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by ewheeler 9d ago
here's an explanation of their 'computer vision approach' to local weather forecasts: https://jackadam.github.io/2011/how-dark-sky-works/ "We create a 3-channel image where the red channel repr
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by ewheeler 3mo ago
MIT's D-Lab https://d-lab.mit.edu/research does a lot of similar work on fuels/cooking, evaporative cooling, and design with locally available materials/techniques
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by ewheeler 8mo ago
I'd suggest commercial aircraft as an even better analogy than cars. Most of the ongoing costs you mention for cars still apply--but there are also the occasional (possibly dramatic) changes to the interior 'cabin product' li
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by ewheeler 11mo ago
Thanks for posting! Wild that that 20 years ago Clay put a name to these niche tools that are now trivial to make with vibes and an API key. Also fun to see a mention of Dennis Crowley's proto-foursquare group project from grad school
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by ewheeler 11mo ago
Fun! Very similar to https://www.dragonfjord.com/product/a-puzzle-a-day/
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by ewheeler 1y ago
Yes, very dependent on the market. In some East African markets that don't have much history of recycling, Kubik [0] has a neat model of employing folks to recover plastic waste from landfills which are then used to creating building m
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by ewheeler 2y ago
While there are some similarities, yes, our brains definitely don't have anything akin to backpropagation, which is the critical mechanism for how current AI models learn. Hinton has some research on a forward-forward learning paradigm
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by ewheeler 4y ago
Fun fact: Hans Albert Einstein, son of Albert Einstein, helped with the design of the Old River Control Structure. According to Wunderground's three-part series about the ORCS[1], there is some uncertainty as to whether it will be able
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by ewheeler 5y ago
Maybe? The Scaling Hypothesis[1] suggests that greater capabilities of intelligence may emerge from scaling up 'scalable architectures' to large sizes. GPT-3 exhibits 'meta-learning' capabilities that GPT-2 did not (like
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by ewheeler 7y ago
"Malachite Capital Management LLC, a hedge fund specializing in trading volatility, said that it would shut down immediately." according to https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/coronavirus/card/is2y79bN
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by ewheeler 7y ago
Correct, here is their Kafka-based stream processing package that presumably ties everything together: https://faust.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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by ewheeler 7y ago
Uganda is home to a large regional hub for UN logistics, a state-of-the-art CDC infectious disease laboratory, and similar outposts--presumably due to Uganda's relative stability over the past few decades and strategic proximity to sev
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by ewheeler 8y ago
For those looking for a modern take on improving on the CSV format, I'd recommend Frictionless Data's Datapackage specification[1] which basically consists of a json file of metadata that accompanies a CSV file that describes colu
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by ewheeler 8y ago
I'd recommend reading more about the 'information fiduciary' approach[1] promoted by Prof Jonathan Zittrain (and others) which I find to be among the most realistic steps in a better direction, as it offers a 'grand barg
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by ewheeler 9y ago
Looks like a subset of the open-source https://mermaidjs.github.io/
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by ewheeler 9y ago
The 'Retail jobs growth by state' chart in this article (approx 2/3 down the page) is lovely: one square line chart for each US state, positioned roughly according to geography, all equal in size. I find it very easy to grok
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by ewheeler 9y ago
Same with phone numbers. In most parts of the world, local numbers (not fully-qualified with country code), are written/dialed with a leading zero. Excel eats these and/or uses scientific notation!
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by ewheeler 9y ago
This is called a 'fiduciary duty' and is common in many professions (law, medicine, finance, real estate, clergy, etc) Here's a great explanation and strategy for applying to software development: https://www.theat
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by ewheeler 9y ago
Its not just desire to avoid spending the money to provide chip+pin systems Most Americans have many credit cards, unlike consumers in Europe, for example, where chip+pin is the norm. US banks and credit card companies worried that American
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by ewheeler 9y ago
Technically, The Expanse is financed and produced by Alcon Television Group, which is a division of Alcon Entertainment. Certainly having SyFy on board for US broadcast distribution is a big boon for the series, but I suspect a lot of the
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by ewheeler 10y ago
Check out PanicKit: https://guardianproject.info/2016/01/12/panickit-making-your...
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by ewheeler 10y ago
I have the Xiaomi Mi4C, which gets an OTA update every week. Most changes are cosmetic, but typically includes substantive android security updates at least monthly.
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by ewheeler 10y ago
If you haven't watched Season 19 (which includes the serial saga with P.C. Principal mentioned in the article) I'd highly recommend it. It really embodies South Park's unique ability to be simultaneously mature and immature.
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by ewheeler 10y ago
a recommendation from my friend is http://www.gearbest.com/top-brands/brand/xiaomi.html
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by ewheeler 10y ago
i got my Mi4C in April 2016 and it has received several OTA android version update and monthly android security patches. there are certainly many insignificant UI changes, but there have been android updates occasionally in the last four mo
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by ewheeler 10y ago
yes. my Xiaomi Mi4C gets an update every week. sometimes some minor regressions, but they're always fixed the next week. i certainly prefer that to the typical android software update cycle from most manufacturers/carriers
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by ewheeler 13y ago
i'm not convinced that the benefits outweigh the risks. wouldn't browsers have to check for malicious decompression bombs? IIRC -- even without nested zip archives -- a smallish .zip of a few files full of 0s can decompress to ma
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by ewheeler 13y ago
I wonder what are the differences between the "Sweet* and Sour* Partitions" of PINWALE?
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by ewheeler 13y ago
(original HN title was something like: if Snowden's leaks were so damaging, why aren't his NSA supervisors being fired?) I think we know that they haven't been because if they truly believe (as they are publicly claiming) tha
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NSA and the Pandora’s box of surveillance(blogs.reuters.com)
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