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Comment configuring switches, cables, and plugboards (Score 1) 76

Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know today. In fact, the first programmers didn't write code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, one of the world's first computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 did it by physically configuring switches, cables, and plugboards.

I am pretty sure there is a vim plugin for that!

Comment Re:What's The Average? (Score 1) 100

You might steal a trailer that is full of nickels. But now you need to somehow get rid of $50K worth of nickels.
There was a case in Germany, when silver prices exploded, and the 5 Mark (at that time a about $1.50 - the Dollar was pretty high, in our times Euro 2,50 - but by inflation perhaps only Euro 1), that count had about 65% silver.
People started to horde the coins to smelt them ... it pretty quickly lead to a replacement of those coins. I mean: a new kind of coin, mostly nickel, was introduced.

Comment Re:Cats .. (Score 1) 26

If you had a 2 or 3 yards wide TV monitor, with 24Hz refresh rate.
Watching tennis would be a pain.

The ball would jump in 5 inch (or more) jumps from left to right, and back.

With 120Hz or more, the ball flies in a curved, but connected, line.

The old mantra: a human eye can not distinguish reality from a 24Hz frame rate, is only true, if nothing particular interesting is happening in the 24Hz frame rate.

In a computer game, you anticipate where to shot at, for example. And that is based on your "perception". If you have a framerate, that deceives your perception, you are never able to aim accurately. Which basically boils down to: your accuracy does not matter. That is pretty odd, or? You aim as accurate as human possible: but the target is not there, because the refresh rate blurred it out of the cross hair.

Comment Re:Following the Trump playbook (Score 1) 79

No, you vote for a position in alignment with you, not a person.
Nope.
Neither in Brazil nor France, you vote for some "alignment", you vote for a person.

Yes. That is my point. And in my example I mentioned THREE not two.
Did not look like 3 to me.

least some effort into understanding what someone wrote before *checks notes* saying their explanation sucks
You have a point :D

Comment Re:Not all AI models take a lot of RAM (Score 1) 40

The size of the model has nothing to do with the size of a task.

Simple speaking, you run similar tasks thousands of times ... the parts of the model that are not relevant: never gets swapped in.

More concrete: you load a model that is specific for your task. Worst case it only can find cats in pictures, and gives you the x1,y1 - x2,y2 coordinates in the picture where it finds cats ...

Such a model is probably not even 100NM.

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