rhino42

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by rhino42 11y ago
Thanks for the warning by the way! Moved forwardagent to specific servers. I almost always log into trusted servers, but it's good to be preemptive ;-)
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by rhino42 12y ago
One interesting variant, is the case where the Host opens a door without knowing if that door had a goat. Expressing relief that he opened a goat door, he asks you to consider switching doors. IIRC, you get less information in this case, s
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by rhino42 12y ago
An attentive climber can see bolts from the ground at up to maybe 90-100 feet away. Mostly because of fortuitous sunlight reflections. The general idea is that at some point in the future, we might be able to protect these difficult routes.
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by rhino42 12y ago
NASA actually had a rather successful program called "better, faster, cheaper" where we cut back on testing rigour in exchange for 1/2 - 1/3 mission cost http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive&#x2
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by rhino42 12y ago
Caltech also has a fantastic open sourced machine learning course[1]. In fact, students taking the class are instructed to watch these lectures, and class-time is used for answering questions about lectures/homework. (disclaimer: cal
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by rhino42 14y ago
I work at NASA / JPL (but I'm not part of the MSL team, or any flight software team). We learn a good bit about good flight practices though. Here's what probably happened: Someone found the problem as a behavioral anomaly or weird status
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by rhino42 14y ago
But categorically I would expect it to be a reasonable heuristic.
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by rhino42 14y ago
Nope, 1e9 = 1 * 10^9. He was fine.
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by rhino42 14y ago
But the analysis did not account for the variable number of weekend/weekday days on each day of the month. I don't know how meaningful this is, but it would be worth it to inspect this separately and then weigh it in if needed.
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by rhino42 14y ago
Or wrap it in tin foil for a poor-man's farady cage. You could do slightly better with one of those passport RFID shields if that didn't cut it. Whenever they want you to present it, happily do so and then put it back in its cage
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by rhino42 14y ago
but they spit out a bunch of other nasty stuff too. Plus: consider death tolls of each power source per KWh: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-human-toll-of-coa...
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by rhino42 14y ago
He may be pointing at organizations such as the TSA, which seem to have carte blanche nowadays.
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by rhino42 14y ago
I like knowing where I parked. Further, we have something called valley parking, in most places that I would want to get off for a while. You wouldn't need to know where you parked: a quick text message retrieves your car. I will get to
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by rhino42 14y ago
As someone with a bit more knowledge in the field, can you help inform me: I thought the consensus was that beta amyloid was a second order effect of Alzheimers. Didn't we (as in the medical community) establish that it was now likely to
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by rhino42 14y ago
Devil's advocate here: but the TSA has made it more difficult to attack planes, meaning that they stooped attacks that nobody will ever know about
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by rhino42 14y ago
First, mad props to you for taking control of your situation. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans can't (or won't) do that. If americans had control of their own medical actions, they would be even more susceptable to medical
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by rhino42 14y ago
That being said, there is value to posts like the above. If we want to avoid becoming Reddit, we must self moderate and make an effort to stabilize our culture.
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by rhino42 14y ago
Probably correct, I'm afraid to say :-(
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by rhino42 14y ago
Self driving cars well have to be specially equipped- it's not unreasonable to add LIDAR as the standard fare for these cars. After all, it's extremely well suited for the task
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by rhino42 14y ago
Last I checked, Google has a strong history of only using its patents defensively. I believe that's a good sign :-)
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by rhino42 14y ago
Closest we got, imho, was Obama speaking in support of gay rights. They made a pretty big deal of it in the petitions. As far as I know, laws? nada
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by rhino42 14y ago
That's my best guess. Worst part is, easy probably didn't even know it was dead
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by rhino42 14y ago
Why is the post by easy dead? It looks fine to me....
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by rhino42 14y ago
Also, publicity... Never discount publicity
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by rhino42 14y ago
The Lidar cost is not a concern in my opinion. What is Lidar actually used for right now? I'm guessing just military, science and research. This makes it very expensive. If there were demand for a million of them, they would cost a tenth
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by rhino42 14y ago
Highly relevant question. As someone with a signal processing background, the SFT is so huge that without doubt it should be on this list. Knowing MIT's meritocracy, they would have given the award to more women if it were appropriate
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by rhino42 14y ago
That's funny, sounds familiar. How do we finance social security again?
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by rhino42 15y ago
We're still getting lots of "not-space" but still beneficial science data out of NASA. I'm working with a team that's tracking pollution dispersion through earth's upper atmosphere right now, and my friend is off at a conference discussing
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by rhino42 15y ago
I don't believe that is the case. Otherwise, we would see a shortage of care provided. Since everyone gets care, the competition with the super rich- if any- is vote driving prices
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by rhino42 15y ago
This is very true. It was actually the argument that convinced me that a public provided healthcare system (at least for preventative treatment) is an awesome idea.

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