kctess5

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by kctess5 9y ago
No worries :) the drone basically generates a big dataset of "crashing" and "not crashing" video clips from the camera. It then feeds all that into a convolutional neural net, which can (after training is complete) give
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by kctess5 9y ago
That's not exactly what the car in [1] does. They use stochastic optimal control methods, which are more domain specific. They perform forward simulation on a lot of trajectories and effectively pick a good one. They also use localizat
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by kctess5 9y ago
The bird thing is not as big of a deal as some seem to think. Wind turbines kill a couple hundred thousand birds each year [1]. In contrast, cats kill hundreds of millions of birds each year [2]. People still like cats. I also don't th
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by kctess5 10y ago
I watched "The Last Kingdom" from BBC (which I recommend) and it made me want to know more about 9th century England. So far the book "Alfred the Great: the man who made England" by Justin Pollard has been fantastic if y
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by kctess5 10y ago
True! I just read about the "decimation of Aethelwulf" - the ninth century king of Wessex (current Great Britain) gave away a tenth of his empire in order to secure the kingdom during his pilgrimage to Rome. https://en.
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by kctess5 10y ago
Reminds me of when a family friend of mine (a professor of civil engineering) built his own barn on his property. He got permits and did everything the ordained way, but still got hassled over tons of details. The inspector almost couldn&#x
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by kctess5 10y ago
Yeah that was my reasoning. The salted hash would be an easy way to implement single-thread username consistency. Edit: for better readability it could be further mapped into a table of human readable handles, similar to how Google does the
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by kctess5 10y ago
Is that so bad? Granted maybe it's annoying looking at old threads, but as a user, the ability to go through and remove old and potentially regrettable posts is quite welcome. Maybe a good compromise would be to remove the user informa
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by kctess5 10y ago
I'm not sure, but that will never happen unfortunately. The support infrastructure always comes with cost.
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by kctess5 10y ago
It was GS
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by kctess5 10y ago
I agree. Interns also generally receive no extended benefits like 401(k), stock, medical, and so on, so the comparison isn't very fair in terms of total comp.
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by kctess5 10y ago
I've had several big name tech internships, and I got an internship offer from a bank to do tech work. The bank offered around 2/3rd the comp with significantly worse benefits, which surprised me considering that a) they were in N
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by kctess5 10y ago
The expected value of both strategies is to have 1 success, but they have different variance. The first strategy has variance of 0.99, and the second strategy has variance 0. The chance of n out of 100 hits with the first strategy is: binom
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by kctess5 10y ago
I built a desktop with a quad core i5, 16gb ram, a GTX970, an Intel SSD, and around 2tb of spinning disk storage. The whole build cost around $700 and it's a very fast machine. I also have 2x 1440p 25" monitors, a mechanical keybo
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by kctess5 10y ago
Assuming there is a law. I think we can already detect methane well enough to know that cows make a lot of it. You don't want to make the law something they must "escape" from, but rather something they can profit from by not
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by kctess5 10y ago
Maybe it can backfire and you'll subconsciously silence your cell phone during actual calls.
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by kctess5 10y ago
That would be an interesting compiler project.
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by kctess5 10y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, many founders do give up control to their share holders.
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by kctess5 10y ago
And of course after that, Prime Plus which includes a lease on solar panels and home batteries.
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by kctess5 10y ago
Thanks! I had not seen that before but it looks nifty.
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by kctess5 10y ago
It's not totally unique, but I made a simple tool I call "watch" that runs terminal commands on file save. You specify a file glob and a command and it runs the command whenever a globed file changes. Also has a few handy fla
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by kctess5 10y ago
I believe that photogrammetry can reconstruct 3D geometry, especially with the help of range sensors like the article mentions. The process results in 3D information like triangle meshes in addition to 2d images.
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Arithmetic, Population and Energy – A Talk by Al Bartlett(youtube.com)
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by kctess5 10y ago
Nature found a great way to both scrub and sequester CO2, with O2 as a waste product. Unfortunately we haven't exactly been investing in that technology. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation
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by kctess5 10y ago
In some sense many companies do this via 3 month internships. They're basically just low cost future employee vetting opportunities. Of course, they are generally limited to college students.
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by kctess5 10y ago
It's not the main point of this article, but I frequently see sources mentioning wind turbines as a cause of bird deaths. Clearly, it's true. Wind turbines may kill over half a million birds per year in the US[1]. That said, appar
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by kctess5 10y ago
As to... buy a German engineering company?
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by kctess5 10y ago
Classic modern reporting - doesn't link to the source or even cite the paper. Here's the source: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nmat476... Web version: http:/&#
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by kctess5 10y ago
That has been my experience. I have noticed that my mechanical keyboard is much gentler and less likely to induce RSI relate pain because I almost never have hard impacts due to bottoming the keys out. On my MacBook (2013 15" rMBP) it&
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by kctess5 10y ago
I am still in college (masters student) but have done a good bit of web dev both as a freelancer and at internships. I discovered after a while that it is not what I want to do long term, and have since tried to move away from front end. I

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