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by ssivark 5y ago
You might find Perkeep interesting: https://perkeep.org/
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by ssivark 5y ago
Why replicate a PDF reader in-browser when it would be really easy to hook it up to pass PDFs to a plethora of system applications? As for integration with org/roam, I agree — there’s a lot of potential there, and it’s at an ideal stag
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by ssivark 5y ago
The difference is far more fundamental, and I cannot do justice to it in a drive-by comment; but in short: FOSS projects are typically grounded in the idea of a gift economy, while business users are grounded in a market economy. The motiva
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by ssivark 5y ago
The biggest problem facing open source is that most of the people making OSS, and the loudest of the people using it, want very different things.
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by ssivark 5y ago
Nyxt currently uses a WebKit renderer, and can in principle support others too. https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/technical-design.org
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by ssivark 5y ago
It's not about Nyxt "entering Zettelkasten space", since it's philosophically not an island "app". It's a well designed tool with powerful interfaces to pass data into and out of the application. For examp
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by ssivark 5y ago
Mozilla does all these cool things, and I’m afraid they’re gonna shut it down in a year or two :-/
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by ssivark 5y ago
It’s called an IPO :-)
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by ssivark 5y ago
Higher revenues through induced obsolescence?
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by ssivark 5y ago
What stops OEMs from publishing dummy updates that satisfy the legal checkboxes?
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by ssivark 5y ago
I think there needs to be one more aspect accounted for, and that is the domain . The domain might naturally push you towards larger (or smaller) blobs than you would otherwise anticipate, and in such cases I don’t think it makes sense to
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by ssivark 5y ago
Why should findings from pottery generalize to reading? It's not like reading is an activity with a clearly defined goal for each attempt, where one gets clear feedback based on which to "improve". If we were discussing a tex
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by ssivark 5y ago
Blindly making measurements and taking averages or computing variances is NOT a sensible thing to do! It particularly meaningful for the Gaussian distribution, but there is no reason for sociological data to have such behavior! The essence
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by ssivark 5y ago
Sure… but that’s an off-by-one error from wiping out civilization.
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by ssivark 5y ago
Great observation. I personally find such indirection extremely frustrating. I propose “aboutism” as a name — since such articles end up talking “about” things, rather than addressing them directly.
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by ssivark 5y ago
Exposing this data publicly may be a huge problem (I don't know enough about the leaks), but in a society where people want the government to offer welfare benefits based on caste (to address historical inequities), the government ne
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by ssivark 5y ago
Whatever the shortcomings of the AADHAAR project, it is probably the most important (for public welfare) national infrastructure project in the recent past. It has been absolutely pivotal in onboarding a large fraction of India's popul
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by ssivark 5y ago
+1. Why the heck are we upvoting and discussing the most generic content marketing fluff? It’s not like there aren’t well-written thoughtful pieces discussing Rust.
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by ssivark 5y ago
IMHO, the concept might be more intuitively named "square-root voting" :-) It's very interesting to note that the vote count scales/renormalizes with the population in analogy with the law of large numbers [1]. I wonde
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by ssivark 5y ago
+1. Further, when accounting for the fact that images can be represented in arbitrary color spaces, the representation in Julia images seems quite thoughtful given that Julia has no problems doing fast loops through the structs (unlike Pyth
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by ssivark 5y ago
MuJoCo was purchased by Deepmind and open-sourced, a few weeks ago: https://deepmind.com/blog/announcements/mujoco
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by ssivark 5y ago
Occam's razor is a very very bad principle to bank on when reverse-engineering AI models because approaches which we consider "simple" (likely in a "natural" context) could be very different from what some high-
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by ssivark 5y ago
Please do elaborate. Also, does this leave users in the lurch, or will an updated Firefox satisfy all the use cases of Lockwise? Thanks.
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by ssivark 5y ago
Try drawing the two circles to the scale of the masses, and you’ll see how massive the sun actually is, relative to the earth :-)
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by ssivark 5y ago
What would be really interesting is a case study of how this influences decision-making in a different direction compared to the more common framework. Without that, I have no idea whether anything in this post is actually useful , despit
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by ssivark 5y ago
Nice explanation! I wonder whether there are any generalizations of the remainder Chinese theorem to account for “noise” in the remainders (I.e. approximately correct residues), given redundancy of an overdetermined system. It’s easy to thi
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by ssivark 5y ago
It should be easy enough to compute the "center of mass" (quite efficiently too, by considering a weighted average of component centers of mass recursively) for the objects, rather than something even more naive like the center of
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by ssivark 5y ago
But any payment to Netflix is on top of the (significantly higher) ransom one pays to Comcast/Spectrum/etc for leasing bandwidth on the pipes (which cable bills include in the default). So cost of streaming content today is Netfli
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by ssivark 5y ago
The irony is that they went to VCs probably because they couldn’t harness the necessary public investment. If they manage to do that now, they would basically have gone through a circuitous route — with anything greater than a 1x return for
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by ssivark 5y ago
AFAIK, the nicest, simplest book that gives a taste of Bayesian probabilistic reasoning is "Model based Machine learning" by John Winn & co. -- http://mbmlbook.com/ It consists of friendly and readable chapter

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