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by MR4D 5y ago
I once heard this described as "pruning the tree of possibilities". It is a learned skill that is enormously effective. The great thing is you can practice a little at a time.
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Marvel at the Size of Giga Texas as Drone Takes 360-Degree Flight(insideevs.com)
3 points by MR4D 5y ago|0 comments
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by MR4D 5y ago
This is fascinating, but I can’t help thinking that the complexity of the Dutch East India Company would have had one first, even if it no longer exists today.
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by MR4D 5y ago
> This research, which was supported by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.S. Army Research Office as well as Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ)... I didn't expect that!
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Mac malware spreading for ~14 months installs backdoor on infected systems(arstechnica.com)
22 points by MR4D 5y ago|1 comments
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by MR4D 5y ago
Man, what is this - International Buy A Game Company Month? Smart purchase by NYT.
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by MR4D 5y ago
Thanks for the comment, Liam. In honesty, I was only thinking about the simple security use cases, but your comment makes it obvious that this will become a huge marketplace very quickly. You are clearly much closer to the puck than I am !
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by MR4D 5y ago
I’m waiting for a Docker container with a WASM runtime. Wait, maybe someone’s already done that… /s PS - actually, originally I was being sarcastic, but there probably are some very good security use cases for it.
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by MR4D 5y ago
French taxpayers shouldn’t. Since there are tons of donations from outside of France, that can pay for these portion. EDIT: Donations reference - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/08/notre
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by MR4D 5y ago
It’s just a digital gimbal. Similar to a light drone in a breeze.
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by MR4D 5y ago
We solved the stability for drones that cost as little as $20. We’ll solve it the same way for jet packs as well.
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by MR4D 5y ago
Backyard BBQ’s and cocktail parties must have been phenomenal. Just to be a fly on the wall. Wow.
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by MR4D 5y ago
I don’t read French, so I can’t make out everything on the website, but my thinking was more along the lines of a Data.gov or other open data site where the data is freely available, along with a wiki for researchers that is public, perhaps
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by MR4D 5y ago
I hope all this information from the research gets captured digitally and shared openly as part of the effort. It would be fantastic to have that available to all for research or even just hobbyist reading.
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by MR4D 5y ago
I agree. I read Jeff Hawkins book On Intelligence [0] back when it came out, and it had a profound effect on my thinking. Chasing more data, aka "parameters" doesn't seem to be the right answer. I think more of a Bayes model
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by MR4D 5y ago
I see tons of comments on how IBM sucks. Fair enough - they do. However, consider that IBM is selling off its AI crown jewel to “* refocus its business on cloud computing and AI services*.” So an IBM that does something like that knows it
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by MR4D 5y ago
They are encouraging people to sell. Most people wouldn’t care, but if you’re in a high tax bracket and you can sell one to buy another and keep your risk profile roughly the same, you’ll do it. People prefer to pay long term gains and take
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by MR4D 5y ago
Not quite true. For instance, I could sell my losses in a growth fund only to buy a different growth fund (not the same index though) and I get to stay in the market. Ideally you would do this on day 364 of losses to maximize the tax incent
619.
by MR4D 5y ago
> Otherwise I find it hard to limit my cynicism when enormous amounts of money are involved. You should always be cynical when large amounts of money are involved. It helps you avoid large losses. Side note - one of the best questions
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by MR4D 5y ago
I live in Houston - the water main actually froze last year. It sucked, to say the least. Unfortunately, problems like that are very hard (expensive & time consuming) to fix. But my house was warm due to excellent insulation and runnin
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by MR4D 5y ago
Agree 1,000%. I much preferred Xevious as a fun and playable game. Zaxxon was just too dang hard!
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by MR4D 5y ago
Ha! Perhaps the easiest way, but you might have to wait a long time for it.
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by MR4D 5y ago
If you want a payoff for working hard, become an owner. Also, your boss will always agree with you. ;) EDIT: "become an owner" could be a startup, a contracting firm, joining someone else as an owner, etc.
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by MR4D 5y ago
I was using power to mean electricity, not compute power. Thanks for noticing that ambiguity. As for your comment about core usage in games, I'm still surprised how few cores it takes, even for modern games. Not my knowledge area at
625.
by MR4D 5y ago
Ha - it actually is!!!! This is too funny - I was about to reply to you, and then decided to check my files. Lo and behold, I found that when I bought the components in March 2012, I bought an Intel E5-2609 (which is indeed a Xeon!) for $29
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by MR4D 5y ago
This. Last January I converted my old (2012) quad-core Intel desktop and gave it to my son for gaming. The only thing I had to do was add a 1-TB SSD and put in an RTX-3060 Ti, and it runs every game (Fortnite, CoD, etc) at 100+ FPS without
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by MR4D 5y ago
Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that someone is going to “solve” this with blockchain?
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by MR4D 5y ago
Perhaps it’s as simple as Americans liking McDonalds a lot more than Canadians like Tim Hortons. Obesity is a key driver of comorbidity statistics. [0] [0] - https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.ht
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by MR4D 5y ago
> Hospitalization data, however, often does not differentiate between people admitted for COVID-19 and so-called incidental cases involving people who were admitted for other reasons and were found to be infected during routine testing.
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by MR4D 5y ago
Great read, and a nice way to honor Sidney Poitier. RIP.

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