emeijer

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Ask HN: Facebook blocked our Ayreon tribute band's page, how to contact staff?
4 points by emeijer 2y ago|0 comments
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by emeijer 8y ago
Well.. assuming the room is about 3 meters high, that's a room volume of 15 cubic meters. Assuming it's filled with air, and air weighs about 1,29 kg per cubic meter, that's 19,35 kg or 19350 grams of air. 15 degrees C is 288
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by emeijer 9y ago
Vision based on visible light doesn't suffer from the problem in the same way as echolocation or lidar, since it is not dependant on observing signals emitted by the observer. I guess very smooth surfaces might act as mirrors, which wi
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by emeijer 9y ago
Actually, as of the next version (10) you can :)
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by emeijer 9y ago
The harder problem, as usual, is to get enough high quality training data for a particular problem domain though. Maybe as a POC we can try building a bot that generates relevant HN comments given the post and parent comments. Maybe I'
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by emeijer 9y ago
Very interesting approach, and intuitively it makes sense to treat language less as a sequence of words over time and more as a collection of words/tokens with meaning in their relative ordering. Now I'm wondering what would happe
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by emeijer 9y ago
Optimizely for groups and events. A/B testing in the real world :)
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by emeijer 9y ago
"The bacteria operate at an efficiency of more than 80 percent" Really? If this technology is able to convert energy from sunlight + co2 into carbon based fuels at 80% efficiency, that's quite astounding. Something like that