mrjoeblack

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   by mrjoeblack 10y ago

   The fact that a random opponent performs better means that simply inverting the output of a bad strategy (assuming that is even possible, in cases where the output is more complex than binary it should not be) would just give you another b
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   by mrjoeblack 10y ago

   You've actually made an argument for the FDA, not against it. Otherwise patients with cancer would have to decide between thousands of chemical concoctions which will either kill them, let them live, or do nothing, in which case they w
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   Magic Leap 2017 – On Creativity and Imagination(magicleap.com)

   4 points by mrjoeblack 10y ago|0 comments
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   by mrjoeblack 10y ago

   CWDM uses lasers too, the reduced wavelength tolerance simply means that the lasers can be uncooled (reducing the power draw) and that chirp (frequency shift during modulation) does not cause interference with neighbouring channels, making
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   by mrjoeblack 10y ago

   500% sounds like a deliberate play with numbers, if the default rates were 2% and 10% respectively, I could choose to call that a 500% difference, or more reasonably, an 8% difference.
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   by mrjoeblack 10y ago

   Close, but dispersion compensation is now very easy to do digitally, and has very little impact on system performance now. As for power, it is actually the opposite, optical systems are ultimately limited in reach by nonlinearity, and so yo
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   by mrjoeblack 11y ago

   Except YC does not expect to be criticised when YC companies tank, which many eventually do.