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by borkt 8y ago
My undergrad is in Materials Science and I am very uninformed on the NN/AI stuff, but I completely agree that the term AI seems to be applied to all sorts of techniques with zero relation to true intelligence, seems more to be just wor
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by borkt 8y ago
Agreed - this just seems to be an extension of the calculator story listed above, except using machine learning. Why wouldn't you use state of the art technology (including those labeled as AI) to help push any field forward?
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by borkt 8y ago
It gets even more interesting when they are federal but not state crimes. In this case, officers from a relatively far away jurisdiction were seizing cash and cannabis from people following all state and local rules. Just one of the individ
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Is there a problem with part-time science? I am not reading the article and I imagine this is a tangent, but it would actually be interesting if work in true science was thought of as a part time pursuit, at least by practicing engineers an
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by borkt 8y ago
Same thing happened to my wife. A newly promoted VP transferred her out of a great position she loved to work on a special project he invented to make department look innovative, under promise of a promotion once complete. Instead as soon a
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by borkt 8y ago
For example, bismuth crystals grow in an interesting way and, like h20 are less dense as a solid than a liquid. At the utterly extreme temperature/pressure environments expereinced in the universe, it isn't hard to believe there a
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by borkt 8y ago
The jetstream, like all weather and winds, is on a continuum. There is no barrier where outside of the jetstream the air is static. See the principles of flight and how air functions VERY close to a wing for an example. This is actually a g
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by borkt 8y ago
Just an interesting fact that the 787 has been tested to m0.97 in a dive, pretty impressive! But not near 801 MPH airspeed. https://web.archive.org/web/20110408073905/http://www.flight...
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by borkt 8y ago
I went to school in the north bay area, slightly rural. PE taught all of those things, the teachers were great at teaching proper form in weightlifting, the mile "times" required were easy for anyone who didn't walk. I really
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by borkt 8y ago
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-ti...
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Do either of them actually provide any value (apart from homepod audio quality)? For the life of me I can't find a reason to have one of these in my house and I really am not concerned about the privacy issues.
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by borkt 8y ago
Yep, weather != climate, and it goes both ways. Glad the article didn't try to push any climate aspect.
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Interesting observation
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And a poor reference to the actual number of babies anyone I know is having compared to any other metro area.
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I drive a 30 year old vehicle at times, replaced the engine with a japanese engine at around 60k on it, at a cost of around $2,000 with new timing belt and associated accessories/pumps/etc. The engine is rock solid still pushing
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by borkt 8y ago
Doesn't Cadillac SuperCruise still outrate Tesla in terms of its refinement?
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by borkt 8y ago
Not in California. Source: I work for municipal government in the bay area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_California...
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by borkt 8y ago
In all honesty, as a Materials Engineering student at a "learn by doing school", I could easily have done without the expensive lab equipment, but not without the library. I've always thought industry should be supporting the
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by borkt 8y ago
As some clarification I am all for breaking laws that can really only hurt the individual doing the lawbreaking. The government shouldn't have the right to protect us from ourselves. However, that this could have affected the other ite
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Theyve been looking for water (liquid H2O). We have known about the caps well back, at least the 70s.
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This could have gone an entirely different way. I am glad it worked out but I do not gain respect or hope in a company because they willingly ignored a very serious regulation and the consequences of a failure on their part could have cause
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by borkt 8y ago
While I agree with your sentiment I wouldn't describe this as hacking, it is much closer to stealing someones car key and then the car (though the value is way off). This does not require any technical knowledge whatsoever apart from u
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by borkt 8y ago
Why is the F-35 program such a disaster then? Honest question though I am sure the answer is feature creep and poor management
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and cost orders of magnitude more, and have a shortage of labor
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by borkt 8y ago
My dopamine response system has apparently never bought into the idea that likes actually determine my value in any way. I seem just use them to see what specific friends or colleagues are interested in and invite them for a specific activi
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by borkt 8y ago
Isn't that exactly what people think the X-37 is up to? https://www.airspacemag.com/space/spaceplane-x-37-180957777/
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by borkt 8y ago
Craig Ferguson show did have applause coaching, a sign, etc when I lived down in LA and went to a taping.
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Also usenet
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I had 4 years of CAD in High School (autodesk had an office in town) and one year of 3DS Max, but it really feels like one could take some community college courses and get up to speed FAST.
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by borkt 8y ago
Thank you. You have succinctly described why I prefer Pink Lady's to Honeycrisp.

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