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MeteorMarc··on AI Will Write Complex Laws
Does Bruce Schneier still have all his wits?
MeteorMarc··on The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
And now imagine this as a hypersphere in 10 dimensions. The choice of two dimensions in the post is arbitrary, isn't it?
MeteorMarc··on We're All in 'Dark Mode' Now
Dark mode gives me severe after images. Light mode is Ok.
MeteorMarc··on No-hole surgery: no keyhole, yet surgeons can now still operate under your skin (2023)
(2023)
MeteorMarc··on Electrical circuits encased in fluid may reshape data-center design
I like the idea of entering a datacenter without hearing protection, but would fear the occurrence of a meltdown when somewhere a loss of fluid occurs.
MeteorMarc··on Taxi Drivers Offer a Clue to Lowering Alzheimer's Risk
Too bad for car navigation users that do not even have a mental picture of the main roads network.
MeteorMarc··on Giga Is ITU and UNICEF's School Connectivity Project
This reads as extremely centralistic and patronizing. Just provide a web form where schools can apply for funds. Have a local representative visit them and describe the local situation to allow a small central team to allocate suitable funds.
MeteorMarc··on Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
Glulam is new for me, online knew CLT: https://seagatemasstimber.com/what-are-the-key-differences-b...
MeteorMarc··on Ohmaps: your image montage is a resistor network
The 3k2 resistor in the Mondriaan network should be 300 ohm, because its height is 3.2 times its width.
MeteorMarc··on How fast can you parse a CSV file in C#?
The author does not specify whether the tested libraries contain native code, cq. c. This obscures how much improvement is possible.
MeteorMarc··on Meta signs its first big AI deal for news
Is the old reuters content now legit as training data too, for Meta?
MeteorMarc··on OpenFeature – a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging
https://openfeature.dev/docs/reference/intro/
MeteorMarc··on OpenFeature – a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging
Martin Fowler about feature flags: https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html
MeteorMarc··on Carbon Sequestration by Recycling Cement, Aggregates, and Concrete
The actual carbon sequestration is explained in section 2.4 of TFA.
MeteorMarc··on Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine
I feel clueless
MeteorMarc··on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
Now,it is also too late for Kohonen, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuvo_Kohonen
MeteorMarc··on ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface
Amazing!
MeteorMarc··on Essential node in global semiconductor supply chain hit by Hurricane Helene
So, from the viewpoint of climate change this flood is positive feedback.
MeteorMarc··on Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)
Add Birth of Venus (Botticelli)
MeteorMarc··on 2.7-meters Telescope mirror shot 7 times (1970)
Proven to be vandalproof!
MeteorMarc··on Small asteroid to hit Earth's atmosphere today
Unfortunately, only one of the clips has a long enough duration to hear the start of the sonic booms, soundwaves from the detonations reaching the microphone.
MeteorMarc··on Keeping CALM: When distributed consistency is easy (2019)
Just to make this discussion less abstract: is a groupby operation monotonic?
MeteorMarc··on Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization
Delightful. Part of the fun is that the game is a background to the music rather than the other way around that we are used to.
MeteorMarc··on Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI
And there is https://nous.technology/, known for their smart plugs.
MeteorMarc··on The human typewriter, or why optimizing for typing is short-sighted
Optimizing for navigation is an interesting notion. Lack of navigation is also my main problem with class hierarchies. Importing a class is like import *: you do not see anymore in the module itself where some method is defined.
MeteorMarc··on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers
Give the flights a 128 bit number, so we can give each grain of sand on Earth its own flight number.
MeteorMarc··on A* search: optimized implementation in Lisp
Need to change this: 'NOTE: this software is of alpha quiality'
MeteorMarc··on How I got my laser eye injury
I agree there is more to it than yes/no making a joke of an incident. I associate it with a macho culture in which people do not feel safe to speak up in case of unsafe circumstances. Same for IT security.
MeteorMarc··on How I got my laser eye injury
Yes, I also dislike the culture in which this can be called a funny story. Such culture will cause more incidents. Worked in a laser lab for 5 years without incident in a time when eye safety goggles were not used for visible light.
MeteorMarc··on Weavers and Concluders: Two communication styles (2021)
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/karl_popper_107925
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