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queuebert··on Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
And do you think ChatGPT is always doing this accurately? There is no end-to-end logic, so what you get could be either bullshit hallucination or correct. This is not the correct use of the tool right now. Maybe in the future with a different architecture.
queuebert··on Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
If it were so easy, why didn't you post a few examples rather than insult me?
queuebert··on Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
I'm struggling to think of a federal job in which having ChatGPT would make them more productive. I can think of many ways to generate more bullshit and emails, however. Can someone help me out?
queuebert··on Why you can't color calibrate deep space photos
As an aside, I think you are referring to black body sources, which is described by Planck's law. Stars dgaf about color spaces of computer monitors. They are relatively close to black bodies as thermal emitters, though, at least on main sequence and +/- some spectral lines.

We physicists never use the term Planckian for thermal black bodies. That adjective would be used in quantum mechanics, though, for very small things.

queuebert··on Why you can't color calibrate deep space photos
One big reason for filters in astronomy and astrophotography is to block certain frequency ranges, such as city lights.
queuebert··on Why you can't color calibrate deep space photos
That would trade time and frequency information for spatial information, which is what you want in astronomy, but maybe not for candid family photos.
queuebert··on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
And RIP my perfectly good and working computer without a TPM chip. Guess I'll switch it to Linux ...
queuebert··on Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code
Over my embarrassingly long time of coding, I've gone through all of these fonts and more (VT100 anyone?) and eventually traded the sans-serif fixed-width fonts for ones with serifs, as it feels less tiring at the end of long days. For the last few years, I've used Monaspace [1] variants, especially Xenon, and enjoyed them immensely.

1. https://monaspace.githubnext.com/

queuebert··on Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
The EM shielding is simply a wire mesh, not tint. The glass doesn't have to be darkened, and probably wasn't, but often the room is darkened to make the scan more comfortable and calming. Also, in my experience the room doesn't have many lights, and the patient is inside the bore, making them hard to see.
queuebert··on GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical
> Makes you dream there could be an equivalent for our own universe?

My idea to attack the simulation is psychological: make our own simulation that then makes its own simulation, and so on all the way down. That will sow doubt in the minds of the simulators that they themselves are a simulation and make them sympathetic to our plight.

queuebert··on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
Anecdotally, I have two gaming desktops for my kids in the same place, side by side. They don't know much about computers, but they greatly prefer to use the Linux one and only use the Windows one when forced to, like because Microsoft bought Minecraft and only puts out Education Edition for Windows. They seem to navigate Ubuntu much easier than Windows, and that machine gives them less trouble and is snappier.
queuebert··on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
This is a very common workflow for me, except I was using Teams on a Mac. And thanks to some update there are now two non-working versions of Teams installed ("Teams" and "Teams new" or some equally tacky naming). Luckily I have a Linux laptop next to it that can run it in-browser.

I would love to know what Microsoft thinks the purpose of the standalone app is, when it is both slower and less reliable.

queuebert··on Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]
I think you are using "sparse" and "non-linear" as scare terms. Sparse is a good thing, as it reduces degrees of freedom, and non-linear does not mean unsolvable.

Also "impedance mismatch" doesn't mean no go, but rather less efficient.

queuebert··on The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021)
That comment is mind boggling. I've spent a large fraction of my life playing in classical orchestras and also never heard anyone get confused. Yes, classical music is a genre and a period. Bach is in the genre, but not the period.

I hope the commenter learned something from their attempt at pedantry.

queuebert··on Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
That doesn't fix suboptimal algorithm choices, but neither would a small NN in the compiler. A big NN could rewrite large sections of code without changing the logic, but why do that during translation instead of rewriting the source?
queuebert··on The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021)
This and their Pachelbel's Canon were what ignited my love for classical music as a child.
queuebert··on TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
Even '[' is an external binary in /usr/bin typically.
queuebert··on Jupiter was formerly twice its current size, had a much stronger magnetic field
Yes, that's why I said buff. The radius as defined would increase, because surface pressure is 90 bar, so at 1 bar, you're pretty high in the atmosphere. I can see merit in such a definition because that is the level at which we wouldn't have to pressurize our space stations to be comfortable. (Really 1/3 bar is fine too.)
queuebert··on CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
Which is hard but theoretically possible.
queuebert··on Jupiter was formerly twice its current size, had a much stronger magnetic field
> ... decreased by increased mass.

I don't think this is in general true for planets or stars. You're confounding multiple effects. For a fixed number of particles, increasing metallicity, which follows average particle mass, should reduce radius, but for a fixed metallicity and temperature, increasing particles will increase radius. Temp has the effects stated. You can roughly validate this by the fact that massive planets and stars are bigger than less massive ones. Obviously many other things start happening as stars reach end of life...

queuebert··on Jupiter was formerly twice its current size, had a much stronger magnetic field
Venus would get a slight radius buff, too, if we applied that metric.
queuebert··on Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts
An EMR will necessarily have low churn rate because the cost of switching is tremendous. I've been doing this a long time, and Epic is kind of the "EMR of the day". No doubt a new one will come along, solving the UI problems, offering new capabilities, and hospitals will switch over.
queuebert··on CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
Make an antimatter liquid with strong intra-molecular bonds (e.g. anti-H2O) that is only slightly ionized. That would be easier to contain magnetically.
queuebert··on CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
If you can ship antimatter, you can drop it on people. Luckily, we are still orders of magnitude away from a bomb-sized amount.
queuebert··on Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original
Copies of the Magna Carta are becoming unaffordable for working-class families.
queuebert··on The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
In a perfect world, maximizing (EV/op) x (ops/sec) should be done for even user software. How many person-years of productivity are lost each year to people waiting for Windows or Office to start up, finish updating, etc?
queuebert··on The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
Why can you not match orders in parallel using logarithmic reduction, the same way you would sort in parallel? Is it that there is not enough other computation being done other than sorting by time and price?
queuebert··on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
What's to stop me embedding a pinhole camera in the lamp behind me, zooming it in on the screen, and recording every meeting?

These kinds of measures only stop the good guys from doing their jobs. The bad guys put way too much effort into espionage for this to work.

queuebert··on Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context
Wouldn't that amount to essentially writing a video card driver?
queuebert··on Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context
I'm using that combo in a DOS emulator to teach my kids how to code. They love being able to draw right out of the box. And the best part is no distractions. No updates to apply, no popup notifications, and no crashes -- everything just works.
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