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by brutuscat 5y ago
This book was written by makers of the Kurzgesagt's YouTube channel recently. https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/aw/d/0593241312/ref=tmm_hrd_s... Pretty cool illustrations too.
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Amazon's Lumberyard game engine is now open source(gamasutra.com)
1 points by brutuscat 5y ago|0 comments
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by brutuscat 5y ago
Amazon’s move here is a boon for anyone interested in developing open-source tools for 3D game engines (that can then be used by game developers), but a bust for anyone financially invested in Lumberyard becoming a competitor to Unity or Un
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by brutuscat 5y ago
ZKP all the way https://www.aepd.es/en/prensa-y-comunicacion/blog/encryption...
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by brutuscat 5y ago
Not sure how things are now, but I would rather use Ruby via JRuby and still benefit from most of the Java ecosystem but using the much more higher level abstractions of the Ruby lang. Many years ago I discovered that I could use all the Ja
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Why machine learning algorithms are hard to tune and how to fix it(engraved.ghost.io)
1 points by brutuscat 6y ago|0 comments
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by brutuscat 6y ago
> Nothing of this article is novel. You might already be aware of everything we wanted to say. However, we have the impression that most machine learning curricula do not discuss optimisation methods very well (I know mine did not), and
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by brutuscat 6y ago
> It’s pretty clear by now that, looking just at costs (without getting into the detail of the actual type of pollution), mining gold is ~50 times more expensive than mining bitcoins AND running the bitcoin network. Bitcoin pollutes far,
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LauncherOne liquid fuel light-class and air-dropped rocket reaches space(spaceflightnow.com)
1 points by brutuscat 6y ago|0 comments
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by brutuscat 6y ago
> On its second launch attempt after a propulsion problem prevented its light-class air-dropped rocket from reaching space last year, Virgin Orbit will try to deliver 10 experimental CubeSats into orbit as soon as Sunday on a mission boo
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by brutuscat 6y ago
I’m also very happy. I was reflecting about the speedy nature of tech changes. Now no one “remembers” land lines AF of these were from there 50s or before (I guess they are?). What’s next? Currencies? Over the air tv? Gasoline? What things
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by brutuscat 6y ago
At least in Argentina it was not because of the infrastructures, it was because of the telefonica monopoly. Once deregulated, private companies came and in few years most middle class families could have a land line, cable tv and Internet.
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by brutuscat 6y ago
How old are we all now that we talk about this as if it where ancient stuff? I remember my grandfather tell me about how they used to gather around the radio to listen to the radio shows (or whatever these were called...). Incredible how so
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by brutuscat 6y ago
You should look at how the new low-cost high speed trains is looking now in Spain. The high speed rails are now open to the market and a Madrid-Barcelona ticket would be around 10 EUR (12ish USD) and a 2:30h trip. https://www.ou
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by brutuscat 6y ago
For everyone fond and nostalgic of any flash content, the Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations (using Ruffle https://ruffle.rs ), games and toys in their software collection. https://blog.archive.org&#x2F
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by brutuscat 6y ago
I do agree with you (at least I used to), but lately I've been very reluctant to anything "made in USA" (e.g. the American dream). The sheer amount of injustice that happens there is just way to much. I am not sure I would be
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by brutuscat 6y ago
I would not want to endorse any company, but we've been using HP Instant Ink quite successfully since we knew the existed and we are really happy with how that resulted. It is actually pretty cheap for us, 3 EUR per month and we get 50
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by brutuscat 6y ago
I wonder how this is different from Eclipse Che? http://www.eclipse.org/che/
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by brutuscat 6y ago
Until you can't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito
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Robust T cell immunity in convalescent individuals with asymptomatic Covid-19(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by brutuscat 6y ago|0 comments
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by brutuscat 6y ago
> SARS-CoV-2-specific memory T cells will likely prove critical for long-term immune protection against COVID-19. We here systematically mapped the functional and phenotypic landscape of SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell responses in unexposed
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Play Rocky's Boots (82) and learn to design simple digital logic ciruits(archive.org)
2 points by brutuscat 9y ago|1 comments
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by brutuscat 9y ago
Even though I only scanned the article, many of those computers appear in Turing's cathedral G.Dyson[1], book which I enjoyed, given that there is not a lot of history lessons at the universities (at least the one I went to in Buenos A
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by brutuscat 9y ago
First saw it at the morning paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/03/31/bbr-congestion-based-con... This is the story of how members of Google’s make-tcp-fast project developed and deployed a new congestion c
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by brutuscat 9y ago
Originally, astronomers had the idea that the arms of a spiral galaxy were material. However, if this were the case, then the arms would become more and more tightly wound, since the matter nearer to the center of the galaxy rotates faster
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by brutuscat 9y ago
Older submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12060787
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by brutuscat 10y ago
Yes, you are right, I miss read those paragraphs...
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by brutuscat 10y ago
Professor Tim Gershon, Professor of Physics at University of Warwick and UK spokesperson for the LHCb experiment: “After the LHCb experiment is upgraded in the next long shutdown of the LHC (during 2019-20), it will be able to move to the n
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by brutuscat 10y ago
Should we use Hawk + Oz[1]? [1] https://hueniverse.com/2015/09/19/auth-to-see-the-wizard-or-...
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by brutuscat 10y ago
BTW AWS Lambda do have concurrent execution[1] limits which by default seems to be set to 100 per region[2] [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/concurrent-exec... [2] https://docs.aws.am

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