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by pidge 7mo ago
I’m curious and suffering from a failure of imagination—why toggle location services regularly?
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by pidge 8mo ago
> Our core innovation is a radiative cooling material that we’ve combined with a panel system to improve the efficiency of any vapor-compression based cooling system A heat pump is a “ vapor-compression based cooling system” so that tech
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by pidge 11mo ago
Out of curiosity what are the other ways?
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by pidge 2y ago
Relatedly, here’s a slicer built around Fidget https://github.com/Wulfsta/WeekendSlicer/tree/main
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by pidge 2y ago
Soon available as a service https://www.reflectorbital.com/
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Bet on Love: The Prediction Market Dating Show (Ft Aella)(youtube.com)
1 points by pidge 3y ago|0 comments
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by pidge 4y ago
Yeah, given that everything is now multi-core, it makes sense to use a natively parallel tool for anything compute-bound. And Spark will happily run locally and (unlike previous big data paradigms) doesn’t require excessive mental contortio
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Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse(betterwithout.ai)
85 points by pidge 4y ago|120 comments
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by pidge 4y ago
How about speech to text instead? Whiteboard use in real life is a combination of speech and sketching.
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by pidge 4y ago
Following the numbered citation, I think this is the table of contents from a different book, originally published in Finnish by Jaak Henno, which would have an English title something like “It is simple with Prolog!”. He also seems to have
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by pidge 5y ago
Google’s first hire (Craig Silverstein) was an International Collegiate Programming Contest champion. Make of that what you will.
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by pidge 5y ago
Yes, you should be able to tell your direct manager basically what you told us. Copy and paste into an email if that’s easier. (Your tone here is fine.) It does sound like your manager’s manager has poor people skills / favors a more c
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by pidge 5y ago
Yeah Los Angeles already fines pedestrians pretty aggressively for jaywalking, even on urban pedestrian-heavy streets. This maintains a different norm for the city about jaywalking than say Boston, so in principle the issue seems quite solv
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by pidge 5y ago
Unfortunately there’s not a control arm here. Looks like maybe original design was to determine effect of the additive as treatment, with sodium bicarbonate as the control. But both arms were significantly different than the population aver
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by pidge 5y ago
To clarify, they implemented the algorithm in Dafny, and then proved that version correct. They did not verify code that will actually run in production. From the paper: > Dafny is a practical option for the verification of mission-criti
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by pidge 5y ago
There is a footnote about the drug charges section that anyone commenting here may want to read first.
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Reverse Engineering Neural Networks’ Algorithms(distill.pub)
4 points by pidge 6y ago|0 comments
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Principles for the Application of Human Intelligence(behavioralscientist.org)
2 points by pidge 7y ago|0 comments
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by pidge 7y ago
Sometimes a word is worth a thousand icons. https://blog.codinghorror.com/sometimes-a-word-is-worth-a-th...
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by pidge 8y ago
A literal one that I probably picked up from another comment section here: Treat your closet as an LRU cache—always put clothes away on one side, and start looking for items from the same side. As an added benefit when you run out of capaci
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We Need an Energy Miracle (2015)(theatlantic.com)
33 points by pidge 9y ago|59 comments
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by pidge 9y ago
Incidentally, there’s actually a map projection where all “great circle” routes (shortest paths on a sphere, ie missile paths) are straight lines. It’s called the gnomonic projection, and it could have been used to illustrate the Russian-ov
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by pidge 9y ago
There are clearly solar systems installed in Florida that are both grid-connected and capable of operating as backup power when the grid is down (see partway down the page) - http://pureenergysolar.com/residential_solar_inst
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by pidge 9y ago
Yet plenty of people struggle with alcoholism and obesity.
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by pidge 9y ago
What did they mess up? I have one and all I noticed is that the iPhone app got an update that imparts a cleaner UI design, reminiscent of Nokia's golden age (i.e. Marko-Ahtisaari-esque).
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by pidge 10y ago
The open-source Vrui VR toolkit[1] has some level of support for the Vive and Rift[2]. [1] http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Vrui/ [2] http://doc-ok.org/?p=1508
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by pidge 10y ago
Can you help me understand the graph that article references to claim that more storms are happening?[1] It looks like some classes of disaster have tripled since the '80s, and in general that disasters have basically doubled. Those bo
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by pidge 10y ago
If membership in a discrimination-protected category is not completely binary, equal-opportunity policies incentivize people who could identify with multiple categories to choose the one with the lowest discrimination -adjusted threshold.
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by pidge 10y ago
Think about it as getting a time series of previous measurements to aid in the detection of anomilies. If you just give me the metrics of a production system at an instant in time, it's hard to say whether anything's wrong. But wh
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by pidge 11y ago
CW&T are experimenting with a handheld 3D PLA extruder gun (3Doodler on steroids) right now - https://instagram.com/p/8eixCjRhGN/

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