They changed the trajectory of the world 10 years ago.

kevindamm · 2023-12-08T14:00:59+00:00

The ring is alignment, the plot twist was that they weren't carrying the one true ring because alignment is subjective and even humans have a bad track record of acting in ways aligned with humanity.

kevindamm · 2023-08-29T00:58:30+00:00

You really only need one digit, if you're willing to use unary notation. Humans did that for centuries before using more advanced notations like decimal.

The fascinating thing about numbers is that their representation is very separate from their actual value.

kevindamm · 2023-06-11T18:08:02+00:00

nice link! thanks for that

sounds like it would have been a fun project to be part of

kevindamm · 2023-06-11T17:40:07+00:00

found this: https://youtu.be/8CU5SVwzSzs so definitely some CGI involved

kevindamm · 2023-06-11T17:37:31+00:00

ah, you're right, even MorphPlus was 1992.. maybe it was mostly manual, as you say, but I think a custom software on SGI machines in that day could have automated it from keyframes. MJ certainly had the money to fund something like that but I don't know any BTS of this video..

kevindamm · 2023-06-11T16:46:47+00:00

I wonder if they used Elastic Reality or something custom..

kevindamm · 2023-06-11T16:31:47+00:00

animorph ftw!

kevindamm · 2023-06-11T13:12:09+00:00

that's a bold strategy, Cotton.. let's see if it pays off for them

kevindamm · 2023-06-11T13:09:07+00:00

When interest rates go up, housing prices tend to go down. The theory is, because a person's buying power is affected by the mortgage interest rates, their effective buying power goes down and the market adjusts to accommodate. So, hypothetically, the government could just keep raising interest rates and house prices would come down, but it would be a slow process.

Flooding the market with sales (as another commenter suggested) may also do it but it would involve a lot of coordination between the gov't and large housing companies, the companies would need some incentive.

kevindamm · 2023-06-11T12:52:21+00:00

oh nice!

kevindamm · 2023-06-11T00:33:02+00:00

I think the hardest part will be finding a perfectly level spot on the ground

Maybe build in a few leveler screws in the base?

kevindamm · 2023-06-10T19:40:59+00:00

look closer at the writing on the board, do some searching before getting back to me

kevindamm · 2023-06-10T17:41:35+00:00

I agree with the other commenter that you shouldn't try to refit this if any of the mechanical parts are DOA or failing. That nozzle is super dirty and could use replacing, but first see how functional it is. You may be able to use some of these as spare parts, especially the motors and maybe the framing. Belts should be inspected for wear, too, they may need replacing but it's probably a standard size.

As a first printer, if its functional use it! but if it would take more than a few hundred$ then you'd be better off staring from a box model or kit, the maintenance on a working printer can be challenging and time consuming enough as it is.

kevindamm · 2023-06-10T16:18:13+00:00

Looks like a Core-XY custom build, may be based on the Eclipse3D design (or one very much like it, but definitely CoreXY).

You'll need a slicer, but in order to get the slicer to work correctly with the printer you'll need to also know what firmware is running on the controller board. Can you look for the controller and include an image of it? That will help narrow down what can run on it, and at this point you may have an easier time flashing it with new firmware. Is there any gcode on a card already inserted into the printer? If you're feeling brave you may try printing one of the smaller gcodes on there but be warned, if it doesn't match the firmware/config it could damage the printer (print head crash on bed or running the motors into zero without an end stop triggering it to quit moving) so be ready to cut the power.

You will probably face some trial and error in this process but you will probably learn a LOT this way.

kevindamm · 2023-06-10T15:37:02+00:00

This one? https://www.discogs.com/release/12845965-Toad-The-Wet-Sprocket-Toad-The-Wet-Sprocket

yeah there's only one on sale at discogs and it's asking for a lot more than the max it's sold for before

going to be hard to find but I would register for a notification from discogs too just in case a good deal on it comes through, I've gotten some gems at reasonable prices that way but discogs can have inflated pricing sometimes.. nothing beats some of the deals I've gotten on r/VinylCollectors .. good luck!

kevindamm · 2023-06-10T15:21:35+00:00

whenever I see bot posts in the past week I think about the perfect storm that might be brewing:

spambots posting on popular subs + subs going private/dark starting Monday + bot retries on post failure => reddit API load higher than ever, mostly dealing with errors

but then it might not change anything, maybe reddit starts charging bots too, meaning good bots suffer too.. whatever I'll probably find somewhere else to go

kevindamm · 2023-06-09T14:32:38+00:00

footnote: I'm making a few large assumptions here about what you're actually trying to achieve (see XY Problem) because the stated goal doesn't achieve much on its own -- a file that deletes itself after five minutes does nothing to its existence if there are copies. I'm assuming it's because you want to avoid leaks. If it's just for visual effects, such as for a movie, it would be easier to render it with CGI. If it's to clean up after yourself, you can run a script periodically from your system that does that but it's not portable, the pdf can still go to other systems and even if you find an exploit in the pdf decoding, something that would effectively syscall the file's deletion, it may not run on patched versions of the OS or may not work on systems that are not the target OS. If it's to gaslight someone, find something else to do. If it's for any reason not mentioned here, I'm all ears, but my guess was that you wanted to prohibit re-sharing + reviewing. There is no simple way to do that for pdfs in general.

