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by pfalke 7mo ago
Gemini fast: „Walking: It will take you about 45 seconds. You will arrive refreshed and full of steps, but you will be standing next to a high-pressure hose with no car to spray.“
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by pfalke 3y ago
Foundational models can work where so far „needs human intuition“ was the state of things. I can picture a time series model with large enough Training corpus being able to deal quite well with typical quirks of seasonalities, shocks, outli
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by pfalke 4y ago
Well said! To add a few options - energy management (shifting loads to times when energy is cheap) for consumer/commercial/industrial use cases - energy markets, especially power trading: often highly algorithmic, and driven by mo
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by pfalke 4y ago
Zcal requires the following permission for Google Calender, Cal.com doesn’t: “… permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar” Granting that takes a lot of trust in Zcal.
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by pfalke 4y ago
Switch to a German QWERTZ keyboard. That’ll also help with giving rusty muscle memory a fresh kick.
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by pfalke 4y ago
Zooming in on the lower basin of the pumped storage reservoir switches the map from showing the filled basin to an empty basin!
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by pfalke 4y ago
Here’s another Terminator one: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/terminator-war-of-th...
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Tesla's drive to keep Musk's battery promise(msn.com)
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by pfalke 4y ago
The same applies within large companies. If you’re within a business team, and you’re requesting work from a design team/engineering team/data science team, you’ll face the same issues with scope creep + churn + competing prioriti
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by pfalke 4y ago
https://m.xkcd.com/2606/ — mystery solved!
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by pfalke 6y ago
At least in e-commerce it’s very much possible. The company that I work for does such experiments regularly (there’s a dedicated Data Science team for measurement) and I’ve personally been involved in lift studies for Google Ads. They work,
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by pfalke 8y ago
Note that it’s a clearance sale within ‘certified refurbished’, so these are not entirely new devices.
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by pfalke 9y ago
Slightly OT: Can someone elaborate on "Do not share Wifi"? What can be problematic when using a shared but encrypted (say, WPA2 with pre-shared key) Wifi? This is a common setup in public places like cafes. I've always wonder
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by pfalke 9y ago
It is. It's called "French-ruled paper" and is the school standard in France. [0] [0] https://getfrenchbox.com/what-is-french-ruled-paper-seyes-sc...
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by pfalke 9y ago
„...all major browsers“ Is Internet Explorer not a major browser anymore? I’m talking relevant as in your webpage needs to work fine in Internet Explorer . For example, my company still has Internet Explorer configured as default browser a
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by pfalke 9y ago
Thanks for commenting - it was Ghost Inspector
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by pfalke 9y ago
Did the same thing to get a wedding registration appointment with the Berlin city administration, but used Ghostery instead of AWS+Twilio. The responsible administration department currently doesn’t give out appointments and advises not to
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by pfalke 9y ago
Agreed that long passwords are generally better. For online services (e.g., HackerNews), what's the scenario where an attacker cracks an 8 character password in 8 hours? I assume the attacker would need to download a copy of the servic
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by pfalke 9y ago
As a non-infosec guy, could someone shed more light on the implications for end users? I get that the combination of password reuse, short passwords and the fact that some services store passwords in plain text or as MD5 hashes makes it eas
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by pfalke 10y ago
Could someone explain why password length is so important when logging into web services? I get that it's important for encryption, but when you implement a web service that has rate limiting, a basic password length of say six charact
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by pfalke 11y ago
Could a similar approach work to find the impact of foods on other health factors (sleep quality, digestion, ...) in a personal experiment? I picture logging my coffee consumption (or even all foods + sports etc) and sleep over a few weeks,
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by pfalke 11y ago
What's the price? Couldn't find it on the page, only the "join the waitlist" button. Any help appreciated
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by pfalke 11y ago
The EU introduced regulation to make bank accounts available to everybody - even those without a permanent address of residence [0]. The EU's members are currently passing the corresponding national laws (they have until 2016 to do so)
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by pfalke 11y ago
All on one page: http://fitztrev.github.io/make-it-rain/
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by pfalke 11y ago
It's HN user fukusa, who also comments in this thread
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by pfalke 11y ago
The low-wage service sector (household services, personal care, ...) may take up those people how previously would have done low-skill office work. However, that may be taken over by robots at some point. Then, I don't know.
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by pfalke 12y ago
This is a free of charge beta release - in other words, no way to figure out if their pricing model is going to be attractive for your app. https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/pricing
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by pfalke 12y ago
I tend to agree, but I can't find details on how it works. Quickly reading the site I had the impression that - its for attorneys only - it won't be entirely free, as published are promised compensation for their "premium con
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by pfalke 12y ago
Piste is French for ski track.
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by pfalke 12y ago
I have attended Berlin Mathematical School, a joint program by the three renowned universities from Berlin. The program is specifically set up for foreign students and is absolutely feasible for foreigners! www.math-berlin.de

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