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I have so far only completed about 14 minutes of the talk, but I would imagine it to be some sort of relatable analogy which foreshadows what the thesis of the talk is about. The "…

y'know what's cooler than Perlin Noise? Simplex Noise [1]! This is what is hinted at at the end of this article. Also invented by the same person to address issues in the original …

the only thing I can imagine in the near-term are a subset of vehicles in the fleet which have carseats for infants and todlers which stay installed in the vehicle. We also already…

> The global leader in self driving cars has a headquarters thirty miles from here - the city could invite someone from Waymo to give a talk on the future of onsite parking and how…

Michael Crosby wrote this! He's a long-time maintainer of Docker, Containerd, and more! He was Docker's first to receive the 'Distinguished Engineer' Title. This means a lot coming…

they specifically said "Splotlight Semantic Indexing" which means they generate embeddings of all your "personal context" and store it in a local vector database so they can do on-…

that's interesting because my understanding was that a lot of models used pressure as the vertical (height) coordinate and with tracking temperature at any given coordinate lets yo…

Atmospheric circulation. hadley cell, polar cell, and mid-latitude cells. It would also be interesting to see how new bands would occur if we increased the rotational speed of the …

The title should be updated to note this is from 2006. Has there been anything like this published in the past 20 years but for compressible fluids? I have wanted to make a simple …

I was waiting for him to make some point but then it ended up being that a wealth tax is like increasing regular income taxes by 20% which makes it seem like PG is trying to confus…

> Antigravity was the only autonomous agent that implemented the Pantheon’s signature interior ceiling pattern: repeated square coffers visible through the oculus. That is seriousl…

while I understand that we are computing the tokens in parallel to get the "faster" result, is there a tradeoff where we're actually utilizing more compute resources by running mul…

This seems hyperbolic as it's actually a long path between age verification to full digital identity tracking. But I agree that pushing the burden of verification to websites is ri…

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they are saying that LA takes water from sources which would otherwise drain into the sacramento and san joaquin river delta. The video from this post mentions the California State…

There were a few recent edits about this on Tony Hoar's Wikipedia page which were reverted because there was no substantial evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ton…

Here's the same post on Bluesky for those who prefer that platform: https://bsky.app/profile/josephpolitano.bsky.social/post/3mg...

3 things: Prop 13, Suburban Sprawl, and Bigger/Heavier Vehicles

> It's incredibly suspect that in a battery capacity test ... They would probably say this is because it's not a "battery capacity test" but a "charge performance test" But I agree…

> control inflation I think you are confusing cost inflation with an increase in the money supply. The way the US government funds deficit spending is not by increasing money suppl…

> the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform What a joke.

the book I mentioned (_The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark) talks about this.

Now I can't stop thinking about _The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark. It theorizes that this is how humans navigate and experience the real world: Our brains generate what we thi…

class 2 and class 3 are mutually exclusive. You cannot legally have an e-bike that supports throttle up to 20mph that can also continue to e-assist if you pedal up to 28mph. While …

that's a nice bike! bummer that the rear rack isn't co-sprung.