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by taneq 2y ago
I’m guess it’s implied that this is only while the skate is in contact with the ice, and that the skate is lifted in order to reposition it? It seems a rather inadequate model if we want to train a halfway competent ice skating robot, thoug
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by taneq 2y ago
Don’t a lot of small organisms do this? Eg. “Sea monkeys” (brine shrimp)?
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by taneq 2y ago
Exactly. A map that is 100% accurate is useless, because you might just as well use the real thing.
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by taneq 2y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply! I haven’t done any serious low level optimisation on modern CPUs so most of my intuitions are probably way out of date.
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by taneq 2y ago
I was just joking, and don’t hold that quote as a serious belief. :) Poe’s law, alas. Thanks for the article link, so far it’s interesting reading!
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by taneq 2y ago
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times. This guy is all of those men, like 10 times over.
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by taneq 2y ago
That’s pretty cool. :) One thing I don’t get is why do multiple operations when a 243-entry lookup table would be simpler and hopefully faster?
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by taneq 2y ago
How do you price this in? If you’re charging by the hour, paying out of pocket to reduce your hours seems self-defeating unless you raise your rates enough to cover both the costs and the lost hours. I can’t imagine too many clients would a
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by taneq 2y ago
I wonder how much of the training set features those colourful alphabet fridge magnets? :D
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by taneq 2y ago
On trips to remote sites I never miss an opportunity to explain to the younger guys that "when I was younger Spotify was called MP3s and it was made of files that you had on your device!" and then proceed to play late 90s EDM unti
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by taneq 2y ago
Iirc Pandora’s Box explicitly contained the opposite of hope. The last demon which she kept trapped inside it was “foreknowledge” and the only reason humanity was able to continue was that without knowing the future, we were able to have ho
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by taneq 2y ago
Unless they weren't seeding their RNG, which means every game could be the same.
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by taneq 2y ago
Having been out of the web dev game (or at least ‘front end’ as you cool kids are calling it? ;) for a while, I was a little dismayed when I asked an LLM for a web page that did a specific thing. It required Bootstrap and Angular and a bunc
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by taneq 2y ago
I see what they're saying with "don't guess" and I also agree with you. I'd phrase it something more like "explicitly acknowledge when you're guessing". It's fine to guess with the understanding
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by taneq 2y ago
I dunno, do they really make it that easy? From what I've seen they can give you some example code, and often it works, but when it doesn't, you actually need to know what you're doing to fix it up. Fixing someone else's
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by taneq 2y ago
In all reinforcement learning there is (explicitly as part of a fitness function, or implicitly as part of the algorithm) some impetus for exploration. It might be adding a tiny reward per square walked, a small reward for each block broken
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by taneq 2y ago
> And for what? Job security. The software industry was built on the premise that users would buy all new software and hardware every 3 years. In the mid 2000s they collectively realised that software was ‘good enough’ for most users, an
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by taneq 2y ago
Trying to wrap my head around this explanation and I’m picturing a looping gif. You have your normal x and y dimensions and then time through the gif. If the loop length is very short then distance between any two pixels will mostly only de
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by taneq 2y ago
I’ve had ongoing problems with my new laptop either not sleeping properly or waking up randomly in my backpack and toasting itself until it shuts down with a critical overtemp error. My solution is to set the power button to hibernate, and
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by taneq 2y ago
Unless something’s changed you will need the whole model on the HPU anyway, no? So way beyond a 4090 regardless.
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by taneq 2y ago
There’s a 40% tariff on the letter ‘u’.
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by taneq 2y ago
I don't think it's pedantic at all. Your NASCAR driver is hired to win races, not to drive. If they drive on the highway, or down to the shops, or at the track when there isn't a race (or qualifying, or testing, etc.) on, or
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by taneq 2y ago
Modern SCADA systems are designed like this too. They used to be a riot of programmer art in primary colours, with most things blinking at any one time. Now they’re grey-on-grey for anything “nominal” with alarms in orange or red. Far less
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by taneq 2y ago
That's awful, and unfortunately relatable. Most of my university courses were pretty good, but I had a computer graphics course where I got about 80% for my project, and about 30% for my final grade, which meant I apparently got 0% for
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by taneq 2y ago
Taking a 3 month voyage was still an uncommon thing to do for a person, it’s just that it was the most common type of intercontinental journey due to lack of competition.
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by taneq 2y ago
Ah yes, hence "maleficarum" being an alternate name for AppleTalk. :D (Source: I made this up.)
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by taneq 2y ago
"Outburst"? "Losing your shit"?
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by taneq 2y ago
I had one that took literally years to reproduce. It was in PLC code, on a touchscreen controller running a soft PLC with Busybox under the hood. These devices were used 24/7 and usually absolutely bullet proof. Every now and then I’d
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by taneq 2y ago
I don’t think it’s just you. “This site visit could have been an online meeting which could have been a phone call which could have been an email which could have been a text.”
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by taneq 2y ago
I see where you're coming from but I think you're completely missing the actual discussion. Sure, The degree of perceived pain might be affected by many other factors. There's no distinction between 'pain' and &#x27

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