Matti

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by Matti 5y ago
Classical control theory is often sufficient for dealing with changing loads, terrain and wear and tear. Rejecting unknown disturbances is what a control system does. No training is required. Perhaps somewhat less than impressive due to the
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by Matti 11y ago
http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/ Tutorial: https://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/how-to-use-teapot-l...
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by Matti 12y ago
"Our only monetization strategy so far has been LocomotiveHosting. We had big hopes for it, but it has gained little traction and too little interest from our users." http://suckysales.locomotivehosting.com
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Estonias mayday call part 1 of 5(youtube.com)
1 points by Matti 12y ago|0 comments
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by Matti 12y ago
The mayday call from Estonia and the ensuing radio traffic is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7cZTEQJ2VQ
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DIY 5 DoF robot arm with visual servoing and pressure control(youtube.com)
1 points by Matti 12y ago|0 comments
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When delegating… consider quality, maintenance and learning(lemire.me)
1 points by Matti 13y ago|0 comments
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by Matti 13y ago
Last year someone mentioned an 8 hour recording of Patterns and Conflict that was apparently distributed among some of the participants of Boyd and Beyond 2012. Googling the write-ups of that event should give you more information on which
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by Matti 13y ago
It's too bad that the longer audio recordings of Boyd's briefings that exist are stuck in some military or private archive. (I'm not talking about the stuff that's currently available on Youtube.)
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by Matti 13y ago
"But they haven’t stopped Swedish entrepreneurs from building giant firms like H&M, Ikea, and Tetra Pak." Look at when the mentioned companies were founded: IKEA - 1943 H&M - 1947 Tetra Pak - 1951 Then look at the historic
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by Matti 13y ago
The book reads like an extended rant written by a high-schooler on how the system, like, forces you to conform, and stuff. The anecdotes that are given in support of the "thesis" are seemingly randomly thrown in and range from lon
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by Matti 13y ago
Those of you who think this is a positive review might want to read it again, more carefully this time.
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by Matti 13y ago
"But the researchers believe that a more refined version of their system could prove useful even at something like its current scale. Armies of mobile cubes could temporarily repair bridges or buildings during emergencies, or raise and
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Traditional Finnish Log House Building Process(youtube.com)
2 points by Matti 13y ago|0 comments
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by Matti 13y ago
"The terms and conditions did not seem to forbid this." Why would they forbid that? Do you realize that you are paying basically nothing for a dedicated server with a 500GB harddrive and an unmetered 100Mbps connection? You got
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by Matti 13y ago
20 min interview with the "captain", recorded a month ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bodv2P19Vc
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by Matti 13y ago
For somewhat less idealistic blog posts on education, Educationrealist is worth reading: http://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/2012-in-rev... http://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2
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by Matti 13y ago
The differences between the comments posted so far in the two threads seem to illustrate the importance of the submission title.
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by Matti 13y ago
Emacs-related things I have learned recently: * Sticky modifiers: I don't know why it took me so long for me to activate these. The difference between holding Ctrl while hitting another key or just hitting Ctrl once before the ne
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by Matti 13y ago
You can export/import views as XML or CSV. The generated XML is UTF-8 encoded and it only has three element types in total for the cells and rows so the structure of the file isn't complicated at all.
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by Matti 13y ago
Far from identical, but along similar lines: http://treesheets.com/ "It's like a spreadsheet, immediately familiar, but much more suitable for complex data because it's hierarchical. It's like a mind ma
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by Matti 13y ago
The 13.3" e-reader from Sony mentioned in the article is interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZSGZkEEVfQ&t=3m25s I often find myself leaving my Kindle on the shelf because it isn't suitable for reading
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by Matti 13y ago
"I'm about to explain to the people sleeping in the bunk beds that the bunk beds are not for sleeping. It is hard for me to type the above statement without laughing, but I persevere." https://www.noisebridge.net&#
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by Matti 13y ago
Having a very affordable Linux laptop that only works well for development could be seen as an advantage: you use one machine for work, and the other one for play and personal stuff.
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by Matti 13y ago
I recently chose to setup my old Thinkpad X41t with something fairly similar: -- antiX 13 "base" with the Debian "stable" source list: http://antix.m
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by Matti 13y ago
US only shipping for now.
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by Matti 13y ago
"Hyperloop Passenger Capsule The maximum width is 4.43 ft (1.35 m) and maximum height is 6.11 ft (1.10 m). With rounded corners, this is equivalent to a 15 ft2 (1.4 m2) frontal area, not including any propulsion or suspension component
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by Matti 13y ago
A 2010 headline from Arctic Startup read: Killing Finnish Entrepreneurship With Tax http://www.arcticstartup.com/2010/02/24/killing-finnish-entr... Skim through the comments to the article: what are the gener
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by Matti 13y ago
Looking at the Nordic countries you might possibly make the counterpoint that publicly funded health care implies a taxation model that makes it economically unrewarding to become an entrepreneur.
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by Matti 13y ago
The analysis seems to be based more on Venkatesh Rao's fairly lengthy "Gervais Principle" series rather than MacLeod's cartoon per se: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/

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