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Drill 1.2 released – now supports relational databases(drill.apache.org)
2 points by daviddumenil 11y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 11y ago
In the two months since the article was published his predictions on Chinese equity markets, Greece in the Eurozone and Iran look broadly correct.
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by daviddumenil 11y ago
As someone pointed out in a comment for a previous year's article 'The Smartest Man' is likely George Soros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
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The Smartest Man Is Wild about Innovation(blackstone.com)
1 points by daviddumenil 11y ago|2 comments
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Wellcome Image Awards 2015(wellcomeimageawards.org)
3 points by daviddumenil 11y ago|1 comments
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by daviddumenil 11y ago
There's a middle ground here where the car sees it's about to be rear-ended and softens the hold on the brakes just enough to convert some of the impact energy to forward motion. It knows the distance to the car in front and has a
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by daviddumenil 11y ago
Moka Pot to capsule convert here. I used to grind and brew every weekend morning while buying my weekday cup at work because it wasn't convenient enough to use and clean every morning. Now I use a Nespresso every morning and save the $
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Nvidia Announces DIGITS: Deep Learning GPU Training System(devblogs.nvidia.com)
4 points by daviddumenil 12y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 12y ago
France has relatively high Social Mobility. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/may/22/social-...
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Intellectual Ventures Stops Suing and Starts Making(businessweek.com)
1 points by daviddumenil 12y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin slowly goes global as businesses expand to international customers(gigaom.com)
1 points by daviddumenil 12y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 12y ago
Habit Judo looks like an interesting idea but it looks like the original author didn't succeed with 'maintain app' and 'maintain website' habits. More info here: http://projects.metafilter.com/3055&#
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by daviddumenil 12y ago
The original paper being discussed: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6082
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by daviddumenil 12y ago
This is dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8035956
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The Smartest Man in Europe Sees a New Industrial Revolution(blackstone.com)
2 points by daviddumenil 12y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft's AI Is On Its Way to Identifying the Whole World(gizmodo.com)
3 points by daviddumenil 12y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 12y ago
The ethylene is used to retrigger their natural ripening process which has been stunted to allow them to be shipped abroad.
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by daviddumenil 12y ago
The article makes the point that the breeds need to exist first. NARO is looking into the second half of that equation.
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by daviddumenil 12y ago
> Vitamin A deficiency in developing countries causes hundreds of thousands of children to go blind each year. It also reduces the body’s ability to fight infection, which raises the fatality rates in poor countries from infectious dise
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by daviddumenil 12y ago
'Page not found' for that URL. This one works though: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/15/style/tmagazin...
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by daviddumenil 13y ago
Nginx can be used as a caching proxy: https://coderwall.com/p/rlguog
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by daviddumenil 13y ago
Converting it to a spectrogram was a nice step. From the perspective of other source data, I wonder if that limits you to five features (X,Y and RGB) or whether you could extend to fictional/non-human-visible colours as extra features
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by daviddumenil 13y ago
It's worth noting that although the lawsuits were issued yesterday, the consortium was finalised in June 2011 when all of the group members were strongly involved in non-Android smartphones. It's not unreasonable to suspect that t
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Chrome 29 Released With Improved Omnibox Suggestions and WebRTC On Android(techcrunch.com)
2 points by daviddumenil 13y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 13y ago
Sorry about that, looks like a raw single quote in the URL was being stripped out on it's way in. I've posted up fresh version with a URL-encoded quote and that seems happy now.
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The Smartest Man Is Bullish On Europe(blackstone.com)
2 points by daviddumenil 13y ago|3 comments
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by daviddumenil 13y ago
They're reported to have fed back to Boeing details of an Airbus bid: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/820758.stm
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The Smartest Man is Bullish on Europe(blackstone.com)
3 points by daviddumenil 13y ago|2 comments
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Radical options for the UK economy(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by daviddumenil 14y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 14y ago
I'm a big fan of skyscanner. Being able to ask questions like 'what are the cheapest flight from my local airport over this weekend' make for fun trip planning.

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