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True, but if you install it anyway (like the author), might as well do it with this tool.

The mentioned "Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma" is especially interesting: it essentially states that for N>3, the number M of almost perpendicular vectors you can fit into an N-dimensional space is M>>N.

This makes it possible to embed a lot of facts into the encoding vectors of an LLM.

I think their claim isn't that it's impossible to be efficient in existing SQL but rather that pipe syntax is more natural and approachable to a lot of people?

Your second quote is the same as the first one. Did you copy the same one twice by accident?

I wish we could just all agree that there are some people who don't notice slight lag, and people who genuinely notice and are distracted by it.

Of course it's fine to ask why something like this project exists if you don't know. But I feel like the discussions tend to outgrow that and end up at "I don't need it so why should anyone care".

Switching editor every five years doesn't sound that bad? Especially if you really get a new editor which is "better than what's currently available".

The Instagram video linked in the article looks like he is drawing from the watch sitting on the table. No photograph is visible. That might be intentional though...

> you need a machine that can handle whatever link speeds you need

I would have expected the relay server only being used for initial handshake to punch through NAT, after which the transfer is P2P. Only in the case of some network restrictions the data really flows through the relay. How could they afford running the free relay otherwise?

I think German school system tried to teach me these systems, or at least offered optional courses to learn about them. As a pretentious 16 year old I couldn't have cared less. Maybe it's hard to educate people about it before they experienced the struggle themselves.

> describe facts about some discrete system and check for the existence (or nonexistence) of properties

To me this sounds like Logic Programming and I immediately think of Prolog. Is it fair to compare them?

I think you are very right. I have been missing a "simple" UI for digital scientific notes and your project looks great. Less for documentation or papers maybe, more as a tool of thought or impromptu communication. Or both, who knows.

During my Master's or PhD I would have agreed with the "slow science" sentiments here. These days I want to get things done and work with collaborators.

> Counter-intuitive perhaps, you get smaller standard errors when you observe higher counts.

No, the relative error aka. std/mean decreases. For Poisson, var=mean=N => std/mean = sqrt(N)/N = 1/sqrt(N). I'm sure the author knows this but the post is not written very clearly imho. I wonder who the target audience is?

When I was a junior researcher I rather found confusing that variance increases with increased counts. But the perceived "error" is the standard deviation relative to mean, which does decrease as shown above.

Would "quadtree" be the keyword here? That's always the first thing I think of when handling distributed points and doing some (local) measure on them.

Yeah kind of. I have worked with LabView and liked the flowchart UI for handling lab instruments, but for somewhat complex algorithms it got unwieldy really fast.

I have the feeling LabView is a good tool for designing control panels and visual tools in general ("front-end"). It is less suited for implementing back-end algorithms. I guess I wish for a similar tool which can also handle the back-end (in the context of my data processing job).

The problem is that I don't know myself what UI I would actually want for a "canvas-based editor". Some mixture between a visual flowchart and being able to edit code in each box? I'm obviously not the first person to think about it and it seems to be a non-trivial problem.

I feel you. On the other hand, paying $40 a month for 11 people to efficiently communicate doesn't sound that much actually?

Does neovim have a canvas feature? In what way is it similar to Haystack, apart from also being an editor?

I'm not sure about the AI features but the concept of working with code on a canvas and having some sort of flowchart UI has been a dream of mine for some time. I mainly do data processing and draw lots of flowcharts for communicating pipelines and also for myself. Having a development UI which goes in that direction somewhat would be great for handling unwieldy codebases written by non-CS folk.

This is not Kickstarter? They have a waiting list for 1$ to get 33% off at launch. Their website states the battery packs are already used in rental bikes in France.

The cells are standard 18650 cells with according chemistry. You are supposed to supply them yourself!

(maybe not initially, but they emphasize multiple times that you can/should change the cells inside the pack every three years)

I think they mean that the hash in the JSON record does not match the PDF file anymore, after the PDF has been changed by some other program.

*Webkit

Web demo: https://simondevyoutube.github.io/Shaders_RadianceCascades/

I generally like Jeff's content but this headline borders on clickbait. The "39000 ft" part is achieved with airplane wifi over satellite. Otherwise it's just remote shell to a Raspberry Pi.

Wow, that looks like a whole tensor DSL for numpy (which itself is already an array DSL for Python).

If you're into shape rotations with numpy arrays check out einopt.

Also consider using "None" instead of "np.newaxis". To newcomers it's not as self-explanatory but it results in more readable code imho.

> democratic states tend to drift into mass surveillance

I am not saying this is false, but think about the inverse: are there non-democratic states never drifting into mass surveillance? Maybe it is a symptom of a developed, high-trust society.

Which doesn't make mass surveillance a good thing. I'm just contemplating whether it's even possible to turn out different.

Thanks for the info. It does sound much more cumbersome than Ventoy. Given its current state as of linked issue, I still should look into it...

My reason to use Ventoy is the possibility to have multiple ISOs on one single USB stick. Before I would have to dd the new ISO to the stick, wiping what was there before. Effectively this resulted in more writes to flash and ultimately multiple broken USB sticks.

FWIW, I think you mean `dd`.

You are free to stay on X11?

I find the kaleidoscope surprisingly cool. In hindsight it's obvious but to get this out of a raytracer is somewhat unexpected to me.

https://github.com/susam/pov25#Kaleidoscope