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Re:Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix on Monday October 06, 2025 @02:47PM (#45494790)
The interesting fingerprints are the ones which are different than the surrounding material.
Re:The Universal Tech Tree on Thursday June 05, 2025 @05:12PM (#44195841)
Thanks for doing this research!

The information is organized clearly by date, technology and predecessor/descendant.

But,technology continues to improve, and this site has no database or github for continuing to update with new tech or to fill in the gaps.

This website format also makes it difficult to do other forms of analysis.

I wonder if the authors would make the data available in a knowledge graph form.

Karpathy's nanoGPT has a full training pipeline using Shakespeare. [1]

The use case for this is learning in simple example.

[1] https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT

No one has mentioned 2FA. I suspect the passwords are not all that is needed.
Re:Scythe Works Without Borders on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @04:19PM (#41988906)
The Future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. William Gibson

What is the skill tree of development, and how do we speed run it?

Re:Death Cafe on Saturday August 24, 2024 @01:02PM (#41339598)
If you are looking for this sort of community, you may find Jane Miller a good guide.

https://janemiller.xyz/death-care/#moon

She offers regular group meetings on how to navigate the cycles of life and death.

Re:The Annotated S4 on Monday February 12, 2024 @04:51PM (#39351021)
DSS: Diagonal State Spaces are as Effective as Structured State Spaces (https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14343)

S4D: On the Parameterization and Initialization of Diagonal State Space Models (https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11893)

I read a new paper a day with a study group, and when I do not understand something, look at the prior work references. A well written paper is an introduction to the area, and few will help catch you up. Read them closely, there are clues in the details. Then attempt to implement the algorithm, on a tiny example. It's slow going in the beginning but you will catch up. A study group helps.
Re:How An ASML Lithography Machine Moves a Wafer [video] on Monday January 08, 2024 @07:29AM (#38911019)
Brendan Greg, illustrating the effectiveness of dtrace, by shouting in a datacenter[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

Re:Consistently Achieving Goals on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:37PM (#37773963)
You got the spelling of the url incorrect.
Re:‘She played it down’: Bletchley Park codebreaker dies at 99 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:43PM (#37411797)
Mar Hicks' book Programmed Inequality [1] is some of the story of how post-war Britain lost the lead in computing.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535182/programmed-inequality...

Re:Kris Nova Passed Away on Sunday August 20, 2023 @04:49PM (#37202820)
I also only spoke with Nova once. She was kind and helpful beyond what I could have hoped for.

Her energy and enthusiasm for life shone like a bright star.

She will be missed.

Re:Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) on Monday August 07, 2023 @05:42PM (#37041358)
Following these practices should help software producers reduce the number of vulnerabilities in released software, mitigate the potential impact of the exploitation of undetected or unaddressed vulnerabilities, and address the root causes of vulnerabilities to prevent future recurrences.
Re:Lo-Fi ATC on Sunday March 12, 2023 @07:51PM (#35128383)
It reminds me more of SomaFM's Mission Control[1], which plays music overlaid with NASA mission audio.

[1] https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/

Re:Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:54AM (#34678114)
FreeCodeCamp is good. Practical tutorials to build real things all the way up to deep theory.
Re:Data-first and data-last: a comparison on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:44PM (#34658695)
There is a convention in functional languages that consists on passing the "data" or "object" that will be processed by the function as the last parameter to a function. This is commonly known as "data-last".
Re:Human-Centered Documentation for Web Developers on Sunday August 21, 2022 @12:50PM (#32541982)
Ubuntu has a built in screen reader, Orca [1].

"Welcome to Orca Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via speech and refreshable braille. Orca works with applications and toolkits that support the Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI), which is the primary assistive technology infrastructure for Linux and Solaris. Applications and toolkits supporting the AT-SPI include the GNOME Gtk+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing toolkit, LibreOffice, Gecko, and WebKitGtk. AT-SPI support for the KDE Qt toolkit is being pursued." [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/a11y-screen-reade...

Re:Poker Chip Flipping Puzzle on Sunday November 21, 2021 @08:29PM (#29301698)
Poker chip flipping puzzle
Re:Journey to the Edge of Reason: The life of Kurt Gödel on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:04AM (#29227489)
Correction: "Logical Dilemmas" by John Dawson
I recommend the book (free online): https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-... and the associated Coursera course. It's both simple and subtle to be able to get causality out of observational data.
Re:Fountain pen ink properties on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:07PM (#23514543)
I like the HP Premium 32 paper for use with fountain pens. Smooth surface that ink glides onto.
Alan Downey's Think DSP : https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-dsp/ Free, python, code examples in Juypter notebooks.
Re:The July Galileo Outage: What happened and why on Thursday November 07, 2019 @03:59PM (#21477191)
Thanks for writing this.

The title doesn't mention that Galileo is a Global Navigation System (GPS).

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