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peter_d_sherman
18,478karma·5,710submissions·September 16, 2014
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Programmer, Student Of Law, Entrepreneur & Comedy Writer.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Transparency & Free Speech enthusiast.
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"The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing..."
- Socrates
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>"To assess the interpretability of our models, we isolate the small sparse circuits that our models use to perform each task using a novel pruning method. Since interpretable models should …
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Observation: Most programming languages evolved from the limited selection of ASCII printable characters from the keys of early ASCII keyboards (which evolved from earlier typewriters and teletype mac…
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Maybe the question to ask is: "Can advanced beings evolve beyond the need for civilization?" Future Star Trek episode: The crew arrives at what appears to be a completely lifeless planet, an…
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>"During the years there have been many attempts to improve Python speed; generally they fall into two categories: Implement "full Python". To be able to support all dynamic features…
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I nominate this work for a Fields Medal! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal ) It's seriously that good! Also, related to the idea of visualizing old equations in new…
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GitHub mirror: https://github.com/bbarker/Visopsys (Protected-Mode (PM) switch/handoff code in: https://github.com/bbarker/Visopsys/blob/maste…
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Are you aware that in cities like L.A., vast areas are constantly being video recorded by helicopters flying overhead? Or that drones with video cameras might be used for that purpose in the future, i…
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>The issue here is the Flock business model, which subsidizes the deployment of these cameras and encourages municipalities to use them in these dystopic ways. It seems that the core issue is ident…
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>It is a public street surveillance camera marketed to police to “end all crime in America” through total surveillance. When is any public facing video camera (such as those in people's smar…
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When is any public facing video camera a "surveillance product"? And when isn't any public facing video camera a "surveillance product"? ? ??? Doesn't any public facing v…
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Why couldn't the journalist simply have said "Doorbell camera" every time they said "Flock camera"? ? (It would have been the same story -- just less biased against a single e…
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I did not intuitively understand what Tailscale does, so I visited the following related page: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works Ah! OK, now I get it! :-) But, what …
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Forgive me for writing this, but this whole story possibly reeks of somewhat questionable journalism... This whole story reads like: "Something bad happened to Person A. They were accused by Per…
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No worries on your code not being open source! I'm always interested in old graphics drivers, that's because they apparently lived in "two worlds" -- the world of "framebuffer…
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>"The GizmoEdge Server receives a SQL query from the client, parses it, and generates two statements: o A worker SQL to execute on each distributed node o A combinatorial SQL to run server-sid…
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It doesn't surprise me (in the least) that the display driver code from that era was insanely bloated! Hey, if your VESA GPU accelerated driver for Windows is open-source, I'd love to take a…
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>"GRADD [display] drivers worked the other way around and a basic driver did almost nothing except provide a dumb framebuffer and indirectly let SOFTDRAW do all the work. An accelerated driv…
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>"Imagine if every time you got into your car, you had to manually approve the engine's use of oil, the tires' use of air, and the radio's use of electricity. It’s absurd, right…
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I love the idea of replacing an Ethernet card with a microcontroller where Ethernet is implemented as open-source software using signal paths off the microcontroller's GPIO... Another great optio…
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>No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm talking about env vars: bound via `execve`, stored near the spawned process's stack). Not shell variables, or any other language-specific&#x…
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Related: https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=torsion+field
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>"1.3. Low-Dependency Libraries written in C do not have a huge run-time dependency. In its minimum configuration, SQLite requires only the following routines from the standard C library: m…