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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
A great oatmeal breakfast (or lunch or dinner) inspired by the Persian dish haleem (which is usually made with wheat instead of oats and is simmered for hours): Put a pound or so of boneless skinless chicken thighs in the slow cooker on low
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
I played this game though probably 100 times and never realized that repeatedly firing weapons is what improves a soldier's accuracy. So thanks for that. I mean, it makes perfect sense when you think about it, as long as you assume the
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
Also note that the musical composition is itself a copyrighted work, not just the recording. So that is a better case against #3, but still doesn't change #4 (unless the songwriter are themselves offering a competing educational mechan
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
No, because reading the book aloud for free on YouTube would obviate the need for people to purchase the book (or otherwise acquire a purchased copy of it). In this case, learning how to play a song on guitar doesn't obviate the need t
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
Gotta be honest, I installed the game tonight under DOSBox thinking I would give thirty-something, seasoned engineer me another crack at decoding the file format. But then, those UFOs kept landing and I mean, somebody had to do something
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
Well sure, when you put it that way it sounds simple! I was 12 or so, and I spent a few nights trying to figure out the "plain data file" before shrugging and going back to playing X-Com.
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
It was also interesting from a design perspective; the various parts of the game were all separate executables and I never did figure out how they all interacted (though clearly some people did, as evidenced by the excellent XComUtil which
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
I grew up here :P This was such a passtime for me that 20 years later I remember the randomly-generated names of some individual soldiers who came through for me and turned a battle around when there seemed to be no hope. Siegfried Krause,
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
Something that might be cool, if impractical: devise a system of end-to-end linked pivot sprinklers in a Fourier series that draws something interesting in vegetation when seen from above!
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
> Even Bartosz said that Adjoints aren't that interesting in Haskell because every functor is an endofunctor. Every functor (in the standard library) is an endofunctor, but is also a functor to a specific flavor of full subcategory
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
No, I've had one of these cold melonfarmers run at me with pure malevolence in its eyes, right here in California. I ran the hell away. Reminded me too much of Jurassic Park.
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
Oh, give a little space to me away from me. Please try not to sneeze in my eyes, corona. Sanitizer isn't free uh woe is me couldn't get an N-95, corona. Kids are home from school and they're
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
Yeah, that's the joke.
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
It's happening! I'd say we're no more than five years away from a computer interface that integrates with your existing fingers.
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
They're modeling a scene mathematically as a "radiance field" - a function that takes a view position and direction as inputs and returns the light color that hits that position from the direction it's facing. They use s
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
Used this same trick (but with SMIL) for an automotive client back ca. 2004. They wanted their electrical systems' documentation diagrams to be in SVG, with signals being animated in a similar fashion. At the time the only viewer that
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
Could a tiny space telescope be added to each satellite, constantly sending telemetry down to earth via starlink? Maybe in concert that would be enough interferometric data to be a net gain for astronomy? (I know nothing about it, just spit
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
The notebooks are just .ipynb files (Jupyter's format, though apparently it doesn't like our notebooks very much...). So you can certainly store them in git. We don't have integration yet, but it's on our roadmap.
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
A couple of years ago I would have totally agreed with this, and I had several abortive attempts to do something like that before starting Polynote. The problem is, it turns out that a notebook really needs to be able to display a bunch of
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
I don't want to over-promise anything given that I still have some reading to do about Graal's inner workings. But even given the interpreter side, there's also some plumbing to do (e.g. Monaco integration) that we haven&#x27
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
If you mutate an object itself, we can't really track that. There's no magic going on; you can break the state if you use mutable objects. It's less of an issue in Scala where immutable data structures are the norm, but I can
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
I did the upside-down lambda with the right-side-up lambda because I thought it had a neat yin-yang look to it. Probably should have thought about how it would read to someone who reads Greek :picardfacepalm:
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
There are lots of cool developments in IDE notebook support - IntelliJ just dropped a plug-in for it as well. To be honest I'd be thrilled if an IDE solution could fill all the gaps that Polynote's targeting (our work would be don
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
Yep, we will be adding a plug-in to support Graal languages (little bit of learning to do on Graal first). We didn't want to make the project depend on Graal, though, because it's a pretty small segment of users (and we're no
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
It does! Monaco is one of the many awesome open source libraries that made Polynote possible. We'll be discussing that at Scale by the Bay; check out our talk if you're going!
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
And there are lots of teams at Netflix that are investing in Jupyter as well! Plenty of room for both options.
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
To be clear, we're not out to supplant Jupyter. Anybody who's happy with their Jupyter setup will likely find little value in Polynote. But it has plugged some gaps we've had in our Scala ML research team at Netflix, so we th
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
Thanks for the kind feedback. It's a young project to be honest, but I'm pretty proud of what we've done with only two contributors so far. With community participation I think we could support many more languages pretty quic
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
You're more than welcome to pronounce it that way! :)
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by type_enthusiast 7y ago
See, we tried that, and to me it just looked like "ponynote". So far everyone who's mentioned "polylote" has been a current or former physicist, so maybe there's an interesting correlation there...

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