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by dgacmu 2y ago
I haven't seen anything official indicating it's discontinued, and they've released a few updated libraries, but there certainly seems to be very little momentum and I'm skeptical about its future. I think some friends h
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by dgacmu 2y ago
I'm really mixing two things and wasn't very clear about it. The pico can kinda deep sleep but it requires an external wakeup trigger. It can't deep sleep from its own clock. Even so its deep sleep is pretty high power compar
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Dual cameras at 90deg to each other with lightweight onboard ml to decide capture / no capture + geotargeted higher frame rate captures for regions of interest. In a housing that can handle hard impacts from brush and off-road use (we
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Power is really one of the weaknesses of the rpi family (I'm quite excited for the new pico 2 for exactly this reason - it seems like they're finally making it easy to enter a relatively deep sleep without external hardware). I bu
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by dgacmu 2y ago
It's ugly but having a field that's just a dictionary is really handy and not too ugly. We use a lot of them for things like "tags" (which can take freeform user- or ml- supplied image tags in key:value format). I adore
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Not french per se, but the victorians also ate "slink veal" - an unborn calf either spontaneously aborted or removed from the carcass after slaughter. Not too popular (or legal) today.
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Some friends of mine in college ran a markov chain generator on the "police reports" section of our college newspaper (1). The best 10% of the results, from a three-token generator, were some of the funniest machine-generated text
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by dgacmu 2y ago
So, I'm a professor, and I have, um, really strong opinions about this. :-) Perhaps too strong and long for the current forum. But I'll see if I can be brief. ChatGPT is really, really good at providing solid answers of varying le
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by dgacmu 2y ago
You might be surprised. I have some friends who did a lot of drugs at one point or another in their life and ended up later holding a clearance. Addiction might be different, but I wouldn't let your past deter you from looking if there
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by dgacmu 2y ago
That's the one! It was a very nice example. I suspect for some students they could ignore the physics, but daughter needed to walk through the physical interpretation of the components before getting into the math. From my perspective
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by dgacmu 2y ago
I got to see that yesterday with my daughter: her algebra book used PV=nRT as an example of joint proportion and asked some questions about it. She, having never seen the ideal gas law, was quite thrown by it. That said, after we went throu
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by dgacmu 2y ago
They also charge you for time spent with service suspended. We finally canceled ours when my wife got an iphone with satellite SOS - it was pretty expensive for something we would typically use (activate, not actually use - we've never
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Ah, rats. It looks nice but to save others a bit of searching, if broadcasting to multiple panes is a requirement for you (something I use often in iterm2), it's not yet supported and not planned for support: https://github.
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by dgacmu 2y ago
It's frustrating. I usually bike to the doctor's office, and every time I warn them that they're going to get a systolic 10 higher than if they'll wait until the end of the appointment. They don't wait. The tech-tak
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Isn't the hobbyist solution to just build a board to which you can attach an entire pico board? That does preclude some things and adds $3, but it makes for a pretty easy prototyping path.
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Small (0.5 bits effective) improvement to the ADC also, per the datasheet.
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by dgacmu 2y ago
I wonder if it's more due to the strength of sexual taboos in America or the frequency of the word -- bits are referred to from the very beginning of the curriculum, whereas theorem provers are only mentioned a few times unless you tak
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Oh, I don't care what people say, I just find it distracting when I say the name in class, and there's a wave of "uh, what did he just say?" that percolates through the students.
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by dgacmu 2y ago
I will say that as a professor who occasionally has to refer to this system in front of a bunch of (American) 18-24 year olds, I'm very grateful for this renaming.
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Some context about Martin Pall's stuff and reasons to not take him very seriously: https://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2020/04/07/com... (The author of these blog posts is a PhD biochemist - a
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by dgacmu 2y ago
And since that was published, the widespread uptake of digital dental X-rays brought the dental x-ray dose down to the (roughly, depending on how you count, how many, etc) 1 uSv range. I've been much happier about dental X-rays since
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by dgacmu 2y ago
It's rare to have such a clear illustration of the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Your comments are coming across as lacking nuance ("nuclear is the worst possible...", for example). Nuclear has a place depending on how you weigh specific factors in your grid design. It's zero carbon. It's hideously e
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Just to be clear to others, Dan is the darpa PM on this - he convinced darpa internally it was worth funding other people to do the work, so he himself / his research group won't be doing this work. He's on leave from Rice fo
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by dgacmu 2y ago
We're not a one-person shop, but as a fully remote startup we also use a forwarding address service. Not very expensive and quite convenient. Lets us rebind the final destination of our mail (like, when our "handles everything off
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Discussion from the CNN version of this article 17 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41094571
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by dgacmu 2y ago
Cancer of all forms kills 5x more people per year in the US, so could you provide a more clear definition of what you mean by worse? https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm Cancer is terrible,
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by dgacmu 2y ago
It's probably not great as a mass screening technique, at least as described - it has a roughly 90% positive predictive value in a population already screened by experiencing cognitive decline. (In other words, when the population prev
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by dgacmu 2y ago
It's literally what it sounds like: dumping untreated sewage into waterways and oceans. A big problem in all of these is adding nitrogen and phosphorus to the water, which facilitates algae growth, which consumes a lot of the available
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by dgacmu 2y ago
That's cool and rare. (And yes, the centralization of meatpacking is a big challenge. It makes sense economically and simultaneously has some bad effects.) I think the amount of methane produced on forage is reasonably well-quantified,

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