dmicah

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by dmicah 6y ago
I don't think this is the case, unless the platform is run by the government. The First Amendment applies to restrictions on free speech by the government, and is not related to the actions of private enterprises.
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by dmicah 7y ago
I think Julia is still too new to really tell. There are some web frameworks for Julia and I think it does have the potential to be as general purpose as Python, versus something like MATLAB / Octave which is dedicated to scientific co
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by dmicah 8y ago
You can restart the meeting after 40 minutes.
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by dmicah 8y ago
Not to mention two Apple Pencils, with different 'new' iPads working with different editions of the Pencil - these new devices announced today won't work with the refreshed Pencil announced last fall...
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by dmicah 8y ago
You're placing an awful lot of pressure on being in CS - there are many other careers that have good salaries and will not be automated in the near future. I also think you're placing too much emphasis on math proficiency in terms
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by dmicah 8y ago
I couldn't tell from the landing page whether this is a desktop app, or whether it runs in a browser. Could be interesting if it is a desktop app.
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by dmicah 9y ago
Did the vehicle have high beams enabled?
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by dmicah 10y ago
These toll lanes were built and are managed by an Australian company, Transurban. In the linked article it mentions that sensors in the toll lanes adjust prices relative to demand.
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by dmicah 10y ago
The link states "Authorship Unknown," however the author is Mark O'Donnell, this was originally published in a 1980 issue of Esquire magazine.
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by dmicah 11y ago
For the comment: "You could see your buddies in VR as legendary warriors fighting demons. Or maybe some of your buddies are the demons." How is this facilitated by VR? It seems the same experience can be had with a traditional non
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by dmicah 11y ago
From the linked "Segway" Patent: FIG. 12 shows an alternate embodiment of a balancing vehicle with a single wheel central to the support platform of the vehicle and no handle in accordance with an embodiment of the present inventi
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by dmicah 11y ago
This is a pretty awkward article that reads like Vice was paid by Universal Audio to write it, but there is no indication of sponsored content.
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by dmicah 11y ago
The majority of people never had access to a hardware modular either, unless they were involved with an experimental music program in a University. For the younger generation now interested in hardware modulars, software modulars may have b
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by dmicah 11y ago
Good Vibrations doesn't use the theremin, but a custom electronic instrument that was inspired by the trombone: http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2013/02/07/171385175/no...
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by dmicah 12y ago
It's a bit difficult ethically to assign one group of teenagers to the marijuana group and one to the clean group...
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by dmicah 12y ago
This is more just the modular synthesizer scene; modular stuff isn't necessarily analog and analog stuff isn't necessarily modular.
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by dmicah 12y ago
There are graduate students doing what a data scientist does for $10-15 an hour.
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by dmicah 12y ago
The proximity sensor seems very similar to the Roland "D-Beam" infrared light sensor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Beam , which is itself a bit of a gimmick. The design itself seems inspired by the KMI QuNexu
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by dmicah 12y ago
I'm also work in (applied) cognitive neuroscience and disagree with respect to the utility of these studies (ie "every little bit counts"). Pop-neuroscience articles that make large claims have the potential to poison the wel
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by dmicah 12y ago
Electrical activity from the muscles (EMG) is of larger magnitude than activity from the brain (EEG) and tends to saturate EEG recordings during vigorous movement unless a signal processing technique (such as blind source separation) is use
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by dmicah 12y ago
I'm interested if anyone has any insight into why there is a such a push for "Free" software (for example by the FSF, Richard Stallman), but not also "Free" hardware.
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by dmicah 12y ago
With respect to aliasing, an analog to digital converter contains an analog low-pass filter which reduces the amplitude of the signal content above the Nyquist frequency prior to digitization. This effectively eliminates alsiasing in the di
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by dmicah 12y ago
Many older consumer products had both schematics and PCB diagrams in their manuals, if not in the operation manual, then the service manual.
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by dmicah 12y ago
There is not one "football" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
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by dmicah 12y ago
Who are these "psychology people"? Automated coil placement exists, for example: http://www.rogue-resolutions.com/system/axilum-tms-robotics/ .
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by dmicah 12y ago
Regarding the "EEG like" comment, measuring the electrical activity of the muscles is termed "electromyography" or EMG
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by dmicah 13y ago
I believe he's saying that the odds of winning the lottery and not in one's favor, so it's foolish to play.
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by dmicah 14y ago
Zotero has a desktop app in addition to their original Firefox extension. Personally, I've been very happy with it. I have my articles stored in JungleDisk, and everything syncs between mac laptop, windows desktop, and ipad (with ZotPad on