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I agree with everything in this video and I'm so glad I don't live in berkeley anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKMzmOYcEUE

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Lacanian analysis of the greater fool as a form of the Other

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

since error correcting codes let you trade bandwidth for resilience against noise, and since someone else transmission is your noise (especially if it's encrypted), if the system of slicing up the radio frequency spectrum and allocating slices to people didn't already exist there would be no […]

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

is there an existing license that's MIT unless you're a employee, contractor, subsidiary, etc of one of a list of entities

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

well, i've done it, posted political content on my little food and parenting blog so, no turning back now thestore.substack.com/p/ya-basta

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

[uspol] trump putting tariffs on drugs is extremely on-brand. everything he's doing seems designed specifically to screw his base

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

what would it take for fediverse clients to use omemo for dm's? is there some metadata you can stick on your account that can indicate that you support omemo without needing support from the server?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

if you do hashing trick style ML for long enough every value in the computer looks like a vector of Bernoulli random variables

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Ouch, this sent a chill down my spine. [Tl;dr: GitHub locked a repo apparently because one of its contributors was in a US-sanctioned region]: 1. https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370 2. https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114233788700982882

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submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

basically a track written for string quartet but arranged for tracker and with a drum machine and an arp running under it https://soundcloud.com/dopefist/sea-salt-mix-2c #np

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

you can do "make this image anime" type style transfer without using neural networks by doing Efros and Freeman image quilting plus a little blending/blur. I did this several years ago with impressionist paintings and it works

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

microsoft is pumping the brakes on datacenter buildout https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-26/microsoft-abandons-more-data-center-projects-td-cowen-says

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

if you live in a gold mining area when there's hyperinflation how long does it take for people to switch to using specie

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

crpytocurrency does have a usecase and it's evading fx controls. americans didn't pay attention to that because fx controls mostly aren't an issue in the US (except for ofac), but if we continue turing into brazil they will be

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

you ever think about how facebook tried to make bancor real and the only thing that stopped them was that mark zuckerberg lived in the US

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

people have been using generating a full wine glass as a test case that image generator's can't pass. I've been saying that the reason they fail at this is that they can't model refractions; the part of the net that can generate pixels only has local […] [Original post on feed.hella.cheap]

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

the insight behind doing byte pair encoding for tokenization is that good tokens are ones that make good compression dictionary entries because by encoding surface-level linguistic structure you're increasing the entropy of the data. this works well but it assumes that tokens are independent […]

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

cad packages have heatmap visualizations for things like stress concentrations (which are generated using finite element methods). could you make a visualization like that for the energy landscape of the kinematic model of the part?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

beautiful visual explanation of the lambda calculus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcVA8Nj6HEo

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, I’m Michael Waltz! But you can call me the national security chick :D

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

bubbles are the corporate equivalent of : imagine you're diagnosed with a terrible disease that will almost certainly kill you in 1-2 years. there is a cure but it costs $20M. if you sell all your assets and beg everyone you know for money you can get maybe $1M, so you're still $19M short. what […]

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment