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by acadien 12y ago
Self driving cars are going to upend this industry (eventually). Many mining companies are actively working on getting their mining equipment to be automated to do the riskier jobs without risking drivers. The same ideas apply here. Remove
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by acadien 12y ago
A diverse system is more robust to threats of all kinds. The more species there are the more likely they are to survive a threat. Biodiversity is not vanity it is a strong defensive position to ensure long term survival.
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by acadien 12y ago
Reminds me of that Neal Stephenson book, Anathema, that had a space ship that was propelled by setting off nuclear bombs just outside its hull.
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by acadien 12y ago
Do you (or anybody) have evidence to support this? Genuinely curious since everything I've read shows that surface doesn't matter. I understand this result is counter-intuitive but I was under the impression its a well documented
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by acadien 12y ago
I suspect we are very sensitive to the introduction of beats which form when incommensurate frequencies are combined. That is to say when you add a frequency of 1KHz to 1.1KHz you get beats at 0.1KHz with an internal frequeqncy of 2.1KHz.
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by acadien 12y ago
The joke is the current #1 spot is occupied by a broken machine that has never run at full capacity and spends most of its time OFF or hamstrung to save on power. Tianhe2 was a huge mistake, poorly planned out and poorly implemented. The Am
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by acadien 12y ago
This is the same method we use in studying grain boundary formation in materials science. Atomic lattices align at different angles and are colorized accordingly. It is so cool to see the same idea applied to maps!
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by acadien 12y ago
Does this mean they won't be releasing a new 5" nexus this year?
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by acadien 12y ago
That is excellent, should use way less resources then... looking forward to trying this when I get home.
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by acadien 12y ago
Been doing this for about a year now through pipelight[0] and another more esoteric hack before then. I hope this fix is not so hard on the cpu although I'm guessing it is the same wine hack in a different form. [0] https:/&#x2F
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by acadien 12y ago
It could be handy if when it runs out of battery it remains as the last selected card. Not sure if the re-programmable strips require a charge to hold their pattern.
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by acadien 12y ago
Just to clarify, Coin is 100$ not 50$. Not sure where you're getting the 3x factor from.
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by acadien 12y ago
That's just anecdotal evidence, what you're experiencing might just be local to your town or the type of work you're offering.
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by acadien 12y ago
Yes that is exactly the point I am trying to raise with my previous question. Is this sustainable? Certainly not in the US where a student must take on massive amounts of debt to complete a degree only to make near minimum wage after gradua
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by acadien 12y ago
I suppose this is the challenge all societies are grappling with; how to compensate fairly so everyone is comfortable while still better compensating jobs that require more skill or 'contribute more' to maintain demand.
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by acadien 12y ago
I agree with everything said above, but what about the fact that society will always need plumbers, garbage collectors, fast food employees etc.? I'm not even sure that this is a counter point to what is mentioned above, just more thi
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by acadien 12y ago
That's a pretty sweeping statement. Education impacts all things, voting, social norms, behavior, social sentiment... all of which impact how politicians act. In addition the politicians themselves go through the public education sys
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by acadien 12y ago
Very cool script! I just tried it out myself and it seems that Google's location history is actually really spotty. It missed several of my trips (during which the phone was active and responsive) and it also included some spots that
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by acadien 12y ago
I need to comment about going into academia. The end goal being to contribute to math/science in some meaningful way by working on theoretical research full time. I'm in my 6th year of my PhD as a theoretical physicist. I have be
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by acadien 12y ago
I don't get these comments, where's the glitch/gif/sound?
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by acadien 12y ago
They also hand out coal burning fireplaces as a social welfare program. I haven't seen any data comparing the sources of pollution so this might be a small contributor compared to the big plants.
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by acadien 12y ago
Just FYI the keyboard controls are much easier to use (arrow keys + shift/control to zoom).
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by acadien 12y ago
Yes it is very similar, it sets the value at that grid point to its maximum height. This causes the neighboring grid cells to react accordingly (Laplacian in space), giving the rippling effect.
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by acadien 12y ago
That sounds like over fitting. It happens with all optimization routines, is the EA somehow special in this regard?
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by acadien 13y ago
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Microsoft_Windows it corresponds to the release date of windows8 and server 2012. Must be a product release correlation.
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by acadien 13y ago
Terrible instructors will be terrible in any medium, so the problem isn't with the medium but the instructors. Great slideshow though, lots of insight for those of us that do actually care about how we teach.
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by acadien 13y ago
Feynman discusses this problem in his "Theory of Computation" book. If I remember correctly, its actually part of a joke he plays on the reader too. In one of the earlier chapters he brings up the problem and then assigns it to
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by acadien 13y ago
I'm in the final year of my PhD, but yes I agree I should probably look into better ways of handling work. I'm thinking of changing things after finishing, this is not a good way to live life.
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by acadien 13y ago
When I take vacation I get anxious if I haven't touched a computer in 24 hours, although it goes away after a couple of days. The worst part is coming back from vacation, often can't sleep or work effectively the first week back
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by acadien 13y ago
Comparing redundant independent simulations is the next best thing to actual experiments regardless of your politics on the Matlab business. Thanks for the link, its new to me.

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