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You know what, I can support this for its predecessor, Lotus123. If ANNs are worthy of the prize in physics, then so is this
Do I understand that you like/appreciate grocery store brands, but dislike Amazon's store brand? If so, what is the distinction you see between the two?
Thanks, this is quite bang on. Any good stuff is getting banned/archived/trolled and I am really missing on talking to people about the technicalities of some of the trading systems that I am building. When I mentioned an 'advanced community', I meant discussing with devs their experience in working with tick data, data storage, in memory processing. Qs like can they ingest tick data for a few thousand symbols and what kind of latencies exist in converting to candle sticks, what is the the stack that they trade using. Technicalities in risk management, handling of errors, directional, non directional strategies and in-depth conversations on almost all of the above topics and more
I've been posting to my personal website for 20+ years and it's been something like: basic HTML -> Drupal (whew) -> Wordpress -> basic HTML (via Jekyll).

The fundamental rule I've set myself against feature-bloating in my website is defining what I want it to be: an archive of things I've done. As an archive, I want it to be very durable in time. Thus, static file that are dead-easy to copy around, mirror and make it work in any hosting platform.

It did take me a while to nail having a bilingual site, though :) but at least it's a price I paid once.
QString::toUpper/toLower are not locale-aware (https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qstring.html#toLower)

Qt does have a locale-aware equivalent (QLocale::toUpper/toLower) which calls out to ICU if available. Otherwise it falls back to the QString functions, so you have to be confident about how your build is configured. Whether it works or not has very little to do with the design of QString.
No problems! If you want a slightly longer write-up, here's a classic I constantly share with people:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-turkey/
Meh, neuroscience.
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The Hacker News site is (a) "static" or (b) "complex"?

A case of irony?
Naturally she's not happy https://x.com/skdh/status/1843592351736050053
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And the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics does not go to physics...

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https://x.com/skdh/status/1843592351736050053
As a physicist, my reaction to this is how bizarre is that. Maybe he deserves a nobel prize but in physics?

Also arguing that NN is used in physics so we can argue nobel prize is okay is like asking for Stephan Wolfram to be awarded Nobel prize for Mathematica which is much more used in physics as a tool. And he is a physicist and had contributions to the field of numerical relativity (The reason he created Mathematica in the first place).

The royal science academy fucked up so much with this choice.
The Russian Ka-52 has a soft-kill system that can blind the IR seekers of Soviet and US MANPADS the Ukrainians use. We've seen videos videos of it working... about 70% of the time, which means you have to shoot it 3 times instead of once, but it goes down just the same, and that's not saying anything about bullets, which you can do nothing about.

I think modern military doctrine dictates that you shouldn't even give a chance of an enemy to shoot at you.

I don't think they are a near peer weapon at all. Even small groups can have weapons that can hurt it, in contrast with an F-16, which, unless you have an air force of your own, or anti-aircraft batteries, you can do nothing about.
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nah no way. i thought obama kool

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zmIUm1E4OcI

so you can arguably add ukraine crisis to that list
This is absolutely fantastic! I have been looking on and off for something like this for years (some of the things I have used are CouchDB, command/event sourcing, and ditto.live).

I have not been able to read the docs fully, but some questions:

* How do you handle state that is too big to send to the client fully? In a chat application, does the client need to have the whole channel history, or is syncing a subset of that supported?
* Does permissioning support partial CoValues? For example, "You can edit the contents but not the title of the 'blog post #11' object"
* Do you have resources about the suggested data modelling? Things like how granular should a CoValue be and what the trade-offs are.
* How do you handle deletion? Do you tombstone? Is there a way to fully scrub a value from history (to support, for example, GDPR's right to erasure)?
the data are snapshots in time, not realtime
For one, because of physics: it's easy to hit a slow moving tank from a flying vehicle. It's impossible to hit a fast-moving flying vehicle from a slower moving one. And you can't make a cheap light rotor-based drone move as fast a jet-engine-powered plane no matter how hart you try.

For another, R&D: we've been working on fast autonomous flying vehicles to take down aircraft for decades: as the poster above keeps explaining, they're called AA missiles, and are extremely expensive, and even still have a hard time actually hitting a plain. Drones are an innovation in fighting tanks because they are much more maneuverable than traditional AT weapons and thus can more easily find chinks in the tank's armor. You could have always used the extreme maneuverability of AA rockets to hit those same chinks in the armor, but the cost was too high; drones were cheaper. AA rockets are extremely cost effective against plains though, as those jets are monumentally more expensive than a tank.
The Nobel peace prize is awarded by a different institution than the science ones. And there are hundreds of people that can nominate, doesn't mean that a nomination reflects anything upon the committee that awards the prize.
In some sense it makes sense to award AI researchers on behalf of the physics community because I know many physics PhD’s who thank their job to AI; they work as data scientist now.

