RyanMcGreal

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A Dog Riding a Skateboard: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Tesla's FSD(quandyfactory.com)
3 points by RyanMcGreal 2y ago|0 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
The only fresh strawberries I ever eat are local and in season. Everything else is just too disappointing.
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
It's clear that there also needs to be a change in culture and training among police services to discourage the intuition-based practice of deciding someone is guilty and then pressuring (borderline torturing) them to say something tha
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
Site is clocking, so cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5xB7-FW...
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
For many human movements, the relation between intensity and injury is a u-curve with high risk at extremely low intensity (atrophy) and extremely high intensity (overuse/repetitive strain), and low risk at moderate intensity.
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
Sidenote: I recently finished reading The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman, in which he addresses this issue (among many others). The book is absolutely fantastic, an engaging, highly-readable page-turner packed with insights a
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
I highly recommend Deirdre Barrett's book Supernormal Stimuli for a fascinating and detailed review of this phenomenon in its various manifestations in human societies.
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
Seriously, America: how is ANYONE still arguing against universal, single-payer health care?
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
I used to work in a building with a family of peregrine falcons living on the roof. It was never a dull moment outside our window!
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
Humans are domesticated primates, and like all domesticated animals we demonstrate the canonical properties of neoteny, or the adult retention of childlike traits: physical traits like rounder heads, flatter faces, shorter noses, bigger eye
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
America has some of the worst worker protection laws and regulations in the developed world: occupational health and safety; minimum wage; paid time off (vacation, illness, parental leave); lunch and other breaks; consecutive hours worked i
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
In that case, is my clothes dryer a robot? In addition to its timed dry setting, it also has a feedback setting in which it runs until the clothes inside have reached a (configurable) specified level of dryness, at which point it turns off.
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
The secure https://www.nature.com link works but the insecure http://www.nature.com just returns 404.
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by RyanMcGreal 9y ago
I love running just about anywhere (except on a treadmill, which is just intolerably drab), but my absolute favourite places to run are on forest trails. There is something indescribably beautiful, spiritual and serene/exhilarating abo
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
There’s a curious anomaly, though: if you try to scroll using touch screen scrolling, the page happily moves up and down, even while JavaScript is blocking nearly everything else on the page. This also works for touch pad scrolling, mouse
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
Positivism is particularly clever.
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
I'm in my mid-40s. For about 15 years, I sat at a desk writing code and slowly dying. Three and a half years ago, I started running three times a week. Then, a little over two years ago, I switched to a standing desk. I've never l
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
Here are my thoughts on learning to run: http://quandyfactory.com/blog/167/what_you_need_to_know_to_s...
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
From the technical overview: Our approach builds on generative image models that leverage adversarial learning, which we apply to video. The basic idea behind the approach is to compete two deep networks against each other. One network (&q
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Generating Videos with Scene Dynamics(web.mit.edu)
1 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|1 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
There's another factor as well: for older houses, most building codes require that the roof be reinforced in order to hold the weight of a solar array on top of the shingles. But if the shingles themselves are solar panels, this issue
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This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|0 comments
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Today's Brutal DDoS Attack Is the Beginning of a Bleak Future(gizmodo.com)
60 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|49 comments
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This is NOT Real Life! The Future of Gaming Never Looked so Good(youtube.com)
1 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|0 comments
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In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent from ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue(nytimes.com)
4 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|0 comments
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The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality(quantamagazine.org)
10 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|8 comments
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China launches second trial space station(bbc.com)
167 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|80 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
This phenomenon is not peculiar to super-heated markets like Silicon Valley. We've had several people cold-visit us to see if they can buy our house, and I live in Hamilton, a mid-sized Southern Ontario city around 90 km west of Toront
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Are Cities Too Complicated?(citylab.com)
4 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|0 comments
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Irish cabinet decides to fight EU on Apple tax(uk.reuters.com)
1 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|0 comments

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