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by plafl 4y ago
There are already insurance companies offering coverage for legal expenses. The interesting part here is maybe that by restricting it to patents the insurer has a very clear idea of the risk being covered, as all the patents are public. Edi
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by plafl 4y ago
I had (aerospace engineer) two semesters of Numerical Methods. Then we had more specialized things like Finite Elements Methods. I wish we had been taught how to use a Computer Algebra System (example, Mathematica or Maple).
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by plafl 4y ago
Nice, but I have moved to https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm and I'm not looking back
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by plafl 4y ago
>But we can and should do better. Why is DLL-hell still a thing? Imports should specify versions, defaulting to a default if none is specified. Languages barely even consider versions today, they are almost always hacked on via magic tex
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by plafl 4y ago
I love this book, reading it right now: Power Programming Mathematica: The Kernel. It's (legally) free, you can find PDFs. Bonus: I love weird books covers. This one is charming. Am I the only one that notices that the barbell is bendi
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by plafl 4y ago
> There is even research by now that aims to use ML to find good heuristics for a given family of problems (where the common characteristics of the problems might lend to a dominant heuristic). I think I have spotted some papers about t
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by plafl 4y ago
He got 2/3 of the shares necessary for gaining control. The Bank of Portugal was the only one who could prosecute money forgery and it was being acquired with forged money. This guy was a hacker. I doubt he would have succeeded neverth
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by plafl 4y ago
I'm trying to do a PhD part time while working although I don't plan to go to academia, now or in the future. For me it's a way of focusing on some topic related to my work: I'm a machine learning engineer and I'm d
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by plafl 4y ago
Road atlases were the same in Spain. I think the reason is that they are not interactive, that's the all the zoom level you are going to get and so they are extremely dense with information. I think that for interactive use google maps
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by plafl 4y ago
I actually have wireless keyboard, mouse and earphones, both for work and for sport. But like other commenter says I need nevertheless an space for a 27" monitor, keyboard/mouse and a comfortable office chair. I don't think I
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by plafl 4y ago
> If you never use your battery, why own a laptop at all? Why not buy a Mac mini or an iMac? Sometimes I need to move, for example while travelling, otherwise I would use a desktop computer.
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by plafl 4y ago
I came to exactly post this. I previously had a HP ZBook with Nvidia Quadro inside and although I managed to get it running nicely I recently bought an LG Gram with integrated graphics and I'm not looking back. Both came with a Windows
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by plafl 4y ago
This is a usually cited concern for so many people and I'm curious to know why because I rarely unplug my laptop, like most people I know.
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by plafl 4y ago
Exercising is doing physical exercise for the sake of it (health). Training involves planification to reach an objective: some personal record, a competition or aesthetic.
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by plafl 4y ago
> and macOS has good MS Office support. This. I get the M1 must be very good but what I really want is something I doubt I'm going to get: native Office support in Linux. I use Office rarely but on those rare occasions it sucks to u
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by plafl 4y ago
I have been recently looking at several "3d scanning" from monocular images/videos solutions and although they make for impressive demos I'm afraid they are a few years away from robust results. On one hand you have trad
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by plafl 4y ago
I recently tried the Quest 2 and was blown away by the level of isolation from the external world it provides. It's pure concentration. I think VR has lot of potential for productivity (and education). Regarding the price point of Simu
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by plafl 4y ago
I like to explain that AI > ML > NN. Now, NNs are the ones getting results at computer vision and natural language, and more. I think most people would say that other ML approaches are computational statistics. The goalpost for AI kee
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by plafl 5y ago
Not the parent but I would say you just need a little of statistics and a little of calculus and linear algebra. If you are interested in theory then you need more. For statistics I would recommend "All of Statistics". The level o
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by plafl 5y ago
What is your setup? Because I'm using Fedora and installed Unity because I was curious and deleted it after having problems (I don't remember the error though).
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by plafl 5y ago
Nice, I didn't know about Jolt. A good book also is "Real Time Collision Detection" (Christer Ericson).
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by plafl 5y ago
You can use GJK for 2D also. You don't need to compute the bounding boxes as GJK will automatically "convexify" the body although if you "precompute" the bounding boxes it will be better. You just need to compute th
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by plafl 5y ago
I should be writing a thesis about AI but got inside the collision rabbit hole so I have this fresh. From the description of the algorithm you are doing I think you are thinking about Lin-Canny or V-Clip, which certainly may have that kind
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by plafl 5y ago
That's the good part: putting in place a simple system will beat manual recommendations. Sadly even moderately big businesses lack sometimes automated recommendations. There are several companies that offer the service but I don't
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by plafl 5y ago
When in doubt, increase the covariance. Add some terms to the diagonal. It remembers me a little of deep learning: just stack some layers. Except it's not just that easy.
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by plafl 5y ago
Do you feel that recommendations given to you are perfect? That more or less should answer the question. Evaluating recommendation systems is hard because you actually require a human in the loop. Even worse, giving the recommendations alte
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by plafl 5y ago
Not french speaking but I will guess that by using extremely precise inertial navigation. Accelerometers measure acceleration + gravity. You need to subtract the gravity.
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by plafl 5y ago
It makes it easier to gather support to change the situation. Good luck if you are in the minority with the problem.
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by plafl 5y ago
C++ requires to devote your life to it but you can learn C and spend a year using it and suddenly you have a dangerous but powerful tool in your toolbox forever.
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by plafl 5y ago
Reading the title I thought this was going to be about the impossibility of decomposing all 3D polyhedra in tetrahedra [1]. As you may know every polygon in 2D can be however decomposed into triangles, but this result doesn't, surprisi

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