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by acrefoot 7y ago
I think it's possible to burn out working on things you think are important but that are chronically underfunded or ignored. For example, I can imagine working on cleantech or green NGOs only to be consistently frustrated that people d
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Two-terminal floating-gate transistors for analogue neuromorphic computing(nature.com)
2 points by acrefoot 7y ago|0 comments
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by acrefoot 7y ago
I got a chance to work with a lightfield camera for a class project a few years before Lytro shipped its first cameras, so I was sad to see it struggle as a consumer product. Can you shed more light on what the article should have written?
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by acrefoot 7y ago
Is there more benefit to publishing a company’s design system than maybe some recruiting benefit? Is it about giving back to the design community or something IP/trademark related?
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by acrefoot 7y ago
The "Zero to One" wisdom is that lots of competition means low margins for the business. It's very difficult to afford much more than minimum wages for your sandwich shop employees. That's part of why you don't see
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by acrefoot 7y ago
Nectome, South San Francisco. 1) Lab automation and rapid prototyping. I definitely don't expect you to have mastered all of this, but tell me what you do know: basic CAD, basic PCB layout, prototyping with Arduinos and Raspberry Pis,
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by acrefoot 8y ago
If the signal transmission worked at 400 microns, I would say that your feature size argument would be a good reason to consider other explanations, but they explicitly show that such a gap prevents the signal from being transmitted. Inst
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by acrefoot 8y ago
Looking at the paper [0], particularly Figure 4, it looks like they cut slices then stick them back together again. This allows the signal to propagate (4.B). But when a gap of 400 microns is added (4.C), the signal doesn't propagate.
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by acrefoot 9y ago
Honestly? Because we are new at press, and were pressed for how we might offer it in the near term.
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by acrefoot 9y ago
There are a couple of scenarios that might be helpful to consider, as they are examples of mental discontinuity in use today. I cannot convince you of the semantics of "not you" vs "still you", because I think this quest
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by acrefoot 9y ago
Given that an early death is only possibly prescribed in cases where a patient is terminally ill (as determined by two physicians), where a patient is of sound mind, and is often in pain, it can be a reasonable alternative to a lot of the (
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by acrefoot 9y ago
Backup is a misnomer here--it's a fixation of the biological tissues. So the format for preservation matches the structure of the original neural tissue down do the nanometer scale, which is a format nature has deemed appropriate to st
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by acrefoot 9y ago
Though I'm not sure I buy into their "winners have always won" hypothesis, I do find the "success by association" part interesting. This usually is discovered in the interview process, but how can it be better disco
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by acrefoot 9y ago
It might slip through the USPTO, but it would be a pretty flimsy patent, as it wouldn't pass the test for enablement. At least, that's my understanding when I was consulting our lawyers for a provisional patent. https:/&#x2F
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by acrefoot 9y ago
I'm not familiar with "bottom dollar" used in this way--could you help me out?
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by acrefoot 9y ago
Do you have to pay $10 per server you set up? Also, by acting as the ISP, it also gets to be more protective of its log data than an outside provider might be. It's not that an outside ISP couldn't provide the same level of servic
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by acrefoot 9y ago
Cloud credits aren't a replacement for local servers. Things I got to try at MIT that would be a lot harder on AWS: - set up a TOR exit node - set up a single-system image cluster across five 1U servers - set up a ZFS box with RAID-Z a
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by acrefoot 9y ago
I would love to know instead what companies and recruiters have learned from interviewing, hiring, and monitoring the performance of candidates at these companies. What productive trends have you seen in how these companies adjust their hir
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by acrefoot 9y ago
Actually, it's not clear to me if FastECC is saying that it works on 1M blocks together as a unit, in which case they would be the same as the shards. If that's the case, it does make this a totally different class of thing--what
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by acrefoot 9y ago
They are pretty different. Blocks are like blocks in a filesystem or on a disk, while shards are like RAID stripes/mirrors. 2^20 blocks would make for a pretty small datastore, depending on what your needs are, and seems a more serious
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by acrefoot 9y ago
It's a pretty late hour here in the USA (where I expect most would-be respondents are living), and yet you followup with a smug edit, since no one has met your challenge in a mere two hours: > As anticipated, this comment is unpopul
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by acrefoot 10y ago
I find TeXmac's equation editor to be an even faster WYSIWIG UI than LyX's. For example, a λ is just 'l'+tab. Simarly, you can cycle through other symbols. For b: b->β-> Sadly, TeXmacs hasn't gotten as much lo
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by acrefoot 10y ago
Clicking through these out-of-order, I happened upon this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWR5Z4HWxbM It's definitely different from the others on the list, and I quite enjoyed it :)
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by acrefoot 10y ago
> AC power enters the charger and is converted to DC. The PFC circuit (Power Factor Correction) improves efficiency by ensuring the load on the AC line is steady. The primary chops up the high-voltage DC from the PFC circuit and feeds it
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by acrefoot 11y ago
eropple's entire spiel was in response to "A work-hire test...doesn't repel [the best programmers]", so saying that this discussion is irrelevant to a top 10% programmer doesn't really follow.
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by acrefoot 11y ago
MIT has a nuclear reactor on campus right on Massachusetts Ave, between Harvard and Boston. (It's not a power-generating reactor.) There is also a cogeneration plant that produces electricity, steam heat, chilled water, and compressed
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by acrefoot 11y ago
I believe that Atom Shell/Electron fills that use case today. I think when the Zulip Desktop app was started that Atom shell wasn't available or maybe not quite good enough.
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by acrefoot 11y ago
That one is my fault. The main reason is a performance patch that we made to django, which I wasn't as diligent as I should have been in getting merged. The relevant pull request is https://github.com/django/django
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by acrefoot 11y ago
If they specifically asked for "powerset" that might be considered a gotcha question, but a powerset is another way of thinking of binary enumeration[0], which isn't that rare. [0] by that I mean both the case of counting in
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by acrefoot 11y ago
My reading of the article is that the interest gains from more creditworthy borrowers help offset losses from loan forgiveness and defaulting borrowers.

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