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This article is scratching the surface of the concept of desynchronization from the theory of social acceleration and the sociology of speed. Any technology that is supposed to cre…

> Sometimes models that seem nonlinear turns linear if those nonlinearities are pushed into the basis functions, so one can still hope. That idea was pushed to its limit by the Koo…

From the abstract and skimming a few sections of the first paper, imho it is not really the same. The paper is moving the loss gradient to the tangent dual space where weights resi…

I'm just showing the logical consequences of utilitarian thinking, not endorsing it.

Since as you say this utilitarian view is rather common, perhaps it would good to show _why_ this is problematic by presenting a counterargument. The basic premise under GP's state…

I don't think this is the reason. Since Apple stopped making new interesting product lines they are very attentive about not having one line cannibalize the sales of the other(s) a…

It has definitely been overused by too many authors. This reminds me a passage of Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language": > A newly−invented metaphor assists thought by…

My favourite (fiction) book this year was One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. An amazingly intricate storyline with a perfect ending.

Roughly sorted by thickness (for the editions I own), these are among my favourites and arguably a good starting point * Animal Farm - George Orwell * The Fall - Albert Camus * Flo…

While I certainly appreciate the practicality of these technologies I do feel uneasy when thinking about a future where more or less everyone owns AR devices, as they denormalize i…

> It's breaking news about a topic that came out of the blue for everyone. After having read the two rather strongly opinionated pieces "Amusing ourselves to death" [1] and "Avoid …

I had not considered this. You (and others mentioning it) have a point. Though I would still have preferred a more substantial article as submission.

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> I have tried to find good scientific evidence that shows that social media is a net negative for kids and or adults. I have been unable to do so. The author mentioned by GP is cu…

Indeed, around 2019 I was reading many computer vision papers for volume estimation and came across a few that tried to estimate the weight of the meals from pictures using the siz…

Kalman filters are usually the way to go because for some cases it is mathematically proven that they are optimal, in the sense that they minimize the noise. About alternatives, no…

If I understand correctly the fees are only for an overleaf-type web collaborative editing experience. The typst program itself, the one you install on your computer, is free to us…

If you don’t need it to be perfect it is actually not too difficult. A notch filter could be enough remove most of the pattern provided that you have a good way of guesstimating it…

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. IMO the title of the post should be "Ice Skater" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelin…

Not sure if there are standing waves involved, or resonance. I presume it is very similar to a phased array [1] for beamforming in antennas, except that then anisotropic properties…

As far as I understand yes, I would also guess that it is analogous to a phased array antenna, but with sound waves

I have a friend who built one of these as their thesis. IIRC they were telling me that the air through which the sound beam propagates acts as a low pass filter, so if you're at th…

After a quick google search I found that the author is amidst many controversies and definitely not a reputable source of information. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

I am quite skeptical about the possibility of condensing the complexity of “intelligence” down to a single number “g”, but even if this were some kind of approximate metric for act…

> But the official reMarkable client is not available for Linux, which I find a bit odd, since it is a Qt-app and the founder of the company apparently is an avid linux user. If I …