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The fastest maze-solving competition on Earth(youtube.com)
1 points by tmalsburg2 2y ago|0 comments
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
What is an open canvas? What problem does it solve?
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
How do you know it’s the right decision?
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
Always has been.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
Publication servers like arXiv + overlay journals. I‘d love that.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
People talk as if dynamic scoping was objectively a mistake, but the fact that it works well and is really useful in a complex piece of software like Emacs seems to suggest otherwise.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
Napster may have started the file sharing revolution. But the exciting part for me was Gnutella and later Bittorrent, peer-to-peer technology in general, and the realization that we could use technology to liberate ourselves. Needless to
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
Japan's initiative is focused on "green open access" which is different from pay-to-publish. I recommend the section titled "Green OA" in the submitted article. Relevant quote: "Japan’s move to greater access
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
Smart, because why would you use billions in tax money to fund research then let publisher parasites take the results hostage.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
A single word is insufficient evidence to conclude that an LLM was used. "Delve" may be low frequency in naturalistic text but there are many words in an article and the chance that some of them will be low-frequency is high. I
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
So when there is demand, the thing is depleted after ~1 hour.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
My wife is still using her 2012 MBP. We maxed out RAM and gave it an SSD in 2016. She uses it for video editing and music production. The thing look like new. Completely ridiculous. Only downside: no OSX updates since I don’t know when.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
OP implied that we‘re experiencing the Bertha Benz moment of electric cars. Wasn’t my idea. I just spelled out the possible implication.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
Megawatt seems like the wrong unit as it doesn’t measure capacity. Please provide a link.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
Large-scale storage technology is still elusive, though.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
After Bertha Benz’ famous drive [1], it took multiple decades for cars to really go mainstream. I wonder if we’re looking at a similar timeline. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz#First_cross-coun...
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Germany has too many solar panels, pushed energy prices into negative territory(markets.businessinsider.com)
23 points by tmalsburg2 2y ago|86 comments
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
I‘ve never met a person who has made their whole personality about being anti-AI. Can we please calm down a bit?
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
Today's climate, where Silicon Valley billionaires occasionally have to endure some mild pushback.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
Didn't they also ask for permission from her two days before releasing the voice? Why ask permission if it was not her voice?
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
Yes, he got incredibly lucky that he found an alternative use for his GPU investment.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
His engineering mindset made him blind to the fact the metaverse was a product that nobody wanted or needed. In one of the Fridman interviews, he goes on and on about all the cool technical challenges involved in making the metaverse work.
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by tmalsburg2 2y ago
Love how everyone is romanticizing his engineering mindset. But have we already forgotten that he was even more passionate about the metaverse which, as far as I can tell, was a 50B failure?
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Elastic Tabstops(nick-gravgaard.com)
2 points by tmalsburg2 2y ago|1 comments
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Hackable Intel and Lenovo hardware went undetected for 5 years(arstechnica.com)
33 points by tmalsburg2 3y ago|12 comments
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by tmalsburg2 3y ago
Fully agree. This stuff doesn’t magically become interesting and relevant to HN just because some connection to a tech company exists.
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Is Bitcoin More Energy Intensive Than Mainstream Finance?(economicsfromthetopdown.com)
4 points by tmalsburg2 3y ago|4 comments
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Debunking the 'Productivity-Pay Gap'(economicsfromthetopdown.com)
2 points by tmalsburg2 3y ago|0 comments
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Konrad Zuse (1994)(xn--plankalkl-x9a.de)
82 points by tmalsburg2 3y ago|44 comments
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by tmalsburg2 3y ago
Wouldn’t the best thing have been to retract the book, or at least to published a revised edition?

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