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by Fordec 6y ago
And Trump is the first politician that has lied cheated or manipulated situations to their advantage? The only thing this time was the politician was incompetently bad at hiding it. And I say that as someone who would have been delighted wi
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by Fordec 6y ago
The UK isn't a singular mind of Dominic Cummings. Plenty of institutional individuals and experts across multiple domains and departments have their own insights and directions to pursue. But plans of mice and men rarely survive the he
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by Fordec 6y ago
It puts into context why the UK have been funding Atomic Interferometry research recently. If AI works, the likes of GPS, GNSS, Galileo etc. become obsolete because then we have GPS level accurate accelerometers which don't rely on sat
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by Fordec 6y ago
All sensor data, the closer you get to the analog side of things, is bullshit. It's just about smoothing over the bullshit enough to make the tolerances workable for real world applications. We call this bullshit smoothing "calibr
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by Fordec 6y ago
I'm sorry, I'm clearly missing something. When were companies last not engaged in political lobbying for their own interests?
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by Fordec 6y ago
Usually the cause that requires high sampling is vibration. But that can be condensed with FFT stuff easily. Honestly from working in plastics and sensor design for 15 years it usually boils down to engineers not willing to let go of inform
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by Fordec 6y ago
A VPN wouldn't have stopped the recent twitter hack via social engineering for example. Zero trust networks will have to be the way to go instead of the walled castle model.
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by Fordec 6y ago
For a place that sells sandwiches and makes the bread in the ovens there, no Subway I have been too marginally smells like a traditional bread making bakery. You walk past a bakery and you get a warm heavenly smell. Not with Subway, they sm
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by Fordec 6y ago
Literally the primary goal is optimising the technology enough to get more energy out than energy in. Without that singular goal achieved the field has no purpose at all. It's not like theres already workable systems and they're j
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by Fordec 6y ago
Wow thanks, I'm now financially independent!
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by Fordec 6y ago
I applied for API access months ago and still haven't been able to tinker with it. Until it's immediate sign up and not some insider walled garden waitlist, from a developer perspective, OpenAI and GPT-3 is anything but Open. If I
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by Fordec 6y ago
Just getting hardware upgraded from very early 2000s PICs to ARM chips has been a pretty big win for me
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by Fordec 6y ago
He at least had the public accountability to quit. US can't even manage to forceably remove major bad actors
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by Fordec 6y ago
As an Irishman in Canada and previously lived in the US, I can safely and concretely say the political and governmental grass is greener in both countries above the US.
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by Fordec 6y ago
If Facebook is going to be the market, and I believe it will be judging by what's out there right now, VR on the whole as a market is dead to me. Since the facebook linking account news I've removed all VR news blogs from my RSS f
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by Fordec 6y ago
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/2347/
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by Fordec 6y ago
"Vampirism+" to buff regen rate from drinking blood and "Hearts Heal You" to start with anyway. If in the first section, for example, you get hit with a shotgun blast, taking the health damage is fine. But there should b
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by Fordec 6y ago
I think we're on the same page, just different paragraphs. I think I get the gist of your line of reasoning. Let me try an analogy for the if True case. Gravity (P=NP) exists, and always has. But we didn't understand it a few hu
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by Fordec 6y ago
For the markets to be efficient today they must calculate P=NP to achieve the solution. Nobody has done that yet. Markets today are inefficient as nobody has implemented P=NP to do the required calculation. Markets in the future could be
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by Fordec 6y ago
I love the game, but mods are a hard requirement. The base game has some balancing issues that unquestionably needs ironing out. Like health regeneration (vampirism), health refresh and a playthrough without the ability to edit wands on the
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by Fordec 6y ago
Which implies that the markets, up to today, aren't efficient. Because nobody knows how to do it yet.
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by Fordec 6y ago
Because if P=NP the vast array of the majority of known "hard" problem becomes trivial to solve, not just market information. That's the reason P=NP is considered so consequential to society in many ways if it does happen to
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by Fordec 6y ago
Research paper: Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284
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by Fordec 6y ago
Yes. The difference between 100k-400km in LEO is far different from 22000km in GEO. Planet Labs updated their licenses for a few satellites a couple of months back to gain double digit percentage resolution quality increases by dropping the
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by Fordec 6y ago
There's also rules on launching a satellite with capabilities below 10m per pixel on the basis of national security. At least if you're an American company anyway, can't vouch for elsewhere but they're a bit behind the t
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by Fordec 6y ago
Companies like Capella Space and ICEYE operate in the RF/radar spectrum
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by Fordec 6y ago
I think it's less extreme left wingers in the Anarchist / Communist / Marxist sense and more committed libertarians. Particularly the fintech libertarian segment who were attracted to the industry/area through the origin
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by Fordec 6y ago
The solution isn't more added on top. When China is your example of somewhere that is leading the way in doing something on the internet first, it's time to look at yourself long and hard in the mirror.
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by Fordec 6y ago
I remember I was at an IBM sponsored hackathon around 2015 where it was a requirement to use Bluemix. Over the course of the weekend the service went down for hours 3 times. Literally this morning I was wondering what ever happened to it, l
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by Fordec 6y ago
Treating arguments like sport is basically politics in a nutshell for some these days

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