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by abecode 5y ago
Curious, can you explain why? In my experience (just one company where I had some interaction with accounting), there was a preference toward CAPEX. The costs of building a product, ie software development, was prefered over OPEX, in this
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by abecode 5y ago
Lithium supplements maybe? There are over-the-counter supplements available. Prescription lithium has proven uses for some mental treatments. I read some positive things about areas with naturally occurring lithium in drinking water. As
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by abecode 5y ago
would casync [1] fit in this list? [1] https://github.com/systemd/casync/
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by abecode 5y ago
In Marina Del Rey, the rebar in the concrete sides of the marina are fed a trickle of electricity to prevent corrosion. I'm not sure how common this is though outside of marine environments.
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by abecode 6y ago
I heard an interesting analogy that universities are more like religions than businesses. If you factor out all the beliefs/rituals in religion and knowledge/education in universities, they are both human organizations that seek t
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by abecode 6y ago
I had a little bit of intimate but impersonal contact with Lawrence Ferlinghetti: the USC special collections library has the notes of his doctoral dissertation, which if I remember correctly was about the theme of the city in poetry/l
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by abecode 6y ago
Where do the hydrocarbons on the asteroids come from in that view? I’m curious because on earth the hydrocarbons come from life.
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by abecode 6y ago
I used to live with a Mexican family and one of the first non-milk foods they fed the babies was the water drained from cooked beans. I'm not sure if it could be used to cook or make cocktails but it was somewhat thick.
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by abecode 6y ago
If you're mainly cooking basmati rice, you might have a look at a Persian rice cooker, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/pars-khazar-rice-cooker/s?k=pars+khaz... . I don't believe it's fuzzy logic based, but
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What If Data Scientists Had Licenses Like Lawyers?(bloomberg.com)
22 points by abecode 6y ago|16 comments
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by abecode 6y ago
Hi, I don't regret my PhD in retrospect (I did have plenty of regrets and misgivings along the way). The PhD gave me a lot of free education (and not having to worry much about getting W's on classes, so less fear of failure), fr
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by abecode 6y ago
Here's another book I recommend: Course in Machine Learning by Hal Daumé III: http://ciml.info/ , pdf at http://ciml.info/dl/v0_99/ciml-v0_99-all.pdf
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by abecode 6y ago
My first taste of Linux was in 2002 when a classmate/labmate looked frustrated and installed Cygwin on my Windows computer. A year or so later, I built a computer from components I bought from NewEgg. No distros worked because I had
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by abecode 6y ago
For me the killer feature of using emacs on a Mac is having a dedicated command c/v/x/z for copy/paste/cut/undo that's separate from ctrl c/v/x/z in emacs (and readline shell bindings in gen
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by abecode 6y ago
The Tidyverse is under development and it can be tough to keep up with the changes or know where to start (e.g., plyr vs dplyr, melt vs pivot_longer). However, ggplot2 is based on a pretty solid theory of graphics (Bertin's visual vari
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by abecode 6y ago
Here's a modest proposal, an idea I got from reading Supernova Era by Cixin Liu: we could send the kids to boarding schools in China. They have covid under control and we already outsource a lot of industrial production to China so wh
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by abecode 6y ago
Question for anyone who's tried this: Do you use your normal org file directory for org-roam or is it better to start from a fresh directory?
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by abecode 6y ago
Not 100% but I learned that it's bad form because "out" subsumes "over" so saying them together is redundant.
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by abecode 6y ago
Actually, in the case of hypothermia, you should be warm before they declare you dead (especially children).
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by abecode 6y ago
Two things really made linear algebra click for me: representing camera projections in a computer vision class and spectral graph theory, which basically connects graphs with linear algebra. In both of these, it seems like linear algebra wa
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by abecode 7y ago
If you use the "preview to projector/monitor" with an extra monitor, then you can share that screen in the teleconference. I've done that with zoom while moving to online teaching these past weeks. I also got an idea f
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by abecode 7y ago
I wasted a good chunk of a day looking into this. If you start multiple instances of OBS (you need to do this on the command line otherwise clicking will just foreground the current instance) then "multicording" should work fine,
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by abecode 7y ago
I understand the caution but I'm glad SCaLE is still on! I've been attending for years and now coming from out of town. Makes me think about responses to COVID-19/coronavirus on a scale from open-source/bottom-up to ins
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by abecode 7y ago
Minneapolis has a school of botanical art, http://www.minnesotaschoolofbotanicalart.com , here are some nice examples: http://www.minnesotaschoolofbotanicalart.com/photos/photos-3... It’s hard to tell if it
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by abecode 7y ago
Other reactors on the Japanese coast survived because they updated the breakwaters after the Indonesian tsunami. So it wasn't really a black swan event because another tsunami had happened a few years earlier.
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by abecode 7y ago
My brother is a carpenter and works with a lot of Latinos. He also does birdwatching as a hobby. Supposedly carpintero is also what they call woodpeckers.
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by abecode 7y ago
+1 about the opaqueness of gmails spam filters. I once had an email from a google recruiter (@google address) go to spam in gmail so at least it's somewhat egalitarian (that was 5+ years ago).
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by abecode 7y ago
https://www.alelo.com/products-and-solutions/
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by abecode 7y ago
congratulations, it's been very interesting following pipelinedb's story the past few years!
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by abecode 8y ago
I learned Chinese in 2001 and after that I haven't had much practice speaking it but I think that knowing the characters has actually kept me from forgetting it completely. It's nice to have a conversational partner but lacking t

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