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by AriedK 3y ago
Wasn't aware there's a term for it. Thanks for that one!
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by AriedK 3y ago
In WWII in the Netherlands, when encountering a stranger, they'd have them pronounce 'Scheveningen' as a check-phrase to distinguish if they were dealing with a Dutch or German person. Now, we can ask random strangers on the
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by AriedK 3y ago
Especially since they did take the effort to redact the ending numbers of his creditcard number.
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by AriedK 3y ago
It has been tried. Joshua Barneau tried it with GPT-3, training it on his deceased fiancees text- and facebook messages. It’s a moving read: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation... It ‘work
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by AriedK 3y ago
I find these tremendously helpful https://i.etsystatic.com/13650636/r/il/617182/2062686717/il_... as popularized by AvE
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by AriedK 3y ago
Another listener of Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales? If not, give it a listen! https://timharford.com/2022/11/cautionary-tales-the-inventor... The story of the Radium Girls tell a similar tale. Lick your Radi
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by AriedK 3y ago
Tonic immobility is a fascinating phenomenon. From the wikipedia article on it: “ In an interesting eye witness case off the coast of California, a female orca was seen holding the shark upside down to induce tonic immobility. It kept the s
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by AriedK 3y ago
https://timharford.com/2022/11/cautionary-tales-the-inventor... This is a podcast worth listening to, on the inventor of CFCs and the global response to the first discovery of the hole in the ozone layer.
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by AriedK 3y ago
More: https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by AriedK 3y ago
I guess they built upon the Voder [1] (Homer Dudley, Bell Labs 1939 as well. But that was played manually, amazing ‘instrument’? 1: https://youtu.be/5hyI_dM5cGo
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by AriedK 3y ago
Earlier discussion, different source, roughly the same information. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32249465
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by AriedK 4y ago
These could be the Leonardo da Vincis of this age. They’re quite unique, and have been for centuries.
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by AriedK 4y ago
Agree. It's the onset of the problem that makes it tricky to judge what will happen. Look at the response to the effects of chlorofluorocarbon gasses on the ozone layer. Relatively swift, united action to ban their use, despite having
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by AriedK 4y ago
Quite a broad statement, what exactly do you mean with interoperate with machine learning? To be fair it’s hidden a bit, but you can use the face training and recognition. https://docs.digikam.org/en/main_window/pe
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by AriedK 4y ago
I’ve been consistently surprised by the audio quality on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts too. Here’s a video of their audio engineer explaining their setup: https://youtu.be/e07bI5rz6FY
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by AriedK 4y ago
Don't want to be too critical of (I assume) the students' efforts, but in my opinion the message behind the project is a bit too explicitly translated into the products. It could use a bit more creativity in how they're tryin
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by AriedK 4y ago
The process of making these images is quite an accomplishment. Highly recommend the episode of the embedded.fm podcast with the author of the book, where they go jnto detail explaining what it took.
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by AriedK 4y ago
That will be pretty difficult for LoRa messages without having access to the relevant decryption keys. LoRaWAN is a pretty secure standard.
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by AriedK 4y ago
I know it says Field Testing, but the results aren’t very helpful to find what you’re looking for. The antenna ‘strength’ in every direction. We built a €200 setup that combines a rotating platform, a drone power meter (for 868MHz or 915 in
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by AriedK 4y ago
This is an issue at our office. We have some cheaper LG monitors that flicker when someone stands up from his gas spring chair. The Dell monitors we have don’t suffer this issue. A paper on the issue: https://www.emcesd.com&#x2F
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by AriedK 4y ago
https://www.vacuumsguide.com/privacy-robot-vacuum-cleaners/ This was already on the radar 5 years ago. Pretty useful data for companies like Ikea to know how people fill their spaces. I am curious if other data is suck
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by AriedK 4y ago
I recommend listening to the told version by the Milk Carton Kids (Live From Lincoln Theatre (2014)), and the rest of the album. https://youtu.be/gL8eBrhVTJ4?t=2517 Interesting this article is from 2020, whereas the wikip
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by AriedK 4y ago
The difference I appreciate the most is the filter of the aeropress that filters all the fine particles that easily make their way through/past a frech press filter.
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by AriedK 4y ago
https://www.ampermusic.com/ Amper music, owned by Shutterstock, has been around for a while. It was quite nice to play around with when it was still free, not sure if, and how it has evolved over the past years.
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by AriedK 5y ago
Why is this immediately attributed to Russian troops as markers? Couldn't it also be Ukrainian movements using this for their organization? 'Farms' being code for supply houses?
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by AriedK 5y ago
Note that you can also clear the word by hitting SPACE, which mimics actual typing too.
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by AriedK 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996484 for a previous discussion.
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by AriedK 5y ago
https://research.tudelft.nl/en/publications/technical-perfor... Good read if you're interested in the technicalities. They do bury high voltage (380kV) AC lines, sometimes even construct a tunnel for them, bu
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by AriedK 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. That cover though, is that topology specific to a coronavirus or do more viruses share it? Especially since the Pfizer/Biontech and Moderna vaccines deploy nano-particles for delivering their payload.
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by AriedK 5y ago
I was blown away (no pun intended) by the mechanical analog computers used fire control systems on battle ships: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/gears... This was 3000 pounds for calcul

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