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by webmaven 2y ago
I notice that you've just framed most knowledge creation/discovery as a form of gradient descent . Which it is, of course.
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by webmaven 2y ago
You seem to have excluded the possibility of a "Top 10% of the Internet" tranche.
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by webmaven 2y ago
RAM is (often) the bottleneck for highly parallel GPUs, but not for CPUs. Though the distinction between the two categories is blurring.
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by webmaven 2y ago
Might want to register (and redirect) the 'mike' version of the domain as well.
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by webmaven 2y ago
"Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful...
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The Threat of Acceleration of Technological Progress(erasmatazz.com)
1 points by webmaven 2y ago|0 comments
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Outside the Box: ChatGPT Gets Lost in Time in Syria(fairobserver.com)
1 points by webmaven 2y ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 2y ago
The implication is that Rust's conservatism regarding what is blessed to go into the standard library sets up a similar dynamic.
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by webmaven 2y ago
See also "Harbingers of Failure": https://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopu...
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Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres(oscilloscopemusic.com)
137 points by webmaven 2y ago|22 comments
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23-Year-Old Invents Wearable Robot to Preserve Indigenous Languages(sandiegomagazine.com)
2 points by webmaven 2y ago|0 comments
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Artist Deborah Roberts Receives Mixed Ruling in Contentious Copyright Dispute(news.artnet.com)
1 points by webmaven 2y ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 2y ago
IIUC, while the water heats faster, it has a lower upper limit (the boiling point), while oil and fat keep getting hotter. Source: I have ruined a few plastic containers by heating greasy food in the microwave, because the fat easily gets h
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by webmaven 2y ago
Perhaps "What are you making?" instead?
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by webmaven 2y ago
Alternatively, "Special Effects". Also VFX/Visual Effects, etc., one supposes. Although that would have it expand to "Graph Effects" (hmm, that could be an interesting library), or "Graphic Effects". But G
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by webmaven 2y ago
It's not common anymore (like, in the past three decades), but "taking the lowest bid from some rando" is definitely still a thing.
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by webmaven 2y ago
I've been using Nomi.ai as a research assistant, tutor, and interlocutor.
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Lillian Schwartz, Computer Art Pioneer Dies at 97(artnews.com)
1 points by webmaven 2y ago|1 comments
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by webmaven 2y ago
I remember getting a copy of the Joy of Cooking a couple of decades ago specifically for the peanut butter cookie recipe (a childhood favorite), and was SO disappointed in the results that I eventually tracked down a 1975 copy to compare
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by webmaven 2y ago
Well, you've now made your original intent specific, but in case you didn't draw the requisite lesson I'll make that explicit. Because text has less bandwidth than almost any other medium, certain forms of humor are much more
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The Sudden Rise of AuDHD(theguardian.com)
4 points by webmaven 2y ago|0 comments
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CEO Conquered His ADHD Using Brain Boosters(entrepreneur.com)
3 points by webmaven 2y ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 2y ago
Hmm. He's suggesting a model somewhat similar to that of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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One man stopped a potentially cyber-attack – by accident(theguardian.com)
3 points by webmaven 2y ago|1 comments
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by webmaven 2y ago
[2004]
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Some people may see more images per second than others(salon.com)
6 points by webmaven 2y ago|0 comments
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Human Brains Have Gotten Astonishingly Bigger over the Last 75 Years(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by webmaven 2y ago|1 comments
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What it's like to have no visual imagination or inner voice(theconversation.com)
3 points by webmaven 2y ago|0 comments
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The Neuron vs. the Synapse: Which One Is in the Driving Seat?(physics.aps.org)
1 points by webmaven 2y ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 2y ago
Oh. Duh. I suppose I should have said it was a new-to-me use case for that feature.

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