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6y ago
> "Waymo is still much further ahead with actual fully self-driving car " Tesla is ahead where it counts, sales. it feels like waymo was already 'successful' in small regions with good weather not requiring complex
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6y ago
sleep takes 1/3 of our day, work takes 1/3 of our day. by your logic we have to fit all of our socializing plus everything else about our lives in that additional 1/3.
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6y ago
I have been thinking about this lately. It started a while back when someone was asking me about which data science programs they were considering was best. I suggested NYU because of LeCun. Then recently I was discussing how having Goog
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6y ago
will you move to the outskirts or somewhere else entirely? I am trying to decide where I want to be if I have a choice. Currently I am in Seattle, dont like the city much. No offense to the city, its just not for me as I like 75+ degree da
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6y ago
> "But now, it appears that there is ancient carbon embedded in the moon's surface, suggesting some changes may have to be made to the theory of the moon's birth." frustrating they didn't go on to explain what th
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6y ago
I feel sorry of what happened to Jump. They had a good product, but Uber bought them and now when they wanted to make their income look pretty while 'protecting their lime investment', they gutted Jump and handed the carcass to l
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6y ago
i dont understand how the background behind the 'balloon' could be moving so fast. I dont think it was a ufo, but I definitely do not think it was a balloon.
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6y ago
notice how I said sometimes and didn't speak in absolutes?
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6y ago
> "Why does my typing on a keyboard in the office bring more "value" than when I type on a keyboard at home?" the same reason why you sometimes have to call someone or talk with them in person instead of typing them a
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7y ago
personally, hearing this makes me happy, can't wait till it's built. Has anyone heard of terrascopes? (telescopes using celestial bodies) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOTZe07eHA if it is workable, it sounds fa
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7y ago
if you think its nonsense get your logic circuits checked. India is closer geographically speaking. Their lock-down was extremely late in the game. The 5 days after NYC puts in context just how far late it was; I'm sorry you do not
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7y ago
Google was all in on cloud, and they have already had some layoffs in cloud, froze hiring, and are reducing spending on data center. Either Google never goes all in, or they do not know what all in means
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7y ago
india doesnt have mass graves not because 'they are doing it right' or they are 'hiding the bodies', but because ITS WARM AND HUMID AND YOUNG. people are acting like idiots when it comes to this virus. take this article:
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7y ago
hn down-voted the author for voicing and clarifying his positions on the article shared on hn.
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7y ago
did anyone get to the bit about fighting shield to shield? > "I particularly wonder about this given Lloyd’s dismissal of fighting ‘shield to shield.’ The issue is, we have sources – Tyrtaeus most notably – who tell us that happened
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7y ago
or the 1957 Flu pandemic but I suppose that was not long after the polio vaccine.
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7y ago
a family member who is a doctor at a hospital told me that any patient that dies of a respiratory illness is being marked as covid19 even if they were never tested for it. dead truly means dead. dead by covid19 does not.
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7y ago
do you think someone at google is saying: 'hmmm, I analyzed all the points and did fact checking and this video should be flagged'. They'll have some lazily built ML algorithm that flags the whole channel with a video that me
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7y ago
considering the cdc's history on this (no masks!), I'd take anything they say with a grain of salt. The estimated r0 of 2/3 is hilarious. less contagious than sars eh? No amount of down-voting me or cdc papers is going to c
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7y ago
this is not easy, as death rates are going down because people are not out and about.
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7y ago
Interesting article, but I disagree with the author on a lot of points. it largely revolves around: "But people can’t spend more than 100% of their time or money on the Internet." first off, although the internet is baked into eve
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7y ago
> "Compare this to Seattle where I could wear a sweater in August and I'd say it's brutal." That just means New York has a summer time. I never found New York very humid, but Seattle is more humid than New York.
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7y ago
> "Because Seattle's a pretty great city to live in?" I feel like thats a minority opinion. The weather is terrible, the food is terrible, service at restaurants (or pretty much service in general) is terrible. A huge po
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7y ago
Thanks, Ill take a look into it. It seems hn has no place for discussion these days and will down-vote anything.
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7y ago
I did the covid19 week1 and week2 kaggle competitions (I think they had 4 of them) below. If you are interested, this is a fun way to play around with the data, and it shows how hard it is. This I tried: - Weibull Gamma distributions, but
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7y ago
it sounds like there was. Look at the 2019/20 flu season from the cdc. it was about 3rd place in last 10 years despite the country basically shutting down. Anecdotally, I remember in December / January reading about this being th
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7y ago
its got me baffled. I wonder if this changed consumer behavior in such a way that it benefits facebook ads and detracts from google. I dont understand it, but it appears to be the message we are seeing
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7y ago
to respond to everyone at once: I didnt include the link because this is public knowledge anyone can access. It was provided below but the original search doesnt work anymore. it literally worked till today. I do have a picture of it I h
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7y ago
well, google coronavirus searches in China, specifically Hubei province, spiked in September of 2019. Science is a term being twisted out of its original context. if people keep doing that, its going to be a pejorative.
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7y ago
I pay for youtube premium and its totally worth it, but I do hate those vids that put advertisements into them. At least some put it at the end which I am ok with
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