SnooSux

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by SnooSux 3y ago
Definitely! You can tell that the idea of what constitutes high-tech changes over time. Alphaville (1965) has letters that look like they're made of stiff wires and The Terminator (College Roadshow Version) (1984) uses a 7-segment disp
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by SnooSux 3y ago
I've barely forgiven him for explaining genetic algorithms and acting like they have any relevance to contemporary ML research. The footnote video was an alright explanation of backprop. If that were part of the main video that would h
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by SnooSux 3y ago
I've always found the discussion and community around a hobby can be as important as the hobby itself. There's lots of books I like but can't talk to anyone familiar enough to care.
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by SnooSux 4y ago
It was once believed that 6x6 and higher Rubik's Cubes would be impossible to physically make. In the real world, the outermost edges have to be a little thicker or the faces rounded in order for the puzzle to stay together while being
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by SnooSux 4y ago
Explaining Autoencoders seems to be a rite of passage for ML bloggers. It's conceptually understandable but has broad applications and is a jumping off point into other architectures. Educational content tends to have a bias towards co
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by SnooSux 4y ago
Do NUCs have GPIO or do I have to stick to a SBC for those?
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by SnooSux 4y ago
There was a point where Duolingo was trying to teach languages including endangered ones as their primary goal. But it feels like every year they're moving more towards making money as their main main objective. I'm not optimistic
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by SnooSux 4y ago
I work with IR sensors at work and modern smartphones pick up NIR frequencies as well. It's picked up by the red channel so combining that with the blue is probably what's making the purple color. My guess would be that something
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by SnooSux 4y ago
I got a guitar pick with a bit of texture on the part you grip with. I have really oily hands so glossy picks just slip through my fingers. I've also tried angling the pick so I have more surface area to grip with.
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by SnooSux 4y ago
There have been a lot of attempts at foldable kayaks in recent years. From my understanding they are more fragile and don't do as well in shallow waters. Plus they're more expensive than standard ones for obvious reasons. I was lo
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by SnooSux 4y ago
I've handed my resume at career fairs and I twice they noticed and pointed out that it was LaTeX and it impressed them a little bit. But I was a EE student so maybe it'd be different in another field.
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by SnooSux 4y ago
This is something I'd like to check out! Have you given any thought to curation? I would play more indie games but frankly many just aren't worth my time.
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by SnooSux 4y ago
Wanna split it? I'll take the left shoe, you take the right?
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by SnooSux 4y ago
> USD $1399 Oof Ideally the product does well and release a more affordable version later. I don't have a use for it but there's definitely people this could help..
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by SnooSux 4y ago
> bpy 3.4.0 is available on PyPi, and can be installed through pip install bpy. Does this mean you can run Blender from Python without the command line? https://docs.blender.org/api/3.4/info_advanced_blender_as_
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by SnooSux 4y ago
Are the regions strictly where they're based or where they serve? I've used PCBWay and JLCPCB for projects and had the boardś mailed from China to the US. But can I take it for granted that I could do this with the rest of the sup
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by SnooSux 4y ago
If I could add one thing to the list I would include `cib` as equivilent to `ci(` for changing everything in a set of parentheses (or brackets for the mnemonic's sake). For me at least the `b` is easier to reach than the `(`. I need to
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by SnooSux 4y ago
Is staged the right term? I would call it planned or intentionally provocative. I don't follow fashion at all; the last I heard of Balenciaga was their Simpsons short. But a handful of people are some level of outraged about this which
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by SnooSux 4y ago
I started using ii as my iterator variable name for similar reasons. Easier to highlight and Ctrl-F for. Also removing ambiguity when using i as the imaginary constant.
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by SnooSux 4y ago
I have a Bachelors and Master's in Electrical Engineering and do some signal and image processing as part of my job. I've been working with FFTs since undergrad and I thought a good understanding of what it does and how it works.
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by SnooSux 4y ago
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff
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by SnooSux 4y ago
Sounds like the buttons are all real, there are just only 10 of them.
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by SnooSux 4y ago
A bit of both according to a coworker who left that space. There are more Aerospace Engineers that want to build the greatest latest rockets than there are positions so they have to settle for lower pay. And working on planes is a lot of co
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by SnooSux 4y ago
Interesting that this is like a cover letter and resume in one.
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by SnooSux 4y ago
> terabytes of XML or PBFs. I have a snapshot of all of OSM for a given date (conveniently called planet-XXXXXX.osm.pbf) and the compressed version is 62GB. And the format is optimized for reading certain chunks (as well as updating with
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by SnooSux 4y ago
> I can't imagine trust for a new cloud gaming provider being super high The target audience for Netflix shouldn't know they're playing a cloud game. Netflix is too big to cater to power users, casual gamers are a much muc
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by SnooSux 4y ago
> I aimed to elicit the response from Japanese people about their own culture This is overly optimistic in my opinion. When I wrote my original comment I didn't see any indication that any of the other commenters had any connection
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by SnooSux 4y ago
While I respect you asking a legitimate question, I would recommend being cautious while reading this thread. Discussions about Japanese culture, and foreign cultures in general, tend to be dominated by westerners retelling ideas they'
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by SnooSux 4y ago
I assumed the OP was talking more about the math, which is also not true. The method mentioned in the article only takes into account the silhouette of the target. In my experience, that's where a lot of the information comes from, but
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by SnooSux 4y ago
https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/index.... I wasn't aware of the controversy until now and I assume most people didn't either. This declaration will likely raise awareness

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