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by wohlergehen 9y ago
This actually how it works in Germany. The postal service provides PostIdent [1]. E.g. when opening a bank account, you get a letter with which you go to a post office where you sign and your ID gets checked. 1: https://de.wikipe
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Estonia's ID Card and the March of Cryptography(forbes.com)
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Well, I've been meaning to root mine and flash crDroid... This is certainly the final push. They state 10% of all Android devices are vulnerable and won't get patches, and since the vulnearbility is arguably wormable I can't
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Things like OS search indices, recently used items databases or thumbnail caches can store hashes of files to identify whether they are up to date and referring to the correct file.
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Genuine question: All the commercial vessels continually broadcast their position, speed and bearing, right? Even if the military vessel does not do so, it should be able to receive all commercial vessels telemetry... So how can it possibly
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
I dont think this will be adopted broadly unless it matches the price of real milk. Given that oat milk cuts out the middleman (middlecow?), should this not be cheaper anyway, or are there scale effects preventing it from reaching price par
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
As an added bonus, the big coal exporting countries tend to be relatively more democratic than the big oil exporting countries. I.e. electrical power is already relatively cleaner by not supporting horrible regimes (cf. Saudi Arabia or Nige
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Has anyone actually benchmarked the vector lookup for various vector sizes in scala? That would straightforwardly determine if the runtime is "effectively constant" or "effectively logarithmic", e.g. cause it is really O
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
ParaView would be a possibility. Many tools can export VTK files for it.
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Would you mind sharing that? That would be super useful to me as well.
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Does anyone know why these apparatuses are usually "inverted", i.e. hang from the ceiling. I've seen the same thing for quantum computers. Is it related to the way they are cooled? Or is it easier to work with somehow?
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Of course this has already happened :) https://youtu.be/dhM_2ubR9Aw?t=213
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
There's also "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed" by Ben Rich for a more intimate perspective.
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
In that case I'd recommend "Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers" by D. Miller. When I (a trained computer scientist) had to pick up a bit of QM, I first watched through Susskind's videos (saved my ass) and the
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Exactly. Going back to hunter-gatherer and living off the land like that is hardly sustainable with the current population: Earth has 5.7e7 sq mi surface, but 7e9 people, i.e. 8.1e-3 sq mi/person. Hunter/gathers seem to need (afte
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
How is this a useful comparison? It's 10kcals of ingested food per 1kcal of energy the hunter expends (not including e.g. the energy of the game). By that measure, I'm super efficient cause I buy food at the supermarket, and don&#
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
"The Swarm" by Frank Schätzing has a semi-related plot circling around the clathrate gun hypothesis.
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Which really is a shame. When I read the headline, I thought "Oh, like AOSA, great idea to let students do it". Then I clicked through the chapters, and was continually disappointed. I mean the selection of projects is quite promi
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Highly focused on metrics, code organization and project stakeholders, with little discussion of actual architectural choices. I particularly hate the "lets run static analyzer on this project, and use that to make a judgement" st
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
The real name is actually painted at the top. It's BBC Volga [1]. Currently in the Bahamas. 1: https://www.vesselfinder.com/de/vessels/BBC-VOLGA-IMO-943632...
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
TLDR (I think): Due to Github, recruiters can poach employees easily. As such, hiring anyone who has not peaked is useless, because he might be poached after training/getting better and we will have to compete with other (possibly more
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
There is an incredibly powerful German anti-war poem titled "say no" [1], that I instantaneously associated with the title. I think it's important for people involved with technology to have an ethical compass that of course
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Also: If you're asking me to subscribe in the middle of me reading the article, I still happily will enter my e-mail address and click subscribe, but please, please, please do not send me to a new page then to enter more details. I&#x2
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Does anyone know how much time a typical TensorFlow model spends in transposition routines?
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
In the case of physics, the name tensor is well deserved and used with purpose---the object are mathematically speaking tensors (and where called tensors before computers existed). Their naming is unrelated to their physical representation
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by wohlergehen 9y ago
Python has numba, which is equally backed by LLVM. What makes Julia interesting compared to Python IMO is its macro system much more than its performance benefits.
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by wohlergehen 10y ago
Presumably the Tesla cards, which are targeted at mostly simulations/HPC and enterprise. These tend to start at around 3K a piece.
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by wohlergehen 10y ago
For anyone interested in Galileo's story and more generally the history of science, I think that "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown" [1] is a great read. It is a multi-part series of blogposts that covers the story leading to Gal
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by wohlergehen 10y ago
If interested in "hard" masonry problems that had to be solved in ancient times, there's also Coral Castle [1]. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoCuDnmtyM
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by wohlergehen 10y ago
> Coal plants emit much more radiation than nuclear plants - even old ones. There's lots of research about HOW MUCH more radioactive coal power is, but we're talking about anywhere from 50-200% more. I don't fully understa

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