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> There are a few things about the TouchBar I do like -- eg, having a custom one-touch screen lock button that's always present. The trackpad preferences allows one or more corners to be assigned to locking the screen. One swipe awa
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The Pleiades[1], also known as the Seven Sisters: > It is among the star clusters nearest to Earth... and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. Only six stars in the cluster are visible to the naked eye yet mytho
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This article about the undocumented Apple AMX instructions is the missing piece of the puzzle for me. Various HN threads discussed SIMD [1] and ML/DL [2] on the Apple M1. Daniel Lemire's benchmark compared x64 SIMD (SSE, AVX) vs.
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I consider Spaced Repetition a mental model of how we learn and retain knowledge. I think your objection is with flash card systems and I don’t disagree with your assessment. I think of Spaced Repetition more generally. A paper based Zettel
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Seasonal sometimes means ice roads : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_road
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Great point. Do we have a comparison point with diesel generators in terms of the largest module that cannot be broken down further? I suspect that there is a seasonality to the roads too and let's not forget that some communities may
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> Recent experience suggest that the SMR producers could face the same cost overruns and delays that have plagued makers of utility-scale reactors. An even bigger challenge could be convincing industries and utilities to forgo cheap natu
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Spaced Repetition [1] seems to be the missing dimension in note making/taking that leads to optimal recall. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
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> on top of the MLPerf Training and MLPerf Inference benchmark suites, we now have a new MLPerf HPC suite to capture ML of very large models. I think the challenge is selecting the tests that best represent the typical ML/DL use cas
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I categorize this as an exploration of how to benchmark desktop/workstation NPUs [1] similar to the exploration Daniel Lemire started with SIMD. Mobile SoC NPUs are used to deploy inference models on smartphones and IoT devices while d
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Indeed, the geopolitics works both ways. I think the Chinese are looking at RISC-V as a safe-guard against American embargoes of the kind that killed/maimed HiSilicon, the non-Chinese nation-states are looking for full transparency of
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> Although the first hardware run will be entirely $140 / 8GiB systems, lower-cost variants with less RAM are expected in following releases. > The initial pilot run of BeagleV will use the Vision DSP hardware as a graphics proce
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When I see someone writing a database from scratch I search for the rationale and the core problem being addressed. The HN title is misleading and needs a date context which is obviously not your fault but comments attempting to provide the
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> It's a system that the author put together while intoxicated to poke fun at Twitter. The HN title is "a microblogging platform", the landing page has a section titled "But what's wrong with Twitter?", and
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The last-modified headers indicate that the front page and docs have not been updated since May 2018. This is not a viable platform and the analysis of Twitter's technical shortcomings is facile. The original 140 character limit, now d
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HN thread Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics [1] from one month ago. The article [2] from The RobotReport states: > In early November, Bloomberg first reported that Hyundai was in talks to acquire Boston Dynamics from Tokyo-based SoftB
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ACM Queue interview of Theo Schlossnagle, founder and CTO of Circonus, about IRONdb [1], an alternative time-series platform to Prometheus/InfluxDB. Some high-level architecture choices: - CRDT to avoid coordination service - LMD
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According to the Toronto Star [1]: > ...work was being done to fire up Pakistan’s main Tarbela power station in the northwest, which would lead to a restoration of power in the rest of the country in phases. > ...the Guddu power plant
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A review of Jimena Canales’ book Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science [1]: > They are not supernatural creatures; rather, they are particular kinds of thought experiments, placeholders of sorts for laws or theories or conce
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<body style="white-space: pre-line"> The idea is that an extra newline within a block with style="white-space: pre-line" acts like <p> paragraph elements. This is a sep
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The paper Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters [1]: > Humans are not fully adapted to a carnivorous diet; human consumption of meat is limited by the liver’s capacity to metabolize protein. Contrary to
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> Following the accident, it was determined that eight RTGs [radioisotope thermoelectric generator] of the Beta M type had been brought into Georgia in the early 1980s to serve the radio relay system between the Engury hydroelectric stat
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Scientists have experimentally measured and modeled a previously hypothetical phase in the glass-liquid transition [1]. This is fundamental materials science that may lead to new applications involving liquid crystals and other materials. [
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> conclusion: the placenta is the product of that virus. We would never accept that kind of mythology in software Seems like a very reasonable hypothesis if that virus is a retrovirus [1]: > Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are endogeno
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Magnificent. The placenta uses a protein named syncytin [1] to attach to the cells of the uterus. This protein is expressed by a retrovirus that was integrated into animal DNA over 100 million years ago. This reminds me of Lynn Margulis’ di
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Furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses [1] > The spike protein is a focused target of COVID-19, a pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2. A 12-nt insertion at S1/S2 in the spike coding sequence yields a furin cleavage site,
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COVID Alert 1.1.6 [1] adds support for older iPhones running iOS 12.5 [2]. There have been 5.9 million downloads (as of Jan 3). [1] https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/cor... [2] ht
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Covid Alert Canada 1.1.6 (iOS 12.5 added)(apps.apple.com)
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Throughout this pandemic my impression is that nations generally failed on two fronts: 1. data sharing, and 2. scaling. You can't optimize what isn't measured and the vaccination programs that I know of are not sharing basic logis
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I think the fundamental problem is that academics historically gave away their copyright [1]: > Traditionally, the author of an article was required to transfer the copyright to the journal publisher. Publishers claimed this was necessar

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