Jokes aside, physics is a bit stuck because it’s hard to do experiments at the boundaries of what we know, as far as I understand. So then it makes sense I guess to award people who made useful tools for physics.
Indeed, and even more.

French experts stated it clearly:

1/ 'Cour des comptes' (France's supreme audit institution) established the cost of the nuclear fleet at approximately 228 billion € (2012 Report "Les coûts de la filière nucléaire"). It was contested and is probably under evaluated because some costs were paid for on various budgets (defense, scientific research...) but isn't too far fetched.

2/ IRSN (Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire: Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute") stated that the cost of a single major accident may surpass 430 billions € ( https://www.irsn.fr/savoir-comprendre/crise/cout-economique-... ).
Do you work in the business by any chance?
Computer science has the Turing award and mathematics the Fields medal. Neither is exactly equivalent to the Nobel but they're similar levels of prestige.

The Nobel prize fields and criteria are a bit random, they're essentially just whatever Alfred Nobel wrote in his will.
yes! The hard part that Jazz doesn't solve is peer discovery. If you give Jazz a peer and a transport mechanism it will happily sync to it
> I'm not sure where the layer of civilization started imposing social norms but these Amazon tribes are (were) definitely preceding that.

Clearly not. The story is full of civilisation imposed social norms. Fusiwe was deposed as a headman because he made bad strategic decisions and made enemies. Helena was marked as a dead women because she poisoned some children. Akawe was warned that it is not fair "to hit someone three times without taking a blow oneself". Rashawe held a speech about the good reasons to not kill Helena. Etc etc.

These are all social norms. Different in some sense from our ones, but they are definitely not without social norms.
I agree: I've tempted the all-from-scratch way in pure html for my small web corner and well, I give up, it's simply too long to craft a modern website on basic html. I've tried an RSS-only corner but obviously it's not visible, ending up in Hugo/org-mode simply because it's ready made even if needlessly complicated.
Kahneman was awarded Nobel prize in economic sciences even though his work was, in fact, all about psychology.
an example: https://ganelson.github.io/inweb/eastertide/S-rtd.html
You just buy the microcontrollers and put them on your custom PCB.

The devkits aren’t suitable for resale but there’s no additional licence when you buy an ARM micro from pretty much any manufacturer.
They dont have to give them a nobel prize. They have not advanced any of those areas.
My sense is that we might have reached the limits of what we can do in high-energy or fundamental physics without accessing energy levels or other extreme states that we currently can't access as they are beyond our capacity to generate.

From what I've read (not a professional physicist) string theory is not testable unless we can either examine a black hole or create particle accelerators the size of the Moon's orbit (at least). Many other proposed theories are similar.

There is some speculation that the hypothetical planet nine -- a 1-5 Earth mass planet predicted in the far outer solar system on the basis of the orbits of comets and Kuiper Belt / TNO objects -- could be a primordial black hole captured by the solar system. A black hole of that mass would be about the size of a marble to a golf ball, but would have 1-5g gravity at the distance of Earth's radius.

If such an object did exist it would be within space probe range, which would mean we could examine a black hole. That might get us un-stuck.

If we can't do something like that, maybe we should instead focus on other areas of physics that we can access and that have immense practical applications: superconductivity, condensed matter physics, plasmas / fusion, etc.
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It’s time to consider adding computer science as a category for the Nobel Prize. They have already been awarded prizes for economic sciences and peace, so why not computer science? It's not the same as physics, and its impact on modern life is undeniable
>> It calculates the center of every detection box, pinpoint on screen and gives 16px tolerance on all directions. Script tries to find closest object as fallback and creates a new object in memory in last resort. You can observe persistent objects in /elements folder

I’ve never implemented this kind of object persistence algo - is this a good approach? Seems naive but maybe that’s just because it’s simple.
Nope, an individual who has built most of these things during their free time. I do spend a lot of my time trading and that helps me evolve strategies from a traders perspective and not a 'quant's' perspective
You don't generally need to license Arm chips unless you are designing your own chips for sale, like STM32 or Raspberry Pi do. This is something very few companies do, relative to those who just build things from existing chips.

If you're just building something with an existing Arm microcontrollers. The vendor (Like STMicro) has already licensed the Arm design and sold it to you.
I think we're good for now but please link your GitHub / most impressive project, or shoot me an email to anselm@gcmp.io
Hm, what the post's author says is reasonable on its own, but I'm confident Kernighan's intents were really about avoiding clever code when simple, dumb code does the job. Or, as Rob Pike[0] puts it:

> Rule 3. Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Fancy algorithms have big constants. Until you know that n is frequently going to be big, don't get fancy. (Even if n does get big, use Rule 2 first.)

