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by eloisius 2y ago
Since when has Taiwan had nukes? There was a nuclear program in the 80s and the US pressured them to abandon it. Even civilian nuclear engineering is not very popular in Taiwan. I’d be kind of surprised if Taiwan had any kind of nuclear wea
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by eloisius 2y ago
For a long time, they operated more or less like an independent org after the Salesforce acquisition. Eventually they’ve been pulled into the ecosystem though, and now it has the on-brand feel: 10+ second page loads, weird breakage like it
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by eloisius 2y ago
Characters are not words. Most words are 2- or 4-character combinations. Individually they have fragments of meaning, so you may get a hint, but not enough to understand for sure unless you’ve learned the word.
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Also traditional, and I agree it’s easier to remember them than simplified characters even if they are more complicated to write.
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I mean to say that my current method mostly omits hand writing. I can use a keyboard or phone to write and I can recognize characters fine. But on top of just learning a language, is Heisig so effective that I will be able to also memorize
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by eloisius 2y ago
As another adult Chinese learner, does something like the Heisig method really help with language acquisition or just memorizing characters? I’m skeptical because of the immense amount of time it takes to learn even without elaborate story
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Fun. At a very high level this is similar to what Gaussian splats do. You nudge Gaussians, that start out as random blobs in 3D space, in a direction that minimizes a cost between their projections into known camera poses and input images.
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If I had been buying a ticket at a window from a human, there's no way I'd have handed over 50 EUR without someone understanding me. If fluency in the local language to the level that you can have a phone conversation (which is ma
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by eloisius 2y ago
About 10 or 11 years ago I wrote a bot that sat in our company Campfire chat training a Markov chain for each person. Then you could command it to imitate someone and it would spit out hilarious madlibs. This would likely not be amusing any
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by eloisius 2y ago
I had a similar experience in Germany about a year ago. Train stations are mostly self-service now. The ticket kiosk ate my €50 and promptly rebooted. It didn’t print a receipt or anything. The only human I could find was a security guard.
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by eloisius 2y ago
God, I’d love to see the smartphone/no smartphone sections in restaurants.
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The “|” operator was already used for set unions and binary OR, so it’s a little late to reserve it for control flow. Personally I don’t mind having a “dict union” operator at all.
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SEEKING WORK | Remote | USA Looking for computer vision work. Multi-view stereo, camera calibration, SfM, scene reconstruction, 3D object triangulation, 3D multi-object tracking. Object detection, tracking, video processing. I mostly work i
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Italian authorities open manslaughter investigation into superyacht sinking(cnn.com)
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by eloisius 2y ago
If AI was in the mix, regenerating my images, personally I wouldn’t bother with scanning, and I’d just go back to digital.
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A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film(jackw01.github.io)
285 points by eloisius 2y ago|93 comments
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by eloisius 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | US Citizen Willing to travel Looking for computer vision work. Multi-view stereo, camera calibration, SfM, scene reconstruction, 3D object triangulation, 3D multi-object tracking. Object detection, tracking, video pr
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by eloisius 2y ago
Sometimes computer vision applications require rectilinear images, but you don’t have a chance to choose the hardware, or it was chosen with other constraints in mind. No reason to dump on someone doing research to rectify an image in a nov
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by eloisius 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | US Citizen Looking for computer vision work. Multi-view stereo, camera calibration, SfM, scene reconstruction, 3D object triangulation, 3D multi-object tracking. Object detection, tracking, video processing. I mostly
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by eloisius 2y ago
I’m not very savvy with client science, but does this make any sense? The methane produced by cow farts comes mostly from consumed grass and maybe grain. Grain would have some petrol inputs, but does a grass-fed cow? It sounds like it’s neu
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by eloisius 2y ago
There’s some exciting research on recovering light sources https://dorverbin.github.io/eclipse/
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by eloisius 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | US Citizen Looking for computer vision work. Multi-view stereo, camera calibration, SfM, scene reconstruction, 3D object triangulation, 3D multi-object tracking. Object detection, tracking, video processing. I mostly
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by eloisius 2y ago
I know the Kagi drumbeat is nonstop around here, but the AI slop problem is really not as pervasive as I feared it would be. Granted, since the advent of mass enslopification, most of my daily searching is in a fairly restricted space: comp
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I’ve never seen an integrated device specifically for bathroom drying, but this approach is very common here in Taiwan. I have a dehumidifier and clotheslines in my bathroom. Multiple people showering is never an issue. The dehumidifier (on
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by eloisius 2y ago
attr_reader defines reader methods that just return the ivar with the same name. They are just syntactic sugar, and sometimes it makes sense to put them after the private keyword, and private methods are idiomatically at the “bottom” of the
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by eloisius 2y ago
KDE Connect is incredible for iPhone + Linux workstation. It’s about as close as you can get to Apple’s interop. I wish they’d make a few UX improvements like putting a button in the app to open Files at the directory for incoming files, bu
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And for good reason. It puts someone in the position of confrontation with an unhinged person, social media shaming, or accusations of discrimination.
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If people will bring multiple laptop batteries, they’ll bring unlimited tethering hotspots.
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It's not as irrational a decision as you make it sound. They may spend $3 per day instead of $30 for the month, but they preserve their optionality. College is typically a turbulent time, and paying $30 up front for a service that you
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They can, but then that sucks for cafe customers that just want a latte, and don't want to "co-work." It's a problem where a few people are ruining something for the majority. I guess you could do some kind of "firs

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