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by superjan 9mo ago
Watch the video to the very end: the final splat is not a gaussian one.
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Moon Tree(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by superjan 9mo ago|0 comments
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by superjan 9mo ago
The article didn’t go into this, but I suspect that a large part of the dark mode trend is due to evening/night computer use. If you don’t light your room, the screen is the only light source which is unpleasant.
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by superjan 9mo ago
I would argue that you don’t need to learn string theory as it currently does not predict anything we can realistically observe (as you need energies that occurred only at the big bang). If string theory is correct we could observe a “super
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by superjan 9mo ago
Maybe the following helps: if you have a an analog signal where there are no frequencies above 22.05 khz, it is in principle possible to sample it at 44.1 khz and then perfectly reconstruct the original signal from those samples. You could
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The Discovery of Lin Yutang's MingKwai Chinese Typewriter(typewriterrevolution.com)
3 points by superjan 9mo ago|1 comments
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by superjan 9mo ago
This is a story about a unique 1947 Chinese typewriter prototype that never got built. It could type thousands of characters by combining keystrokes. The prototype was presumed lost, found this year and it is now at Stanford. This is not ne
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by superjan 1y ago
It”s worthwhile to mention that in the US and EU EMRs are generally not considered Medical Devices and are therefore not subject to a lot of regulations. https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/what-if-emrs-were-clas...
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by superjan 1y ago
It’s probably more phonetic than Chinese but significantly less phonetic than Dutch.
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by superjan 1y ago
i have wasted several weeks worth of evenings on vectorizing heaps (4ary heaps: with SIMD, you’re not limited to binary heaps). It did not provide any speedup. I’d expect that halving heap depth would help but no. Still don’t know why.
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by superjan 1y ago
Nice to learn about. It’s good to know the field has progressed, however the context focused on JPEG, where my point does apply.
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by superjan 1y ago
Arithmetic coding decodes 1 bit at a time, usually in such a way that you can’t do two bits or more with SIMD instructions. So it will be slow and energy inefficient.
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by superjan 1y ago
There are very few people visible in the demo’s. I suppose that is harder?
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by superjan 1y ago
Yeah, it’s a funny coincidence that all those constraints to make it look random produces exactly one solution. I guess the OP knows this is not ‘random’ in the mathematical sense.
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by superjan 1y ago
I want to flip coins so randomly that I never see the same face twice in a row.
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by superjan 1y ago
Yes, or when a character moves across the screen. They are quite fine grained. However, when the decoder reads the motion vectors from the bitstream, it is typically not supposed to attach meaning to them: they could point to a patch that i
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by superjan 1y ago
I love this. The widely used standards for video compression are focused on compression efficiency, which is important if you’re netflix or youtube, but sometimes latency and low complexity is more important. Even if only to play around an
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by superjan 1y ago
Well, it is not pretty to see how the sausage gets made, but extracting formatted text from docx is absolutely doable, no PhD involved. Source: I have done it as a little sidequest because it was useful to audit a set of word documents.
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by superjan 1y ago
Ok this is correct for traditional JPEG. Other flavors like Jpeg2000 use a similar (but lower overhead) version of this byte-stuffing to avoid JPEG markers from appearing in the compressed stream. Related: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by superjan 1y ago
And don’t forget that Date objects are mutable!
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by superjan 1y ago
There is a particular pattern (block/tag marker) that is illegal the compressed JPEG stream. If I recall correctly you should insert a 0x00 after a 0xFF byte in the output to avoid it. If there is interest I can followup later (not tod
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by superjan 1y ago
Because there’ll likely be a lot of string concatenation in a language whose job is to output HTML. Adding a single char to a 1k string will require allocating a modified copy, in mutable strings it’s just appending in a preallocated buffer
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by superjan 1y ago
It’s true that many languages have immutable strings, but for a web-focused scripting language it makes sense to default to mutable strings. I think the comment is about that you now need to choose mutable vs immutable, and that is framed
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by superjan 1y ago
The article talks about pollution but I’d expect them to be very noisy as well. Gas turbines are essentially redesigned aircraft engines.
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by superjan 1y ago
And crypto scamming is anonymous, low risk and can be automated. Scamming people for cash requires you to get close to each of your victims.
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The Magnetic Shadow Effect [video](youtube.com)
2 points by superjan 1y ago|0 comments
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by superjan 1y ago
Furthermore this assumes the rental company chooses to repair. I doubt they will do so for a scratch like this.
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Short: What happens if you turn the horizon into music? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by superjan 1y ago|1 comments
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by superjan 1y ago
This is from the channel “the Gaze”. The channel is not the project’s author, but it does a great job introducing the idea. The author’s page: https://wernerdevalk.nl/en/songs-of-the-horizon/
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by superjan 1y ago
No, that statement was not about Windows, but about the argument for telemetry in general.

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