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2 年前議論

Nifty, but the article should have elaborated on the use cases. It suggested that training is the biggest one, but are these really a substitute for actually feeling real-world things? Seems like they’d have to be almost magically precise to, say, simulate the difference between quality and unacceptable fabric.

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3 年前議論

Thanks. The original description made this seem like far-future technological magic. A system that can somehow analyze a random pane of glass and derive all the transformations needed to use it as a high-precision waveguide? I actually had a manager ask me to develop such a thing, and I asked him how many dozen optics PhDs I could hire to accomplish this feat.

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3 年前議論

As a young man, I would have given nearly anything to attend Stanford or MIT, but I knew I wasn’t quite up to their standards. Now I find their presidents are not up to mine.

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

Ironically, that ended up teaching him an important lesson about capitalism.

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

Something laser-guided if you ask me.

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

Good Lord, all of that sounds horrible. More power to you for whatever else you face ahead on this.

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

I will. There’s no streaming service that guarantees any level of bitrate or picture quality, and if they can save a few cents by compressing the hell out of my movie, they will. If I get a well-mastered 4K disc, it’ll always be a quality experience on a decent player.

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3 年前議論

Meanwhile my new EV keeps feeling more and more like a quiet and comfortable tracking collar.

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

Fellow Alamedan here, same. I was surprised it was across the Bay.

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3 年前議論

I’m always amused by Americans (and I am one) who think our weather is so great, when we actually have the worst overall weather on Earth.

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3 年前議論

“It’s not a tumor!” - Kindergarten Cop.

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

I haven't seen any evidence of this, at all.

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

That's an interesting question. The Economist attempted to answer it with their series "The Prince" (https://www.economist.com/theprincepod), and I believe their conclusion is that Xi has indeed consolidated power around himself and is nearly an autocrat at this point. Two provisos on this, however:

- The author, Sue-Lin Wong, is something of an outsider, and outsider reporting on China typically misses some subtleties of the real situation in the country.

- Given the nature of China, there will never be a fully autocratic leader there, though it may appear that way to some, and the would-be autocrat might be deluded into thinking they are.

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

Based on some of his more candid interviews, especially ones shortly after the collapse, it seems SBF doesn't have much of a moral center. Whether or not he's also autistic, I can't say, but he clearly does consider himself to be superior to most everyone else, and his altruism was anything but sincere.

One example: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-frie...

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

Using Tower for Nextflow can help streamline it on AWS, it’s pretty powerful (but costs money for anything beyond trivial use cases): tower.nf

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

The closest I’ve gotten to local debugging is having the Python scripts that are launched by NextFlow steps connect to a remote debugger process (“remote” but running on the same workstation). PyCharm makes this fairly painless to orchestrate. I’ve never been able to debug thr Groovy script in a Nextflow pipeline itself; I think you’d need a debug build of the nextflow executable for that.

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

That seems like a less-than-useful generalization. I know plenty of people who do mushrooms and yet labor away in cubicles to pay for their houses, in which they watch television.

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3 年前議論

This article may and should be the trigger for thousands of life-affirming resignations.

nonrepeating

3 年前議論

No, it is not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy_in_...

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3 年前議論

The video doesn’t really prove anything. Non-superconducting diamagnetic can’t freely levitate due to a fundamental instability; they will always fall out of levitation (unless they’re spinning in a specific way). The superconductor in the video is in physical contact with the magnet beneath it, which is enough to resolve that unstable condition and keep the material steady.

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