JDDunn9

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by JDDunn9 6mo ago
If investors gave you $12.7 million to fund your expedition, you have an obligation to split the treasure as you promised.
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by JDDunn9 1y ago
Built a plugin for Blender focusing on 2.5D animation. https://greasepencil.com/
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by JDDunn9 3y ago
Electric vehicles are more heavily subsidized in China than America. 22% of new car sales in China are electric vs 1% in America. China also has a lot of tariffs and regulations preventing foreign competition.
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by JDDunn9 5y ago
You don't need a monte carlo simulation if you have a known distribution. You can just add the means and variances and solve the equation rather than approximating it with a simulation. Monte carlo is more useful when drawing from an u
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by JDDunn9 5y ago
Even if we can get fusion to work, it will never be economical. Just because the fuel (water) is free, that doesn't make the energy free. The fuel rods for fission power plants are already a rounding error in the cost of energy. It&#x2
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Moderna’s mRNA Vaccine for HIV Is Starting Human Trials(singularityhub.com)
33 points by JDDunn9 5y ago|3 comments
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by JDDunn9 5y ago
> CPUs and AMD GPUs are not supported at the moment, but we welcome community contributions aimed at addressing this limitation. That's disappointing. My biggest frustration is that every ML library (Pytorch, Keras, etc) is tied to
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by JDDunn9 5y ago
They used an overly simplistic computer simulation and programmed it to get their assumptions back as outputs. Luck may play a large role in wealth, but this study did nothing to prove that.
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by JDDunn9 6y ago
I'm working on a robot that can make noodle-based dishes by itself in a food truck. The end goal is to just do a bit of prep work in the morning, turn it on and leave it running all day to sell food in Seattle.
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by JDDunn9 6y ago
Roughly 6% of local budgets are spend on roads. [1] [1] https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...
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by JDDunn9 6y ago
Opera already has a free VPN built into their browser.
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Automatic Train Operation for regional passenger trains to be tested in Germany(alstom.com)
1 points by JDDunn9 6y ago|0 comments
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SpaceX Starship prototype blows its top during test at Texas launch site(cbsnews.com)
4 points by JDDunn9 7y ago|0 comments
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Ford package delivery tests combine autonomous vehicles, bipedal robots(therobotreport.com)
1 points by JDDunn9 7y ago|0 comments
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by JDDunn9 8y ago
How to Measure Anything, by Douglas W. Hubbard. When he says anything, he means anything. How to measure the value of a human life, how to estimate things you know nothing about (like the gestation period of an African elephant), and how to
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HAHN Group Acquires Rethink Robotics IP(therobotreport.com)
1 points by JDDunn9 8y ago|0 comments
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XArm – Most Cost-Effective Intuitive Industrial Robotic Arm(kickstarter.com)
3 points by JDDunn9 8y ago|0 comments
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by JDDunn9 8y ago
There's too many possibilities. You need a narrow field of options for graphical programming to work. Blueprints works for Unreal because it is focused only on video games. https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engin
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Volvo Trucks – Introducing Vera, the Future of Autonomous Transport(youtube.com)
1 points by JDDunn9 8y ago|0 comments
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Volvo Vera – The Future of Autonomous Transport(volvotrucks.com)
1 points by JDDunn9 8y ago|0 comments
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Finland Ends Universal Basic Income Experiment(telegraph.co.uk)
9 points by JDDunn9 8y ago|6 comments
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
Most of the arguments are just an appeal to nature. Doesn't address cow burps as a major source of pollution. Seems to be making a food miles argument, when what matters is carbon per pound of food. Transporting by boat is highly effic
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
Urban planner. I'd love to try to create my version of a utopian city (no non-essential vehicles allowed, built for the pedestrian/cyclist/subway) the way they are building new cities in China or Dubai.
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
I just finished reading "Mein Kampf" last month. It's not very good. It's about 20% racist rants. He talks about some legitimate grievances German had at the time and from their history, and military strategy. I didn&#x2
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A Robot Almost Straight Out of Avatar(youtube.com)
2 points by JDDunn9 10y ago|0 comments
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
This is a prototype to test the Multi, a maglev elevator concept announced a little over a year ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUa8M0H9J5o
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New 250m Tower Opens to Test Maglev Elevators Traveling at Up to 40MPH(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by JDDunn9 10y ago|1 comments
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The Copenhagen Wheel(superpedestrian.com)
1 points by JDDunn9 10y ago|0 comments
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Buildings Printed by Robots – The Future of Architecture(youtube.com)
1 points by JDDunn9 10y ago|0 comments
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
The virtual DOM isn't a replacement for the DOM, it's just a string diffing algorithm. It is only needed because of React's "render everywhere" approach, which is a tradeoff sacrificing efficiency for simplicity. If

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