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by etrk 6y ago
It's very interesting, especially if you grew up playing id games, and it's also an easy read. Go for it!
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by etrk 6y ago
Regardless of road quality, weather conditions are unpredictable. When the rain or snow or haboob kicks in, I guess your car will pull over to the side of the road and you'll need to drive manually until conditions improve. We'll
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by etrk 6y ago
Yeah, unless Leibnitz was busy making some tacos.
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by etrk 6y ago
In an alternate reality, Newton did five pull-ups instead of inventing calculus.
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by etrk 6y ago
Coyote sightings were a regular occurrence on my NextDoor feed long before the quarantine.
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by etrk 6y ago
"if its 1 dimensional then its signal processing" This is clearly not the case, since image signal processing, 2D Fourier transforms, etc. are alive and well.
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by etrk 6y ago
It's asking for my email to check if my census data has been leaked? Email isn't even shown as a field in the leaked records. Is this site just harvesting emails?
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by etrk 6y ago
It's a recommendation by the FDA in the US, not an enforced regulation.
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by etrk 6y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, if you're not dealing with approximately bandlimited and sampled signals, then this wouldn't apply. The article is about embedded devices processing sensor data (microphones, motion/light sensors
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by etrk 6y ago
> That is, signal processing had Nyquist's rates. And typically knows there is an underlying signal. Does ml have either? What does this question mean? Every band-limited signal has a Nyquist rate. Most signals of interest are wel
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by etrk 6y ago
What is a "typical person"? As the article states, most of these people are 70+ years old. It would be interesting to know the prevalence of these illnesses among the cohort of 70+ year old Italians, but that would require more se
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by etrk 6y ago
See Table 1 in the original study: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-C... Ipertensione arteriosa (high blood pressure) 76.1% Diabete mellito (diabetes) 35.5% Cardiopatia ischemica
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by etrk 7y ago
If you're working for a company where it's seen as "heroic" or "passionate" to come to work sick, you're in a toxic environment. I've had a couple co-workers who perhaps see themselves as heroic for
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by etrk 7y ago
Real geniuses walk and drink their coffee at the same time.
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by etrk 7y ago
> "a problem that could not be solved" The solution is counter-intuitive, but the problem can be solved with some elementary probability theory.
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by etrk 7y ago
I interviewed at some AI companies a year or two back. They all had teams of people dedicated to support each client: to clean their data, train their models, integrate the domain-specific requirements, customize UIs, etc. They sold themsel
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by etrk 7y ago
> releasing practically their entire catalogue of movies on Netflix Except in the US, Canada, and Japan.
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by etrk 7y ago
Citations tend to be a better indicator of impact. There are some interesting analysis here [1]. MIT has the most citations, and they've also published the most papers by far. If considering citations per paper, MIT falls in the middle
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by etrk 7y ago
I’d heard that this is, to some extent, impossible, because everybody subvocalizes when they read. Wikipedia supports this, but I guess the goal is to minimize subvocalization rather than to eliminate it completely? “Micro-muscle tests sugg
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by etrk 7y ago
I remember asking my French teacher if she ever “thought” in French, and she had no idea what I meant. She apparently had no internal monologue. I assumed there was something with me for “thinking” in words. I tried to train myself to think
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by etrk 7y ago
I wouldn't want to eat ice cream three times a day, but that doesn't mean it tastes bad. What do you think will sell better this Valentine's day: bouquets of magenta colored flowers or Pantone 448 C colored flowers?
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by etrk 7y ago
> "Perhaps inarguably" Two words you rarely see together.
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by etrk 7y ago
> Dark brown is not the ugliest color, the ugliest color is magenta. That's just, like, your opinion. Beauty is subjective and the only way to declare something the ugliest, in some general sense, would be to get the subjective op
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by etrk 7y ago
We have over 800 military bases in ~70 countries around the world.
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by etrk 7y ago
This isn't new technology. SiBeam came out of Berkeley Wireless Research Center in the mid-2000s. They had mmWave phased arrays from the start (60 GHz is pretty much useless without a phased array, or a large dish antenna if you'r
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by etrk 7y ago
It now says: Supposedly, seeds were carried by Alan Bean on Apollo 12 (no citation provided). Do you have a citation for this?
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by etrk 7y ago
Reminds me of when I was younger, and I crunched census data to locate the city with the highest percentage of single women. Turned out to be a random suburb with a female prison.
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by etrk 7y ago
Does he only read comic books? Black and white screen is ideal for most of the world's books.
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by etrk 7y ago
As a counter-point, I'm running on 3 years and still get a few hours out of mine. The gamechanger for AirPods was the convenience of the charging case. I'm just surprised I've never run them through the wash.
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by etrk 7y ago
If this kid pursues a career in tech, he's going to crush his whiteboard interviews.

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