fisian

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by fisian 1mo ago
Posts like these really highlight how much there to think about in robotics. Below the surface of what immediately comes to mind there is just an abundance of topics to address to get an actually well working robot.
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by fisian 1mo ago
Donald L. Unger got an Ig-nobel prize for cracking the knuckles on only one hand for 60 years. n=1 but evidence over a very long time
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by fisian 2mo ago
Agreed. Also being able to use as many aliases as you like (or a catch-all) is very nice.
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by fisian 2mo ago
I started hosting my email at home some months ago and it works great. However, my ISP blocks some ports necessary for running a mailserver (incoming SMTP), so I have to use an SMTP relay (which is on a VPS and does port 25 to some other po
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by fisian 2mo ago
There is the --encode (and --decode) options for the `protoc` executable, e.g. `cat myobject.json | protoc --encode MyObject protofile.proto > myobject.bin`
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by fisian 3mo ago
Numberphile has a video with Persi Diaconis about the seven perfect shuffles. It gives a lot of insight and anectdotes in addition to the central theorem: https://youtu.be/AxJubaijQbI?si=ED7ufY4oPZnNxCbd
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by fisian 3mo ago
There's this numberphile video where Persi Diaconis tells a story about bridge and how the players got used to not totally random shuffled decks: https://youtu.be/RIGJH12vVCY?si=cMSx6YEr8MMFgYg6 (Starts at around 3:30)
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by fisian 3mo ago
Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591669
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by fisian 3mo ago
I interpreted it another way: the boxes are what connects the past to this written story. Without the boxes most details would be forgotten and this article wouldn't exist. The documents in the boxes were only thoroughly read by one da
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by fisian 5mo ago
I didn't know CMake introduced this debug adapter. This would have been very useful to me at some occasions. Instead, I used printf debugging (aka `message(FATAL_ERROR )` debugging in CMake). With this debug adapter, there also seem to
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by fisian 6mo ago
I think this is a great introduction to logical thinking and coding. The overcooked scripting layer looks awesome and very polished. Reminds me a bit of Scratch (the programming language). Are you going to make it available to others? There
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by fisian 7mo ago
For the part which talks about turbulence damping, this page illustrates how this looks like on a smaller plane: https://turbulence-solutions.aero/technology/ (Not affiliated, just saw their demo once.)
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by fisian 8mo ago
This principle is also highly relevant in safety critical systems for using redundant sensors. Just adding a second sensor is often not enough. Because if they disagree, which one do you trust. One example of this is in airplanes.
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Austria's top court rules Meta's ad model illegal(reuters.com)
9 points by fisian 9mo ago|0 comments
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by fisian 10mo ago
Looking forward to the early bird launch. JMAP support from an email provider (other than fastmail) is great. Additionally, this seems like a good way to fund thunderbird apart from donations, while supporting open source email.
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by fisian 10mo ago
Another fun thing are these stable diffusion/controlnet combinations which create QR codes that at the same are AI generated art. e.g. qrdiffusion or qrbtf
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by fisian 11mo ago
Does a Banana Pi BPi-M5 fit your specs? The banana pis have pretty good networking options.
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by fisian 11mo ago
The reported 119GB vs. 128GB according to spec is because 128GB (1e9 bytes) equals 119GiB (2^30 bytes).
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Trackio: A Lightweight Experiment Tracking Library from Hugging Face(huggingface.co)
1 points by fisian 1y ago|0 comments
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by fisian 1y ago
off topic: What's the font this website uses for the code? The font ligatures seem nice, but I also would have to get used to reading code like that.
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by fisian 1y ago
I found this course very helpful if you're interested in a bit of math (but all very well explained): https://diffusion.csail.mit.edu/ It is short, with good lecture notes and has hands on examples that are very approa
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by fisian 1y ago
It's just an ad for their SSH cert service... I feel like for SSH certs to expand beyond large companies, there's the need for an open-source service which does the issuing of short-lived certs after a user authenticates. I know s
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by fisian 1y ago
Can anyone recommend a site for buying DRM free books so I can read it with KOReader?
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by fisian 1y ago
Denying math has a tradition among politicians: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Malcolm_Turnbull
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by fisian 2y ago
Mathematically, what you need is the binomial coefficient ("n choose k"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_coefficient
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by fisian 2y ago
GrapheneOS on a Pixel is probably the most polished and secure experience. I have installed it (and enabled sandboxed Google services) on my mom's phone (she's pretty non-technical) and she had no bigger problems in the last years
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by fisian 2y ago
There are the anti prime numbers (also called highly composite numbers).
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by fisian 2y ago
Yes, the Lissajous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve which also can be turned vertical (to look like an 8 instead of ∞).
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3D Rotation Design(mattkeeter.com)
147 points by fisian 2y ago|33 comments
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by fisian 2y ago
The official Raspberry Pi site [0] seems to be a much better resource than this article. It also says that the AI kit was surpassed by the AI hat+ [1] (which is a bit cheaper, too). [0]: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products&

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