grmarcil

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by grmarcil 2y ago
> systems from 2016 would usually pass your "go there without touching the wheel or pedals" test Can you give an example? I'm not aware of anything in 2016 that would consistently pass this test.
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by grmarcil 5y ago
It is a kind of rolling shutter effect, but you're misunderstanding the finish camera's design - they capture a single column of pixels and the horizontal axis is actually time. This is why the background of photofinishes is a bun
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by grmarcil 7y ago
I agree that 1880-1915 was certainly a period of radical change, but aviation in 1915 was way less mature than you are suggesting, and would not become so for several decades. The SPT Airboat Line [1] was the closest to an airline in the US
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by grmarcil 8y ago
True, they are not cheap tools, but SawStop makes high quality equipment. Their prices are a bit cheaper than Powermatic [1], and the saws compare favorably in performance-oriented reviews. SawStop isn't really a homeowner tool, but it
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by grmarcil 8y ago
With 35 years experience, I expect that you have a pretty wide professional network - consider whether you're using those connections to get warm introductions and pointed to good-fit jobs to the greatest degree possible. My apologies
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by grmarcil 8y ago
Interesting, I did not realize square drive was uncommon in the UK. It's a really nice screw head to work with, and as someone mentioned elsewhere in the thread, becoming more common in certain woodworking applications in the US.
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by grmarcil 8y ago
I think from your comment you may be from Europe, so in that case for added context, you may be underestimating how uncommon Pozidriv screws and screwdrivers are in the United States. I have never seen a Pozidriv screw on any manufactured p
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by grmarcil 9y ago
You're not wrong, but it is more complicated than that. Lidar gives you an array of 3D points and intensity, corresponding to where the lasers bounced back, and how strong the reflection was. Roughly speaking, from there you have to de
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by grmarcil 9y ago
In the consumer/household space, sure. 3D printing is huge in prototyping and hardware R&D though. High-end printers are even good enough for mass production runs now.
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by grmarcil 9y ago
I was a member at TechShop RDU for a couple years. It started as an independent makerspace, got acquired by TechShop in 2011, then closed in 2013. It was a really cool place and I miss it. A lot of interesting characters there. As others ha
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by grmarcil 9y ago
The point is with a rocket, if you can't land at your original destination, you probably don't have the capability to safely land anywhere else. Maybe I'm overlooking a scenario you have in mind, but IMO you're looking a
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by grmarcil 9y ago
Make a point of frequently going to art museums and sculpture gardens. Read the placards and learn to recognize certain artists, spend time looking at the pieces that grab your attention and think about them. Don't feel like you have t
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by grmarcil 9y ago
Same boat here, I greatly prefer Square Cash (money goes directly between checking accounts so there is no second step to empty your balance), but the network effects of Venmo are too strong at this point. The all-transactions-private setti
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by grmarcil 9y ago
Not that anyone believes that this car is really going to production anytime soon, but as an additional datapoint: the car in the first image is sporting $40,000 worth of lidar on the roof (5 x Velodyne VLP-16). I'm sure GM is getting
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by grmarcil 9y ago
"Our brains just possess superior perception." This is the kicker. Lidar allows companies to make up for a lot of the current shortcomings of state-of-the-art computer vision. As to how easily Uber could advance state-of-the-art c
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by grmarcil 10y ago
Strange, my experience with Inbox is nowhere near that bad. It is noticeably slower than Gmail classic, but load time is ~2s and actions like search take a fraction of a second. This is all on a 2012 MBP.
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by grmarcil 10y ago
Archive.org link while site is down: http://web.archive.org/web/20161221172829/http://www.kguttag...
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by grmarcil 10y ago
Is Illinois really a good choice for contrast with Columbia? Yes it is a state school, so it has less elite-sounding brand than Columbia, but UI actually outranks Columbia in most STEM fields.
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by grmarcil 10y ago
See Animats' answer [1] to a similar NN suggestion in this thread. There are some research groups trying robotic control with black box neural networks (pixels in, control commands out), afaik with limited success so far, particularly
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by grmarcil 10y ago
"Cis" is short for "cisgender", ie the opposite of "transgender"
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by grmarcil 10y ago
Yeah, in the US, it's pretty much acceptable to go 5 or 10 mph over the limit on any non-residential road. Cops generally don't ticket unless you are going 10+ mph over.
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by grmarcil 10y ago
Depends on what you like. I ride a Cannondale Supersix for sport and love it. I used to race and still enjoy training hard, so my priorities are lightness, rigidity, and handling. A carbon frame beats steel in all of those. I think the repu
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by grmarcil 10y ago
http://www.bmcm.co/
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by grmarcil 10y ago
Thanks for the hint on swiping the spacebar. I still miss the ability to move the cursor vertically and select with the trackpad but this at least makes Gboard usable for me. I think I had the same false-negative problem you are describing
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by grmarcil 10y ago
“There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.”
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by grmarcil 11y ago
The Cancellara video looks a little odd just because of the dynamics of bike racing. If you interpret the video as Cancellara pulling away from other pros like that with everyone going full effort, it looks super human. In reality though, C
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by grmarcil 11y ago
No, those are all Ford. First three are Transit vans, then an Explorer and a Crown Vic.
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by grmarcil 11y ago
I'm genuinely interested in what you think is a counterexample. Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious or we're just considering different definitions.
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by grmarcil 11y ago
They drive themselves to the gas station. By the time self-driving cars come to market, Uber will have had plenty of time to negotiate partnerships with several gas station companies, whose full-service lane attendants will use some sort of
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by grmarcil 11y ago
The brand video reads a little pompous and I haven't really taken a liking to the new icon yet, but I don't think the concept in the brand video is really that faulty. Uber is one of first companies to integrate software with an e

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