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> Not everyone is going to be happy with the idea of the 'go' command downloading and running binaries from the Internet. If this is the case for you, you need to set GOTOOLCHAIN to either 'path', if you're happy to search $PATH for the right toolchain, or 'local', if you want to turn off this behavior entirely and have 'go' just fail.
Use the right tool for the job.
Your entire journey here is battling with Python and not the problem space. Your improvements are solely measured by how your code leaves Python problem solving space, so you end up writing what's probably unpythonic and unmaintainable Python.
Why?
Rewrite in Go, Rust or C++ or whatever.
If you need to go faster than Python, don't use Python. Python is great for everything else. Its overhead and sluggish execution are consequences of its greatest strength.
Memorization leads to a different kind of knowledge, I think. You don't know the thing, you know the steps to reproduce.
It's like my grandmother who knows several songs by heart, but if you ask about the second line in the third verse she'll sing it from the start until she reaches the line in question. For a song this is sufficient, because it is analogous to the primary use cases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_current_practice
Although there's some expected overlap.
I've always thought slack was the alternative, to IRC.
Personally I prefer demo, because it's a demonstration of what you can expect.
> Oh yes, the 90's was so much better...
Yes they were, because geocities didn't control your search results and did not force you to donate 10 seconds to some creepily targeted ad before serving any multimedia experience.
I'm not going to say technology was better, nobody misses Realmedia, but the internet was more like a street than a mall. You could look at some weird art or look at some interesting offers, it was up to you.
Now you have the illusion of autonomy in a carefully crafted walled garden of ads. Or rather: freedom is more easily found offline.
Cool project though. Since it's proprietary I'm less likely to pick it up, but I wish you the best.
A calculator doesn't reason.
'Abductive reasoning' in this special ML sense is a matter of statistical calculation.
My point being that we should stop implying that we're reconstructing human behavior, when what we are doing is _mimicking it_ through advanced recursion and statistics over huge amounts of inputs (big data).
Abductive reasoning OTOH relies on huge imperfections: human bias, flawed logic, misremembered facts, invented facts, all of whom are culturally situated, a sense of abstract self, a biological self and always an overarching, immanent telos.
Speculatively we might be inventing an entirely new category of existence whose logical categories (such as a special case 'abductive reasoning') cannot be understood in anthropomorphic terminology without distorting it. To me that's still science fiction, so far I've only seen automatons; shallow mimicking robots.
Makes sense to use Transformers' data to train autonomous vehicles.
This is by design, btw, cf. e.g. "Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity " [1]; not itself a primary source but it seems to be well received.
My point being, it's like cigarettes with a message. The message being divisive in all likelihood, in order to override rationality with emotion and increase engagement. [2]
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5362930/
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Madness-Driving-Crisis-Restor...
[2] How social media shapes polarization: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cHDXsRpzZ84svIv5L-7tfnOvJ-p...
As someone who's worked in telecom for a number of years, the fines for broadcasting I've seen issued to individuals are insane. Not just radio but wireless amplification too. Different European country though.
Always check the legislation in the country of operation. Emergency frequencies are held sacred by the powers that be.
You were there, it was real. The memories are real. The spaces are real even if not corporeal.
For me it's places from my childhood I can still visit without feeling alienated. If I visit my childhood home that we sold decades ago, there's someone else living there and I don't see with the same eyes either. But the multiplayer maps are the same.
I play the FOSS FPS called Xonotic now just for the entertainment. I realize I was never as good as teenager me believed I was. But I can learn. Sometimes when I'm gibbed early in a Clan Arena match, waiting for the round to end, I'll just rise to the top of the map and see the fake sunrise backdrop of my childhood. I can also recommend defrag mode, just running around a track parkour style trying to maximize efficiency is extremely relaxing.
Gotta wonder if this could be used to improve elder care for our generation. Imagine being in an old folk's home with VR headset and playing with your peers in familiar surroundings?
> Performance wise, simdjson-go runs on average at about 40% to 60% of the speed of simdjson. Compared to Golang's standard package encoding/json, simdjson-go is about 10x faster.
I haven't tried it yet but I don't really need that speed.
First of all, humans have already solved this problem successfully with the invention of oral traditions. If you combine a stubborn social practice with a sufficiently effective and fault tolerant stenography, you should have storage that can reach 50K years (Australian aboriginals boast 60K+ years of records). IOW a record keeping written language and a social practice (like a religion) would have the practical survivability of oral traditions but a much higher storage capacity.
Second, and perhaps this should be first, why are we assuming our knowledge is even remotely relevant to the distant futures? Absolutely none of Ancient Egyptian science exists as practice today, their entire cultural horizon is dead (a corpse in Nietzschean terms) and the only ones with a devoted interest are an elite few in a science of archeology that has only existed once in humankind to our knowledge. That the future cultures have the social or biologic capacity or motivation for archeology let alone science rest upon some rather huge and unfounded assumptions.
The only thing I can think of that should be transferred 1000 years into the future which they also have a high probability of caring about regardless of what motivates them would be e.g. where we store nuclear waste.
There's an additional perhaps even more important aspect contributing here: the sociality of language and shared values in technology as social communities.
IMO If it hadn't been agile it would have been something else; we build common understandings with the terminology we have available, in order for our activities to make sense.
It doesn't matter if the terminology is applied correctly, viz. adhering to the theory (although many escape this accusation by a tacking "hybrid" onto everything). What matters is practical applicability: when we use these terms we're more often understanding rather than misunderstanding each other.
So the terms are used in more abstract ways than intended. (E.g. agile as methodology in health bureaucracy is kinda weird.)
> Rerun is an SDK for logging data like images, tensors and point clouds, paired with an app that builds visualizations around that data. We built Rerun for computer vision and robotics developers. It makes it easy to debug, explore and understand internal state and data with minimal code. The point is to make it much easier to build computer vision and robotics solutions for the real world.
Your assumption that blocking is somehow ethical by default is not unproblematic.
There's a world wide web built by academics for free exchange of information and there's a closed garden web built by major capitalists.
Just how free that exchange of information should be is not a settled problem. Some very libertarians argue along the lines of information "wanting to be free". Some commercial entities seem to identify copyright and trademark law with moral doctrines. There are plenty of arguments for in-between positions as well.
If we look at less democratic societies, the efforts made to circumnavigate state censorship are publicly lauded as morally good actions by the international community. Could an analogy be drawn to large corporations censoring the less fortunate in a economically uneven societies too, for instance?
No one disagrees with you in principle, but there are realcitrant social practices punishing this kind of feedback. It is always taken as a grudge rather than an observation, and this makes you less attractive as a hire.