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Just in time. I was about to edit my own comment to mention https://hg.sr.ht/ that I learned of from a comment by frabcus on this post. Thanks for links.…

:) Was very happy to find that Hginit.com has been given a new life here https://hginit.github.io/

Anyone has suggestions for hosting open source hobby projects managed with Mercurial. Loved Bitbucket's Mercurial offering. Looking for a replacement.

I miss Bitbucket's Mercurial offering.

In my interview, several decades ago, a binary search over the bitwise representation of integers is the solution that I came up with. To the interviewers credit, who was caught by surprise by a solut…

I agree and I vehemently share your concern about profusion of tweakable parameters in the model. There is some misconception in the wild about epicycles models that need not be shared by you specific…

I would argue that Kepler's success influenced the choice of the inductive bias. In that case the claim that Kepler took years what this can do in seconds is not an unbiased position to take. I d…

This is not surprising at all and depends on the inductive bias hardcoded in the search. There are infinite number of curves that agree on those 8 points and deviate from Kepler 's law everywhere…

Yes. I was loving how it was shaping up.

I loved how the Fortress language was coming slong till Oracle killed it. It was an interesting mix if Fortran and functional programming ideas with thoughtful ideas on parallelization. Fortress (prog…

Your 1. By itself would mitigate the risk I think.

Dunno about that, but sure is a heck of an engineering feat and an audiovisual spectacle.

Couldn't there be genes that help with repairing the radiation induced damage ? From what I have read, flora and fauna around Chernobyl seems to have acquired degrees of radiation tolerance. BTW …

Memories of a kid on a road trip...Interceptors taking off low, at full afterburners, in the dark of the night, screaming across the highway, for their practice sorties... I am more anti-(manufactured…

I have a question for folks who have background in interventions like these. Isn't there a risk that the artificially introduced reproductory pressures would select for screwworms that produce ma…

Check if it's the hinges that are yielding.

Related: drilling square holes, not as much fun as a wombat though.

Cognoboffin is exactly right. SVD decomposed matrix into a sequence of rotation, scaling and unrotation matrices. If anyone needs a review it's not cognoboffin. You led with the claim you have ne…

... and I have been both situations for longer and have seen tons and tons of them (*)... So? Not so hypotheticals -- Heck the inputs that you want labelled could be rotation matrices. The desired out…

To know that it can be done.

Yes. It's still quite a distance away from a feel and taste of meat. At least the affordable ones.

Hey that's such a nice idea, of multiple layers. Thanks to your idea, now I am imagining printing different layers of foreground and background on glass and stacking them with spacers for paralla…

Waiting for lab-grown meat. Hope it comes closer to fruition before my kidneys give out.

My favorite from his site https://hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokus... …

Rats have such bad PR. They make fun affectionate pets if you can stomach the idea that they will die on you.

All the best for your Stonehenge. Just knowing that the Sun doesn't really rise on the East (barring exceptions) is a fun reward in itself. Solarigraphy and Analemma tracking are great fun if you…

Oh! My bad.

You know you can edit your comment right. You are still in that edit window.