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His short story "Understand" is just... amazing . It wasn't until I discovered I was on the spectrum that I realized why it clicked so much. >. https://web.archive.org/web/20140527…

Thanks! It was definitely a highlight working on such bleeding-edge technologies with crazy smart people. Pouring over custom PowerPC CPU Errata was divine. Oh, and we only had (if…

Great video! Love the concepts discussed, and the tigerstyle mentioned by adityaathealye. This is such a hard problem. For Halo 4, I architected a system for our telemetry that tha…

I was hesitant about this article being interesting, or a good use of my limited time, but it turns out it was well written and held an interesting insight! I find it fascinating t…

I always loved this question when I played the 'Why' game with my kids: They ask why, and I'd ELI5. Then they'd ask why, and the process continued until I could excitedly say "We d…

Oh! I'm on the east side. I've been attending Brazillian Zouk classes, but I've been interested in swing. Where do you go? And I completely agree about event organization! It reall…

I hear ya! One of my hobbies is to be a somewhat known stage & exotic dancer / dance instructor in VR using 5-11pt tracking (depending on my mood and production quality). The numbe…

Thanks for the warning, genuinely appreciated!! I actually opted not to read this comment, I enjoy the immersion.

I just don't see how the genie is put back in the bottle. Optimizations and new techniques are coming in at a breakneck pace, allowing for models that can run on consumer hardware.…

Seems to me like the pathogen is just adapting to have a new transport mechanism? Rather than it decomposing or making use of microplastics. Rather than attaching to seaweed, it ca…

I suppose the argument would be that the key search space is reduced. Statistically speaking, you know the weights of certain binary pairs if the image is not evenly distributed. B…

Heh... as someone with prosopagnosia, this wouldn't help too much. But I agree it'd help most people!!

The metric of "hauling 40 Tesla Model S vehicles up every sixty minutes." is a strange one. A '93 Honda Accord would be divisible to the minute (60/hr). Or even 52lbs/second... Tho…

I found the book Rama Revealed by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee to be an unbelievable and depressing outlook on the short sidedness of man's assault on limited resources. And the…

My first thought is that there may be something environmental... interfering with your voice. Something like someone watching a show in the evening, or turning on a fan when it's t…

Not the OP, but for my prior relationship my ex wanted to be divested of that knowledge. I tried early on to keep them abreast of what was going on, but they were "not a numbers pe…

Fun story: That was my first employee town hall, in 2000. I was concerned for the fellow (and so very glad when he left, Satya has been so so so much better for the company and mor…

> C'thulhu is always the very last place you look. Inverse survivorship bias: That's because you are no longer able to look elsewhere...

Is there a way to "short" Teather? Seems like that'd be the money play.

Reminds me a lot about the fascinating read of Knight Capital, and the $440M-in-28-min bug that lost them 75% of their equity. Reminds me a lot about Knight Capital bug that cost t…

Ah yes, just like the space shuttle. ;) "They took a high-performance business jet, added extra drag, and ran the engines in reverse to simulate a flying manhole cover." https://yo…

Thank you so much for what you do.

This animated QR code has every frame scannable. It seems to be selecting different correction levels and bitmasks to aid in randomizing the noise. Also note that the timing blocks…

Specifically, the FancyZones utility. I was just showing this to a guest I was hosting and blowing their minds. You can setup multiple patterns per monitor depending on a given wor…

Absolutely! I see a lot of people complain about twitter, but if you actively curate who you want to see and turn off recommendation posts it can be a very pleasant experience. The…