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Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone (DIY <€1k)(hforsten.com)
1 points by jcims 1d ago|1 comments
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by jcims 3d ago
You have to get nearly halfway from the surface of the sun (photospere) to its core before the density of the sun’s material is equivalent to that of the earth.
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by jcims 4d ago
You don't really say how long you've worked with these folks so I'm guessing here, but in my experience you have to build credibility and trust first. Focus on the opportunities rather than the problems, connect people doing
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by jcims 6d ago
That's exactly what had me scratching my head!!! Feels like it' (sorry) unlocks the boundary of the specifics and lets me work with ideas.
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by jcims 6d ago
I'm actually still quite bullish on generalists. Specialists advance every front but build the supply lines between them. In favor of the generalist, I think AI is also quite limited in its scope of how it generalizes. I'm mowin
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by jcims 6d ago
>Quote: "The Overhang consists of the unrealized capital gains of past mathematical creativity, the latent value from connecting the dots in the existing corpus. It is a dividend of canonization. Mathematician X states problem A, ma
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by jcims 7d ago
I tinkered with gnuradio back when rtl-sdr just took off (2012ish?). I had no background in dsp or signal processing and found it so opaque as to be unusuable, even though I saw more skilled folks do amazing things with it. *scratches head*
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by jcims 10d ago
We hired a new guy at work that's leading a specific platform initiative. In person he's very articulate, able to communicate abstract thoughts clearly, states clear goals and how he's learning about the business to develop a
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by jcims 11d ago
I've gone through several cycles of religion in my life. In various parts of that spectrum I've wondered why humans invented it. Five decades deep it's becoming more and more evident to me that there is some kind of deeply
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by jcims 13d ago
First time I saw an electric plane with the cowling off was something like this: https://www.wired.com/story/magnix-electric-plane-motor/ So much simpler.
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by jcims 23d ago
Love this idea! Any time I visit a place that specializes in a cuisine I'm not familiar with, I tend to struggle with what to order because I don't want to commit to just one entree. Having a curated tour of tastes, so to speak,
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by jcims 24d ago
I rarely watch movies, I had to leave Elvis for this exact reason. It was relentless.
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by jcims 1mo ago
>The idea that it’s actually better for diversity feels like a wild reach, almost a canned talking point. lol She's got a photo of a new student from Cameroon pointing at a little laminated cartoon character that she hung on the bul
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by jcims 1mo ago
Primary ELL. Could certainly be the case in the secondary schools but yeah, nada for teachers, students or admin.
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by jcims 1mo ago
It did make me ask why I wanted to see them while reading, and if there was any value in just reading the text without the images filling in the blanks (and possibly biasing what I was focusing on). Concluded that I still want to see the im
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by jcims 1mo ago
This is incredible to hear! My gf has had similar stories about kids coming into her program with zero English, often with parents that have little to no English, and within a short amount of time becoming conversationally fluent and trans
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by jcims 1mo ago
Eh. Prior to her current role my gf spent about a decade as the head of a very elite private elementary school (she's been in education for 35 years now). Certainly ten figure families represented in the student body with names you wo
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by jcims 1mo ago
Granted I didn't comb over it but to me the big issue was that it was just a big data dump without any material attempt at meaningful analysis. That and all the figures were at the bottom which was kind of annoying.
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by jcims 1mo ago
I didn't scour the text but one thing I didn't see as an explanatory consideration in the paper is that the larger companies they talk about having larger adoption are also much more likely to have reasonably robust controls (and
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by jcims 1mo ago
>Answering 2,500 independent questions is an embarrassingly parallel workload So is calculating the total time required to answer all of the questions.
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by jcims 1mo ago
Maybe the thing that has changed is the meaning of 2 months.
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by jcims 1mo ago
Love my Logitech free-wheeling mouse wheels! Not having a heavy wheel and detent-free option is a non-starter for me.
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by jcims 1mo ago
My scroll wheel covers about 12 states per inch of travel. Did the stubby pencil work and it would take about 9.5 years to scroll through them all if the wheel surface was moving at the speed of light.
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by jcims 1mo ago
>And has a woman ever looked as seductive as Sean Young smoking a cigarette as she's being interviewed by Harrison Ford at Tyrell Corp? It really is for me a pinnacle. I sometimes wonder what it’s like to be part of something like
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by jcims 1mo ago
>Will we develop new ways to let people express their own values in democracies, or will we get much better at manipulation? Yes.
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by jcims 2mo ago
I’d like to see a human one shot a pelican on a bicycle in raw svg.
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by jcims 2mo ago
Agreed. I've started calling our non-production infrastructure environments 'engineering' rather than dev, and nobody's invited. We'll pull in platform teams that are exposed to this shame environmental offset iss
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by jcims 2mo ago
Indeed. Likely a bit of both.
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by jcims 2mo ago
Operationally (and anecdotally obv) we've found that accessing Claude via AWS Bedrock has been notably more stable than direct to Anthropic.
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by jcims 2mo ago
Roughly equivalent to the percentage of startups that fail. Lower numbers don’t mean we’re doing better, it means we’re trying less.

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