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Call me crazy but I recall the Turris Omnia was 350 € last time I looked (~3 years ago). It could also take a fiber line as input, right?

Unlike PulseAudio, dbus, and other userland components, it is perfectly possible to have a Linux system which works with most software without systemd. runit and OpenRC are two of the most popular init alternatives, which are just inits, and nothing else, unlike systemd. You might argue you have to use logind and udev, but that has been spun off into elogind and eudev. There is also seatd as an alternative to elogind, which is quite big itself.

SUVs are being sold like candy, and they are heavier than your regular sedan. This is especially so in the US, where it's not just SUVs but also trucks, and they are both bigger and heavier than in Europe. Being heavy is not exclusive to EVs.

Ah cool, will it be open sourced?

I'm on that project myself, we are also dealing with simulating circuits, buuut I feel like we could improve our approach somewhat lol. For example, we had a bunch of trouble trying to speed things up, I immediately thought of trying to make most things run on a GPU but we quickly found out that our circuits just have too few qubits to be parallelized decently.

More importantly, I am not very optimistic (to say the least) about the short- to medium-term real-world applications of quantum circuits we are looking into (we do time series classification, which is quite removed from other domains which work better on these computers), and I got the same feeling from the literature. Should I be feeling differently?

do you happen to be working in CUCO?

I find it incredibly funny that this appears a couple of days after I finished my master's thesis. I realized I made a bit of a blunder a week before handing it in: I thought the Hilbert transform gets rid of the aliasing when a real signal's bandwidth reaches below the frequency origin and into negative frequencies, which it doesn't. The bandwidth "folding" is still there, but the negative frequency components are gone (which I did know). Since I got rid of the negative frequencies because of the symmetry of real signals about the frequency origin, there wasn't any point in doing the Hilbert transform. Thankfully I checked all the preprocessing steps I carried out in the thesis, and weeded out this unnecessary step.

In my defense, please do bear in mind that I have not had a thorough education in signal processing, physics degrees don't usually have courses like this. I know Hilbert spaces much more well than I do the Hilbert transform.

I just so happen to be working on that at my company, but sadly we do not seem to be hiring more for this position, and I don't think you'd like how low salaries are in southern Europe.

Radar signals are modulated in very specific ways, which are visible right away even with plenty of noise on a spectrogram. Classifying the modulation of radar signals is something common in military contexts, since it allows you to listen for emissions and be able to tell if it's an enemy or an ally. I bet it has more uses than that, but it's the first one I could think of.

The question is how much power the anti-gravity requires.

This is essentially a case of "draw the rest of the owl".

We do not know if and I bet plenty of people do not believe such negative energy really exists.

Besides, all warp bubble metrics so far are inertial; meaning the ship is unable to accelerate, so they're a gimmick nowadays. I have hopes we find something workable though.

When all you have is a hammer...

Quantum algorithms analogous to convolutional neural networks are O(log N) instead of O(N), so I'd wager we really do need something like that, or at least some other sort of analog hardware, given how complicated it is to do calculations on a QC.

Of course you can. Otherwise we wouldn't use fiber optics everywhere. You only need a teeny tiny amount of power transmitted to carry a distinguishable signal after all.

You can't transmit large amounts of power through a photonic circuit, so forget about using them to replace power electronics.

I love that there are people far more educated than me who are also paid to explore these topics.

Sadly, there's some of us who would explore these topics, yet the pay and some of the conditions surrounding this profession are less than ideal, so to speak.

Also, you might want to study the math around the strong interaction and gravity before making any speculation like that. What is explained to you in words might not be accurate.

I'm currently in a master's degree in data science and I haven't really felt like what you said was happening; we were taught just the right amount of theory (how things like backpropagation, PCA, statistics, optimization work) but more advanced techniques were described only briefly, just so we could understand how to use them in our assignments, which makes sense given the little time there is. There was much emphasis on making use of a wide variety of techniques in practical scenarios.

By reviewing the source code of the model, reviewing the training data, and reviewing weight initialization, but the latter should be specified in the source code. Also making it abundantly clear that the libraries used to make the model were not tampered with, maybe hashing their files or doing some reproducible builds wizardry...

Edit: Now that I think about it, can't data poisoning happen when predicting, rather than just happening in the training phase? In that case, it's going to be complicated to work around that.

