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by daly 4y ago
A matrix is a 2D tensor. Non-linear mathematics would be more likely be "bitter medicine".
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by daly 4y ago
I was one of two people in the "research department" at Unimation. I believe we were the first to connect a general purpose computer to an industrial robot. The first connection was a Data General Nova, connected to a 2-arm robot.
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by daly 4y ago
I encoded ascii using morse code with a dot becoming a space and a dash becoming a tab. I wrapped the whole thing with a trivial C program to encode/decode. The end result was "Hello, World" in C but completely invisible. Tha
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Zero width or invisible ASCII in Unicode?
1 points by daly 4y ago|4 comments
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by daly 4y ago
Emacs in fundamental-mode.
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by daly 4y ago
If I recall correctly both Greece and Turkey claim Cyprus. Greece and Europe in general need natural gas. Turkey needs natural gas. Methinks this isn't going to go well at all.
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by daly 4y ago
Does this also include the labor to find/mine/refine/ship the fuel and the labor to mine/refine/shape/assemble/maintain both the factory machines and the farm equipment?
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by daly 4y ago
Why? Surely you didn't actually connect your Roomba to your wifi, right? I have a Roomba and it cleans without a net connection.
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by daly 4y ago
At 10:45 I nearly had a heart attack
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by daly 4y ago
Thank you. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. The visual of someone passing me on the highway doing 87 mph on a unicycle left me literally on the floor laughing. Imagine if it caught fire mid-ride! Oh, my sides... I can't
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Verilog Linear Algebra Circuits?
1 points by daly 4y ago|1 comments
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by daly 4y ago
Lisp. 50+ years. Still use it.
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by daly 4y ago
Joe is a millionaire who makes his money from his coal... are you surprised he doesn't support climate actions or taxes? Joe claims his objection is due to inflation issues. But inflation is being driven by external factors such as the
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The Fundierung problem of explainable machine learning
1 points by daly 4y ago|0 comments
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by daly 4y ago
I gave my friend an hour in the link trainer for his retirement. He tried to take off, enter the approach, and land. 45 minutes later he failed. When he stepped out of the trainer he had sweat so much he looked like he took a shower. I got
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by daly 4y ago
Ditched my cell phone over a year ago. I have a landline hanging on the wall. I "get by without a cell phone" just fine. People who want / need to speak to me call.
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by daly 4y ago
You need to know the "speeds and feeds" of any given airplane. What is the stall speed? What is the landing speed? On a small single engine you can cut the throttle when you cross the fence but you'll hammer the landing gear
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(opinion) AI: The master algorithm fallacy
2 points by daly 4y ago|0 comments
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by daly 4y ago
Oh, and the blocking person must also pay all medical / hospital / incidental costs. Plus they must provide medical insurance.
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by daly 4y ago
Pass the following law: If a person seeks to block an abortion they must agree to adopt and raise the child until age 18.
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by daly 4y ago
I suggest Soley and Wilms "Beyond Product". It seems to cover startup to large business in readable and simple terms. I found it quite useful. https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Product-Jill-Soley/dp/16427912.
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by daly 4y ago
Someone just rediscovered MVC, the Model-View-Controller architecture.
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by daly 4y ago
I read A Canticle for Leibowitz... I highly recommend it. It is excellent. I now have to read Faust in Space.
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by daly 4y ago
Having worked at several startups and having tried to create my own startup I can honestly say... Silicon Valley is SO perfect. Even the picture of Lena on the wall and the binary on the shirt! I swear to God I know Gilfoyle. His conversati
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by daly 4y ago
I want a cell-phone format computer that has a port for power, keyboard, mouse, display, and a port for a memory card. Just a black-box with ports. With USB-C this could probably be just a power and USB port that I can attach to an external
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by daly 4y ago
Two words: supply chain Are they going to import all of the car parts?
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by daly 4y ago
Gun Control -- cut off the money. Prohibit gun makers who sell to the general public from listing on the stock market. Prohibit banks from lending to gun makers who sell to the general public. Tax gun shops and gun sales at 100%. Take the m
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by daly 4y ago
Write a recipe for cake. Should you think that is easy, think again. What pan should you use? It depends on the size of the cake. Where is the pan kept? Is it in a cabinet? What kind of door handle, twist or pull? Is it under something? Wha
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by daly 4y ago
Perhaps from the holy hand grenade of Antioch? Was there a rabbit nearby?
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by daly 4y ago
"Oil" isn't "Oil". There are many grades of oil. The U.S. generally produces light sweet crude. The Russian imported oil is heavy crude. Heavy crude is used for asphalt and diesel. Light sweet is used for other oil

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