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Between METI, Toyota & others, they appear to have spent > $40B over multiple decades. It's a bit silly to downplay their investment based on the sales numbers of Toyota Mirai.

Some geopolitical context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Senkaku_boat_collision_in... https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/comme... Japan was one of the firs…

Au contraire - LLMs are quite bad at large scale pattern fidelity. They'll even forget key details and constraints unless told over and over again. That's why AI-written code has t…

This seems to be a redux of the 1x play (which was panned across the internet after the WSJ review). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so The hardware for these machines hav…

Yup, it's basically the ROS of computer-vision.

The article has the "rough" idea correct - how could it not be- but is quite stupid in a sort of cliched Chrisitian-missionary / colonialism sort of way. It talks about how Chinese…

More so if you know the etymology, https://www.etymonline.com/word/cipher (Al Jabr, the translator of Indian Mathematical texts was a Persian IIRC)

Obligatory, https://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html

Newpipe is awesome. If you're on firefox, you can block the main-page feed with the following filter in ublock-origin, "www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="home"]" Sadly, you…

For those of you on Android / PC-Mac - Syncthing is an excellent tool for P2P syncing between multiple devices (it works over NAT and IPV6 too!).

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The article seems sparse on details. Would this imply an architecture similar to what Lisp-Machines once had ? That'd be a great addition IMO, and would speed up a lot of dynamic-i…

This discovery is only of interest because the Iron-Age, as per standard-theory, started around 1200 BC. in the Caucuses/Anatolia or the near-East - which fits with another theory …

Note: there have been actual Iron-working sites discovered in India that are older than this, dated to 1600 BC [0]. A lot of this has been ignored (just like the Painted-Grey ware …

If you use Emacs on GNU-Linux, you can have it run oathtool and copy the code to the clipboard which you can straightaway middle-click-paste. https://gist.github.com/akssri/92a3b24…

The set of computable numbers is actually countable (see ref. linked above). It has to be by definition because the set of finite computer-programs is itself countable. This is the…

Theory of Computation wasn't around when all this "exciting" stuff was developed in Mathematics. Given their non-constructive nature "real" numbers are unsurprisingly totally incom…

This doesn't work the moment the module you're importing something imports something else that you've changed. Worse, you can't redine methods, because the classes get "redefined".…

Was it George Costanza ? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-FbktgqCqY

Sadly, the code in this tutorial doesn't work anymore due to upstream changes in FFmpeg. There are quite a few attempts at keeping Dranger's tutorial up to date, but I found the re…

ITA software's account of using CL may also be of interest, http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html

Very cool! Old keyboards and key-switches are an endless source of fun trivia. I think Topre is the only one that manufactures keyboards with contactless key switches today. Topre …

Julia is great no doubt. However, all the additional complexity is not entirely 'free'. For instance, Julia has a performant generational GC compared to Python's simple (but slow) …

I heard that GoPro hasn't been doing well in the past couple years [1]. Did they ever transition out of their "badge re-engineering" approach to products ? [1]. https://www.youtube…