peter303

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Comment · 4 months ago
NYTimes article a few years ago on how car insurance companies were using such data. Tracking sudden stoos, driving at night, driving faster than 80 mph, etc.
Comment · 5 months ago
Relatively few industry keynotes have Nobel Prize Winner presenter. Hassabis was promoting the Gemini Scientists Assistant.
Comment · 5 months ago
Same issue in Firefox.
Comment · 9 months ago
The precession circle is 144 arc degrees sin 23.5. In an 80 year lifespan precession would move the rotation pole about .44 arc degrees or the diameter of the full moon. Any long lived astronomical observatory in ancient times would have noticed this.
Comment · 1 year ago
RPN interpreters require very little core memory. So they were popular with computers where core memory was under ten kilobytes.

But its horrible for software engineering with multiple programmers and large codebases. Lacks structures, interfaces, modules, data abstraction that you expect in a modern language. We called it the "Chinese food" of coding- ten minutes later you had nomidea what you just coded.

Comment · 1 year ago
Frame buffer memory was still incredibly expensive in 1980. Our labs 512 x 512 x 8bit table lookup color buffer cost $30,000 in 1980. Mac's 512 x 384 x 8bit buffer in 1984 had to fit the Macs $2500 price. The Xerox Alto was earlier than these two devices and would have cost even more if it had a full frame buffer.
Comment · 2 years ago
Reminds of "fugi film": the standard development make the colors brighter than reallife. The customers liked that better, even if less accurate.
Comment · 2 years ago
Of course. You was formal while thou was informal.
Comment · 3 years ago
The larger language models now employ a trillion parameters. This is faster when memory and computing is tighter, not distributed. Cerebus's million core super-wafer addresses this.
Comment · 3 years ago
My state has flat tax rate of federal taxable income (after deductions). Most years its free online filing and typing 5 or 6 numbers. Takes five minutes. The tax softwares dont like that because they get half their income from state filings.

I dislike that I dont get the long term capital gains discount like on federal.

Comment · 3 years ago
I eat chicken regularly.
Comment · 3 years ago
Congress
Comment · 3 years ago
Steam power was more of toy for the Romans. Some made dioramas with statues of the gods moved by steam.
Comment · 3 years ago
Aristotle described propositional logic.
Comment · 3 years ago
I liked the guy using an AI to train another AI. He is just maximizing his income.

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