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bottom999mottob··on Germany wants to legalize quality control of illegal drugs
Now bring this policy to the States.
bottom999mottob··on Crawling a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)
Just use 500 android phones running Tmux they said. It'll be easy they said.
bottom999mottob··on Gamification, life, and the pursuit of a gold badge (2021)
My Jira ticket is blocked. No blockers. Please don't give me an F-, my Jira GPA is totally not inflated!
bottom999mottob··on TELO is a tiny electric truck the size of a Mini with a bed as big as a Hummer’s
They exist, just not in the States now. See the BYD Seagull.
bottom999mottob··on TELO is a tiny electric truck the size of a Mini with a bed as big as a Hummer’s
This is tangential, but the Ford Maverick has also shown that automotive OEMs are not ready to contain battery fires. Not hard to one-up a truck that might experience thermal runaway.
bottom999mottob··on Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a million square feet
You think Gerrit is any better? The way I've seen Gerrit used essentially erases the commit history with an amend, and its configured so only one person can work on a branch at a time, locking out vertical, parallel work. Maybe that's just been my experience however.
bottom999mottob··on Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted
Stores do this with shop towels too and it's aggravating. Why can't I buy bulk shop towels for less?!
bottom999mottob··on Royal Navy says quantum navigation test a success
There is no way anyone would hyperbolize the experience of their friend squeezing a submarine through ravines on the internet.
bottom999mottob··on Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed carbohydrates
We're talking about organic food vs in-organic food. Who do you think defines organic and what's healthy food for long-term consumption? A lot of people , including the FDA...
bottom999mottob··on Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed carbohydrates
The organic vs non-organic argument is a false dichotomy anyway, so you got to be joking right?
bottom999mottob··on The bill of materials for the Apple headset leaked
Here's an idea: tack it on as complimentary to the Apple Car. Sunk cost, so all the whales buy it and you get more locked into the Apple ecosystem!
bottom999mottob··on The bill of materials for the Apple headset leaked
It's probably a reverse pass through window that got poorly translated
bottom999mottob··on Bard API
Anyone think this will stay safe from the Google moat?
bottom999mottob··on Senior Developer Koans
Joe, you must c for the one that is c'ing, type the one that is typing, cmake the one that is cmaking, only then shall you c plus plus
bottom999mottob··on On Having Enough Socks (2019)
This might be the play. I avoid wearing socks and closed-toe shoes as much as I can, but I've found many people in the West are disgusted by the sight of feet.

Cloud slippers are heavenly.

bottom999mottob··on Feynman’s Maze-Running Story
Feynman implies that psychology is a "cargo-cult" science where variations of experiments and assumed hypothesis are valued over scientific rigor or reproducibility. That's my guess too. See: misattribution of arousal studies, Millikan oil drop studies, Covid-19 and Didier Raoult Livre with hydroxychloroquine... etc. etc.

Edit: The article states B.F. skinner did create a box to remove these side-channel effects for rat experiments

bottom999mottob··on Feynman’s Maze-Running Story
I'm curious, if it was a possibility that your finger get bitten off, did people not wear leather handling gloves or could rats bite through the gloves or something else?
bottom999mottob··on Feynman’s Maze-Running Story
Absolutely ridiculous that Caltech has had Feynman's papers for over 30 years without digitizing them or allowing people to read them without visiting LA! One of the greatest minds to ever exist, and Caltech is doing a disservice to his name with their white tower holding his documents. My blood's boiling just reading about Gwern's search through the literature. Shoutout to Gwern for digging this deep into one of my hero's citations
bottom999mottob··on Feynman’s Maze-Running Story
Wow this is one of those gems on Steam I was looking for last night... I hope you release it one day because I've never seen anything like it: a Lovecraft-ian white-collar spell-casting acid trip?
bottom999mottob··on The layoffs are here for those who chose to ‘learn to code’
I mean GPT4 was trained on hella patents, Wikipedia, StackOverflow, OSS, etc. etc. I also don't see the insult here heh
bottom999mottob··on Quantum physics falls apart without imaginary numbers
I don't quite understand your question. Imaginary numbers are useful for modeling waves and particles, both foundational things in our universe.

In quantum mechanics, we use complex numbers to describe the behavior of particles. A complex number has two parts: a real part and an imaginary part. The real part represents something we can physically measure, like the position or momentum of a particle. The imaginary part represents something that's a bit harder to grasp - it's related to the probability that the particle will be in a certain state or position.

For example, let's say we're trying to describe the position of an electron in an atom. We can't know for sure where the electron is at any given moment, but we can calculate the probability of finding it in a certain region. The probability is represented by a complex number, with the real part telling us the position and the imaginary part telling us the probability.

Things like Feynman Diagrams model probability distributions of particles and all possible paths they can take from A to B. They allow us to do interesting calculus

bottom999mottob··on A social media site for chatbots to talk to each other
Debating bots sounds a lot more interesting. I already created some chirpers who "should" debate but this project looks a bit more debatey
bottom999mottob··on Telegram Web Apps for Bots
101% chance Apple puts Siri's brother Shrini in iMessage as a default option. I'm calling it now

Now Google... put em in Gmail and Calendar webapps as a sidebar integration and a big-ass button on mobile

bottom999mottob··on Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant
The bar is astronomically low
bottom999mottob··on OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it
They've already got red light cameras all over Illinois, so I wouldn't be surprised
bottom999mottob··on Record labels panic as A.I. generated song becomes ‘hit single’
Well back in my day prog rock and and jazz were all we had! My god, kids should be listening to fugues played on organs and Gregorian chants... Kids these days just don't know music gosh darnit
bottom999mottob··on Better Together: Unifying Datalog and Equality Saturation
This looks very intriguing! Couldn't you use this for stuff like graph convolution networks or even optimizing TypeScript live reloading?

I'm just trying to think of potential applications. This sounds cool!

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