dentalperson

It would be mostly quiet (remember that humans only hear up to ~20 kHz).

Sure, this is a joke today, but if we continue down our current path, we would probably hit ultrasonic rates in the not too distant future.

The video was fun and insightful to watch. Big fan of sonification of computer processes. We can hear such a large and important range of frequencies (more than the 'audible range' because we hear impulses in the subsonic range as events) and it works as a nice complementary in real time for an experience that charts can't convey.

What is the training data and have you thought about how to build a causal model that would be robust to interventions (e.g. by changing or adding a gene)?

Yes, they all have significant 'ghosting' artifacts where the harmonics are a bit fuzzy if you listen closely. AFAIK all of the recent neural speech engines have this, from SoundStream to EnCodec, especially in low latency causal setups. Wavenet was a bit better in that regard but has fallen out of style due to complexity and the lack of a bottleneck. It seems like something diffusion post processing would be able to clean up.

I genuinely want to understand this mindset. Are you only against things that help extend lifespan a very large amount, or is it more nuanced?

80 years was only achieved recently because of various quality of life and medical advances. Do you feel that those are 'ok' for other reasons, or for example, that things that cure cancer, HIV, or better sanitation that increase lifespan should also be repealed if it was up to you? Or do you feel we just happen to have the perfect amount of life-extending conditions at this exact moment?

I love the math/stats history around gambling-related things, thanks for mentioning this. This method assumes the flipper can't introduce bias. ET Jaynes in his book Probability Theory also mentions that it is easy to learn to flip a fair coin in such a way that the result can be predetermined. I searched a tiny bit for this but couldn't find what he was referring to though.

Definitely bikeshedding, but it also kind of looks like the TensorFlow logo and for a second I thought there was a group breaking the project free from Google.

Thanks for the recommendations, I will check them out.

I appreciate the point about seriousness too. One part of it that I liked kind of feels like travel writing from the last century (e.g. John Muir) that goes in and out of various subjects with respect to the main one. On the other hand, the author shows their 'seriousness' and culture by being able to reference and talk about the subject in the context of many other subjects. If I try to do this it probably feels pretentious, so I admire the skill of being able to pull it off.

The essay was fun to read and had excellent balance - the author talked about distractions semi-ironically with fine control of its focused structure and pacing while keeping a light and carefree tone that was nonetheless academic. I'd like to learn to write closer to this style. Is regular writing and reading more of these literary journals the way to go about it?

The AMC series Halt And Catch Fire had the line: “Computers aren’t the thing. They’re the thing that gets us to the thing.”

Thanks for reminding me about this. MacsBug was great. Besides being a useful development tool, MacsBug was used extensively to break shareware as well by the mac warez community. I remember seeing some guides about it that were very illuminating about how program execution and object code actually worked that made things click for me.

It was also a time when any consumer could issue a system interrupt with the same two keystrokes because it was built into mac OS, and see the cpu registers and enter hex to change the program flow. Since there was not as clean a system/program barrier as there was today and single threaded OS (I think?), before OS 8 the system froze all the time because of apps, and even non-expert users memorized the hex code for the system exit() trap.

Any merit to this service? It claims without 'hidden fees' so I thought they would get rid of the airbnb-like fees, but it looks like there is still cleaning fees, platform fees, and taxes not included in the nightly rate (for +50% final cost over the nightly).

The install (npx dalai serve) fails silently for me. With --verbose it says `npm info run [email protected] install { code: 1, signal: null }`. Ubuntu 22.04.