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by timbre 8y ago
The article says 1/3 are "at risk" of depression. It looks like the statistic is based on a web survey ( https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9ac3/478bc1263be53f5150a54b... ), so I suppose they couldn't
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by timbre 9y ago
Why are GA aircraft so expensive? A C172 seems much simpler mechanically than a car. I can see that the price would be driven up by low volume and probably a much stricter QA/inspection process... Is that it, or am I missing somethin
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by timbre 9y ago
The NABirds dataset: http://dl.allaboutbirds.org/nabirds . But it's North American birds, not sure if you specifically want to cover birds that show up in Finland or if that was just your inspiration. There are a couple
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Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning(blogs.dropbox.com)
3 points by timbre 9y ago|0 comments
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by timbre 10y ago
Also http://birdsnap.com and http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/photo-id/
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by timbre 10y ago
> We wrote Google to ask the reason for this sudden move and they responded that AdNauseam had breached the Web Store’s terms of service, stating that “An extension should have a single purpose that is clear to users…” They deserve shit
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by timbre 10y ago
Is there some evidence that changing the terminology this way has an effect -- say an increase in prosecutions or safer driving habits? I was surprised to come to the end of the article without anything about this one way or the other.
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by timbre 11y ago
That's what a "false positive" is but Wikipedia also has a separate article on "false positive rate", which gives the formula FP / (FP + TN) Where FP is number of false positives, and TN is number of true negat
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by timbre 11y ago
FYI in this case the error was in Ukrainian-to-Russian translation, not Russian-to-English.
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by timbre 11y ago
It's describing the dynamics in the (non-inertial) reference frame of the satellite (the reference frame in which the astronauts can be described as "floating around"). In this reference frame, the centrifugal force balances
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by timbre 11y ago
"i" is different. Don't see anything else though.
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by timbre 12y ago
I don't know much about how most unions work, but at least TV & movie actors and writers, classical musicians, and professional athletes have unions that work as task_queue describes. It's hard for me to imagine a programmer&
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by timbre 12y ago
I think the point of code signing is to ensure that the program was really written by Dropbox, so _if_ you trust Dropbox you should trust the program. That trust should definitely include both Dropbox's good intentions and their compe
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by timbre 12y ago
I'm surprised you can sign an executable, then modify it while preserving the validity of the signature, as I always though this is exactly what code signing is meant to prevent. Can anyone who knows more about this than me (a low bar
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by timbre 12y ago
The Priceonomics article's main point is that raising speed limits doesn't (much) raise actual speed, so it's not inconsistent with papers (like the one you linked) that show that increased speed causes more and worse acciden
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by timbre 12y ago
This is consistent with most drivers behaving like _archon_ (and like me). For example, if every driver thinks she can safely drive 90 mph, but 80%, like _archon_ and me, stay below 10 over the limit out of fear of police, while 20% drive
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by timbre 12y ago
What is he misunderstanding? There's nothing in the post mentioning copyright or suggesting the author thinks he has a legal case. He just thinks New Relic are being jerks.
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by timbre 12y ago
Maybe add iPod Touch to the not supported list in the app description. Although I know there aren't many of us!
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by timbre 12y ago
Defense job creation is appealing because it's an easy way to use federal money for local benefit. If you want to fix bridges or something, you have to deal with people saying it's your state's or city's responsibility,
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by timbre 12y ago
I've been assuming the use case is that you're not in a store. The world is Amazon's showroom.
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by timbre 12y ago
The article blithely describes the "best" strategy, without defining "best." I believe the strategy is only best in the sense of giving the highest probability of ending up with the best candidate--so the second best ca
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by timbre 12y ago
The linked article (title "Painless Resumes With Markdown") doesn't even mention GitHub.
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by timbre 12y ago
From the article: > ... we lie, on average, three times during a routine ten-minute conversation with a stranger or casual acquaintance. Hardly anyone refrains from lying altogether, and some people report lying up to twelve times within
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by timbre 12y ago
This idea applies to more than medicine. A boss once told me, speaking about a piece of work I thought was pretty good, "If it could be better, it's wrong." It stuck with me, and I've found that everyone I meet who is
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by timbre 12y ago
Children are not legally compelled to join Facebook and Google+.
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by timbre 12y ago
The method at least is very different. The Google app is doing structure from motion, which essentially uses parallax to get the 3D shape of the scene. From there, you can blur/deblur according to depth. The Nokia app uses focal swe
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by timbre 12y ago
You are right that they assume the subject is looking at a face, and so will always produce "face-like" output. The paper includes a quantitative evaluation, in which they take a set of 30 distractor face images not used elsewhere
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by timbre 12y ago
A solo founder can have a team (of non-founders), as the founder in this article does.
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by timbre 13y ago
The "perfectly valid" assumption is also definitely invalid, even within the U.S. A few counterexamples in NYC: "Broadway," "The Bowery," "Avenue of the Americas." Boston has "The Fenway."
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by timbre 13y ago
You're one for three.

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