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jensgk··on NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown
Astronauts have privacy too
jensgk··on Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
We didn't measure data size that way. At some point in the future someone would find this dialog, and think that we dont't have large amounts of data now, because we are not using entire solar systems for storage.
jensgk··on The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
> I wonder what would have happened if we poured the same amount of money, talent and hardware into SVMs, random forests, KNN, etc.

From my perspective, that is actually what happened between the mid-90s to 2015. Neural netowrks were dead in that period, but any other ML method was very, very hot.

jensgk··on The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
Compared to today. We thought we used large amounts of data at the time.
jensgk··on I always found this picture of Steve Jobs in his home office fascinating
Yes. Some of the best active (studio) speakers available.
jensgk··on Jean Michel Jarre and Brian May Starmus Concert Livestream [video]
Great concert, with some of his old tracks.
jensgk··on U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers
Good for you, one of the chosen few in your country. But then again you have to endure living in the US :-) I have 6 weeks paid vacation (besides the public holidays), 5 extra family care days, unlimited (paid) child sick leave, paid own sick leave, work from home (2-3 days a week), great free public health care, free uni education for my children (and they get paid to go). I can't be fired without 6 months notice. And a 37 hour work week, and a clean conscience knowing that all workers have comparable work life. I have nothing to complain about.
jensgk··on U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers
Also what is the benefit of having those things, if your citizens generelly do not gain anything from it, eg with regard to life expentacy, happyness and wealth?
jensgk··on U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers
Well, for the size of our country, I think we are doing well, we have Novo Nordisk, Maersk, Carlsberg, Lego and maybe others. We are above the US when it comes to Nobel prizes per capita, higher than the US when it comes to happyness.
jensgk··on U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers
"If something is positive for both sides then I think the market will eventually adopt it on its own." In Denmark we (by law) all have 5 weeks of holiday per year (besides public holidays), paid sick leave, 37 hour work week, paid maternity care (m/f), reasonable notice of termination, reasonable rules for work environment, etc. All because of our unions. How is it in the US?
jensgk··on Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
I found my two old mechanical PC keyboards from the mid 80's in the garage, took them in and cleaned them. Bought some VIAL adaptors for them and new alps keycaps for one of them. Ended up reading about mechanical keyboard history, keycaps, VIAL/VIA/QMK, etc. Also bought an old IBM model m keyboard yesterday.
jensgk··on Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art
Art is for seeing the world from different perspectives.
jensgk··on Ask HN: What other good forums are out there?
Audiosciencereview.com
jensgk··on Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
Leverpostej FTW :-)
jensgk··on A DIY near-IR spectrometer
Very cool! NIR is often used to measure protein, fat, water and fiber contents i corn, animal feedstuff. I used to make calibrations for that in the 90's. I wonder if this would be able to do that?
jensgk··on Inmos and the Transputer – Parallel Ventures
I had a uni project in 1990 where we mapped old fashioned neural networks to a 16 pcs Transputer computer. That was fun.
jensgk··on McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)
@DonHopkins I can see that your comments were flagged and now dead. You should make a blog with your comments and post them here instead. I think they do contain interesting information.
jensgk··on Chiptune.app
The classical piano pieces sound great in the Pianoteq VST.
jensgk··on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
Wouldn't it be better if there was a Wikipedia page, that would track where big communities (currently) resides?

Eg. former "/r/thiscommunity" now resides on "XXX" and "YYY" former "slashdot.org" now resides on "news.ycombinator.com" and "lobste.rs" or something like that.

jensgk··on The TI (Lisp) Explorer Project
At that time TI did many interesting things. I remember using TI PC Scheme with great joy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36235175
jensgk··on Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies
Also:

* Larger population to recruit from, because distance to office does not matter.

* More diverse workforce, because people with some physical and/or mental disabilities, will be able to work remote.

jensgk··on Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies
Unless it is a co-op or nonprofit.
jensgk··on Meta has started its latest round of layoffs, focusing on business groups
PyTorch has a BSD license, so should be genuine OSI Open Source.
jensgk··on China’s BYD is overtaking Tesla as the carmaker extraordinaire
I thought it was still 180%. I haven't noticed that prices on new cars has become cheaper.
jensgk··on China’s BYD is overtaking Tesla as the carmaker extraordinaire
BYD is already sold in the EU, so all legal obligations has been done. See byd.dk
jensgk··on NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
I am also Danish, and I agree.
jensgk··on I wanted a beautiful computer and couldn't find one, so I made my own
Great project, but there are many nice and creative pc design proposals, eg. http://slipperyskip.com/page23.html and https://uri.cat/projects/modern-retro-terminal/
jensgk··on Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)
That is what Ethan Winer called "Audiophoolery" here: https://ethanwiner.com/audiophoolery.html
jensgk··on Build a fully functional processor from transistors
This is a link to a video introduction: https://youtu.be/BH9FfKMcLGQ
jensgk··on The radical moral implications of luck in human life (2020)
Exactly. Commercials create demand for stuff we didn’t even imagine.
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