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by anon1253 9y ago
I think we're hiding the rate of inflation in overvaluation of property and stocks, because money is cheap.
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by anon1253 9y ago
I'm not an economist. But here is my arm-chair philosophizing about what is happening. To combat the economic crisis we started printing a lot of money. This had two effects: the interest on savings went way down, and the loans became
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by anon1253 9y ago
Here's something odd I noticed. The previous crisis obviously had a lot of detrimental effects. However, it also made some people /very/ rich. Basically if you invested smartly right after, you would have more than recovered
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by anon1253 9y ago
people often seem to forget that mining the stuff that makes the batteries is still a thing. That's a whole different ballgame, and however you want to look at: it's finite. Couple the fact that the raw materials often come from l
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by anon1253 9y ago
There is an interesting urban legend / story about the 500 mile email that covers this as well: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html excerpt: ' "We're having a problem sending email out o
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by anon1253 9y ago
They probably just lost the ability to build it, or the source code can't be found. Happens quite often. 17 years is a /long/ time to maintain build systems and remember where you put the files.
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by anon1253 9y ago
I don't get this. Dating apps are incredibly popular, and it would be opt-in. If it's the age bucket you're concerned with, I met some of my best friends online during that time (female and male). Adolescence is just like tha
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by anon1253 9y ago
We have helicopters though, even quadcopters that can carry people, not to mention airplanes. But general purpose "flying cars" are a ridiculous idea: the failure mode is catastrophic (as you pointed out), the noise will be terrib
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by anon1253 9y ago
I took GRE without prep as a non-native speaker. Lets just say I severely underestimated it, and went on to do other things in life … the concept of these tests are quite foreign in Northern Europe, so I was not expecting it /at all&#x
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by anon1253 9y ago
Honestly, I'm not sure. Millions USD per BTC? It seems slightly ridiculous to me. Maybe I should find a way to buy shorts instead.
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by anon1253 9y ago
Not to mention that the review cycle can take /years/. I've published a paper that was under various stages of review for a year and a half at JAMIA. And, that's actually kinda short. Be prepared to let go, revisit, refi
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by anon1253 9y ago
That's fair. You kinda get stuck in a certain "mode" though. You start to self-identify with the things you do "I make data science tools for medical informatics". And it's sort of blinding, in a sense. If I en
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Software and burnout, how to get gratification?
9 points by anon1253 9y ago|6 comments
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by anon1253 9y ago
It completely locked my drive on a Macbook Pro mid-2014. With no warning or user information, it simply wouldn't accept my password and could not log-in. I had to drop into recovery mode and use the terminal with some obscure commands
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by anon1253 9y ago
I'd probably swap the mount for an equatorial mount (Sky-Watcher EQ6 or similar), and use an off-axis guider, with a modern CMOS like the ZWO-ASI or one of the QHYs as imaging camera (much cheaper than the CCDs, and just as good if not
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by anon1253 9y ago
Yep! Hobbies I guess. It's a C8 EdgeHD, with the secondary replaced by the Hyperstar [1] which transforms the Schmidt-Cassegrain into a Schmidt camera like system (in my case 425mm f/2.1), in that configuration it's easier to
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by anon1253 9y ago
Living in the Netherlands, the light pollution saddens me [1]. There are no dark places anymore. I tried astrophotograpy with a modest telescope from an inner city. With some success [2], but it requires a stunning amount of technology [3].
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by anon1253 9y ago
https://www.shutterstock.com
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by anon1253 9y ago
Note that it does seem to work reasonably well for the "adult" industry. People are often reluctant to pay for recurring fees on those sites (social stigma plays a role there, probably). But "pay-as-you-go" or pay per vi
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Haunted by Data – Maciej Ceglowski(youtube.com)
4 points by anon1253 9y ago|0 comments
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by anon1253 9y ago
Except it isn't really. Yes, Python is incredibly slow for day to day stuff, but the sheer amount of easy to use numerical libraries (numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, tensorflow, keras, opencv, just to name a few) make it one of the fastest
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by anon1253 9y ago
Not to mention AAPL keeps using them for all their desktops and laptops with dedicated GPUs
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The amazing competence in Amateur Astrophotography(astrobin.com)
3 points by anon1253 9y ago|0 comments
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by anon1253 9y ago
Yep. I agree. Although maybe XML schema ( https://www.w3.org/XML/Schema ) -> JSON Schema. And then there's also XQuery, DTDs, namespaces, entities,… which are also in need of reinventing I guess.
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by anon1253 9y ago
Not by any chance in the pharmaceutical industry? Because that story seems eerily familiar.
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by anon1253 9y ago
What exactly is Watson except a marketing term? I mean, as far as I understood it, it's Apache UIMA with some bare bones NLP bolted on, using RDF ontologies to power some inference. But I've never seen it being used in the wild ex
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by anon1253 9y ago
It's very impressive. But, I'm curious about some of the technical details. For each of these representations you basically end up with a dense vector on a song level. Which I assume you would then kNN with a user specific vector.
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by anon1253 9y ago
Just tried it with the Nightly by setting gfx.webrender.enabled to true in about:config. Wow, that thing flies. It's seriously amazing. And so far no bugs or visual inconsistencies I could detect. Firefox is really making great progres
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by anon1253 9y ago
I personally really liked: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Systems-Biology-Mathemat... These were the undergrad books I had on biology: https://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Bruce-Alberts/..
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by anon1253 9y ago
Try zoom under linux, the UI is completely broken…unfortunately

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