mike_n

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by mike_n 3y ago
Similar situation. I ended up paying a few bucks for an extension/guest access pass at the local university. I just started auditing lectures in any and all departments, 20+ hrs/week for a few semesters. Eventually I found myself
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by mike_n 4y ago
Wouldn't it be prudent for them to ask for 11 fabs in 11 states, and get 11x more politicians lobbying for them?
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by mike_n 4y ago
Is there a set of standard open-source textbooks for k-12 levels? If not, can we make it happen?
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by mike_n 4y ago
Boudin is junk, no local would eat there. there are so many better local bakeries. Gharardelli, Pier 39/Fisherman's Wharf, and Union Square are touristy. There's nothing you can't buy there that you can't find onlin
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by mike_n 6y ago
it does seem very plausible that undetected cases are several times higher than confirmed/symptomatic cases. and/or, perhaps when things start to spike locally people begin to take it seriously and change their behavior a bit -- d
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by mike_n 6y ago
I worked for a solar co in the US for a while, 10yrs ago or so. It was a very interesting time, the hardware (solar panels, inverters) part of our Cost of Goods Sold fell considerably over the course of a few years. I'll suggest a few
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by mike_n 6y ago
I'm sure they have plenty of other data points to help them get a pretty good idea of who the phone belongs to
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by mike_n 6y ago
perhaps OP has aphantasia? Seems fairly common among engineers (and even some artists) -- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/apr/...
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by mike_n 6y ago
I'm sure the data is still there on a server somewhere for legal/marketing reasons, but now the show_history_to_user field is just set to FALSE.
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by mike_n 6y ago
One reads stories of pork/etc carcasses that aren't being processed right now, perhaps we could ship those onto barges and into the ocean and dump them overboard to seed new pockets of offshore life on the sea floor.
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by mike_n 7y ago
Perhaps they can retool and crank out ventilator/etc parts
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by mike_n 7y ago
Do human doctors have a better rate? And at what cost/throughput?
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by mike_n 7y ago
And with the other hand... unzips
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by mike_n 7y ago
Perhaps Amazon should manufacture masks/sanitizer/etc via its house brand, and churn them out by the billion.
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by mike_n 7y ago
I'd wager a large percentage have ;) it can be mind-bending for sure, it's hard to describe. You might have profound ideas, or not, it's hard to predict; and not all of these will seem so profound when sober the next day. It
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by mike_n 7y ago
Hang in there, you'll figure it out.
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by mike_n 8y ago
from a marketer's perspective, it's one of the most lucrative life events, along with weddings and buying a house and falling ill -- huge amounts of money being spent on goods and services and new behaviors.
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by mike_n 8y ago
I don't know, I think I have a pretty good natural instinct for science...
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by mike_n 8y ago
https://www.playdiplomacy.com/
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by mike_n 8y ago
Having been to Burning Man and various parties/raves/festivals of all sorts, AND several of the aforementioned 'Clambakes' in the article, these are different than usual. Some overlap, not necessarily better or worse, bu
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by mike_n 8y ago
Imagine you're looking at a ball rolling around on a complicated curved surface defined by differential (non-linear) equations, which can be a tricky system to analyze. If the ball is near some sort of a saddle equilibrium point, the t
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by mike_n 8y ago
instead of (perhaps illegally) recruiting for people of a certain age group, why not just search for people who liked (for example) Fortnite or Harry Potter or similar categories? Sure, you might get a few false positives (showing your ad t
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by mike_n 8y ago
as if we don't have our own Wag-the-Dog-ish distractions also?
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by mike_n 8y ago
Is it not assumed/expected that if you're using android then google has access to all your phone's data/sensors?
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by mike_n 8y ago
also, you are the product, of course -- https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/05/moviepass-ceo-proudly-says... kinda crappy business model... but kudos to them for being transparent about it, i guess? also, there re
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by mike_n 8y ago
And probably your calendar events and who they're with and any associated info, etc... including any confidential corporate/health/other info oh, and so does any other app that has calendar permissions (uber, etc)
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by mike_n 9y ago
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c3b3/9a378e6f805d6cae5b05f5...
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by mike_n 9y ago
perhaps, but i would think that if you threw another tool (a different way to relate some inputs) at a neural net, it might figure out some way to exploit it, even if it's not clear to you or me. just like a RL agent sometimes finds +
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by mike_n 9y ago
if quaternions, why not octonions?
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by mike_n 9y ago
is this a way for google to get a lot of data? for example, more info about players, their preferences, etc. Also, maybe they can get a large training set of how human players act/spend/etc in complex games, which could be a very

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