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skoocda
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About skoocda
ex-founder of Spreza Technologies Co.
Xoogler.
Currently doing R&D at SDI
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Comment #47820659
This misses one of the best mantis shrimp facts. One of its receptors only detects circularly polarized light But the only thing we know of, in the entire natural world, that emits…
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Comment #47757689
Are there any resources you would recommend for learning about real implementations?
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Comment #47303091
While the article is oriented towards defense planning, many of these points apply to any sufficiently complex software engineering project. Generating several "competing construct…
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Comment #47220961
Not OP, but having the exact VM spec your agent runs on is useful for testing. I want to make sure my code works perfectly on any ephemeral environments an agent uses for tasks, be…
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Comment #47069170
I have a degree in EE (2016) and am doing mostly ML engineering with a considerable amount of SWE tasks in my day-to-day. Of my graduating class, very few are designing hardware. M…
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Comment #46775241
The one thing I really disagree with is the notion that there will be millions of identical AI images. The next big step is continual learning, which enables long-term adaptive pla…
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Comment #41241277
I've done a precursory skim of this and plan to start reading it in earnest next week. Looks comprehensive and accessible. Very excited.
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Comment #41111178
e.g. HashCash
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Comment #40958823
Regardless of net efficiency, that still entails collecting CO2 at a central facility (where it could have been dealt with in other ways, such as injection underground) and sprinkl…
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Comment #40958777
That gravimetric energy density is about 2 orders of magnitude higher than lithium ion batteries.
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Comment #40911808
What exactly is your "social advertising bot"? Is this a bot that makes contextual comments like the one you're replying to?
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Comment #40723690
Horses used to be smaller. Przewalski's horse, the closest thing to a pre-domesticated horse, is about 660lb. A modern draft horse is over 2000lb. 50 mya, Eohippus was around 20lb …
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Comment #40133771
This was a phenomenal read. Thanks for linking
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Comment #40005172
This is awesome! Presumably you can make this work with any interface that doesn't enforce the total internal reflectivity of a fiber optic cable, and therefore allows light to lea…
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Comment #39956309
First few instances I tried are either returning no results, or only DDG results. Error! Engines cannot retrieve results: brave ( Suspended: too many requests ) google ( Suspended:…
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Comment #39753314
If someone was running a supermarket and you came in day after day and never paid for anything, they'd get suspicious and probably follow you around all the time, too. You don't pa…
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Comment #39699760
Probably worth mentioning Deepmind's SIMA if you haven't seen it yet [0]. It definitely pushes the state of the art for agent behavior in a typical game environment. Perhaps in the…
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Comment #39230342
Your github profile and website are awesome! Good luck with the job search
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Comment #38634870
That's false. Every website needs a server to survive. Serving can be cheap, but it ain't free.
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Comment #38631108
Yes, or use a ZK rollup between the publisher and the client to collect transactions off-chain and then settle when it reaches an appropriate amount. Or even better, have a ZK roll…
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Comment #38630961
Part of this issue is that most podcasts were designed to be free from the beginning, whereas music was always paid. As a user, it makes sense to pay Spotify for music access, beca…
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Comment #38179202
Any specific favorites? Or technical achievements that are worth calling out? I feel like battlebit is laudable for getting 254 players in sync at a 60 tick rate