acadien

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by acadien 5y ago
I agree with you there's a lot of anti SF content floating around these days. Just wanted to point out that in this article the author does go on to say he loves SF and thinks any uptick in crime will inevitably be countered. In that r
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by acadien 6y ago
Does it go something like this? Content creator posts content on their site that they own and pay to operate. Mega-3rd-party shares links of this content, sometimes posting blurbs from this content, driving traffic to Mega-3rd-party site an
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by acadien 6y ago
Please take 10 minutes to educate yourself on this topic. https://apps.npr.org/plastics-recycling https://lbre.stanford.edu/pssistanford-recycling/frequently-...
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by acadien 6y ago
Saddles are a way of conceptualizing high dimensional optimization problems. If you have a 3 dimensional surface you can imagine a saddle as an isocurve that follows a minima in at least one dimension. Another way to conceptualize these is
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by acadien 6y ago
Hey @moultano in response to your argument about walls and Nets not being in a minima, its my understanding nets always live on high dimensional saddle points and that's commonly referred to in literature. Even when you're optimiz
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by acadien 6y ago
I appreciate your response but respectfully disagree. (1) you posted above completely miss-states the facts. From the voter pamphlet text itself; "A YES vote on this measure means: App-based rideshare and delivery companies could hire
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by acadien 6y ago
I am so against prop22 it pains me so here I am ranting on the internet. What's going on is a negotiation between the state and these companies that are able to take advantage of a gap in how insurance and other benefits work. Instead
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by acadien 6y ago
Depends on the application. Often down-sampled data is useful for drawing trends but not so useful for better understanding failure events.
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by acadien 6y ago
This is a common misperception. You cannot estimate the shape of simple things in low light. Even humans are susceptible to optical illusions and are effectively blind during certain times of day (try driving in the direction of the sun dur
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by acadien 7y ago
Time to start burying the powerlines fellow Californians.
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by acadien 7y ago
The article said nothing about selective dispersal. For all we know these drones are just fancy crop dusters.
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by acadien 7y ago
Car owners in small towns posting in here like "finally that fake gig economy is dying" City dwellers posting the opposite because they rely on the product to make their lives work. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
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by acadien 8y ago
Age has nothing to do with talent. Older devs tend to have more experience, go figure.
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by acadien 8y ago
Not to mention the nightmare that is organizing the compiler on large projects. I've seen multiple large companies employ teams of 10+ engineers just trying to keep the compiler in order. Optimizations that take weeks or months to deve
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by acadien 9y ago
If it was written before 1998 I expect you'd find a version of C++ that existed before 1998 :) If it was written today, I don't know that's a really good question. I think its a mistake to ignore the advances that 2011 and 20
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by acadien 9y ago
Are any of those languages even remotely similar after 25 years? For example, C++11 is practically a different language from C++<98.
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by acadien 10y ago
Avoid using these whenever possible. Readability is more important than WoahNeat Factor.
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by acadien 10y ago
These are general overall topics. Dive into any one of them and you'll find hundreds if not thousands of open questions. My particular field was amorphous solids and the glassy phase transition but yeesh boiling it down to just one que
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by acadien 11y ago
The mining industry has dreamed of self driving vehicles to replace humans in dangerous work conditions for ages.
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by acadien 11y ago
You don't have to respond to a text immediately, you don't have answer a phone call. Students can contact you all they want and you can simply ignore them when necessary. Many students work part or full time jobs. Some of them hav
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by acadien 11y ago
Hey Floya, I'm writing this here hoping you'll see this comment. You're getting a lot of unjust responses in here. The commentors are reading your thesis with the eyes of a trained skeptic expecting peer reviewed, collaborati
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by acadien 11y ago
The goal is for the student to get some experience with performing their own research wherever that may lead them. This is actually a pretty impressive piece of independent work for an undergrad.
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by acadien 11y ago
Also matplotlib recently added stylesheets http://matplotlib.org/users/style_sheets.html which gets you ~75% of the way there to ggplot style plots. I've found a number of edge cases where the plots don't tur
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by acadien 11y ago
Just once it would be great to read a headline like: "Traffic congestion spurs realization that enhanced public transit is sorely needed in high density population zones" instead of: "City council continues to make short sigh
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by acadien 11y ago
Haha! I remember using Beej's guide to get me through networking and distributed computing back in college. The courses weren't terribly useful, but Beej covered the practical side of it quite nicely.
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by acadien 11y ago
Sometimes good science turns up null results or even worse, not interesting results. These works tend to not get cited but are still important when they're exploring new science or attempting to solve challenging problems. I don't
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by acadien 11y ago
Also why didn't the article include both of the figures? It can all be found here for those interested; http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf
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by acadien 11y ago
I think the above comment of it cost only a few hundred thousand dollars is just the cost of the fuel. Ancillary costs like moving the rocket, repairs, refueling, launch planning etc would also cost some money but it is still orders of magn
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by acadien 11y ago
Yes totally correct, its Pu 239 that's weapons grade. I got mixed up.

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