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Nifty, but the article should have elaborated on the use cases. It suggested that training is the biggest one, but are these really a substitute for actually feeling real-world things? Seems like they’d have to be almost magically precise to, say, simulate the difference between quality and unacceptable fabric.

Thanks. The original description made this seem like far-future technological magic. A system that can somehow analyze a random pane of glass and derive all the transformations needed to use it as a high-precision waveguide? I actually had a manager ask me to develop such a thing, and I asked him how many dozen optics PhDs I could hire to accomplish this feat.

As a young man, I would have given nearly anything to attend Stanford or MIT, but I knew I wasn’t quite up to their standards. Now I find their presidents are not up to mine.

Ironically, that ended up teaching him an important lesson about capitalism.

Something laser-guided if you ask me.

Good Lord, all of that sounds horrible. More power to you for whatever else you face ahead on this.

I will. There’s no streaming service that guarantees any level of bitrate or picture quality, and if they can save a few cents by compressing the hell out of my movie, they will. If I get a well-mastered 4K disc, it’ll always be a quality experience on a decent player.

Meanwhile my new EV keeps feeling more and more like a quiet and comfortable tracking collar.

Fellow Alamedan here, same. I was surprised it was across the Bay.

I’m always amused by Americans (and I am one) who think our weather is so great, when we actually have the worst overall weather on Earth.

“It’s not a tumor!” - Kindergarten Cop.

I haven't seen any evidence of this, at all.

Using Tower for Nextflow can help streamline it on AWS, it’s pretty powerful (but costs money for anything beyond trivial use cases): tower.nf