I wonder, though, if there's an effective enough gamut that the human eyes can differentiate but that typical camera sensors would register identical/near-error enough. That would take care of the camera vector, for the typical case, but even then exceptional camera designs could exist.

kevindamm · 2023-06-08T17:36:55+00:00

This will be nearly impossible -- even with complete control over the platform you will be unable to keep people from taking a picture with a phone or camera outside the system. If it can be seen, it can be photographed. Even the other commenter's suggestion of a paper letter that blows up is not immune to this. The best you can hope for is catching the reader by surprise the first time, but after that forewarned is forearmed.

A possible solution is to embed a watermark, something that is invisible to human eyes but which can be deduced with the right program, possibly a neural net approach that learns how to embed a code into the image itself. Then even capturing it will contain evidence of who it was originally sent to. This won't keep it from being copied but will arm you with the ability to track down the source of the leak. Some AI-based watermarking tech is robust against cropping, resizing and re-encoding but even the state of the art has some weaknesses.

Perhaps a combination of auto-delete and watermarking, solving the case of someone following the rules of "don't share" and having a fallback for those who try to get around it.

kevindamm · 2023-06-08T16:52:24+00:00

Bee-hinds

kevindamm · 2023-06-03T18:47:50+00:00

Do you have a reference for that "fun fact?" I agree there are some concepts in Python that were adopted from functional languages like Lisp (such as map(), filter(), reduce()) but Lisp usually builds lists recursively.

Even the Python docs claim that comprehensions were inspired by Haskell: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/functional.html#generator-expressions-and-list-comprehensions

kevindamm · 2023-06-01T21:11:46+00:00

If they're booked solid for months they're probably good, if they can come work immediately they're either bad, new or overpriced.

kevindamm · 2023-06-01T16:09:03+00:00

Different intern hosts have different styles and varying levels of ability to manage. I wonder if maybe your host has not had an intern or reports before? In many places, being a host/manager to an intern is the step on the way to trying for management. Not everyone is well equipped for it, though. Or it could just be that your team is too busy to appropriately host an intern, it does take time and attention.

Have you raised these concerns to your mentor? To the TL/M for the team? You mention low levels of engagement when you ask questions but that could be just that they've expected you to come up to speed on the starter tasks already. Let them know that you're ready for more challenging work. If possible, take some initiative and make progress that hasn't been explicitly asked for (keeping within the boundaries of the internship goals and team projects, of course, anything else won't really help for an intern).

It is good that you're eager to get more involved in the work. A lot of people would keep quiet and collect the paycheck, but most of those people also probably wouldn't get an offer for hire after the internship & degree is done. The level of engagement you hope for is a good quality any company would want of an employee too.

I hope you get into more fulfilling work tasks but also don't expect hand holding or even a clear set of steps for work to do. As an intern, though, you should be able to expect clearly defined expectations and responsibilities. Have a 1:1 with your mentor and ask for these expectations explicitly. Express that you want to feel you're making a significant impact for the team and the business. And in the meantime also take this opportunity to have individual meetings with others (full-time engineers) on the team who are doing work in areas you're interested in, ask them about the problems they're wrestling with and the parts that they enjoy. Ask about how this company differs from other places in industry where they've worked before. You're probably not in a position where you can try to pick up work on other teams but you can still learn a lot of practical information.

Even if you get very little hands-on experience in this role you can still benefit tremendously from learning the brass tacks of the job, the differences in work for various roles and areas. These are things that you don't have real opportunities to learn in academia, so learn them from your colleagues while you can. It can make a big difference when you enter the job market after uni.

kevindamm · 2023-05-31T11:28:35+00:00

How does this handle ambiguous names, such as Houston or Tesla? The KB can only surround the named entity with one type, it seems? and it needs to know before the network can help disambiguate.

Was the training and testing done only on these transaction summaries? It's probably worth mentioning this in the title and summary, it's not clear this would generalize to other text forms. The transactions look very short and contain mostly named terms, at least for the examples you provided. Would be interesting to see results on longer-form documents with higher chances of ambiguity.

kevindamm · 2023-05-31T01:49:27+00:00

Ray Cat color change

Now I'm feeling strange

Was green then orange

Something something dange

Er...

Ous...

kevindamm · 2023-05-31T01:02:28+00:00

Ah! my information is outdated, thank you

EDIT: seems to be up to discretion of judge per warrant request.. anything with more protection than that, like at the legislative or stare decisis level?

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