]. "Automat's objective is to be able to semi-autonomously play a variety of games. It's the first step towards a more general environment for interacting with computers.
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    by smokel 2y ago

    At the time I'm writing this, there are three similar replies that use an argument along the lines of "you can simply ignore Latour if you don't like his work". I'm just replying to the first comment. Unfortunately
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    by smokel 2y ago

    > Much of his writing resists analysis while encouraging repetition and undeformed travel. Sums it up pretty nicely. I have no clue what "undeformed travel" means, which is a nice reference to how his writing resists analysi
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    by smokel 2y ago

    For those not in the know, things only get faster with this approach when you apply some optimization. The article that we are discussing won't get there until part 12. For the time being one may consult Ryg's amazing blog series
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    by smokel 2y ago

    Wait, what? They rasterize a triangle by checking for each pixel if it intersects with the triangle? Where are the days when you learned Bresenham [1] or fixed-point arithmetic [2] to determine the extents of a scan line, and then fill
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    by smokel 2y ago

    Some people suggest Halloween is named after "Heer Halewijn" (Lord Halewijn), who figured in a pre-Christian Dutch folk tale [1]. Might as well be the other way around though :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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    SimBa: Simplicity Bias for Scaling Parameters in Deep Reinforcement Learning(sonyresearch.github.io)

    1 points by smokel 2y ago|0 comments
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    by smokel 2y ago

    I agree. Adding unit tests without a good reason comes at a cost. Refactoring is harder, especially if it's not clear why a test is in place. I've seen many developers disable tests simply because they could not understand how,
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    by smokel 2y ago

    This comment would've definitely earned gold on Reddit. Here all you get is an upvote :)
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    by smokel 2y ago

    The field of reinforcement learning is huge . There are many different algorithms with catchy names, which are mostly variations of two basic algorithms. However, each variation can easily keep you busy for a PhD or two. The book referen
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    by smokel 2y ago

    Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy. We educate everyone to be the smartest person in the class, and then we don't have jobs for them. And then we complain that education is not good enough. Shouldn't we conclude that educat
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    by smokel 2y ago

    Documentation near code is a good idea, but unfortunately it covers only part of the problem. There is a big portion of documentation that should be available to "other persons", such as architects or project managers, who may not
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    by smokel 2y ago

    The main problem is that documentation should be written on why code is written the way it is, and why it exists in the first place. This context is typically not available in the code itself. In the best case, this is encoded in requir
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    by smokel 2y ago

    Don't listen to what customers say, but look at what they do.
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    by smokel 2y ago

    They say you should not judge a book by its cover, but I found it very hard not to [1]. After I found out the book was from 2013 I felt a slight sense of relief. [1] https://xmlpress.net/publications/eppo/
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    by smokel 2y ago

    There is quite some research being done on autonomous wheelchairs.
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    by smokel 2y ago

    Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl. On many old keyboards that is where the Ctrl key was positioned [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caps_Lock#Placement