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raidicy··on [dead]
So essentially they aim to create violet politicians whose goal is to sway blue politicians to accept more red ideologies for insurance in case red political powers wane?
raidicy··on [dead]
> A state bankruptcy process would thus enable a Republican Party based in the poorer states to use its federal ascendancy to impose its priorities upon the budgets of the richer states.

Can someone please expound upon this?

raidicy··on Dianne Feinstein's reply to constituents' opposition to EARN IT act
It is possible to confiscate physical wealth if it's "assumed" to be obtained by illegal means.
raidicy··on A Long Time Until the Economic New Normal
This is only anecdotal, and I'm probably not representative of the norm but, I will be saving every nearly every penny from UI and the stimulus incentive.
raidicy··on We may have spotted a parallel-universe going backwards in time
Ironic the user name 'letsendpaywalls' posted an article requiring a subscription.
raidicy··on MIT researchers use AI to turn the coronavirus into a haunting melody
“We could search for a new protein that matches the melody and rhythm of an antibody capable of binding to the spike protein, interfering with its ability to infect,” said Professor Buehler.

Interesting. Encode the info, in potentially, an easier format for comparison.

raidicy··on Machine translation of cortical activity to text with encoder–decoder framework
I dearly hope this is the case. Even if it were expensive to rig up, being able to not use my hands for computer work would really help( I have RSI).
raidicy··on Ask HN: Why has it taken so long for “dark mode” to become popular?
I am not sure but I really hope the trend continues. Especially for Excel/Word. My eyes are are pretty sensitive and while my OS and most of my apps are using "dark mode" opening Excel or seeing a white web page actually hurts.
raidicy··on We Should All Wear Masks
Why we need #Masks4All, and how to make your own mask[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVEVve-3QeM

raidicy··on Von Neumann Universal Constructor
Are there any good resources that build up from no experience in CA to a Universal Constructor?
raidicy··on Ask HN: Why can't we still search local disk the way we search online?
I have this app called Search Everything[0]. Allows you to search everything on your PC (I use Win10).

The other option is using cmd prompt:

DIR C:\myfile.txt /S

No idea how with PowerShell

[0]https://www.voidtools.com/

raidicy··on Monotonic AI Models: Sound Logic for Machine Learning – Toptal
I'm a really novice practitioner of ML. Is using a monotonic model over a classification model kind of like adding ultimatums or rules to the classification?
raidicy··on Self Replicating Computer Programs
Is this at all related to "Robust-first computing"? I first heard about it from this video[0]? He calls it a "movable feast machine".

What interested me about cellular automation is that in my reading of Neumann, it is said he was working on using cellular automata to construct fully replicating machines. It is also said he probably would have gone on to develop said architecture in full had he not died. Is your research in anyway related?

I'm interested but woefully lacking in formal cs training.

[0]https://youtu.be/helScS3coAE

raidicy··on UDork – Google Hacking Tool
Why do I need a Facebook cookie for this?
raidicy··on Intel Scales Neuromorphic Research System to 100M Neurons
After looking into it, it does seem that it's simply a hardware implementation of SNN's. And reading from the wikipedia, it does seem that SNN's are less hardware intensive anyway so I am now wondering why make hardware specifically for it if, as you said, GPU/CPUs can run it no problem. I'm also wondering why they would double down on hardware when from cursory research there isn't a holy grail of training like there is in ANN's.