> Rule 4. Fancy algorithms are buggier than simple ones, and they're much harder to implement. Use simple algorithms as well as simple data structures.

It's a bit ironic then for this post to rely on such a convoluted interpretation instead of the simple, dumb one.

[0]: https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html
I have experienced this exact same scenario. I recently started a new job and want to keep my work stuff completely separate and off my personal phone. I fired up my old iPhone 7 and can't even use the Google authenticator app for 2FA to get into my work accounts!
I'm overly annoyed by the AI generated image of CPUs, with one showing a horrible mottled mess where the nice clean grid of contact pads should be.

There's endless actual pictures of processors from both eras. Using actual images here would have been as fast, possibly faster, than the process of writing a prompt and generating this image.
And not much compared to a bug in prod or waiting 3 weeks for a release (the value proposition of CI/CD)

Still, saving cloud spend by making the build faster or using self hosted runners is probably worth it.
This is going to blow your mind, but humans are part of nature. The view that are not nature is religious.
I think it is. The research paper is probably most useful when printed out, folded and placed under the short leg.
No, because all the things you got rid of to make drones cheap when fighting tanks are required when fighting fighters. You only need to be slightly faster and slightly more maneuverable than your target to take it down, while older AT weapons were much faster: so slower drones could still be just as effective. This is not true for fighter jets.
Even Sheldon Cooper stopped researching string theory at one point.
Ohhh a true open source alternative to linear and others? Really really interesting. Will try it.
I used to search in English to get more results. Short-term, I might start searching in my native tongue to get less results.
From the mentioned issue:

> As for printer drivers, those few printers that "need" them can migrate to standalone applications/services using the CUPS API to provide an IPP Everywhere-compatible Printer instance. PAPPL provides a convenient framework for easily creating these applications and porting existing CUPS raster drivers, and the following printer applications are already available or (in the case of Gutenprint) under development:

[...]

> ps-printer-app: PAPPL-based PostScript printer application that supports all CUPS/PostScript printers via PPDs and includes all of the Foomatic and HPLIP drivers.

So drivers will still be supported in a sense, just not directly by the CUPS daemon.
What a bunch of BS, yet another field trying to steal the thunder of CS. How often have I had to listen to physicists sneer at CS as not a proper science!
Naoto Kan was an advocate of nuclear energy, changed his mind after Fukushima, and the industry now tries hard to use him as a scapegoat.

Don't worry, experts are perfectly able to maintain a high level of safety (nope), then to assess correctly during an accident (nope: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-power-ody... ), and also to manage the aftermath (nope... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/special-report-he... ).
Boltzmann machine does quote physics as its inspiration, they didn't award him for his work in BP and stuff.

But I agree, this feels like a stretch.
It feels a bit like the field of physics claiming the invention of AI, where we all know that mathematics and/or CS deserve the honor.
Most commenters here don't know that Boltzmann machines and associative memories existed in condensed matter physics long before they were used in cognitive science or AI.

The Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model of spin glass is a Hopfield network with random initialization.

Boltzmann machine is Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model with external field.

This is price in physics given to novel use of stochastic spin-glass modelling. Unexpected, but saying this is not physics is not correct.
Chemists everywhere are wondering where this furor has been for the forty years or so.
lol, you are unambiguously, 100% wrong.

By analogy: “I don’t need to read On The Origin of Species because I’m already familiar with the idea that a singular designer made all of life on earth and I don’t believe it! I already know that actually three intelligent designers made everything on earth. No sense in reading Darwin, who is an idiot for believing there’s only one intelligent designer!”

Like it is a satirical level of misunderstanding. To clarify, in case you’ve also listened to a podcast or whatever: Darwin doesn’t argue there’s one designer. George doesn’t argue for property tax.

There’s nowhere for the conversation to go if you think otherwise and are digging in your heels on it, so I’ll just reassure you that you’re exhibiting satirical levels of misunderstanding and frankly shocking foolishness to not be reacting to point blank demonstrations of your wrongness.
Since most papers nowadays are written by AI, and peer reviewed by AI, it only seemed logical for AI to be used by the Nobel committee to award the godfather of AI.

Thanks to AI, you now only have to to ask any GPT for the source code of the universe to get the code. Since physics is now a solved problem, we should recenter ourselves on more important questions like why did AI create the universe ?

Hopefully AI will have an answer soon.
This is such a tired reply. The peace prize is not part of the same group as the other awards, and a significant difference in the peace award is that intent is awarded not results.

The dude who invented the MAD doctrine did not get the award despite nuke deterrance doctrice being related to the least amount of wars in any century since WW2.

