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Supercomputers Flex Their AI Muscles: New benchmarks reveal science-task speedup(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by DrNuke 5y ago
> Is there any particular reason cryptocurrencies are so divisive while other subjects are not? At this day, end 2021, for what concerns the daily life of billion people worldwide, they are still a very small niche for first-world, tradi
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‘It’s like a cemetery’: the trend turning San Francisco’s colorful houses gray(theguardian.com)
4 points by DrNuke 5y ago|0 comments
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iRobot CEO: Why Voice Is the Future of Robot Control(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Climate Expert: Stop Talking About “Geoengineering” Term Is a Distraction(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by DrNuke 5y ago
Take 1.5 month, until 1 Jan, to close in finished form (1- why you wanted to do that; 2- how you did that; 3- what you achieved and what you learnt) as much as you can from your past projects… these will be your portfolio, the starting poin
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Ask HN: Is Lightning the PyTorch equivalent of Keras for TensorFlow?
1 points by DrNuke 5y ago|1 comments
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by DrNuke 5y ago
- Happiness time: how long I can stay happy (or content, at least) through a single day. Before this turns rough, philosophical or greedy… it is just related to pretty basic fulfillment of a pretty modest life.
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by DrNuke 5y ago
> You're in an excellent position of having been at the intersection of a bunch of cross pollinated fields, and you'll have a new skill to bring them together and do wonders. All the best! That’s it, really, even without the gl
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by DrNuke 5y ago
People can learn how and from they want nowadays, what is still important is to get some form of recognition or validation for social utility?
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by DrNuke 5y ago
At this stage of the space industry evolution, with the sufficient but still limited technology readiness of propulsion (for deep space exploration) and the much lower technology readiness of resistance in extreme environments (for onsite e
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by DrNuke 5y ago
> What It Means for the Space Industry I am playing the devil’s advocate and writing that the main issue is materials materials materials, ala Steve Ballmer’s developers developers developers?! So that all these five startups seem just a
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by DrNuke 5y ago
> Since my goal is to build things FOR OTHERS I thought it's wise for me to ask what would someone want to see in my portfolio. In this instance, you need to stand out for yourself in order to (get a job and) build things for others
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World Series: The sports data pioneer who spotted baseball's big fix of 1919(bbc.co.uk)
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by DrNuke 5y ago
This is cheeky tinderisation from the job hunter playing against pervasive crowdsourcing from employers, but employers still have the upper hand and will double down as soon as they find the job hunter trick out. Good for a laugh, albeit pr
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What we're getting wrong about the 'Great Resignation'(bbc.com)
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GIF calls for nuclear's inclusion in COP26 discussions(world-nuclear-news.org)
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Autonomous boats seem more solvable than autonomous cars(spectrum.ieee.org)
97 points by DrNuke 5y ago|74 comments
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by DrNuke 5y ago
Scientific progress is still way ahead engineering readiness in terms of results… and engineering readiness, while catching up, validates and enables further scientific progress.
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by DrNuke 5y ago
Mind, you do not have any competitive advantage from applying for jobs in the US while staying on a tourist visa. On the contrary, that might expose you to way far more trouble than your enthusiasm and willpower deserve. Why not sending app
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by DrNuke 5y ago
> I'm from Europe and I'm currently living in SF on a tourist visa. > since mid-September I've been applying for software engineering positions across the US. > Let's assume for a moment that I'm job search
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Signs of first planet found outside our galaxy(bbc.com)
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by DrNuke 5y ago
Much longer history, higher fragmentation and the constant need to avoid wars after the fall of the Roman empire made humanities/politics/commerce prevail dramatically upon science/tech/innovation. Edit: you can see a li
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by DrNuke 5y ago
Yes, thank you very much, that’s the most sensible tip from a business / commercial perspective I also share locally when asked for advice: plan for the anglosphere natively. Not that there are no success stories from Europe as well, t
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by DrNuke 5y ago
> Europe also suffers from a brain drain to the US (and Canada to a smaller proportion). Many of Europe's best and brightest software engineers have already emigrated to the US, leaving behind the less productive ones. Of course not
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by DrNuke 5y ago
You may want to have a look at salary surveys from headhunting firms or placement agencies like Michael Page or similar.
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What will happen after the sun dies? ‘Serendipitous’ discovery gives clues(theguardian.com)
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Time millionaires: meet the people pursuing the pleasure of leisure(theguardian.com)
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by DrNuke 5y ago
The NASA main website with its (many) sub-topics related to their missions, each with their own social media activities?
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by DrNuke 5y ago
The City is one of the world’s foremost financial centres exactly because of what went on under the carpet in the last 30 years… call it accounting proficiency in the beginning, facilitation next, hedging and venturing in the end. Of course

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