dmboyd

Totally get where you're coming from — I had a similar experience when going through Teach Your Child to Read with my eldest. The book’s emphasis on phoneme recognition over rote memorization really worked for us too. That said, we hit a bit of a wall in that transitional stage in terms of reading content — our kid was still relying on those visual cues (like ligatures and vowel variants), and jumping straight to standard text was a stretch.

To bridge that, I actually built a font that keeps those phonics-aligned features and allowed us to use stories from things like Project Gutenberg. It’s based on the open-source TeX Gyre Schola, ( kind of like what is used in the Spot books) with OpenType features that auto-connect common digraphs (like “th”, “sh”, “ch”)— but in a way that can gradually phase out. Just put it up on GitHub if you're curious: Reading Guide Font. Open for any feedback or criticism!

https://github.com/dmboyd/Reading-Guide

Isn’t this just ontological then. It doesn’t seem like a novel observation that “measurement devices” collapse a wave function (Schrödinger) if you’ve defined a measurement device as such.

At least in the early days, every iPhone maintained a local lookup table between ssids and gps coordinates in a SQLite database.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/752872/security-apple-o...

Crossing the border with $40k cash in the 1950s would be the equivalent to $450k cash in 2023 dollars. Sounds like they got that bit wrong or there’s more to the story.

This is sort of unfair because I’m sure this must’ve been part of the training set. But hilarious nonetheless. https://chat.openai.com/share/6a1fdfb4-9228-480f-961e-fa2c4b...

On root-cause, I wonder if it’s some variation or combination of “publish or perish” linked to failure averse political and cultural structures? I don’t think the circumstances are unique to SK as you see similar effect globally where success is measured purely quantitatively (I.e X number of published papers for promotion, X% score on a test to avoid military service). One thing I can’t get my head around is how the surrounding narrative was so bizarre. Particularly the “death bed dying wish”. Is this a result of 20+ years of lead poisoning combined with aforementioned political issues?

Intuitively this has to be right, ie, stemming, lemmatization plus data pre processing for sentiment has to impact the kinds of reasoning and logic applied. That has to be transitory until models can handle a larger word vocabulary and better development/sanitizer training sets.

It seems fairly pedantic in the meantime to make sweeping projections discounting LLM reasoning, seemingly over a dispute that a flying lemur have wings. Airplanes, hang gliders, kites are all described as having wings, heck even penguins, which do not fly, have wings.

Wow, I've mostly converted to DuckDuckGo for the past two or so years, so are these "google assistant" style placements now part of their core product? or is this a setting that you've enabled?

If it's part of the core... Wow, what a useless cess pool google has become.

This should really have been a separate fix & installed without user interaction. Instead this is 450 Megs & requires a restart. It'll take days for it to get out to those at risk.

This is just a personal anecdote , but I've had a large number of Dell laptops (100+) which all seem to have recovery partitions rather than install media now days. Whenever something fails, it's been a hard drive hardware failure, In which case the recovery partition is completely useless.

I have never used a recovery partition successfully.

Rmagic and octave magic work pretty well in my experience (which rely on Rpy2 and oct2py)

Bootvis used to be the go-to tool before Microsoft discontinued it. Good to see there's an alternative now for win 7 & 8, but why on earth does it need to be bundled into a 5 gig download?

It really hinges on whether the game is a discrete artwork, kind of like a book or a movie, noone wants to have to pay to see the ending(pay $10 to defeat the boss), or whether it is a developing story and the Pay to play choices are analogous to something which makes sense, i.e. pay your taxes or else you become an enemy of Captain Hector.

How prevalent are bootkit (MBR) malicious exploits though? Surely the right place for this is for windows to prevent boot modification without authentication though UAC or something similar?

How does the actel toolkit compare with the xilinx toolkit?

It's probably a combination of floating point errors adding up.

I've managed to hack it into a semi-vectorised implementation which works up to 700x700 before it runs out of memory.

http://i.imgur.com/xzgXW.png

My attempt using matlab(octave) to generate a 100x100 version of the image (using his function description):

https://gist.github.com/3903785

Hadn't figured out if there is a way of vectorising it further. Would appreciate any tips if anyone has any.

Giving the guy a break, it does look like he doesn't "get" github, as it hosts the sources(not in an easily buildable format) as a binary download. and the content of the repo is just random batch files.

And, regarding batch files, if it gets the job done (i.e. M4 autoconf scripts). What would powershell give you?

Essentially, excel is a functional language, without the ability for recursion. If there were a built in array datatype, that'd be possible. There's a few papers floating around explaining an integration between Haskell and excel, described in some places as hsExcel, but I haven't seen a working copy.

Or there's always the lighter weight option pyspread[1] in which cells are objects, works with numpy arrays and any module.

[1]: http://manns.github.com/pyspread/

Would be interested if its worthwhile/possible using shaders as a wrapper for three.js. All I got when I was searching was there was a mozilla bug report and a hacked patch to expose SIMD through js[1], and a project to add SIMD support to vectors in Dart[2].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644389

[2] http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/06/18/bringing-simd-accel...

Last I looked, the vector math part of 3D wasn't handled by webGL, this uses Three.js to handle that, and looks to be the main bottleneck. Until you can do matrix/vector math using hardware, webGL is pretty much useless.

I read that into it also. It strips everyone into stars and job-occupiers. But I think it leaves out another really important subset of people who can identify those of their peers who are prodigies, and absorb their thought train and problem solving patterns through osmosis. If you're sitting next to the smartest guys in the room, and you have the right mix of social skills and an appreciation of process, you're bound to have it rub off on you.

Another reason to use https, (and to deny telcos the right to run root certs)

Its worth whatever people are willing to pay for it. It's a perception that you need Windows, and that's going to last a while. That's why there's such a huge market in silly things that you don't need(like Winzip for example), the price has nothing to do with how much engineering went into it, or how much it cost.

And also, from TFA the actual source of the article is hearsay at best. Pricing is more likely to be based around individual agreements with suppliers. They have a real incentive to get units out (to drive more App store revenue), But for smaller players they will continue to milk the Windows brand for as much as people are willing to pay for it.

haha, nice!

All they need now is to bundle in mingw32 + msys.

Presumably, the service will be better. Banks in Australia usually need a deposit of one years of sales if you take yearly subscriptions. Then you need to go to a payment processor, who charge their own fees structure on top. But the banks do give you decent service, in that you have someone to call when something goes wrong.

The worst part of PayPal is undoubtedly the service, I've had experience where they locked the account and demanded social security no.s and registration information (via fax) for which there are no Australian equivalents. After months of them asking for things that don't exist, it took a complaint to the Financial industry ombudsman for them to de-restrict the account to allow us to withdraw the funds.