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by viewtransform 9y ago
Does anyone know what breakthroughs in control systems have gone into making this possible ? Are there any papers describing how Boston Dynamics is programming this ? are they hardcoding the backflip from human data and then overlaying some
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by viewtransform 9y ago
Trader Joe's Multi-Purpose Cleaner. The green stuff. Spray and wipe the board with a microfiber cloth or any cloth rag. Cleans perfectly and smells great too.
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by viewtransform 9y ago
HIP allows developers to convert CUDA code to portable C++. The same source code can be compiled to run on NVIDIA or AMD GPUs https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP
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by viewtransform 9y ago
AMD has HIP. HIP allows developers to convert CUDA code to portable C++. The same source code can be compiled to run on NVIDIA or AMD GPUs https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP
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by viewtransform 9y ago
AMD has a Radeon Pro SSG card with 16GB + 2TB on board memory. You address the 2TB NVMe SSG memory as a filesystem directly from the card itself - no PCIe system transfer involved. 24.6TFLOPS half-precision. You can program using OpenCL or
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by viewtransform 9y ago
When a recruiter contacted me for a position at Google in 2012, I happened to be also taking Daphne Koller's Coursera class on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM). I was puzzled why the recruiter wanted to know my SAT score. He also
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by viewtransform 9y ago
"each cell from the same person will have different genomes" Did you mean each cell will have different gene expression ? I thought all the cells have the same nucleotide sequences barring maybe occasional mutations (like in cance
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by viewtransform 9y ago
I second this. This was the explanation where I finally understood the big picture of ledgers, blockchain & proof of work
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by viewtransform 9y ago
Asafoetida - "The devils dung" http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/200904/devil.s.dung-the... The most awful smelling spice in my cupboard. I have to put the spice bottle in a zip lockbag that is then
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by viewtransform 9y ago
These are amazing! I grew these in Santa Monica CA a couple of years ago and they came out the size of large mangoes with the best flavor I've tasted in a tomato. http://www.growitalian.com/tomato-cuor-di-bue-oxheart-10
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by viewtransform 9y ago
This bottom up approach was investigated in the late 90's after researchers became skeptical that the symbolic AI approaches in vogue then would achieve general AI. You can look for the topic of Artifical Life, Emergent Computation, A
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by viewtransform 9y ago
We generally accept that we 'know' something when the model used to explain the system is simpler than the system itself. The brain is a very high-dimensional non-linear dynamical system. The number of neurons in the brain is on t
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by viewtransform 9y ago
I would argue that intelligence is connected to the evolution of sensing at a distance. Vision in particular, allowed life to evaluate the state of the environment at a distance and allowed for the evolution of strategies to predict and res
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by viewtransform 9y ago
Not a wheel but a rotary motor: topologically the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellum
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by viewtransform 9y ago
Put the cilantro/parsley stems immersed in a glass of water. Cover the leaves with a plastic bag and it will keep in the refrigerator for at least a week without wilting
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by viewtransform 9y ago
Most immigrants strive to fit in with those aspects of the host culture that they appreciate. Every immigrant to the US changes their behavior: don't litter, obey traffic rules, stand in the queue, it's okay to smile at strangers
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by viewtransform 9y ago
I second that recommendation for Daniel Yergin's pulitzer prize winning book "The Prize". Oil as an energy source changed mankind. In addition to the history of oil in the US, it gave insight into the rising importance of oil
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by viewtransform 9y ago
I remember when voice recognition was barely usable (90-00's) then all of a sudden within the last decade voice recognition started showing up and it was amazingly good. Siri can understand most of what I speak to it even while drivi
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by viewtransform 9y ago
As kids in Mumbai we had this Hindi rhyme Adha padha, kaun padha # half a fart, who farted mamaji ka gohda padha # uncle's horse farted Doom, Doom, Puss. # farting sounds
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by viewtransform 9y ago
They are also good at arm-wrestling https://youtu.be/1jyyBkohi3Y?t=12
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by viewtransform 9y ago
For those who don't get this - it is a clever reference to Euler's Twelve Pentagon theorem : "any closed polyhedron composed no polygons other than hexagons and pentagons and having no holes must have exactly 12 pentagons.&qu
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by viewtransform 9y ago
This one I discovered in a local history book in Utah. It is a coin from India 1830 that was found buried in Southern Utah as part of a Spanish cache. Apparently Spanish priests during that time were amassing good sums of gold from their n
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by viewtransform 10y ago
The scale is deceptive. Take a look at the report on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xa_Q1R7mGs&t=132s and you will see a thick concrete spillway with 1.5" rebar. All that was ripped off by the force of the
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by viewtransform 10y ago
One tactic is to insert a challenge that had to be overcome, the conflicts that arose in the solution and then the final resolution. This is standard fare in Nova documentaries where the topic can often be fairly dull. eg: documentary is a
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by viewtransform 10y ago
The downside for consumers is that once you know the patterns that storytellers follow, it becomes one of those 'can't unsee it' things that just stand out in movies. It's only the few good movies that manage to draw you
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by viewtransform 10y ago
There's a video of a large mirror placed in a jungle and the reaction of various animals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaMylwohL14 Also previously on HN this same topic was discussed https://news.ycombina
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by viewtransform 10y ago
I highly recommend these youtube videos by 3Blue1Brown https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x... . Each short lecture had a 'Why didn't they tell me that in college!' kind of insight. Tra
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by viewtransform 10y ago
There has been standardization in many areas since the days of Toy Story: Autodesk Maya, Houdini, Nuke are now standards in the industry. It took a while for forward thinking technical managers to convince studio executives that open-sour
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by viewtransform 10y ago
It has more to do with risk management coming out of the finance dept. The studio knows that a sequel will have a guaranteed $ minimum return just because it is a sequel. Hence they can estimate how much to sink into production to guarant
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by viewtransform 10y ago
Sony Imageworks had a reusable digital library for the buildings in Manhattan. The fire from GhostRider also saw reuse. These models are tied to the production pipeline at Sony: the shaders, data formats, texture pipeline, effects pipeline

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