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by dimatura 4y ago
I've used restic with the backblaze and S3 backends - works pretty well for me. The newest version also has compression on top of deduplication, like borg, which is nice. (Of course, it will only make a difference for compressible data
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by dimatura 4y ago
Nice article. As a data hoarder this is something I've run into several times over the years. Still haven't found a great solution. If xattrs were more universally supported, then that would probably be the best solution. Instead,
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I believe that when the number of parameters isn't in the millions, as in deep networks, there's less of an advantage to using GPUs. But there is definitely research on using GPUs to solve nonlinear least squares optimization prob
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I believe Ceres was originally developed for nonlinear least squares optimization, particularly in the context of structure from motion (as bundle adjustment) and related problems in computer vision and robotics (esp. SLAM). As such it has
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Cool, I've dabbled in this with ordinary mechanical switches. What's the hardware interface like for the Wooting switches?
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A fun type of barcode: fish bone codes! https://ssraa.org/what-we-do-otolith-lab/
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by dimatura 4y ago
What does it mean to be the "best programmer ever"? You probably want a more specific objective. Maybe you want to be the best at competitive programming? If so, then practice that, read books on DSA, etc. On the other hand, progr
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by dimatura 4y ago
Insects have long been an inspiration for robots, and as someone who likes insects and robots, I support initiatives like this. However, one lesson that has been drawn from studying insects is that it's not all about the brain. A lot o
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Ha, yes, that's the etymology for pajero, hence the similarity to "wanker" :D
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OpenVDB is a really cool tool and a nice C++ codebase. During my PhD I adapted it to manage volumetric data extracted from LiDAR measurements and found it to be much more efficient than more popular alternatives in the robotics world, such
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by dimatura 4y ago
You know this SUV, the Pajero? IIRC they changed its name for the chilean market, because there "pajero" is well established slang that translates roughly to "wanker", but with extra connotations of laziness and weakness
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Yeah, it does. "Culio" could be seen as the past tense of the verb "culear" - derived from the word for ass - and which, as far as I know, is a naughty word in most of latin america.
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I assumed from the title this would be Lacan or such. I think GPT-3 would be incredibly successful at emulating postmodernist logorrhea.
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This task is called instance segmentation and is an active research topic. Mask-RCNN is relatively old these days, but still might be the most popular approach. There also happens to be a few approaches for the task taking inspiration in me
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Adaptations of image style transfer specifically for video came out pretty quick after the image ones, and there's been a few iterations. For the most part they use the same ideas, but add some extra steps to "stabilize" the
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by dimatura 4y ago
This article is subtle self-referential satire. It begins by claiming "most experts have no idea what they're talking about", and then goes on to fully illustrate this point with itself.
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I only knew Lichtenberg as an aphorist - I had no idea he was a scientist! (Yes, it's the same one).
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This question came up in a weekly "random topic" talk that we had at an MIT lab I was visiting at the time, many years ago. One of the lab members - who was a very impressive coder and researcher - had been asked this question at
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by dimatura 4y ago
In psychology/behavioral economics this is known as loss aversion. Most people would rather avoid losing $5 than not earning $5. But given the rather broad view of reinforcement learning this paper adopts, I would guess that the author
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Absolutely! Hence my caveat. Other scenarios where I'd be worried about hallucinations are in algorithms that control self-driving vehicles, or in medical-image analysis. I think accurately quantifying uncertainty for these problems (s
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Deblurring is a classical ill-posed inverse problem where no matter how much math you throw at it (and there's lots of very interesting work in that vein) at the end of the day, data-driven solutions (i.e., ML) will work best for most
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by dimatura 4y ago
It does have a follow feature, but honestly I've never tried it. It's pretty easy to pilot, fwiw, and like most DJI drones has an incredible price to quality and features ratio. I'd be surprised if this drone comes anywhere n
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I own one! Mostly just because it's neat, I don't actually use it a lot, especially after I got a M8. Sounds great for its size! I wish there was a way to edit or at least upload patches without the editor, which only works on win
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When I started my undergrad I was quite interested in various fields related to cognitive science, but in my country there was no way to major in that. I started a psychology major, and while I did get to take courses related to cogsci, and
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by dimatura 5y ago
This is a super-frequently discussed topic among electronic musicians. No question software has become dominant, but I think the main argument for why hardware hasn't been "wiped out" is more or less what you said - interacti
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by dimatura 5y ago
I agree battery power would be great. For the model:cycles you can use a standard USB power bank with the right-sized USB-to-barrel plug adapter. I've tried and it works well even with small "lipstick" power banks. For the d
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by dimatura 5y ago
I'm a bluebox owner, was happy to pay the extra $ to get something that wouldn't take up a large chunk of my desk. Gets the job done, no complaints.
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I'm not sure what the target market is either, but I suspect people who highly value portability would be a large part of it. This thing packs a lot of features in a really tiny form factor (potentially replacing bigger mixers and an F
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Looking at all the features it has in this form factor, plus the supply shortage, I can see why it costs as much as it does. Does it mean it's a good deal? Well maybe, if you want most/all of the features, value portability in ter
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Yeah, about 10 years ago I was reading one of the earliest papers applying these ideas to computer vision and I was pretty confused, as I never had any exposition to Lie group/algebras in my engineering undergrad. So I tried to read ma

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