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by tgbugs 2y ago
Are you surprised that jpg compression algorithms can reproduce input data that bears striking resemblance to the uncompressed input image across a variety of compression levels?
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by tgbugs 2y ago
I think the answer is actually quite clear and rather boring. In order to get something "right" there has to be some external standard of knowledge and correctness. That definition of correctness can only be provided by the observ
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by tgbugs 2y ago
One of the most striking things about this for me is how clearly it demonstrates the fact that community and sharing are not the same thing. Building tools that enable communities to share effectively seems like another additional challenge
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by tgbugs 2y ago
One reason is that it has one of the best cross platform native gui solutions out there. It exists because the research side was focused on teaching programming and needed a solution that their students could just install. There is a bit of
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by tgbugs 3y ago
Amusingly this policy might end up meaning that the AI model they produce by training on this data will never be able to produce video that will ever be worth more than 3$ per minute. They are probably unintentionally filtering for content
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by tgbugs 3y ago
Vitamin synthesis is one of the most pointless things to add because it is something that is lost in many lineages over evolutionary time. The reason is that as long as there are environmental sources of a molecule the pressure to retain th
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by tgbugs 3y ago
Depends how many centrifuges they had to destroy to develop it.
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by tgbugs 3y ago
I'm super excited about whether something like this could be used to prevent bird strikes on windows. If anyone wants to grow the market for this technology there are likely square miles worth of glass that could have this installed to
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by tgbugs 3y ago
They explicitly exclude computational notebooks in this paper (see page 5). While they don't mention org-mode I'm fairly certain that a significant portion of org functionality can be understood using their concept of reforestatio
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by tgbugs 3y ago
My internal alarm bells started going off as soon as I read about datum AA and datum M. Shouldn't it be possible if not standard practice for the design software to issue a giant warning if you have a part that is defined by two datums
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by tgbugs 3y ago
> Our key insight is that the process of citation needs to be handled outside the LLM. I can imagine taking the citation tree and using the LLM to compact the hypotheses, results, etc. for each node in the tree and sticking that in the v
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by tgbugs 3y ago
We are still quite far from being able to implement these kinds of things at scale. For the literature review piece the key problem is that LLMs are exquisitely bad at working with even the simplest kind of scientific evidence: citations [1
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by tgbugs 3y ago
The tradition answer to this question is surely this wonderful Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q .
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by tgbugs 3y ago
Ah what a fantastic presentation. It answers a lingering question about the use of spectroscopy and apparent brightness to determine the distance to a star. The key step that I had missed was using the stars with distances measurable by par
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by tgbugs 3y ago
I don't have anything rigorous, but I can say that I see the usual ~4x speedup when using rdflib to parse large files so that a 20 minute workload in cpython drops to 4 or 5 minutes when run on pypy3. I just reran one of my usual bench
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by tgbugs 3y ago
We use pypy3 on musl via gentoo in production to run dataset validation pipelines. The easiest place to see that we use pypy3 is probably [1]. The build process and patches we carry are under [2]. We also use pypy3 to accelerate rdflib pars
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by tgbugs 3y ago
For static builds, if you're willing to run a slightly older version of sbcl daewok's work on building and linking sbcl in a musl environment might be solution you're looking for. I've tried to port his patches to more
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by tgbugs 3y ago
Wow. The fact that there is an objective answer that is independent of any perspective on the importance of rare species is a rare gift, at least for this part of the problem. Some questions and thoughts. It seems that the result could vary
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by tgbugs 3y ago
When I was thinking about this problem a couple of years ago (eek, time flies!) I came to the conclusion that the only archival approach that was viable for this was to have a dedicated url resolver service that was independent of the DNS s
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by tgbugs 3y ago
On Gentoo xgqt pretty much has everything working as a portage overlay. https://gitlab.com/gentoo-racket/gentoo-racket-overlay
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by tgbugs 3y ago
Racket has had significant engineering and design time spent directly on the use case you describe. See this old thread from John Carmack about his son learning with Racket https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10111479 . Thi
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by tgbugs 3y ago
Looks like you're already in Emacs. I strongly recommend racket-mode as mentioned in another thread. With regard to prototyping GUI's I'd suggest taking a look at https://github.com/mfelleisen/7GUI . htt
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by tgbugs 3y ago
I've been using Racket for about 8 years now, and it is now my goto language for anything that needs a gui. It took writing 3 or 4 not-so-little guis to feel comfortable working with Racket's object system, but now it basically go
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by tgbugs 3y ago
If you are willing to use somewhat older version of SBCL (2.1.11) then you can use daewok's static executable branch and link against musl. That version only supports gzipped images, but even so you can get it down under 15mb for small
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by tgbugs 3y ago
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp would be a classic answer (though it is also scifi so maybe not quite what you are asking for).
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by tgbugs 3y ago
It will depend on which implementation specific behavior a given library uses. For example, guile has `#{}#` syntax for verbatim atoms. If a library uses that it will not work on any other scheme. Guile and gambit also have divergent behavi
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by tgbugs 3y ago
One theory that I don't see mentioned yet is that someone used an upload to pypi to exfiltrate data or simply as a way to upload arbitrary data somewhere. In a sense pypi is just a file hosting service, so it could have nothing to do w
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by tgbugs 3y ago
Racket's (module+ test ...) by far.
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by tgbugs 3y ago
I first encountered the principles behind htmx in its precursor intercooler.js. Those principles really resonated with my distaste for complexity. Amusingly I found out about htmx itself when rereading https://grugbrain.dev and
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by tgbugs 3y ago
The number in the title is misleading but what you write here is also misleading. > The diffusion tensor images (DTI) @ 15 μm spatial resolution are 1,000 times the resolution of most preclinical rodent DTI/MRI. Superresolution trac

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