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there's never a time I've been glad an article used Excel's 3D surface plot lol

I worked for a company where the main workflow was to download an entire postgres dump at the start of the day and work off that. It took 25 min. I aliased our download command to …

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as a major julia enthusiast I gotta say this is not how you get people to check it out buddy

that's not very vc-minded of you /s

maybe I can offset your disappointment by sharing a very cool nail exhibit I saw a few years back :) https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/01/writhing-sculptures-j...

indeed, it's more of an emergency landing

the article says that

1. I want a human drilling because I want empathy in my care 2. 90% detection rate on cavities isn't great

Pros: this is just like the Dark Knight! Cons: privacy nightmare

yeah this is an immediate show-stopper for me, at least for professional usage

It appears Enel "plans" a gravity system in ERCOT (May 2024) https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/05/22/enel-energy-vault-bui...

WE COME TO A NUANCED CONCLUSION. DOWNLOAD TO FIND OUT WHAT. world's best abstract

came to comment this :)

I think it's a bit underwhelming, yes

The whole point of homoiconicity is that a language (lisp) is implemented in itself. This is lisp implemented in python (not itself).

"antennas so big that we cannot even simulate their behavior. " - does anyone know what that means?

I wonder what that will mean for charging infrastructure that suddenly has to deliver 10x power to enable that. Not sure that sort of charging could be as ubiquitously placed as ga…

As the article mentions, the curves are unstable. This is delightfully apparent when you drag one control point in a circle around another. Interestingly, it can also make fairly s…

I don't either put code in or use it's output directly. I treat it as a conversational oracle over stackoverflow / all documentation ever written :D

If anyone successfully uses this in a dating app context please leave a note

clearly they don't know any coders

Scientific American I think did a balanced article about this character: https://web.archive.org/web/20231231040033/https://www.scien... My favorite quotes: when provided with some…

There's a difference between deep tech research (which truly can be revolutionary) and "revolutionary" consumer gizmos. I don't think the analogy holds.

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