brittohalloran

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by brittohalloran 6y ago
The Pixel 3XL and others had it right - fingerprint sensor on the back (natural spot for your pointer finger), still allowing for the whole front of the device to be the screen.
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by brittohalloran 6y ago
Back of the envelope on storage capacity: - Looks like about 200x200 px grid - 200x200 = 40,000 total possible bits - Assume only 75% of these are available for data due to QR structure and redundancy features - Leaves about 30,000 bits or
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by brittohalloran 7y ago
Great comparison. Diffuse and delayed consequences that would require a "painful" change of habits now to prevent. In a way cigarettes are an easier problem to solve because the consequences are personal and personally preventable
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by brittohalloran 7y ago
PEP-8016 [1] has the details of the steering council mechanism (5 person elected council, describes their powers), and PEP-8100 [2] has the results of the election and now shows vote totals. [1] https://www.python.org/dev&#x
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by brittohalloran 8y ago
I believe the original comment was referring to being misled / confused about the decentralized social network Mastodon ( https://joinmastodon.org/ ), not being misled as to the significance of the finding.
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by brittohalloran 8y ago
Super interesting idea. One of the cons could be that having your employees not personally invested in the outcome of your venture could make them less likely to be "fully committed" (i.e. long hours, going above and beyond). You
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by brittohalloran 8y ago
> you need lidar and a fully mapped road To play devil's advocate - somehow I drove myself to work today, and the hardware I'm running is just two moderate resolution limited field of view cameras. Not an expert, but from first
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by brittohalloran 8y ago
Similar to those gravity power modules: a company called Ares ( https://www.aresnorthamerica.com/ ) is trying to use much smaller concrete 'cars' on rails to store energy. Not sure of the status of it but it looked
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by brittohalloran 8y ago
Did you look at Resin OS at all (resin.io)? No affiliation. Ship a container to your Pi that you can develop on your laptop and then have built for the ARM architecture on Resin's server. It looked very good last fall when I was toying
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by brittohalloran 8y ago
Unbelievable. Thanks. The top decile actually consume over 75% of the alcohol (by number of drinks, probably less by dollars)
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by brittohalloran 9y ago
Do you have any data on this? There are certainly heavy consumers but my (not data backed) feeling was that there's a fat tail - if there are thousands of high consumption binge drinkers then there are millions of casual "several
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by brittohalloran 9y ago
As a 10 year engineer in the medical device industry I've slowly come to believe the root cause is not greed for more profit, but actually runaway altruism. All across healthcare, providers, scientists, administrators are faced with mi
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Alibaba bests human performance in Stanford reading comprehension test(rajpurkar.github.io)
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by brittohalloran 9y ago
It costs $45 (+ Pi Zero W + Camera + SD card = approx. $90 total) and could be left somewhere analyzing video frames and communicating results.
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by brittohalloran 9y ago
The one new looking item is the VisionBonnet (with a low power Intel Movidius chip [1]). I've been pounding away on a low power / low cost NN vision device and now in the last two days we got Amazon DeepLens and this Google AIY Vi
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by brittohalloran 9y ago
What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? I've been using keras but planning on diving into a real deal framework next. Tensorflow is appealing for the momentum it has in the community, but pytorch looks easier to learn. Doing ima
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by brittohalloran 9y ago
Been meaning to try this, good write up. An alternative between keeping all data in-memory and going full relational database that's worked well for me is Python + H5PY. Write a simple class where your data getters / setters inter
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by brittohalloran 9y ago
Love the idea of applying statistical techniques typically used in field x to data from field y. I'm always seeing places to apply manufacturing process control statistics like control charting [0] and process capability index [1] &#x2
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by brittohalloran 9y ago
This missing element of that analysis is that in the smartphone era you almost never type out a phone number. You were texted it and click on it, see it on the web and click on it, found the company on Google maps and click on it... The dia
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by brittohalloran 9y ago
Don't underestimate the self fulfilling prophecy effect. Quite possible that the massive influx into the field right now will move the needle.
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by brittohalloran 9y ago
What are your thoughts on conda instead of virtualenv?
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by brittohalloran 13y ago
Right, but it doesn't make sense for it to be on a retail floor then. All the machines should be in a big Amazon style warehouse to share supplies, service support, programmers, etc...
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by brittohalloran 13y ago
Except that anything large enough or detailed enough to be worth printing takes many hours to run. Not a great "stop by and get something printed" use case. I think the best type of business here is a "upload your file and re
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by brittohalloran 13y ago
Doppler shift. One of the simplest and most deeply useful physics principles. Things you learned in high school that are actually useful way down the road. Basic trigonometry (Sohcahtoa) falls in the same category for me.
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by brittohalloran 13y ago
Looks nice, congrats. First time seeing it and my most obvious question isn't answered on the homepage: what happens if someone smashes my gear I rented out? You should prominently highlight a protection policy.
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by brittohalloran 13y ago
Incredible how many of these are not being utilized
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by brittohalloran 13y ago
The standard Brita pitcher filter is a mix of granular activated carbon (from coconuts), and the ion exchange resin you talk about.
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by brittohalloran 13y ago
TLDR; Since the historical ice models, driven by fossil based sea level readings in Barbados, failed to account for the way the Earth's crust bends under the weight of a massive ice sheet on top of it, there was actually much more ice
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by brittohalloran 13y ago
Biggest takeaway from all of this back and forth, don't become a musician.
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by brittohalloran 13y ago
Like this approach

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