the hell kind of gym are you at that Smith Rock grades feel comparable? that place is sandbagged as hell.
A moonboard!
Readit Newshamiltonkibbe commented on Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas' nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us... · Posted by u/carabiner
Thanks for the reply.. the main picture in the article looks significantly harder than 5.9+ to my amateur climber eyes, I'm not sure if there person above realizes 5.9+ is a specific rating in some places and 5.9+ doesn't mean 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, etc..
Ice climbing is straight nuts no matter what, even if you don't do it at high altitudes with no O2.
Climbing sheer faces with no Oxygen at that height is just literally bonkers.. hard to believe anyone who doesn't climb can even fathom that.
This climb is so outrageously impressive compared to the silly "race to climb all the 8000M mountains but the Sherpas haul everything up and set up ropes for you and maybe pull you up the mountain" stuff that has been in the news lately.
Bit of a tangent: Around here, and likely in many other places that were developed before double-digit YDS grades were a thing, 5.9+ is a specific and notorious grade, that is usually closer to 5.11 than 5.9.
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What is an "Online Toaster"? Oh, it's a Toaster Exhibition that is online ;)
hamiltonkibbe commented on No patches for digital audio releases mcraiha.github.io/spotify... · Posted by u/mcraiha
I'm not convinced. Counterexample: if the original song is a sine wave, and the distortion turns it into a square wave, then a simple algorithm can turn it back into a sine wave with the right frequency, very easily.
Counter-counterexample: your algorithm was too naive. The original song was much more interesting:
A sine wave at a single frequency, but with rhythmic volume swells from nearly inaudible to 0dBFS. The slow hopeful crescendos in the opening give way to a more playful bounce in the middle, before building to a frantic ending with nearly nauseating swings.
Pitchfork gave it a 10.0, and called it “Better than the remaster of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. If our scale allowed, it would have gotten a 12.” What a ride.
The distortion that transformed it was fairly pedestrian: turn it up until it exceeds the dynamic range of the recording medium.
The result was that boring square wave at constant frequency and amplitude. Can you expect an AI to reconstruct this original, given both of our proposed original songs map to the same output?
I’d also argue that the original proposed algorithm is not simple, since it would have to remove the aliased frequency components when converting from the square wave back to a sine.
I've always wondered if TCP and networking design could be applied to autonomous traffic... basically think of every car/train as a packet and ensure no collisions...
Which networking protocol best maps to this?
And what if we had smart traffic lights that were aware of every car in an surrounding area of an intersection...
I mean FFS certain tech companies track all vehicles that drive by/near their corporate campuses and report that back to the city...
And that's almost a decade old now...
So apply the same but report the data back to the traffic management system which is also trained on all the traffic patterns for a given intersection to best optimize for their patterns...
For the most part the MAC just looks for another signal on the wire (another train on the same section of rail) and when it looks clear, starts transmitting (driving). As you can imagine, there will be cases when 2 MACs start talking at the same time, at which point they detect the collision, wait a random delay and try again. I wouldn’t want to be on that train, I’d prefer plain old serial with hardware flow control
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hamiltonkibbe commented on Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain schlockchain.substack.com... · Posted by u/leifg
Unless the tag could not be damaged, or interference from an electrical issue would not cause reading issues, or there are no other materials or objects that would prevent reading the tag, or the wrong tag was affixed prior to being delivered to the store (swapped).
Easy, affix the tag to the item with a blockchain so you know it cant be removed or tampered with.
hamiltonkibbe commented on The Fourier transform is a neural network sidsite.com/posts/fourier... · Posted by u/montebicyclelo
This is analogous to saying "an umbrella is better than a toaster". They are two different things.
They are different things, but you can use both to protect you from the rain, and an umbrella does that more efficiently than a toaster. The drawback is that the umbrella doesn't generalize to the broader field of bagel toasting