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trebligdivad

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Chocolate eating, linux programming geek from Manchester, UK

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"Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video]

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3 points·by trebligdivad·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

Show HN: Using an LLM to sensibly sort a shopping receipt

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1 points·by trebligdivad·قبل 9 أشهر·0 comments

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trebligdivad
·قبل 18 ساعة·discuss
Yeh I don't know why the emphasise the 'neural engine' - it's their stonking RAM bandwidth that just blows everything else out of the water.
trebligdivad
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
The 1937 construction picture with the horses is a great contrast of technologies.
trebligdivad
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
Nested virt on x86 is curiously painful; you'd kind of think each layer would be isolated, so that the L0 (hardware) would only have to worry about it's VM (L1), and L1 would have to worry about it's VM (L2); but nope - the L0 top level hypervisor sees faults from the L2 and has to figure out that they are actually L2 not L0. IMHO the extra complexity (and historical flakiness of it) - makes me say that enabling nesting is a bad idea for public VM hosts.
trebligdivad
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
As I understand it, that they've gone back to the point of making the ovary and the egg itself is going through Meiosis helps here, because it's got the randomness of picking genes between the pair of chromosomes in the source. So it's not just a clone; it's a little more natural than if they tried to produce the egg directly.
trebligdivad
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
Very impressive work!

(Hmm, I wonder if this can be done for chicken eggs)
trebligdivad
·قبل 19 يومًا·discuss
I love that it's a 'tape' - I assume in reference to the early telegraph tapes/tickers: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co33749...
trebligdivad
·قبل 20 يومًا·discuss
Do you need to fit that many sensors around the edge or can you rotate the ring of fewer sensors?
trebligdivad
·قبل 21 يومًا·discuss
Yeh, it had 'kerfuffle' as one of the last words but that's very common. Yet it had Zenzizenzizenzic (which I'd never heard of but I think I guessed it right)

It really could do with a summary showing the answers you made and corrections for what you got wrong.
trebligdivad
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
nice work although, the level of marketing of calling your device 'high density...17 quantum devices' or having the bold '50 devices in the last four weeks' - does say there's some way to go!
trebligdivad
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
It's a very long contract (till 2029) for just covering themselves for supply.
trebligdivad
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
You do have to worry/wonder how many people are in psych hospitals, jail, or 6ft under when something like this might be the reason.
trebligdivad
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
one of the articles lines is more generally interesting 'In mammals, neurons in the spleen can communicate with macrophages, and in both mammals and birds, these neurons also connect to the central nervous system.'.
trebligdivad
·قبل شهرين·discuss
you mean just like the Document editors or email systems these days? (or cloudflare etc etc)
trebligdivad
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Perhaps the uncertainty is more to do with the public being able to see this new tech; think what's happened in those 30 years, some of which you as a techie would have been well aware of but most people were clueless about. Those of us using PDAs at the time, most of the public didn't imagine constant wireless connectivity and powerful computers in their pockets. Networked games, neat tricks bunches of geeks ran at the time; today everywhere. Is AI really that much of an outlier other than public knowledge?
trebligdivad
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Yeh if you want to improve the screening rate then someone needs to figure out how to make the prep easier.
trebligdivad
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Yeh there's lots of fun things like this; PDF is a full programming language so I think in principal you can generate PDFs that display different things to different people depending on the tools used etc. I've heard it said some of the incorrect text mapping stuff has been used in the past as a copy-protection silly to stop people copy/pasting content. (It's also a pain for those using screen readers).
trebligdivad
·قبل شهرين·discuss
So hmm this allows 'electronic or digital' information to be examined - so you're fine transporting your information read out on cine film?
trebligdivad
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Ah yes, that would be what I was thinking of; I think I saw one somewhere in Manchester as a kid.
trebligdivad
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Wasn't there a short period where they changed the colour? I'm thinking it was a beige thing - in the 80s???
trebligdivad
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Oh yeh i grew up on a lot of those; add Silent Running in as well!