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However, wouldn't the inclusion of a coefficient solve this easier in a much more general and flexible way than defining a frame of reference for each individual case?

But, using your own frame of reference, you now need to convert to and fro on each cross-access. I don't really see the advantage. Notably, there is no such thing as an ontological second, it…

As for the good old reference implementation (not "Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning" ): my $string = "cat\n"; /cat$/s -> true /cat\Z/s -&…

Mind that Kant was very much about conflict resolution. So, where is the conflict? In this case, it's about weighing the evils of withholding information from the potential axe murder against par…

One of the advantages is that this can be defined and handled on the prototype level and not just in the instance. Personally, I'd see the interrupt-like catch-all behavior rather as an advantage…

In the context of coroutines, the nice thing about this is that – as a catch-all trap – it works much like an interrupt that is internal to that specific object. (Of course, only when the GUI thread a…

Regarding components, states and encapsulation, also mind the much ignored `Object.prototype.handleEvent`, which has been around since 1997. I, know, it's OO, but it is actually simple: funct…

I'm personally not from the US, but rather from a city that ist often cited as an example for counteracting irrational prices on the housing market, Vienna. (Back in the 1920s, when rents for a n…

Prices like these seldom go down, that damage is already done. The best to hope for is probably a decrease in price increase.

> I always wondered why this was never implemented Wasn't this in HTTP/1.1 (1997), where you could send chunks to anything that could have a target attribute? (As multipart HTML relied on…

Regarding that last example: the important part is, it does not look the same, nor does it feel the same, since the image is not developed under that regime of light and emphasis and attention. (In …

Please mind that I wasn't addressing symbolism at all, nor deconstruction. It was more about, "for what I wrote, my intent usually was (…) to evoke emotion." If I know as a reader that …

Well, there's nothing new in this per se, text theory suggested a quasi autonomous "weaving" of texts and imaginary content some 60+ years ago. (Well, it's all about semantic fie…

I think, it's a matter of the parable of the puppet theatre. According to this, we may either "naively" enjoy the play, immersing ourselves in the story presented, sustaining our disbel…

I can just try to relate what kind of impact this has on me. As mentioned above, visual media are important to me. I graduated in the theoretical side of this, part of my work is visual design. First,…

I'd argue, there's a difference between media and the world as-is. Media are crucially a projection , transposing an impression as an expression into another space, implying a difference in…

I'd argue, AI art occupies the negative space of abstract expressionism and informal painting. It has more or less catapulted us back in time, before there was photography and subjective impressi…

So what is it that you enjoy, when looking at a certain image (especially, when it comes to this particular image, as compared to any other representation of the same subject matter), if not the artis…

Another reason why AI makes me sad: take for example images. There is really no reason anymore to look at any posted art, image or article illustration, since, while it may look like an image, it may …

Quite interesting is the apparently bit-mapped dark-on-light ("paper green"?) monitor shown in that thread ("CMC DSKY And State Buffer Monitor"). Also interesting to see these vari…

As I understand it (from documentation only) the Operator Information Area is exclusively system controlled and features its own characters/glyphs, which are not available for general use. Like a…

Regarding that "spare line", the IBM 3276 documentation gives the following screen dimensions: Models 1 and 11 960 - character display 12 rows of 80 characters Models 2 and 12 1920…

Maybe worth mentioning is also the alternatives to 80 x 24: One of the first "glass" terminals were the Uniscope series by Univac, and these featured originally 64 characters in 16 rows for …

We could come up with a fun explanation, like the "secret browser" [1] in Android being responsible for this seemingly un-trackable aberration. :-) [1] https://news.ycombinator.co…

On the other hand, much of this had always been anticipated. E.g, Fermi's question from 1950 and the Drake equation are essentially based on the presumption of exoplanets. Or, the sensors (automa…

Arguably, iOS compensated much (and even added) in the original skeuomorphic / Forstall-era designs. (Famously, toddlers were able to operate these interfaces.) The crucial failure was not recons…

OMG, it's 6502 code! (Or for some variant of the 6502.) Marginally interesting, the source uses standard MOS assembler syntax, but Intel-like xxH notation for hex values, rather than $xx . ---…

Personally, I can't see the answer being "yellow", as this is all about nouns and tangible objects (like things and animals). Having said that, I enjoyed how the case was built on the f…

In a sense, the question of the "intelligent machine" is somewhat self-contradictory: To us , the question of intelligence matters as a preposition or qualifying term, for to what extent, p…

On a not so serious note, most political careers seem to be built on public utterances that seem to be generated by a rule set that could fit into 3 pages, triggered by a handful of keywords or trigge…