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You mention a bit about the latent social forces embedded within technological development and how that has related to skin tones and the technologies of color reproduction, so I f…

I think `uv lock -P ` to only update a particular package (and transitive deps of course).

Not sure why petrochemicals and trees ie hydrocarbons are any more or less absurd than the silicon, metals, etc quarried and mined from around the world needed to store information…

Yep, PassiveHouse standards which typically include an extremely tight envelope which forces installation of outdoor air supply famously can get away with just a few hundred watts …

Sure I was playing a little fast and loose there, but (a) the large surface area of the home (and resulting conductive transfer through the walls + convection transfer via infiltra…

FWIW, in a typical apartment or single-family home, refrigeration uses a fraction of the energy that space cooling (also via a refrigeration/vapor compression cycle) requires on a …

> I'm particularly annoyed by using LLMs to evaluate the output of LLMs. Even though I largely agree with parts of what you wrote, if you squint your eyes enough you can kind of se…

Hey out of curiosity were there any issues with my top level comment? Seemed pretty innocuous, curious what the problem was. Feel free to email me if it’s better suited for discuss…

> That "problem" remains unsolved because it's actually a fundamental aspect of reality. There is no natural separation between code and data. They are the same thing. Sorry to per…

Yeah, I think I’m with you if you ultimately mean to say something like this: “the labels are meaningless… we just have collections of complex systems that demonstrate various beha…

I don’t mean to amplify a false understanding at all. I probably did not articulate myself well enough, so I’ll try again. I think it is inevitable that some - many - people will c…

So the author’s core view is ultimately a Searle-like view: a computational, functional, syntactic rules based system cannot reproduce a mind. Plenty of people will agree, plenty o…

On the other hand, IP addresses have crossed into the popular lexicon in exactly this manner… it’s common enough to hear people say “what’s my “ip?” or “are there any free ips?” or…

As someone who wrote my first line of code in approx 2010 and used git & GH for the first time in… 2013? it kind of amazes me to remember that Git is only 20 years old. GitHub for …

I’ve been using Hatchet since the summer, and really do love it over celery. I’ve been using Hatchet for academic research experiments with embarrassingly parallel tasks - ie thous…

Yep - this is also the official recommended method by Hatchet, also sometimes called payload thinning.

There are discussions about lowering the seams (harder to generate spin and makes the same spin rates less aerodynamically effective) as well as lowering the mound.

There’s some consensus though that currently, pitching has evolved much faster than batting due to advances like Trackman and deeper understanding of the relationship between biome…

The biomechanics involved are insane. You are hitting a baseball-sized object (ha) moving at 90+ mph with massive break, often very late and over two axes, with something a couple …

There will always be something so beautiful about node/graph programming systems that simultaneously allow you to go back and forth between the text-based program and the graph rep…

I mostly agree with what your are saying but… > passing them means nothing about the ability of neural net-based systems to understand language, regardless of how much their author…

These ramp functions are actual quite powerful and beautiful sounding when implemented in analog electronic synthesizers - by controlling the ratio of the quiescent and moving phas…

Fantastic write up and beautiful design decisions. Really remarkable work! As another market data point, I would definitely pay a premium price if you were to go to market with it.…

I have the ZSA Moonlander and absolutely love it! Definitely recommend it!

> It's DARPA, you're really past the moralizing about war stage here, that's just out of context. I don’t really think I was moralizing… just commenting on the funny juxtaposition …