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by anon1253 9y ago
I was lucky enough to visit a private game reserve in South Africa for a few days. One of the things I saw was a pregnant ex-Zebra being eaten by lions (including the fetus that was dragged to the shade under a bush by other Lions). The gui
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by anon1253 9y ago
"I'd rather cry in a Ferrari"
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by anon1253 9y ago
Sound could be a red herring
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by anon1253 9y ago
Same, and it's been for me like that for years. Even before Apple had their version of their keyboard, which I absolutely /love/. At some point it was very hard to find laptop-like keyboards for desktops. A lot of people lau
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by anon1253 9y ago
Really people didn't like XHTML because they didn't want to close their elements. That's it. And now most web pages don't even parse in an XML parser. What elements are standard and which are not is completely arbitrary,
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by anon1253 9y ago
Yep I was there. But XHTML did not die due to lack of semantics. One of the things it had was namespaces, and people did embed other XML specs in their documents (remember MathML, RDFa?). It was just too complicated for most people, and whe
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by anon1253 9y ago
Now I don't want to be a downer: but we collectively seem to have forgotten that HTML as a markup language with sufficient semantic elements, is a perfect API in itself. In fact, if we had stuck with XHTML I would've postulated th
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by anon1253 9y ago
And here I'm sitting with my 8" Schmidt Camera and 12" Newton … the amount of engineering that goes into this is incredible. It's not just the mirror, which is of course important, but also having a mount that can precis
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by anon1253 9y ago
Absolutely, always wanted to finish my Epidemiology PhD. But eeh the pay is awful. Not that I /really/ care, but that's getting into personal details. Still, whatever I could come up with now would not be much different than
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by anon1253 9y ago
Exactly, and that uncovers the folly in this: what are you trying to do. Often enough it's very specific, and requires actually going out into the world. Sometimes the literature is already there. But nearly always it requires some for
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by anon1253 9y ago
yep, we're trying to outcompete them. But it's a hard thing. MetaMap: we beat it, cTakes, we can do it faster. But really how many < 80ms concept recognition systems do you need that work on 28M documents. And if you have that:
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by anon1253 9y ago
1) As someone who does NLP and AI for Evidence Based medicine [1] I can only agree. I build natural language processing tools, together with the team, for EBM. I have /no/ idea what to do next. Please. Help me. 2) Rant: here'
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by anon1253 9y ago
Even for a simple amateur astrophotographer [1] the SDSS data is invaluable. It powers most of the target selection, and provides accurate coordinates for most astronomical objects. Combined with Plate Solving, it makes my life much easier
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by anon1253 9y ago
I've had high blood pressure since 24. I've had every possible diagnostic test, tried medication (no avail). I'm not overweight and do walk about 50 minutes a day, eat as healthy as can be expected. And still it averages arou
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by anon1253 9y ago
Haven't tried in years, so it might be better now. But, last time I tried it was more of a hassle and frustrating than setting up Hackintosh. Trade-offs, I guess.
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by anon1253 9y ago
Having ran Hackintosh for 6 years as my primary development workstation, I have to disagree. All the points are true, and it's been very frustrating. However, to me OS X is the only really viable OS at the moment (Unix base that runs m
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by anon1253 9y ago
Eeh I have quite a few of these in data centers for Deep Learning work. What am I supposed to do now. Swap them out for Tesla/Quadro cards? Switch to AMD or Xeon Phi? Or just ignore it and possibly violate ToS. Nice move Nvidia ...
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by anon1253 9y ago
Maybe it’s different in Europe. But I’ve had nothing but bad experiences with AppleCare. Except maybe for that time where they replaced a charger free of charge that literally caught fire.
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by anon1253 9y ago
AppleCare covers almost nothing. Any cosmetic thing they can find "out of warranty". And 3 years is not a lot for a machine that can cost up to $10k. Besides, they erase your data and it often takes weeks to fix (or even 1,5 month
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by anon1253 9y ago
Or repairability. And, before anyone mentions that it's impossible to fix SMD, it's totally doable. Just as an example, https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup click any of the board level repair videos.
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by anon1253 9y ago
It's definitely possible. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w (he does a bunch of different issues, just click any of the board level repair videos). I mean if you don't own the equipment
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by anon1253 9y ago
Or do any sort of repair on the thing. It's quite feasible to do basic board level repair with the schematics. But not without the schematics or if the thing is welded shut. It's wasteful, and I sincerely hope one day we can have
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by anon1253 9y ago
Yep, and it's so slow. On my new desktop rig (2017, $3,5k worth of hardware) it's ridiculously slow. Opening a exporer, wait 2 seconds. Open a network drive, it might open, if you're lucky. Even mundane things like opening Ad
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by anon1253 9y ago
Not to mention Lenovo carbon X that replaced the function keys with an OLED display
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by anon1253 9y ago
The really cool application of this, which they allude to at the end of the paper, is multi dimensional indexes. For example right now kNN for similarity search (think recommender systems) is usually done with some form of K-D tree or proje
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by anon1253 9y ago
you might be able to fix that. I had that too, had to manually update the preboot. Details are somewhere in here https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/80174
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by anon1253 9y ago
Good point. Been a while. Windows 7 also has/had an interesting one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwO4YqSc4XE but it's much more involved.
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by anon1253 9y ago
I believe hitting "cancel" was enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE5PRW-AR7Q Also reminds me of https://youtu.be/BVL8_ne4WZo?t=19s
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by anon1253 9y ago
Good point. Force of habit. Unfortunately I can no longer try since I set the root password under the Directory Utility, which probably changed the state of the system. Apparently someone verified that it /does/ also work with `su
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by anon1253 9y ago
wat. confirmed on 10.13.1 (17B48). I was even able to add another super user. Edit: changing the login method to "Name and password" under login options, then logout and login with "root" with empty password also works.

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