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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
I'm genuinely confused about what one would expect under "reference" that isn't effectively API-shaped (in the context of software). Like, I've never consciously thought of this before but I can't remember a ti
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
You know, I see that Cem Yuksel is one of the authors, and he is one of those names that keeps popping up in the weirdest places whenever I look up something random that involves graphics and the maths behind it (especially when splines are
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
As I said in the other comment: jsgist, precisely because it's so bare-bones. The data is stored either in a shareable URL parameter, or in a gist if you give it access to you GH account. Everything else is a minimal PWA in a static ht
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
This is why I switched to jsgist[0] years ago and haven't looked back since. It's very sparse, but it has also avoided feature creep as a result, and since the output is stored as a gist on my GH account I don't have to worry
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
> The constant 4th wall breaking is just bad IMO Ron Gilbert's biggest weakness as a writer is mainly that he has a tendency to use fourth wall breaking for everything, including the final plot twist in most of his games. It was t
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
I never heard of the Seiler interpolation algorithm mentioned in the paper before, but the way it uses extra additions and subtractions up-front to turn six interpolations into only three reminds me a bit of the Karatsuba algorithm for mult
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
This builds on that paper, apparently: > Yuksel [2024] explained how Seiler interpolation can be used to evaluate polynomial curves, including B´ezier curves, and noted that GPU linear interpolation could be used for the initial linear
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
I fail to understand why this should make the lack of US action on gun control any more justifiable. Per your linked article: > But then comes the adjustment the viral chart skips entirely: when Ritchie controls for population, expressi
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
> While this is an extremely quick verification, the construction presented in this fashion appears like a massive miracle. The polynomial {F} has degree seven, so a priori the Jacobian {\mathrm{det} DF} ought to be a polynomial in thre
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
So I remember having physics homework a quarter century ago at university where we had to use Excel to determine a static electric potential field, by defining all cells in the grid as "the average value of the four surrounding cells&q
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
> On 7 May 2025, in Rome, the Italian Chamber of Deputies approved a new law to help people with obesity. This law is the first of its kind in the world. It shows that obesity is a medical condition that needs proper care and support, a
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Wait, is that the same guy who co-authorer the Floyd-Rivest Algorithm? Hmm, looks like it[0]. Huh, neat. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Rivest_algorithm
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Floyd-Steinberg and Atkinson are the "play Freebird!" of dithering algorithms.
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Airport controllers (and similar positions for trains and metros) probably also suffer from this then
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
> The first Chrome and Firefox implementations did I was about to say: I'm sure I've seen it work a t some point? I imagine it's a valuable thing to add for the web though. It would be really cool if you could use the sa
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
I wonder if you can do this in JPEG-XL. I know that that has actual animation support, but this would be a different thing.
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Uh, there definitely is "hardware specific to processing language" for our species, they even have their own wiki pages[0][1]. And in general our brains differ significantly from that of a chimpansee. Human brains push neuron dens
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
They technically didn't say that they don't use programming languages, they said they're not a programmer . There's plenty of other people who use programming languages regularly, but not necessarily because they'r
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Come on guys, the contribution of the research is that it made measurements of how the processing of multiple inputs is represented in EEGs, not whether or not we can handle multiple inputs. Stop acting snarky, it just shows you didn't
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Your example is needlessly bleak, but in general: yes, we're a social species and being able to process multiple speech streams seems obviously pretty important in many social contexts involving more than two people.
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
It's fascinating how similar-yet-subtly-different the cursive writing is across Europe. I wonder if you could map them into something similar to language families (or type traditions, I suppose). Would there be any "language gradi
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
After searching a bit more I discovered the situation is similar in the Netherlands too: schools can choose between the two styles (or more like three publishers each with their own styles, really).
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
> Anthropic is not in the programming language market Arguing that a product that sells itself as improving programmer productivity by writing the code for you has no stakes in "the programming language market" because it doe
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Thanks for the in-depth reply, appreciate the elaboration on where you did and didn't use LLMs. Looking forward to reading the blog posts and other future updates!
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Hey, that's the same one I was taught in the Netherlands in the late 80s! It seems to have been replaced with an English-style in recent decades though, is that the case in Germany as well?
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Huh, I just indirectly learned from this article that the way I write a lower-case "t" in cursive is a Dutch way of doing so ( edit: sollniss' comment implies it was a common style in Germany too). A quick search suggests
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
So just my 2 cents: I also have an immediate "ick" reaction when I see the vibe-coded aesthetic of the website itself, expecting the worst, as well as serious ethical concerns about using LLMs at this point in history. Luckily in
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
So I want to preface my next point by stating actually really like how syntax reads, hitting a sweet spot of leaning just enough into APL's symbol-focused terseness without losing the familiar structure of literally every other popul
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
I mean the last bit is a pretty important skill regardless of safety features, especially in a country like the Netherlands.
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
> those who don't want to (…) spend as much money That would generally speaking be the average Dutch person, no?

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