It sure looks like such models are going to have to undergo the same sort of scrutiny regular software does nowadays. No more closed-off and rationed access to the near-bleeding-edge.

Get rid of page limits on papers or at least encourage researchers to leave links to further resources on their work. More than once, I have had to complete derivations shown in papers which had some missing steps. So, if access to full, well-explained derivations was widespread, researchers wouldn't have to spend as much time trying to understand other people's work. Sadly this is not seen as much of a problem as it truly is.

I have to ask, why call it that? I had a chuckle once I saw the name.

No, Soji Yamakawa (the sole developer of this game) never added texture support to vehicles. Those letters you see there are entirely made out of polygons and have their own color, distinct to the rest of the plane's body. Sometimes those polygons are embedded on the plane's mesh, and others they're just floating above the fuselage. The latter technique simplifies the entire plane's topology quite a bit.

Yeah, but it is a shame that the rest is closed source. This game could seriously benefit from community contributions and/or from a fork. There is a really strange issue that occurs when the map is far too big; the ground shakes uncontrollably. Given how simplistic the game looks, you'd expect maps to be able to get really big without much of an issue, yet we have bugs like these...

I do remember there being a server plugin of sorts that somehow managed to do things like darken the sky as your aircraft climbed. Can't remember what that was called.

I never expected this to be on the front page of HN, it brings back so many memories. I was big into this game when I was a teenager back in 2010, 2011 until 2015, also being very active in the community that made this page in that period. Sadly, even all those years back, the online scene was still what most would consider dead. I have a bit of a thing for "dead" games, I wouldn't really consider 1-2 full servers at night to be dead, which is what we had. In the following years, however, server population declined even more, to the point where I would really consider it to be dead. I'd love to be proven wrong though, but that was what I percieved.

If you really wanted to ride the wave, I'd tell you to get yourself a time machine and go all the way back to 2005, 2006 or 2007. Servers were ablaze with squadrons (~groups of people having their own paint schemes on certain aircraft, playing air-to-ground missions and air-to-air missions against other squadrons...) fighting and calling each other names. It wasn't pretty, but according to what I was told, passion wasn't exactly in short supply.

Fun fact: the game looks like that because it has no textures. Instead, every polygon is colored individually. Through a recent update did give the terrain textures. Aircraft still don't have them.

Most discussion around $GME takes place on r/Superstonk these days anyways. Can't remember why it was banned from WSB. Something to do with the new mods I believe.

Given how political the guy itself is, and in which direction, those are the first episodes I'd expect to be removed from the platform. Do yourself a favor and avoid Spotify if you really want your due entertainment.

They used to do that, but now they issue modafinil I believe. Much safer.

Aren't keyboards with control, shift, escape, etc... where the thumbs should be objectively better in terms of ergonomics, though? At least if you're hitting those keys all the time, since the thumb's the strongest finger. I'm seriously considering getting a split keyboard after realising just how much I'm going to type in the following years and how much Emacs and/or Vim I'm using.

Something something Emacs pinky.

Submissions that do not contain original or substantive research

Most, if not all master's thesis contain original research, and that is definitely my case as well.

undergraduate research, course projects, and research proposals, news, or information about political causes

My thesis can't be classified under any of these categories, either.

It does sound like I would be able to publish it there, but I'm going to have to reach out to my supervisors for an endorsement in arXiv, thanks for the tip.

I believe they weren't inclined towards publishing it because I did not quite manage to fulfill their expectations with respect to the scope of the thesis. I came across quite a few bumps along the way which hindered my progress. It was still graded well enough, it has a good amount of original content, and I am relatively satisfied with its quality, though, so it's not like it was a complete disaster.

I imagine it depends on the field. Having perused your GitHub page and taken a look at what your program was about, I see why you might publish your thesis' source there. People working in theoretical physics aren't too inclined towards free software, so maybe that's why I haven't seen many related papers.

Do you think it would be worthwhile to upload something like a master's thesis that ultimately did not get published through a traditional journal? That happens to be my case. I am alright with my supervisors' decision to not pursue publication, however I still wish to have it out there in some form, as it took a sizeable amount of effort, and it might be useful as a way to advertise myself.

On a tangent, is publishing the LaTeX source of a paper or thesis on GitHub something that people do...? I was also toying with the idea of writing my thesis with org-mode while including the code snippets I used for numerical calculations and graphs.