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by backprojection 12y ago
his point is that bandwidth sets a lower limit on lag, for a fixed packet size. high bandwidth is a necessary condition, but not sufficient.
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by backprojection 13y ago
I kind of feel like we should be able to use scientific notation for this 300GB hardrive becomes 300 10^9 bytes or 3 10^10. 32GB or memory becomes 32 2^30, or 2^35. No ambiguity at all, and if you're spending hundreds of dollars for ha
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by backprojection 13y ago
Risk of dying as a function of age, obviously.
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by backprojection 13y ago
Well your vote would be proportional to your investment, $100 out of $2.4M, in this case. > That would basically mean potential acquisitions would become public knowledge That would kind of be the point, it would be about fairness. Peopl
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by backprojection 13y ago
What if, rather than offering equity, crowdfunders got voting rights instead. I feel that most of the outrage from the Oculus deal is that people feel betrayed. They could almost not have picked a worse outfit to have been bought by (rightl
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by backprojection 13y ago
> What are some ways that such an investment could make sense? My intuition is that patronage systems lead to undue influence. If Coke will fund your video series, they'll want something in return, usually advertisements. That then
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by backprojection 13y ago
Are there materials dense enough to be useful for this, and thermally non-conductive/stable enough to withstand the heat of reentry?
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by backprojection 13y ago
> Not a new idea. Who cares? Why do people always feel compelled to make this kind of comment?
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by backprojection 13y ago
Will there be pirate drones that fly around looting the Amazon drones?
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by backprojection 13y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one. But how do you handle situation? My family usually takes offense, and I can see that I would seem arrogant for doing so. I just don't know how to communicate how intrusive and strident the TV is
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by backprojection 13y ago
This is a really nice demo, but note that it's not the full Fourier series. This is only the 'sine' contribution. I'm not sure how you could expand the animation to include cosine as well.
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by backprojection 13y ago
I'm confused, why wouldn't they just tax whatever replaces Comcast? Maybe your argument is that the government has an overall interest in maintaining a monopoly, since monopolies raise prices, and under a fixed tax rate, that mean
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by backprojection 13y ago
[EDIT] As others have said below, this comment, while maybe useful, doesn't really apply to the article (or AD), since AD is about differentiating functions, not data.
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by backprojection 13y ago
> I find it funny how you think of differentiation in terms of "frequency domain", "bandlimit" and "filter". Very signal-processy, very engineery. A mathematician would speak about unbounded operators in a B
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by backprojection 13y ago
> It's not meant for differentiating a function known only by its points. It's meant for evaluating nth-order derivatives of functions you can already evaluate at arbitrary values This is correct. So my comment "I think g
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by backprojection 13y ago
This is pretty much exactly what I'm saying. So you're convolving with a gaussian kernel. That's the exact same thing as multiplying, in the frequency domain, by another gaussian. (convolution theorem, and the FT of a gaussia
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by backprojection 13y ago
I think it's worth noting that the problem with numerical differentiation, fundamentally, is that differentiation is an unbounded operator. In finite-differences, (the more obvious approach), you assume that your data are samples of so
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by backprojection 13y ago
? lobbyists are exceptionally well payed. Capitol hill is now a farm league for K street... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic,_Lost
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by backprojection 13y ago
Well I guess we won't know until they release part numbers on the CPU, and that part number is available form Newegg/Amazon. It's not clear to me if they're going Haswell or Ivy-Bridge. The I-B E5 Xeons on Newegg now are
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by backprojection 13y ago
Well, to be fair, it's more a comment on Intel's progress than Apple's. I'm sure you can throw together an ugly generic PC with the same parts for less. Anyway, workstations are supposed to look big and intimidating :)
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by backprojection 13y ago
I'm surprised this isn't even mentioned in the article. I guess there are issues with boundary effects, but those can be overcome in a variety of ways. Also, if your convolution kernel is short enough, you can beat an FFT. So, in
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by backprojection 13y ago
I don't know if my perspective is just so heavily biased or impractical at this point, but I'm almost embarrassed that my country's Navy would use windows for such a critical system.
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by backprojection 13y ago
> Does the tesla have regenerative braking system, and I wonder if there are rare earth metals there? As far as I understand it, they use the motors for regenerative breaking, and the motors don't contain permanent magnets. Where pe
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by backprojection 13y ago
This is interesting since I'm sure the feds want cooperation from Amazon, and hence Bezos. If Bezos is behind it, then that might make some sense - NSA forces Bezos to comply with whatever they want, and this is his way of fighting bac
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by backprojection 13y ago
Is this just speculation? It's fine if it is, I'd just like to know.
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by backprojection 13y ago
This is great, thanks!
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by backprojection 13y ago
Someone posted ambient warp-core sound from Star Trek on Reddit earlier today, maybe you could add this. http://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/1nwzd6/ambient_war...
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by backprojection 13y ago
There's still an incentive to work with a negative income tax. This is an interesting discussion about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM
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by backprojection 13y ago
In case anyone didn't catch it, Stephen Fry extolling GNU and free software: https://gnu.org/fry/happy-birthday-to-gnu.html This man is a wonderful person.
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by backprojection 13y ago
I generally agree with you - shopping at TJs is a fairly low-BS experience. But I feel that putting less fresh stuff in front is just common sense - its just a a FIFO buffer.

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