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DC local. Total outage this afternoon. SOS on my phone for a few hours. Unable to log into my account.

What sort of laptop/desktop do you have? I regularly use my AirPods with my Steam Deck and they work great!

Ursula Le Guin in her preface to The Left Hand of Darkness [1], describes Science Fiction as "descriptive." She invents "elaborately circumstantial lies" as a means of describing w…

Feynman is no random celebrity. In addition to be a renowned physicist, his famous "Feynman Lectures" and his thoughts on pedagogy are similarly legendary.

So far, no one has mentioned "Bug Algorithms", which have a similar structure of (1) walk in the direction of the goal, (2) walk around obstacles as they are encountered, (3) leave…

The idea that this is a drop in replacement for numpy (e.g., `import cupy as np`) is quite nice, though I've gotten similar benefit out of using `pytorch` for this purpose. It's a …

Similar: XKCD conducted a color survey back in 2010 [1]. The results are detailed and the writeup quite interesting. [1] https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

I'd also like to mention the classic book "Reinforcement Learning" by Sutton & Barto, which goes into some relevant mathematical aspects for choosing the "best" among a set of opti…

Doesn't Slack violate that constraint? Slack allows (or at least seems to) using iOS system emoji to respond to messages.

This is true enough, though remember that material properties change dramatically when you start moving through wavelengths by orders of magnitude. Silicon is transparent in the mi…

This is a cynical take on what I think is a meaningful benefit that the above commenter is talking about. If you use ChatGPT to learn concepts and approach it with the caveat that …

I have some mixed feelings about this. I used to do this ~10 years ago when I was a distance runner, but now exercising so hard will throw my body off in other ways and I don't fee…

Agreed! I've never seen something like this before, but it seems that all articles in this (nascent) journal have the same sort of information. Does anyone know if this is standard…

It seems like using np.random.choice is indeed a slow way to get a grid in which 5% of the values are 1. I would recommend using np.random.rand(size) >= mutations: > python3 -m tim…

Excited for this, but I think with all this conversation about the role an AI assistant should play in work and development, this line feels incomplete to me: > Think of Claude as …

Rewatching Person of Interest now. Amazing how relevant it is; aged incredibly well.

What sort of Docker support will this have? I have a very shaky setup right now to run Unity headless that requires OpenGL and VirtualGL. It feels like that pipeline won’t work for…

That really is a somewhat incredible statistic to me, not because it's surprising given my own empirical evidence, but because of all the things one does in/with a car for years at…

This gets shared on here from time to time and while I love it (and Tufte), it really falls short on mobile devices. When the page is sufficiently narrow, revealing sidebar items i…

Just as ChatGPT seems pretty capable at summarizing text, an AI with "unlimited memory" could potentially answer analytical questions about larger datasets and non-linear data (in …

I have a similar background in Electrical Engineering and, while I enjoyed the book, it did not change my perspective. I think the book does a good job of opening up what many prog…

Would love an answer on this too. It would be even better not just to try using this, but also be able to run it locally, something that has been impossible for GPT-3.