bjornlouser

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by bjornlouser 3y ago
"There's a chubby one with a cane... American! tee hee. There's another one!"
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
"noticing people around you and thinking about them" Your description of people watching sounds innocent, considerate even, but I think you're leaving out the display of open contempt that is so common these days.
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
"During 2017–18, only about 1.3% of U.S. parents reported that their children used melatonin. To get a sense of the current prevalence of use, Hartstein and colleagues surveyed about 1,000 parents in the first half of 2023. Among child
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
"My girlfriend and I like to guess where other tourists we see on the streets are from..." This is part of why some people don't get out more... the creepy people watchers. Maybe someone in the near future will create an anal
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
Exactly. It's a trick interview question since the minute you deliver this report on 'Loyal Customers' someone will want to increase the complexity of the 'unique' page visitation constraint to include information t
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
had to look that one up: https://www.reddit.com/r/russian/comments/32x2ml/what_does_м...
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
"Scientists at Klick Applied Sciences in Canada, working with faculty at Ontario Tech University in Canada, trained the AI using 267 voice recordings from people living in India. Roughly 72 per cent of the participants (79 women and 11
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
Why strike when you can sabotage? Can't they accept crypto anonymously and use those funds to publicize their demands while crippling the company from within? EDIT: the sabotage may already be happening... the NYT iPad seems extremely
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
In my experience the probability of dog poop getting scooped by the owner goes down if the dog is off leash.
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
I wonder if he is holding that umbrella to aid the model in recovering the 3d scene/scale from the reference images.
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
"Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science,
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
"Please don’t even get me started on the college grads who brought their parents with them to the interview, or, worse, had their folks follow up with me. I wish I was kidding." What happens when a candidate shows up with their pa
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
It might prove difficult if Chris has been at IBM for over 20 years.
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
"'Growing as an engineer' means becoming a better engineer, and becoming a better engineer (directly or indirectly) means getting better at using your skills to create business value." Learning how the Excel model worked
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
If there was a supplement you could feed your cat that allowed it to speak a few words like a parrot there would also be endless chatter about the use of that product. It’s amazing. ‘Meh. Let me know when your cat can recite T.S. Eliot’
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
> This person, imo, deeply does not understand what is happening in these situations. "... But all of the older relatives insisted we did not, suggesting that instead we see the sights in San Diego, that we take the kids to Sea Worl
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
"The APIs that developers will have to justify do things like see file timestamps or look at system boot times, among others. In Apple's words, these apps can be 'misused to access device signals to try to identify the device
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
From Story 77: "... Here is a good subject for an argument or debate: Are we any happier with all these inventions than people were a thousand years ago without them? Life is faster and more exciting; but it is more difficult and more
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
from the article: https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/278437235 "... The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $300,000 - $900,000. This market range is based on total compensation (vs. onl
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
The icon they designed for the 'Adversarial examples' category gave me a chuckle https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima...
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
Mentioned in a comment of that MO question is Thurston's "On proof and progress in mathematics" https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
At first you might be scared to trust your gut for lack of experience. Soon after, you may be afraid to embrace your newly developed intuition about baby’s needs out of respect for traditional parenting roles. Then there will be something e
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
Ah yes, because people won't pay for software that has a few bugs.
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
I think this is marketing for the app 'Little Musician'
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
They used a technique for water segmentation described in an earlier paper [1]. The validation dataset for that method goes back to 1992... "All applied images have 30-m spatial resolution and were acquired during October 1, 1992 to Oc
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
"But I don't expect to convince anyone (over 25) to go out and [ignore ChatGPT]. The purpose of this article is not to change anyone's mind, but to reassure people already interested in [unassisted writing] -- people who know
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
Netflix could add a qrcode that updates a few times a second above the scrub bar so that external apps could sync their audio...
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by bjornlouser 3y ago
"As you go through life, take time to monetize the roses." https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/issue-cartoons/cartoons-s...
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by bjornlouser 4y ago
"ultrasonic sounds can affect human perception. It is just not perceptible via the exact same mechanism..." talk about unconvincing
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by bjornlouser 4y ago
The main difference (to my untrained ear) is usually interpretation of tempo Take Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata Op. 19, 2nd movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT9qe_euX8g (Sheku & Isata) https://www.

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