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by astrosi 2y ago
Agreed, one of my great pleasures during COVID when I had terrible insomnia and couldn't sleep was to cycle down to Billingsgate in the morning and eat one of the fantastic bacon and scallop rolls from the cafe in the market. Definitel
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by astrosi 2y ago
The candidate in question is Count Binface - who is part of a long British political tradition of joke candidates. Safe to say I think the implementation details of this policy probably aren't needed. https://www.countbinfac
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by astrosi 3y ago
The closer to midnight on a day you submit a paper to the arxiv the closer to the top of the "new" list you are the next day. I assume they submitted at 23:59 and were aiming for 00:00
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by astrosi 4y ago
How would you go about handing a lost device with this? A passkey reset email which would have a link that you could use to register a new device?
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by astrosi 4y ago
Unlikely, dead dark stars being dark matter candidates is a theory known as MACHOs (massive compact halo objects) If they exist we would expect to detect them as they pass between another star and earth creating a gravitational lens. You ca
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by astrosi 4y ago
In many cases the status page of a service is an unreliable indicator (e.g. AWS's) so I find HN / Twitter to be a much better signal that an incident that affects many people is happening.
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by astrosi 5y ago
In that in the browser you are able to see that you have gotten a 301/302 response but can't see where the redirect would have sent you.
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by astrosi 5y ago
Cosmos | Software Engineer | Remote (UK Timezone) | https://cosmos.homerun.co/ At Cosmos ( https://cosmos.video ), we are recreating the experience of working in an office for remote teams. Cosmos is a virtual HQ
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by astrosi 5y ago
Cosmos | Software Engineer | Remote (UK Timezone) | https://cosmos.homerun.co/ At Cosmos ( https://cosmos.video ), we are recreating the experience of working in an office for remote teams. Cosmos is a virtual HQ
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Jeff Bezos is buying a stake in UK digital supply chain startup Beacon(cnbc.com)
2 points by astrosi 6y ago|0 comments
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by astrosi 6y ago
Black Cow vodka in the UK have been doing this for a while as well. It's got a fuller texture than some other vodkas but is generally really tasty. https://www.blackcow.co.uk/
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by astrosi 9y ago
> In the early days I knew Uber drivers who use to be cab drivers who claimed they made a ton more money than with their cab company. I doubt that's as true anymore As (one piece of anecdotal) evidence, I was talking with a guy that
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by astrosi 9y ago
No, because the noise modeling test in the second LIGO detector (LIGO Hanford) was being wobbled at a very different frequency to that of the gravitational wave they were able to filter out the test motion and were still able to detect the
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by astrosi 10y ago
If you can have a good estimate of the time it would take to do it then this xkcd is better source! https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by astrosi 10y ago
There is an alternative explanation for their off seasons proposed in this April fools arxiv paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0445
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by astrosi 10y ago
Looks like the homeworks for this are not available.
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by astrosi 10y ago
Impressive stuff, I especially like the style transfer that can be done by using the global features of one image and the local features of another (Fig. 7) What I find somewhat annoying is that whilst they show some examples from their val
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by astrosi 10y ago
Are you thinking of this project instead? http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/
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by astrosi 10y ago
Hacker News discussion from the original reddit post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4100032
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by astrosi 10y ago
It depends on the airport that you are travelling from. London City has famously fast security, currently you can check-in upto 15 minutes before the scheduled time of departure for a flight to New York. [1] [1] http://www.london
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by astrosi 11y ago
The data release contains the data converted to sound if you scroll to the bottom [1]. I don't think anyone has combined them as you suggest though! [1] https://losc.ligo.org/events/GW150914/
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by astrosi 11y ago
In a very real way it was. There were two completely geographically separate instruments which recorded the same signal with a delay that is consistent with the light travel time between them. In the future this will get better when VIRGO i
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by astrosi 11y ago
Part of the reason for that is that LIGO isn't exactly a Michaelson interferometer in that it has an extra pair of mirrors in each arm. If you look at this schematic [1] then in a traditional Michaelson interferometer you would only ha
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by astrosi 11y ago
I assume that it is because QuickTime is using your GPU to decode the h.264 but VLC isn't. There is support for hardware accelerated h.264 decoding in VLC; you just need to enable it. I think the option is in Input and Codecs tab in th
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by astrosi 11y ago
Whilst that is true, it really all depends on the resistance of the thing that you are passing the current through. Remember that P = I^2 R (i.e. power goes as the square of the current for a constant resistance) so for an object of constan
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by astrosi 11y ago
Likewise with the "predictions" of the authors likes/dislikes. Testing how the model will perform on an independent data-set (or at least cross validation [1]) would be much more interesting. [1] https://en.wikipe
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Drive the Curiosity Rover(eyes.nasa.gov)
4 points by astrosi 11y ago|0 comments
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by astrosi 12y ago
Not quite a burger but Tournedos Rossini [1] exists. This is a fillet steak topped with foie gras and served with black truffles. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournedos_Rossini
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by astrosi 13y ago
The Paper and all the figures are located here http://bicepkeck.org/
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by astrosi 13y ago
Just as a reason for doing this in parallel. Space based detectors (such as LISA) are sensitive to a different frequency range than ground based detectors such as LIGO and thus to different of astrophysical phenomena [1] [1] http:/&#x

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