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The name is misleading. The glyphs are showing individual chord shapes. I can't write out a song using this. At best I can use this at the top of a tab to remind myself how the cho…

I said to a few friends that the recent trailer felt like it could be for a House of Leaves movie. Different overall setting, but the "found footage" aspects, and the narrative ove…

The term I've heard for this sort of thing is "Physical Neural Networks" or "PNN"s. My impression is that one of the big things holding them back is that because we can't manufactu…

The "figure out what you want to say" is key. I've started to think of LLMs, at least in a business setting, as misunderstanding amplifiers. How many times at work have you been ta…

as far as MSHA is concerned it is. They take salt out of the ground to make room for the waste.

This doesn't seem to be complete. It's missing the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, for example, which should be southeast of Carlsbad, NM. It's a underground salt (metal/non-metal) mi…

The poetry you quoted is originally by Vladimir Nabokov in Pale Fire .

I'd speculate we had a few factors working against us that made us hit the "limit" sooner. Several different engineering teams from different parts of the company had to come toget…

I was on a greenfield project late last year with a team that was very enthusiastic about coding agents. I would personally call it a failure, and the project is quietly being woun…

And then they'll start feeding in data like gaze tracking, and adjust the generated content in real time to personalize it to be maximally addictive for each viewer.

It's most notes, and for EU and US notes (as well as some others), it's based on a certain pattern on the bills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

And meanwhile today you can get more power than the Cray-1 (or Cray-2) from a single chip a fraction of the size of that coin. Very quickly: a dollar coin is about 550 mm^2 on a fa…

The last line about "simplifying approximations within the literature[...] applied outside of their intended context" makes me think the author has an issue with the way other theo…

I'd suggest a better analogy would be telecommunications fiber[1]. [1] https://internethistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/OSA_B...

California requires a warning a month in advance for anything a year or longer. Pointing out this law has gotten me a few refunds from services that failed to comply and renewed my…

Currently, domain specific languages written in YAML. I see these everywhere, from configuring individual utilities to managing giant architectural stacks. People get in their head…

CFIT is not necessarily pilot error. For example, if ATC vectored a plane without ground proximity warnings into the side of a mountain, that would also be CFIT.

On the one hand, it sounds very stressful. On the other hand, if you screwed up, you wouldn't even notice because your brain would be obliterated before it would register.

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739

You can search the official python docs on DDG with !python. So if you search for "!python sum", it takes you right there. They have a lot of other "bangs" that work really well, t…

I got my PhD at Stanford. There were a few things that made me choose it over others. First, there are effectively 3 physics departments, between physics, SLAC, and applied physics…

You're now entangled with the system, and so we will need someone else to observe you.

The control is daylight, where countless species of life survive on a daily basis. You are comparing the hypothesis that life can survive with very little light to the hypothesis t…

My impression is that there are a lot of geeks out there who want the Star Trek holodeck, and they see VR and generative AI as a way to get there. But they ignore all the episodes …

The "cold copper" accelerator technology is really neat, in my opinion. The way particle accelerators work is that they pump RF through waveguides into cavities, such that the elec…