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aimonster2··on Police in Jackson, Mississippi, want access to live home security video
Hire a cop to walk the neighborhood. Its not that difficult. The human element should not be replaced by technology in law enforcement.
aimonster2··on Ten Papers every developer should read (at least twice) (2017)
Attention is all you need. And then look into maybe working at Walmart.
aimonster2··on What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks
See, now, the Orange Pi 5 works marvelously with the correct installation, and also handles up to 13B LLMs at the right quantization real well.
aimonster2··on First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power
I don't know. Perhaps we should ask the DeBeers what they think about turning CO2 into valuable solids. They might take issue.
aimonster2··on First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power
You accumulate CO2 via CaO and then release it via heat provided from the thermal system to go back to CaO. The CO2 is then turned into hydrocarbons. Closed loop. The infrastructure is already in place for hydrocarbons at least until we get to a hydrogen infrastructure. Then you can carbon capture till your heart's content.
aimonster2··on Malloc() and free() are a bad API (2022)
They are fine for good programmers. Programmers like me need guard rails though.
aimonster2··on Show HN: New RISC-V emulator for Computer Science education
Less about the emulator and more about the book :). I read Knuth for fun during college and when I explained some of it to my teacher when trying to sneak my way into a computer science masters from physics, my professor said "You're in!".
aimonster2··on First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power
More plants. Eventually, we'd be down to using just pure hydrogen since the CO2 levels would be just right for plant growth, so no need to capture any more.
aimonster2··on Sales of sugary drinks fell in cities with soda taxes
It's almost as if basic economics is a real thing? Increasing the cost shifts the market equilibrium quantity to the left.
aimonster2··on The Freedom to Choose Medicine Is a Civil Right
Now if only we can extend this to medicines that is perfectly good and prescribable outside of the USA but is never going to be validated in the US because there's no possibility for monopoly to offset the 2B dollar requirements the FDA puts on bringing it to market.
aimonster2··on The Rules of Extreme Programming
Rule 0. Pick a name other than Extreme Programming so the C levels don't get scared off.
aimonster2··on First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power
Really. Just use that energy to absorb CO2 via CaO to CaCO3 and convert it into long chain hydrocarbons using water . Iceland is surrounded by water, after all. Just don't take too much CO2 out of the environment with that limitless energy :)
aimonster2··on Deplatforming reduces overall attention to online figures – longitudinal study
That's just 'Silencing the opposition' with extra steps.
aimonster2··on Inattentive Behavior in Boys with ADHD During Classroom Instruction [pdf]
Specifically working memory and task salience.
aimonster2··on Inattentive Behavior in Boys with ADHD During Classroom Instruction [pdf]
Check out Barkley: https://www.youtube.com/@russellbarkleyphd2023
aimonster2··on Inattentive Behavior in Boys with ADHD During Classroom Instruction [pdf]
Dopamine is critical because it is what signals thallamic and striatal signals to the prefrontal cortex which is where the executive function deficits originate.
aimonster2··on Inattentive Behavior in Boys with ADHD During Classroom Instruction [pdf]
You want to watch Dr. Russel Barkley's videos. He does the best job of explaining ADHD as an executive function deficit, not an 'attention' deficit. https://www.youtube.com/@russellbarkleyphd2023
aimonster2··on Inattentive Behavior in Boys with ADHD During Classroom Instruction [pdf]
Are you referring to Mate? https://youtu.be/-8bp39NpU-o?si=fAPG_J39ElnD19gM
aimonster2··on Inattentive Behavior in Boys with ADHD During Classroom Instruction [pdf]
Yup. That's a good indicator of disability. My son is 3 SD between his VCI and his PSI. I've seen a lot of gifted kids with this kind of span. I received the same explanation when I was younger given that my scores were all over the place on the WAIS and Ravens. I've seen kids with FSIQ of 140 and a PSI in the high 80s. You should be able to take your VCI and PRI and get a composite score called your GAI, which correlates stronger with G than FSIQ when there's disability. IQ is measuring something that correlates with life outcomes. It is called G. It is not necessarily intelligence, nor does it indicate that it is a causative agent for life outcomes, only that there is a strong correlation. The old ASVABs and SATs used to correlate strongly with 'G' as well. VCI and PRI are the back of the brain, and WMI and PSI are the very front. It is the front of the brain that makes us human. It is why ADHD and other frontal brain disorders are in reality drastically life altering. People don't realize just how bad of a disability ADHD is.
aimonster2··on Inattentive Behavior in Boys with ADHD During Classroom Instruction [pdf]
FSIQ was a bad way of identifying the cohort. They should break it up into GAI, WMI, and PSI instead since the key indications of cognitive capacity are in GAI and the WMI and PSI just show the area of deficit. I.E. a 104 FSIQ may be the same as a 110 FSIQ for neurotypical since the WMI and PSI are probably 1/2 to 1 standard deviation below the mean for the ADHD cohort. I know several gifted students with an FSIQ of around 110, so that also introduces the issue of gifted behaviors which can also present as inattentiveness. FSIQ 110, GAI >> 130, WMI and PSI below 85. This assumes they used something like WISC IV. Also, ignoring PSI and focussing on WMI kind of misses half the issue. It all comes down to executive function loading.
aimonster2··on LinkedIn becoming an unexpected dating site
Cool. Now I have a name for what all of the 'hey I just joined linkedin and you look interesting...' messages are trying to do.
aimonster2··on Resurrecting All Humans Who Ever Lived As A Technical Problem (2021)
Star trek that shit. If we modify the field emitters in the forward array to give off a tachyon beam and push the warp drive to its max, we can go back in time and get a snapshot of every living human to convert into an AI simulation using the pattern buffers in the transporters and the holodeck.
aimonster2··on The Quiet Genius of ICAO Airport Codes
These things were the bane of my existence. The degeneracy in the naming scheme makes the algorithms for handling them much worse. The problem is that you can have a fix, fpa, and airport all with the same code and as England found out, they can collide in disastrous fashion.
aimonster2··on Nobel Prize Winner Cautions on Rush into Stem After Rise of AI
Physics, neuroscience, general engineering, or math would be most appropriate. If you need business, get a minor or do 10 more classes at an accelerated MBA school. The trick is picking the correct liberal arts college to do these programs at for undergrad. There are also grad level liberal arts programs that cover classical western tradition and contemporary philosophy, history, and literature.
aimonster2··on Thomas Cochrane
I'm glad I'm not the only one who went down that path...
aimonster2··on First do it, then do it right, then do it better
0. Don't tell your manager/customer that you first did it or there will be no do it right and do it better!
aimonster2··on Democratize AI: turn a $95 chip into a 16GB VRAM GPU
Just get an orange pi 5. For 130ish bucks you get a reasonably fast processor with 16gb(32gb out of stock but soon...) that runs 7b and even 13b models with reasonable speeds for reasonable amounts of context.
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