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by wforfang 1y ago
Maxwell's Equations --> Dimensional Analysis --> Distance --> Kevin Bacon
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by wforfang 3y ago
Tesla makes this mistake with their ambiguous "lock" button on the iOS app. The button toggles between an open/closed padlock icon. I often lock the doors remotely and since I can't physically see the car to confirm, I g
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by wforfang 4y ago
D-sharp and E-flat are two different notes used to describe the same physical vibration for the same reason "father" and "son" are two different words that could describe the same person. It's just a way to communic
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by wforfang 4y ago
I do something similar but I include informational notes as well (not just action items/todo's). * incomplete todo ~ completed todo - informational Each day I create a new note, titled by date. Grep the folder for top
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by wforfang 5y ago
I found a "normal mode" solution in a couple minutes after some trial/error. But then I spent 10 minutes trying to find a solution in "hard mode" to no avail. I ultimately gave up and wrote a recursive solver in pyt
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by wforfang 5y ago
This exact product is mentioned in the article as evidence for clinical/market demand. It also shows precedence for FDA approval of a pretty similar instrument for clinical diagnostics. Although, its interesting to note that the hyperf
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by wforfang 5y ago
I enjoyed reading that! Great job.
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by wforfang 5y ago
For anyone who found this video satisfying, you may enjoy "Structures : Or Why Things Don't Fall Down" by Gordon.
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Methods of Design-Oriented Analysis: Low Entropy Expressions (1992) [pdf](web.mit.edu)
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by wforfang 10y ago
I experimented with a few regularization factors and ultimately settled on a lambda of 0.1. Rather than using a stopping criteria, I ran a fixed number of training iterations (~100) and just eyeballed the cost function results. Since my tot
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by wforfang 10y ago
Author here: I'm equally surprised it worked so well with such little training data. Each image contained 1 example of each character (18 total characters * 10 images = 180 examples). Having said that, I don't think it would gener