But his platform of deescalation and his plans for american foregin diplomacy were rewarded. He ultimately failed to reach those goals (specially with the escalation on Afghanistan and the emergence of groups like ISIS), but tbh the Iran agreement and the Pacific trade agreement, killed and buried by the next administration, would have created a massive buffer and solution for the 2 hotspots we currently experience around the middle east (where terrorism is largely sponsored by Iran) and the Taiwan takeover by the CCP (would also be partially neutralised by the Pacific trade talks).

He was naive, in the way the world was naive to the ability to sacrifice prosperity that some leaders are capable of. He underestimated how dumb and suicidal putin could be, he underestimated how much China would be willing to sacrifice in terms of potential, he underestimated how much violence was latent and capable in the middle east. but his nobel peace prize was due to his campaign running on nuclear proliferation treaties and closer relationships with the muslim world which had been entirely antagonistic since Bush
You think that's a lot wait until you see what AWS charges for GPU instances...
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For what it's worth, the "Advanced information" PDF does a somewhat better job of trying to explain the rationale than the linked press release:

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsp...
That’s not the main idea. In fact it’s the opposite of the main idea. You do not understand what you’re arguing against, and it’s not a subtle misunderstanding either. You are wrong on the very core of the idea.
"There are no prescriptive standards to protect your data?"

How about the 18 standards labelled A) through R) in page 97 of:
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr/privacy/hipaa/ad...

I am no expert but HIPPA seems far more prescriptive than say GDPR or PII regulations.

I do agree that self-certification leads to perverse incentives and lowers the bar
I've always sided with Feynman on this, and this proves him right: wtf do these people think they are appointing themselves fit to hand out trinkets and baubles on behalf of global scientific achievement?

It brings the award into disrepute, or at least in a Feynman way, exposes the inherent disreputability of awards themselves: who are they to award such a prize on behalf of physics?

Awards committees: self-serving self-appointed cliques of prestige chasers
That's super cool. Do you publish your process of building these anywhere?
This does indeed smell of desperation. Which is really, really sad. Advances in _real_ physics are central to the absolutely needed sustainability transition. In a sane society that values its self-preservation you would not need to grasp at second-order straws to justify the need for all sorts of both fundamental and applied physics research.

We need to think seriously whether our collective hallucinations (pun) have got us to some sort of tipping point, undermining our very ability to act according to our best long-term interests.

ps. not to imply anything negative about the worthiness of the awardees in general
If you read the linked issue you will see that the plan for legacy printers is to move the printer drivers under a separate application that CUPS can then talk IPP to.

So yes, CUPS itself will only support IPP without any printer-specific driver. Since mobile phones also only directly support IPP this sounds like a reasonable decision.
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This is a great piece.

> ... since you are confident that you understand how the code works, having written it yourself, you feel that you must be able to figure out what is going on. ... Suddenly you see it, and you're blinded by a bright light as all the pieces fall into place.

There's a particular frame of mind like 'I feel that there's a bug in this specific bit of code'. I often find that once I make that shift it's suddenly easy to see the bug. I have tried to cultivate this feeling, but it's not easy to suddenly conjure up. A bit like flow state.
+1 for Frigate and Reolink. I have it running in a Proxmox VM on an old dell r710 (yes, it’s sucks watts and needs replacing) but all said, Frigate, is, amazing! The ease of integration with HA is equally great.
- Jazz is built with granular syncing in mind. CoValues are meant to be small (think one level of a JSON tree) and then reference each other. You only resolve references and sync as far down as you need / in lists you can do pagination.

- CoValues can reference CoValues that belong to a different group and thus have different permissions. In your example the title would need to live in its own CoValue and group compared to the content, which is a tiny bit more setup, but totally viable

- no resources for data modelling yet, but the guide + example apps should give you a very good idea. If you have any questions, please ask on Discord! https://discord.gg/sesjU2W5

- deletion is typically soft-deletion with tombstones. Total erasure of entire CoValues is coming soon but should only be needed in compliance situations (such as GDPR)
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Had they wanted a good ML relevant physics Nobel, the committee had decades to award a prize to Marshall and Arianna Rosenbluth for the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method. Would have been self-evidently important and relevant to both physics and ML. Too late now -- Arianna died in 2020.
Yes, I think I misrepresented a little the review, I wrote the comment after just skimming quickly the beginning where he presents some conclusions. The rest of the review is quite detailed, and entertaining in a way. Because many times he stops just before the final step of understanding, and so he misunderstands the point. In particular this happens with many science bits, which makes it even funnier. Too many cases to mention here. But I agree with your "slogging through a big chunk of it", I think there is an issue with the flow of the story, which makes it hard to read for long periods of time.