tostitos1979

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by tostitos1979 6y ago
Surely your joking Mr Feinman. I was a child prodigy eons ago and wished I read that when I was a teen.
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by tostitos1979 7y ago
I have a PhD in CS but am a huge udemy fan/user. The itch it scratches when I want to learn about a brand new topic. You asked for good courses .. Andrew LeMoth's course in electronics is absolutely brilliant. He does the lecture
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
Also a confluence user. Our content does go out of date periodically and it is annoying at times (wish I could trivially switch everything to md or html) .. but I think it solves the problem posed by the OP.
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
Is this pepper's ghost, or something different?
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
Um ... I don't know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTf7wT5WR0
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
I had such an a-hole interviewer the last (and hence final) interview I did at Google. His attitude was ... oh .. you have a PhD, let me show you how smart I am. Just like getting into YC isn't necessary to be a successful founder, get
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
Hey .. I just came across Mu in the context of the BBC Microbit. From a few days of hacking with it, I must say I am very impressed. The ability to flash code to the microbit, the automatic install of libraries .. I remember thinking "
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
Last I looked at Vex, I seem to recall being surprised that the software was not free. Was a non-starter for me as a hobbyist.
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
I thought they charged on a per minute basis. Still ... a valuable resource. I haven't done the costing but seems buying a cheapo printer is more economical than using any per-minute service .. especially, when one is getting started.
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
Yup .. I also encountered the microbit recently, and it is very well done IMO. A bit easier to use than the Arduino for lil kids.
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
I got a Cozmo ... has vision and a Python API, which seems like a good idea. Haven't had a chance to really use it. It was also a bit expensive. I have made my own robots in the past. Frankly, my flakey hw killed my sw enthusiasm. That
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
I was "over contributing" to my 401K for years ... I realized this when it came time to buy a house and fork up a down payment. I was rich in 401K but not in liquid cash :( Still no house but do have dependents, etc. Depends on yo
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted. I feel the same way. People might be going boo-hoo ... but they don't understand the point you are making. I presume you have a high paying job in a very expensive area. If you moved to a cheaper area,
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Wireless system can power devices inside the body(news.mit.edu)
114 points by tostitos1979 8y ago|41 comments
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
Here is another one in Python/Lego mindstorms: http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/scipy2012/pdfs/iqbal...
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
Why though? I don't think globalization is the culprit.
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
Nice project! I've been dabbling in DL for about a year (skimmed Stanford CNN course, Silver's RNN course, Andrew Ng's old ML course, etc.). While I can recreate basic stuff like MNIST, I don't feel like I can attack a p
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by tostitos1979 8y ago
How is this not a scam?
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Curious what you think the problems are. Drivers are a huge one IMHO (as the parent poster mentioned). From a tech perspective, perhaps the biggest one. The only other tech major tech challenge I see is getting app developer support (basica
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Read the book wikinomics. This is just a cheap way to outsource R&D. I'm a professional scientist and I think the whole prize-based way of doing research is stupid. My personal opinion.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I didn't know we had the tech to detect earthquakes with high prob (say >99%) something like 60 seconds in advance. Can someone comment? If we can detect, you are right that it is shocking we don't do population wide drills wit
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
The differentiation is probably why I wouldn't have bothered to hack it myself. Curious how you/others would tackle it? What do you mean by auto differentiation?
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Yeah .. but his first impulse was to write backprop from scratch. I saw the lectures, been dabbling with NN for years, and I never thought to do it. I always thought the Stanford people made you do it on assn 1 to pay your dues or something
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I went through the first a couple of topics. It seemed very disjointed. Different people presenting, different exercises. Was it like this internally? Or is this heavily "annotated"?
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I've generally been impressed of FitBit's business savvy. They get hw well (keep BOM/per-unit costs under control). It was particularly instructive to see the fate that befell Pebble (glad that fitbit hired a lot of those fol
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I'm surprised this isn't at the top of the frontpage. This is big vindication of all hardware startups. Will VCs go big in this category after this series of exits?
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Doesn't say why the Echo device was wailing. Kind of annoying.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
No programmatic interface to do it as far as I know.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
CS PhD here and worked over a decade. Yesterday, I made a list of over a dozen technical areas in CS I feel inadequate on. I think the issue is not that a CS Masters is easy. It is that CS knowledge is a never ending firehose. When I gradu
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
But isn't the crappy widget library a general problem with Linux? What would one use if not EFL?

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