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8y ago
>...so interpret that as you will. Probably 'just in time' as this a Java thread.
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8y ago
I wrote this [ http://www.tina-vision.net/docs/memos/1996-002.pdf ] many years ago which derives the Kalman filter from a state space perspective and then as chi-squared merit function. Certainly helped me as an en
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9y ago
An MRI scanner is effectively Fourier domain camera - see k-space [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-space_(magnetic_resonance_im... ] - with the final spatial images being reconstructed once acquisition is complete. Qui
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9y ago
I'm sure real-time rendering will be useful in a variety of use cases. However, one of the main reasons I use LaTeX (when I did) was because it allowed me to separate creation of the content from worrying about the format. This meant
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9y ago
I can't recall who said it (may have been Bart Simpson) but I've always liked the phrase. _"To truly innovate, one must be prepared to seek forgiveness not permission."_
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9y ago
Back and yet gone too. HN effect in full effect.
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9y ago
I recall the first time I encountered a 'Defender' machine. Up until then the machines had basically all been Space Invader or PacMan derivatives. I must have been 11 or 12 years old and it totally blew me away both virtually -
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9y ago
You don't go to jail for not building one.
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9y ago
I much prefer the poem analogy. My favourite code almost appears to dance around in my mind.
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9y ago
'cum louder' was once spotted on a CV under the education section. Damn that spell checker... I hope.
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9y ago
This is another big selling point for automated vehicles. Why park your car in an expensive car park when you can just send it home - many journeys are round 5 miles in the UK ( https://www.licencebureau.co.uk/wp-content/
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9y ago
Oh the irony.
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9y ago
> Facebook has zero incentive to do this voluntarily I think the parent was suggesting some level of intervention and imposition. However, given the worldwide reach, which organisation could do this? I can't see how single nation
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9y ago
> The world was divided into order and chaos not good and evil. What an interesting point.
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9y ago
I've heard this called imperative programming with classes.
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9y ago
Interesting thoughts. I guess as always with life, everything becomes a negotiation between what you want and what you must concede to get it. Often this concession is a resource exchange - you pay, they provide - but one that has few othe
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9y ago
I don't think it does. For instance I notice The Handmaids Tale - what I'd regard as a science fiction - is currently number 3 in their 'Most Popular Sci-Fi' list between Alien: Covenant at 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy
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9y ago
In the film industry there seems to be a differentiation between things labelled SciFi (spaceships fighting, laser guns, squids in outer space) and Science Fiction (fictional science enabling the plot).
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9y ago
I, for one, have always preferred all of my `figs` at the end of the document anyway. ;)
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9y ago
A technique often employed by my children. To which my regular response is "Looks like you need more practise."
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9y ago
> the current representation of senior female engineers both at Facebook and across the industry is nowhere near where it needs to be. So is the story really that the n is too small for this story?
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9y ago
Unless my google-fu has let me down, the father is Perry Hughes a music agent who used to represent Salford born pop-operatic tenor Russell Watson (British mums love 'im). Sounds as if the pair had an acrimonious split and according t
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9y ago
Which is one reason why email is still such a key collaboration tool.
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Don't be too alarmed there are 3/4 classes of device all with differing risk profiles. Patient safety include things like protecting patient information so even systems used to transfer medical records can be regarded as a medica
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10y ago
Probably a better thing to do would be to download one of the many excellent open source libraries and explore how they work. You can then even contribute back. Many open source projects would really benefit from new users contributing to
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10y ago
At least the wife will find that one plausible.
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10y ago
I find jrnl ( http://jrnl.sh/ ) fits this a most other uses I have of text capture at the command line.
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10y ago
...and a new branch of adult entertainment is born.
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10y ago
> Startups are only for people who are under ~25 (maybe 30), have no families, are willing to spend all their waking hours pursuing someone else's dream, and think they're going to make bank doing it and are willing to take tha
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10y ago
For comparison, what do Google et. al. pay in the UK? I work in a small medtech in Manchester UK (like a scaled down Boston!) and simply currency adjusting these numbers would make for attractive offers here. For example I've a PhD in
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