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giveexamples commented on What I learned designing a barebones UI engine   madebymohammed.com/miniui... · Posted by u/teleforce
giveexamples · 18 days ago
rectcut is a good API for layout if you have a fixed viewport (eg eink display)

the API is a very simple one where you slice parts off an initial Rect. the only feature it provides is that it tracks (x, y, h, w) for you.

it doesn't work well with intrinsic sizes - it's more of a top down, fixed size thing.

giveexamples commented on Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom   ch3ngl0rd.com/staring-at-... · Posted by u/ch3ngl0rd
giveexamples · 2 years ago
I feel like the difficulty is this needs to have positive reinforcement or incentives, if you are not comfortable or it's unpleasant, you will avoid doing it a second time.
giveexamples commented on Show HN: E-Ink Day Schedule   github.com/davidhampgonsa... · Posted by u/dh-g
giveexamples · 2 years ago
I've been using a magnetic pad (https://www.plus-vision.com/jp/product/kaite/) that works on the same principles of eink, except using magnets rather than electric fields. There's many variants available on aliexpress now. The only con is that stray magnets like on computers will wipe the pad if placed too close together.
giveexamples commented on Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables with Less Randomness and Memory   arxiv.org/abs/2306.07583... · Posted by u/keepamovin
tadkar · 3 years ago
I suspect that for most Bloom filters, the most commonly used hash functions are “good enough”. There’s also some literature to suggest that using just 2 hash functions and recombining the results is plenty. See kirsch-mitzenmacher [1] and [2]

[1] https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/%7Emichaelm/postscripts/tr-02-0... [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70963247/bloom-filters-w...

giveexamples · 3 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_hashing is probably the canonical name for this
giveexamples commented on Ask HN: How to Do ML Research?    · Posted by u/giveexamples
tikkun · 3 years ago
Here's some AI research links I've collected over the past while, I put them in a public gist: https://gist.github.com/TikkunCreation/5de1df7b24800cc05b482...

Karpathy's post about the research process in particular may be helpful for you

giveexamples · 3 years ago
Karpathy's post is really great, thanks!
giveexamples commented on The Verse Programming Language [pdf]   simon.peytonjones.org/ass... · Posted by u/WillPostForFood
giveexamples · 3 years ago
I dunno about slide 39 - where calling f(x) may or may not give x a value. From a code readability standpoint, a reader of the codebase needs to be wary of every function.

I see the issue is that iff you explicitly marked it as inout, it would limit the code from a logic unification point of view. I guess this is already explored in prolog, which I have little experience with - but it feels like it would inherently limit the ability to scale a codebase to huge sizes. Maybe a combination of convention and naming would solve the problem.

giveexamples commented on I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo   jacobmartins.com/posts/ho... · Posted by u/cube2222
giveexamples · 4 years ago
simplified logo of engineer octopus with data four colors

https://imgur.com/a/7l377qr

simple logo of software engineer octopus using green yellow blue and orange databases

https://imgur.com/a/V0WqyFl

giveexamples commented on Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?   prospectmagazine.co.uk/ph... · Posted by u/Petiver
nxmnxm99 · 4 years ago
I’ve never understood this argument. What else would god “care” about, if not the only truly sentient creature that we know of?

Trillions of light years of pointless rock with a few Apes in the middle who can contemplate God. Seems pretty damn special fo me.

giveexamples · 4 years ago
Look at your kitchen sink. On that metal lives a billion bacteria cells. Maybe some of them are even sentient. Do you even care to find out? Not really - its far beneath you. Humans are infinitely inferior to a god. We are no different to a moving rock.
giveexamples commented on Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?   prospectmagazine.co.uk/ph... · Posted by u/Petiver
nassimsoftware · 4 years ago
In math there is the concept of having a first element of a series and no one questions what was the element before the first element because if you can find an element before the first element then by definition that element you thought was first is not the first.

In light of this when people try to disprove God by saying then who created God. God is the first element so if you find out that who you think your God is is created then by definition he fails to fulfill the conditions required to be God. You have to look elsewhere.

Ok in english the term God is not precise enough, I'll turn to arabic to try to explain my point because this is what I'm the most familiar with.

Ilah is the arabic word for divinity. Wahid means 1. Ahad means the only one. Allah means The God (The only God).

I don't find it absurd to think that there is The God (Allah):

- A being who transcends time because he created time.

- A being who transcends logic because he created it and all its rules.

- A being who transcends the physical world because he created it.

giveexamples · 4 years ago
I agree that there might be a god, but why would such a god that can transcends time and logic.. care about humans? Humans are just a type of animal, an advanced organism, in biological terms we are not too different from bacteria, trees and sheep.

That there is a first element seems natural, however why should this first element to care about the 100010847238384392938474934th element?

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