Still, looking at SNN's was pretty interesting.

raidicy··on Intel Scales Neuromorphic Research System to 100M Neurons
Why is this a waste of time? I know nothing about it but it seems interesting enough.
raidicy··on Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup
I am very inexperienced and uneducated in matters like these. Is what this post is describing a real possibility?
raidicy··on If the heart is a muscle, why doesn't it ever get tired?
No, nothing like that fortunately.
raidicy··on A history of roguelike games
Another game by the same devs worth looking at is "Into The Breach". Really great rogue like that's akin to SRPG's but distilled. Often times battles end up being more crisis management and you have decide what you're willing to loose to win the stage.
raidicy··on If the heart is a muscle, why doesn't it ever get tired?
Some anecdata but, I suffered from very bad muscle injuries from one summer in 2014. I skateboarded hard for two days in a row. Ran 3-ish miles on both days. Two days later I was exhausted but took two ibuprofen and I went to a beach with friends anyway. Where I skated hard at a park for a few hours, then swam, then ran. A day or so later, after not getting the best sleep, on an hour drive home, I pull both quads. The day after I had to call out for a week. I was exhausted and my obliques, core, quads, and arms were beyond sore. I laid around for most of the week.

Your muscles may not get "exhausted" but it seems like there must be some breakdown in the cells that outpace recovery at some point.

raidicy··on Ask HN: What do you hate about documentation?
My biggest annoyance with docs is when there is no example code. I hate it when I'm digging through a class and the methods don't show me, with usable examples, what they do.

This might not be a problem for those familiar with the library or domain the library facilitates. But for me it's always made onboarding longer.

My other peeve is when there is no simple basic implementation of the what the library does. I'm talking realistic drag and drop examples.

Lastly, one of the things I wish other Lang's could do is adopt using notebooks as docs. Using them has made documentation an absolute joy to read.

raidicy··on NeRF: Representing scenes as neural radiance fields for view synthesis
This blows my mind. This is probably a naive thought; This technique looks like it could be combined with robotics to help it navigate through its environment.

I'd also like to see what it does when you give it multiple views of scenes in a video game. Some from the direct pictures and some from pictures of the monitor.

raidicy··on AI for generative design: Plain text to 3D Designs
This is fantastic. Much better than my idea of just using text recognition to search a database of models. I hope this research continues so in the years to come I can slap on a VR headset and generate scenes like the holodeck.
raidicy··on McConnell Plan to give $1,200 to individuals, $2,400 to couples
"A centerpiece of the package is tax rebates to individuals of $1,200 and $2,400 for married couples."

Does rebate mean 1,200 off of your yearly taxes?

raidicy··on Younger Adults Comprise Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S.
If you turn off JS you can read it.
raidicy··on Example of a Shakti-powered spreadsheet application [video]
Thanks for the reply. I hope my post didn't sound snarky. I have very limited time and was just disappointed at the size of the parsing code. Ultimately, I really think the idea is great!

I've never seen k, nor any array langs before but would definitely checkout the K mesh version.

No idea about the JSX though.

raidicy··on Example of a Shakti-powered spreadsheet application [video]
AFAIK this is not the repo for the code in the talk. The talk is about using K as a language. The repo in [1] is a JS implementation that runs in the browser. It seems like it's his first run at this idea of spreadsheets accompanying code.
raidicy··on Example of a Shakti-powered spreadsheet application [video]
The interesting thing is, you can run the js you build in the spreadsheet, independent of the spreadsheet environment.

Unfortunately the project looks pretty dead. And further one of the bullet points is "is lightweight: ~2000 lines of source code (excluding libraries)" but looking into app.js it's something like 23k loc. It uses react but it looks to be pre-JSX. And because it's all in one giant file it feels too overwhelming for me to want to learn/extend it. He says it's compatible with IE 11. And maybe that's why it's structured that way, but I don't know. Despite it all the idea is really cool.

raidicy··on Asm-dom, a minimal WebAssembly virtual DOM to build C++ SPA
A virtual DOM is a copy of the DOM that is usually diffed and updated based on the differences.

> can we have SPA without it? Yes. You can set divs to be visiable/hidden based on routing with vanilla js. And there's a framework called Svelte that is a SPA framework without a vDOM.

raidicy··on The Internet Can’t Save Us from Loneliness in Pandemic
Unfortunately vr isn't readily accessible to everyone. Out of all my virtual interactions vr has been the most human.
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