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by asafira 10y ago
Rejection sampling is not necessarily a bad idea in general, but in this particular case it would be bad. You are going to choose 300 random numbers between -1 and 1, and then throw away this batch if their norm is greater than 1. As you in
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by asafira 10y ago
Can anyone comment on specifically how Kivy is better than the other options available (e.g., QT?). How have other peoples' experiences been? Some comments say small community, but that seems like it could be a large drawback honestly.
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by asafira 10y ago
I've never heard this argument, but it honestly sounds extreme. We are going to force people to leave because other countries need good citizens? And you think that is the US government's rationale? Do you have a source? I absolut
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by asafira 10y ago
I, too, have been wondering what the hell they have been up to. Their most recent thermostat upgrade was kind of a joke.
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by asafira 11y ago
I am friends with one of the cofounders --- these guys have been working hard on this for a while. It looks great!
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by asafira 11y ago
I've taken this course, and while the instructors clearly put a lot of effort into it, I found it missed the mark by quite a lot. The assignments use fancy algorithms, but often with little motivation; as such, I doubt I will remember
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by asafira 11y ago
not really.
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by asafira 11y ago
What? Does anyone have any ideas for why they would do this?
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by asafira 11y ago
At most, I think you mean specifically this year, for android phones. The iPhone 6S had some cool (hardware) updates, and I'd venture a guess that the iPhone 7 will, too.
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by asafira 11y ago
In the past, I had a phone with wireless charging, but mostly found it a pain. Putting it down slightly in the wrong position often caused the phone to not charge overnight, and the charging was just too damn slow in the morning when I real
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by asafira 11y ago
I'm among those not in agreement with the rant. In the case of the battery swapping, there are plenty of obvious ways to get around the phone turning off while swapping batteries (i.e., capacitors or smaller batteries). Why does it see
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by asafira 11y ago
Is LG selling a battery charging dock?
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by asafira 11y ago
Are the visualizations downloaded at page load only, or can they be readily fashioned with websockets, etc to turn them into an interactive dashboard? I've been considering running out lab experiments off of a webapp, but haven't
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by asafira 11y ago
Michael Nielsen has a nice intro the protocol, for those looking for another source: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a... (he has other articles I would recommend taking a look at, too --- ch
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by asafira 11y ago
Also pretty clear they are going for superconductor qubits given that they say they are using dilution fridges, the founder worked at IBM, and did his PhD on superconductor qubits...
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by asafira 11y ago
1) Quantum Technologies. a) Quantum communication has some awesome communication privacy protocols, can make a huge impact on global privacy. b) Quantum computing and simulation. similar to the startup rigetti that I know was funded, but fr
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Single-chip microprocessor that communicates directly using light(nature.com)
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by asafira 11y ago
Didn't Uber buy the Carnegie Mellon robotics division? Is it too much to think they might try for their own hardware platform? It might be, but why else do so?
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by asafira 11y ago
Another thing that can improve things significantly: more than 1 entrance into the plane. What if people entered through the back, too?
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by asafira 11y ago
Is that what mpld3 is for? ( http://mpld3.github.io/ )
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by asafira 11y ago
Someone posted the pycon videos a few months ago on hackernews, and this was actually the only one I watched. What's nice about this IMO is that he's entertaining when talking about a topic that I would normally fall asleep to. It
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by asafira 11y ago
These are two great points. It's important to note that Hackathons should be open to people with a wide range of skills, but there's definitely a ceratinly baseline when it comes to saying "I know XYZ". Honest and hard w
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by asafira 12y ago
A lot of people are giving you some great feedback here, and I hope, at the very least, it's giving you more confidence in your actions at the workplace. I've definitely been in a similar situation, and I empathize. A lot of peopl
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by asafira 12y ago
Not that weird; I'm guessing the 720p camera module just couldn't fit. Lots of emphasis for this laptop went into "thin" engineering, and as should be clear with current smartphones, making thin but high quality cameras
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by asafira 12y ago
I was looking for a way to sharpen my SQL skills a few months ago, and after being annoyed with some of the very, very beginner stuff out there I found this: http://www.sql-ex.ru/ The site can be slow sometimes, but I have
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by asafira 12y ago
As a graduate student, I feel that (at least within my research group) there is this "unlimited time off" policy, but in the end it's not really taken advantage of very much and it certainly doesn't take any stress away
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by asafira 12y ago
While most of the posts are, and probably should be, concerned with the privacy implications of this device if/when it reaches peoples' homes, I also wonder the plain-old "will this flop?" Adding voice recognition to thi
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by asafira 12y ago
I'm a physics PhD student, working on experimental quantum computing. My day-to-day work varies a huge amount, but can generally consist of cleanroom nanofabricaton, circuit design, data processing, machining, and experimental design.
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by asafira 12y ago
I hope the battery stats are right, but I would guess they probably aren't. Overestimating the battery life seems to be an industry standard thing =/
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by asafira 12y ago
I don't think you are using "objectively" right here. It could very well be my opinion that rubber actually ages better , because it scratches far less than metal does. Subjective though. ...so build quality is hard to quant

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