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Proton Battery Research at USNW(techxplore.com)
1 points by wwarner 2y ago|0 comments
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by wwarner 2y ago
Ok fair; I'm not really talking about postgres (the link i shared uses mysql). I'm saying that creating a ticket server that just issues and persists unique tokens, is a way to provide coordination between loosely coupled applicat
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by wwarner 2y ago
This is the best way, and actually the only sensible way to approach the problem. I first read about it here https://code.flickr.net/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distribute...
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by wwarner 2y ago
14 participants
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by wwarner 2y ago
I'm way too late for this to be meaningful, but here's what I think! tl;dr -- gravity is the problem, we should focus on experiments and observations for a while, bring in some better mathematics, and continue the long range progr
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by wwarner 2y ago
create an efficient async api for plugins. it’s kind of a kernel+apps situation. an extensible editor has to have a scripted plugin system, and they should be hosted by a core that is fast, can preempt plugins, and provides “ipc” btw plugin
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by wwarner 2y ago
Love this forecasting methodology
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by wwarner 2y ago
AGREE! The author's point is very well argued. Beginning a transaction is almost never a good idea. Design your data model so that if two pieces of data must be consistent, they are in the same row, and allow associated rows to be mi
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by wwarner 2y ago
Best anki testimonial that I've read.
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by wwarner 2y ago
respectfully disagree. i think that the value of llm suggestions are driving us toward a kind of standardization that is really good. we'll all be java programmers soon!
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US man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting(theguardian.com)
58 points by wwarner 2y ago|34 comments
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by wwarner 2y ago
I love being wrong! Luckily I wagered $0.00.
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by wwarner 2y ago
ok, but i'd wager brain cancer (the cause of death in this case) lacks this correlation. And yes RIP, Mutombo seemed like an exceptional person.
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by wwarner 2y ago
Ok, well, would you expect a shredded book to be indistinguishable from a shredded bowl of jello, or a shredded pot of coffee, or a shredded parcel of ionized plasma?
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by wwarner 2y ago
The black hole information paradox presents an apparent theoretical contradiction between black hole radiation, which Hawking predicted carries no information about its past, and quantum theory, which conserves information at all times. The
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by wwarner 2y ago
The goal is to make a prediction about the boundaries or interiors of black holes that can be tested. It’s based on the common sense belief that information is conserved even if it reaches the center of a black hole.
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by wwarner 2y ago
In 1676 Roemer estimated the speed of light by timing the orbit of Jupiter’s moon Io, noting that as the Earth approached Jupiter, Io emerged from behind Jupiter a little earlier every day, and as the Earth traveled away from Jupiter it app
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by wwarner 2y ago
To me, the result is exciting because it shows how algebra, over hundreds of years, came back round to improve Euclidian geometry. Without the background, I wouldn't even know why it was an interesting problem. The motivation is very s
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by wwarner 2y ago
This comment cracked me up. I do live in downtown Seattle.
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by wwarner 2y ago
There are two authors here, since the post contains an inset about dealing with your own ignorance by another professor. They aren't saying quite the same thing. The inset is saying that every grad student will confront their "abs
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by wwarner 2y ago
yes, just heard about it on Physics Frontiers. Monsalve & Kaiser are talking about primordial black holes, and are offering a theory that if they were imbalanced in color charge, they could be surrounded by a particle cloud, in a big qu
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by wwarner 2y ago
very true.
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by wwarner 2y ago
well, without people working downtown, it will be abandoned to drug addicts in a spiral of insufficient public safety resources and declining revenue. so i don’t blame him.
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by wwarner 2y ago
please prove this. i am now committed to wfh, yet to set and reach important milestones i have to buckle down and focus in the office.
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by wwarner 2y ago
so depressing. but bing still provides a link back to the cached version.
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by wwarner 2y ago
I would call this “defensive coding”, analogous to defensive driving. And comments that talk about something that isn’t there is way too defensive, kind of like the excessive braking and overly polite waving that can make 4 way stops so con
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by wwarner 2y ago
I suspect, but definitely do not know, that all the coding aspects of llms work something like this. It’s such a fundamentally different problem from a paragraph, which should never be the same as any other paragraph. Seems to me that codin
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The world-changing 'killer app' for AI could be nuclear fusion(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by wwarner 2y ago|1 comments
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by wwarner 2y ago
Wondering if people here trust "AI" to manage fusion reactions, specifically this quote: " important decisions must be made every millisecond to control a plasma and keep a fusion reaction going. With AI, these decisions are
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by wwarner 2y ago
I guess i don’t care very much about the “ergonomics”, like sorted hashes or whatever. I’d be really happy with faster execution, smaller memory footprint, smaller binaries. Conditional compilation would be great, but maybe smart utilizatio

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