baobabaobab

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by baobabaobab 10y ago
GNU's Not Uber, FOSS won't give me a ride to the airport. So, there are nice things you don't get either way.
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by baobabaobab 10y ago
>But I doubt it is really in the interest of the manufacturers who want to be able to offer a complete "solution". Then they'll be leaving room for a newcomer to do it.
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by baobabaobab 10y ago
>but definitely options for professionals that make their living outdoors My thinking was also that this makes a great platform for professional tools that are currently standalone devices. Multimeters, surveying equipment, thermal inspe
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
The physical world is so slow to give you feedback, I think DeepMind has the right approach with video games, you can move to 3d games, then games with physics where the agent directly controls artificial muscles, while iterating much faste
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
>While it seems intuitive that most individual "intelligent" systems in animals can be seen as unsupervised, isn't life itself driven in a reinforced manner? I think apparently unsupervised systems could be explained by mo
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
>What we don't know is whether there is a logistic curve on technology as a whole. Belief in the Singularity is premised on this not being the case. That's a version of the Singularity to extreme even for Kurzweil. It's pr
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
Their owners want safe and steady profit. They aren't interesting in taking risks.
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
Look at how the plastics industry handled the scientific evidence that Bisphenol-A affects development. They switched to closely related chemicals with less data available, Bisphenol-B, Bisphenol-S. Unsurprisingly, studies are now finding t
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
Experiential and statistical evidence presented in a summary meant to convince a person of something would be known as an argument.
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
The West Antarctic Ice sheet is still flowing into the ocean, and accelerating. It's actually not even clear atmospheric warming is the ultimate cause. But it is clear that it's reached a literal tipping point. The glaciers have r
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
The other sources are glacial melt, heat expansion, and water storage on land decreasing. You need both the models and the data. Facts without theory answer only what happened, not why, you can't make projections without theory. Theory
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
Sea levels are rising 2.6-2.9mm per year. “The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally said. “But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
You might have a tip about a merger because a PI is watching a corporate parking lot. Just because something is a secret, doesn't mean an insider leak is the only way for it to be known.
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
Convincing people to buy things using psychological manipulation is what marketing is all about.
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
>The hobbyist. Why would anyone else be liable for something a person did that then failed and caused harm? The hobbyist isn't the one with money. The manufacturer will be sued, and they usually settle because there is probably some
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
He didn't have a stable enough income to always maintain a gym membership. I doubt a daily commute and rent would be cheaper.
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
You're looking at a piece of equipment that can be used to generate income, maybe that's what it's for. It also could have been cheap/broken/free, and they intend to flip it.
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
>I think it's easier to defend the claim that the kids lacked guidance and support to take advantage of the education provided for them. That guidance is a critical part of a "good" education. Unfortunately, we leave it u
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
>How would you propose I monetize creating my own free open-source programming language? Forget it, work for the man, save your money, retire young, then work as much as you want on your GIF art syntax programming language.
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
That's the proof of concept prototype. If they achieve their stated targets, it would be a leap in computing capability. http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/08/06/exascale-breakthrough-weve... "The analysis
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
Recognizing patterns in data is so easy to do, that how easy it is, turns out to be a major problem in machine learning. You can always find some explanation that perfectly fits all the data you see, but that doesn't mean it will fit t
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
>This way we could say the entire universe is just a big chemical reaction. It wouldn't even be an incorrect view. It just wouldn't be useful for anything. It's a world view, I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that it&
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
We could also just use general tax revenue. You don't have to have a different tax for every expense.
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
Wait, do people think that mental health disorders somehow don't involve brain function? What else could it possibly be?
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
To top it off, congress wouldn't actually allocate funds to any of it.
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
At least in my corner of the industry (commercial) , we've been asking for better test cycles because we don't want to wind up in a situation where we are chasing fuel economy on the test cycle at the expense of fuel economy in th
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
NASA actually did a tethered artificial gravity experiment during Gemini with the target docking vehicle. They got it working, although they only spun it up to like .01g.
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
The true soul of Seattle is complaining about the new people moving here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79SF7UoO1pI&feature=youtu.be
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
>I have not played much KSP, is there anything as realistic as orbiter? No, it's the most realistic game about spaceflight, but it's not a simulator.
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by baobabaobab 11y ago
I actually used this page as a guide to write a orbital rendezvous computer plugin, back before that was a built in feature in the game. It's the best (in depth) resource on orbital mechanics I ever found.

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