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by diydsp 7y ago
here's a related one, a business startup simulator. https://forio.com/simulate/mit/cleanstart/simulation/login.h...
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by diydsp 7y ago
fwiw, he was referring to the botched rollout of testing, not the whole thing or the market. [n] [n] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/03/13/trump-...
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by diydsp 7y ago
We have those limits on sound where i live in the u.s., but the police feign ignorance on testing procedures and treat it as lowest priority.
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by diydsp 7y ago
could this be related to the new round of QE, the $1.5T influx to coporations and possible negative interest rates? Not an economist here, but wondering if holding debt could be bad in the near future, if there is some other kind of shell
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by diydsp 7y ago
that's a great question - those approaches where based on acoustic similarity. Later approaches, including Echo Nest, included social features. An example I used to use with Brian was that Bad Religion and NOFX sound similar. However
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by diydsp 7y ago
Why do you think they acquired Echo Nest for 50 million euros? It's the music discovery engine, not the streaming.[0] [0] http://the.echonest.com/pressreleases/spotify-acquires-echo-...
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by diydsp 7y ago
>there are versions of Xanadu and ZigZag you can download and try. I tried here: http://xanadu.com/xuspViewer.html I got this file: http://xanadu.com/xuspD9y,2013 which is a .zip file. So it's ~7ye
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by diydsp 7y ago
>they're really selling the image of technological progress. That's such a broad brushstroke. Consider, for example, Echo Nest's research in machine listening in Barry Vercoe's Music, Mind and Machine group. This all
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by diydsp 7y ago
Went to rent a bike ("zagster") yesterday. required 242MB app. no space on phone and that's a good chunk of my monthly data.
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by diydsp 7y ago
is there any debugger as good as the Keil IDE in Linux?
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by diydsp 7y ago
1. This has nothing to do with whether demos where rigged or not. 2. OLPC is an education program, not a hardware program. netbooks don't have the educational software, the user-editable OS, etc. that netbooks had. 2.5 The netbooks ca
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by diydsp 7y ago
I would follow up by saying that from 2004-2010, while I was a researcher there, the emphasis was on mixing ideas from places as far flung as possible. There was no need to fake a demo, as the ideas were not impossible, just uncanny. Once
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by diydsp 7y ago
I highly recommend Axoloti. It has all the connectors ready to go, is easily expandable to write custom code but has all the boilerplate stuff and basic objects, so you can get creativity quickly without having to write and debug an envelo
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by diydsp 7y ago
sort of. but at least in capitalism, individuals are free to choose which behaviors deserve dollars. obviously billionaires have outsized influence, but many small voice still matter. in PRC, some govt committee decides which behaviors g
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by diydsp 7y ago
US is very strange at the moment... better comparisons might be to Europe, Central and South America, who generally enjoy incredible freedom, political discourse, quality of health, education and life.
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by diydsp 7y ago
the body language is unnverving. the insincere tics in the faces of the young women, the stilted swinging of the shoulders, the weak fist-squeezing of the young men with the awkward eye-popping. The deer in headlights postures... it all j
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by diydsp 7y ago
we used to play TA at lunch...but cut it off abruptly after an hour.. . so we'd spend 55 minutes building up epic armies then send them to apocalypse for the last 5 minutes :) I tried to fire up my TA disk in a Win7 machine a few years
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by diydsp 7y ago
>borderline verboten in German culture. The typical German will rarely engage in spontaneous conversation I spent a year in Germany as an exchange student. I still return every few years to visit friends and just because I'm in lov
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by diydsp 7y ago
Society preys on those who show weakness. Harvard asserted immediately they would give no money back, while Joi apologized. Negroponte, a more old-school elite, stepped in to play the same move as Harvard but it was too late.
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by diydsp 7y ago
If the transaction stopped at receiving the money, that would be one thing. However, ML donors visit the lab twice a year for sponsor weeks. It meant putting other sponsors, faculty, and researcher assistants in the same room as a convict
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by diydsp 7y ago
if there's a ruggedized, otterbox-like case, I'll do it! All of my phones have been subjected to harsh physical treatment. I'm wearing out my otterbox :)
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by diydsp 7y ago
one may snicker at the redundancy of the "is less than 0" pair and so son, but I'm grateful for "if the element will fit at the x position." It puts into words what isn't obvious from the code.
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by diydsp 7y ago
One could say it incentivizes them to keep it at home, out of view of minors.
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by diydsp 7y ago
> What non-drug user would want to live in a town where someone shooting heroin in public is not removed from the street? I know I wouldn't. It really depends on the broader systematic picture. If drug addicts fear consequences to t
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by diydsp 7y ago
>meth heads >>Man accused Is there a specific name for this particular type of generalization where a one-time event gets represented as a greater-than-one quantity?
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by diydsp 7y ago
Also the Echo Nest which was bought by Spotify, Affectiva, Little Bits (created by Ayah Bdeir just after graduating), expansion microscopy. Limor from Adafruit did her master's thesis there. There have also been many smaller but inte
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by diydsp 7y ago
Is that first-order approximation appropriate for iteratively solving the Diff EQ? Or does a higher order method such as Runge-Kutta have to be used? I notice the graphs don't align perfectly...
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by diydsp 7y ago
I find this approach of taking individual responsibility much better than handing over authority to a "person in a uniform" as the GP stated. Sure it's easier to blindly trust the "official" one, but it sets up a d
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by diydsp 7y ago
any idea why it seems the thruster is offside? [0] Doesn't that complicate mobility/control? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#/media/File:X_37B_...
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by diydsp 7y ago
It's great to see someone putting so much thought into this. I've been coding heavily in hires (320x200) mode the last few weeks on this platform. Having the memory banks swappable has all kinds of fun quirks. For example, altho

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