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by xaedes 5y ago
> Or, does this vehicle, after acceleration has completed, purport to continuously travel faster than the wind at an indefinite steady state? Yes. The vehicle can go faster than the wind in steady state condition. Depending on efficienci
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by xaedes 5y ago
Why send the officers at all and risk their lifes, can't we just install weapons on the drones? Oh yea we probably can. dramatic evil music starts
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by xaedes 5y ago
There is EnTT, an ECS as C++ library: EnTT is a header-only, tiny and easy to use library for game programming and much more written in modern C++. Among others, it's used in Minecraft by Mojang, ... https://github.com/
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by xaedes 5y ago
I think this text is very relevant: BEFORE THE SOUL DAWN by Helen Keller Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world. I cannot hope to describe adequately that unconscious, yet conscious ti
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by xaedes 5y ago
That sounds like this line of thinking: If you had to use a piece of software that ran lengthy operations and you had to wait very long for the results, would it be more effective to wait for the results or fix the program so it runs faster
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by xaedes 5y ago
Why do we need facial recognition everywhere? We don't. Can we just stop building a sci-fi dystopian society?
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by xaedes 5y ago
This reminds me of "The Machine Fired Me - No human could do a thing about it!" [1], where a guy got fired by some bug in the system and no one could stop or reverse it. It was posted on HN [2] three years agos. [1] https:/
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by xaedes 5y ago
To put things in perspective: The actual survey result says that most experience simple shapes (60%). 39% saw colors other than red and black. 24% report very vivid colorful and complex images. 25% didn't see anything (answer "No&
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by xaedes 5y ago
I use TabNine for this. It also uses a (probably smaller) language model trained on code and looks at the code in your project for completions. The models are run local by default. They also have a cloud option for bigger models.
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by xaedes 5y ago
Please not. That would be the tower to Babel. Afterwards we are all just going bla bla and don't understand each other at all, because everyone invents its own funny secret emoji language.
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by xaedes 5y ago
By the powers of compilers computers got the ability to read code. To leverage their powers we need to write code which the computer (~ program, aka compiler) understands. I write code for the compiler to read and translate. And yea, also f
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by xaedes 5y ago
Reminds me of ParticleLife (for example [1]), which has much simpler, but more random rules. There also emerge lots of interesting organism, but I rarely see replicators. I used this as inpiration and to learn about Unity ECS and made a 3D
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by xaedes 5y ago
You can use bezier splines ( https://ibiblio.org/e-notes/Splines/bezier.html ). These just use linear interpolation, multiple times. In the case of quaternions replace the linear interpolations with quaternion slerp
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by xaedes 5y ago
When switching target orientation while already approaching one I would use quadratic bezier splines to get a smooth switch ( https://ibiblio.org/e-notes/Splines/bezier.html ). These just use linear interpolation, m
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by xaedes 5y ago
Noooo, I didn't clarify enough. Represent your axes with the actual angles. These probably correspond to motor position or revolutions. Use the quaternions only when you want an orientation for these angles. Maybe you want to know in w
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by xaedes 5y ago
I meant when you want to compute the final orientation (lets ignore position): Each axis results in some orientation change which can be expressed as a quaternion. The final orientation can then be computed by combining the quaternions int
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by xaedes 5y ago
If you have actual, possibly motorized, physical rotation axes to keep track of, then of course you need to keep track of the actual angles of each separate rotation, somewhere. Compressing it all into one orientation may work for some use
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by xaedes 5y ago
Yet another autopilot (in javascript): https://gist.github.com/xaedes/de252d992dab0ca9c38867197f38f...
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by xaedes 5y ago
> In a physical system it is related to how many arrangements of atoms/molecules/things there can be that would result in the system being in the state you can see. Mind if I ask follow-up question, what is a "state"?
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by xaedes 5y ago
For comparison: A regular buck (the animal) may have something around the 160000 kcal.
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by xaedes 5y ago
Pretty amazing! Is there an option to display the articles in "year - title" instead of "author, year" format? Imho this would give a much better overview over the topics and research itself. With "author, year&quot
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by xaedes 6y ago
"pointer is not giving you much information about the availability of the data behind it" "elaborate on this with an actual concrete example" The pointer may get invalidated, for example by reallocation of the underlying
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by xaedes 6y ago
Here is another one which relates it to the passing of our solar system throught the galactic plane: "Sun's Movement Through Milky Way Regularly Sends Comets Hurtling, Coinciding With Mass Life Extinctions", 2008 https:&#x2F
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by xaedes 6y ago
What a nice idea. I mean one could probably automate the button with machine learning (it just needs to look for fish). But damn, it is wholesome to manually watch and help them. Here is the link to the live stream with the "door bell
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by xaedes 6y ago
For one, people not using emacs, or whatever editor it would be, can use it.
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by xaedes 6y ago
I like to have a meta project with the root CMakeLists.txt. In this meta project I either just add_subdirectory all necessary components manually, or I use Findxyz.cmake scripts for each module with that "header guard". They check
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by xaedes 6y ago
“Waymo’s cars are designed to pullover if they detect a police or emergency vehicle flashing from up to 100 feet away. After stopping, the car is unlocked and the windows roll down automatically, allowing Waymo’s support team to interact wi
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by xaedes 6y ago
Imagine the bot would be actually good at it and the human on the other side falls in love with it. Only to later find out it was a machine all along. Depending on the mental stability of this human, the results may be devastating. But at
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by xaedes 6y ago
"convert nuclear fusion directly into food" You mean like plants, fruits and vegetables do?
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by xaedes 6y ago
If we would find a huge natural mirror or similar - far away, maybe we would be able to see our past earth still populated with dinosaurs.

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