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by femto 9y ago
In the physical world there's no such thing as a system with preconditions that can "work perfectly". There will always be a boundary region where is is hard to say whether the precondition is present and the system is unpre
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by femto 9y ago
To play online go here: http://javatari.org/ then drag the download link for he binary image from github and drop it on he cartridge slot.
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by femto 9y ago
Communicating in a way that is mutually agreeable is a more powerful enabler of friendship than the existence of an entry in Facebook's database. I put it to you that Facebook is about group communication, whereas friendship is about o
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by femto 9y ago
I think your first paragraph is written from the perspective of a human driver. The machine can predict based on physics. If anything a person who does not see a car will be more predictable, not less, as they will tend to be moving unifo
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by femto 9y ago
I think there is an argument for removing this ambiguity by making self driving cars automatically liable for all personal injury, whether the person be inside or outside the car. The only exception would be if the tester could prove inten
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by femto 9y ago
And an autonomous car that actually worked in theory would be able to swerve safely, since it would have a full knowledge of surrounding obstacles and be able to measure the physics of the car as it was swerving, allowing it to keep in a sa
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by femto 9y ago
One way to look at journals are that they are "ready made" reputation for those without their own. A new author can leverage the reputation of the journal to establish their own reputation. On that basis, maybe the mark of a trul
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by femto 9y ago
There's a current trend for people to anthropomorphise cars, with the backing of the industry (two eyes/lights and a mount/grill on the front of "him/her"). Won't the industry go into overdrive on the ant
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by femto 9y ago
I disagree. Pedestrian density is generally low enough that the car could generally be doing 60km/h and not hit a "worst case" pedestrian. For example, how many people do you see walking along freeways? If a person is on a f
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by femto 9y ago
> “They are going to attempt to try to find who was possibly at fault and how we can better be safe, whether it’s pedestrians or whether it’s the vehicle itself.” Autonomous vehicles should automatically be 100% liable in every accident
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by femto 9y ago
A direct consequence/cost of widespread over-classification?
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by femto 9y ago
What about applying this to making breast prostheses, whether they be automatically or manually knitted? It might allow a better fit and match to the existing shape if a pattern could be generated on a per-patient basis? https:/&#x2F
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by femto 9y ago
DOI link for use with your preferred source of scientific papers: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.01.153 Press release from RMIT: https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/newsroom/media-releases-a
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Technical feasibility of a proton battery with an activated carbon electrode(sciencedirect.com)
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by femto 9y ago
By my understanding, successful professional gamblers aren't actually gamblers, as they engineer the situation so the odds are in their favour and they are just printing money. Here is my understanding of how a professional “gambler”
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by femto 9y ago
Expanding on this: because the neutral current is close to zero, the conductor for the neutral current has looser requirements on its impedance. With perfectly balanced phases the neutral conductor can be eliminated, saving money and mater
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by femto 9y ago
A bit of information: Openstreetmap includes a field for the identification number on utility poles. A lot of people fill this field in when they do mapping (I do). Thus OSM is quite a good reference for these numbers, and the general top
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by femto 9y ago
Statistics tell you something significant about a group, but little of significance about an individual. Statistical measures should not be used to make decisions about individuals. Other names for doing so are: "Sacrificing the one
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by femto 9y ago
Wikipedia has the numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country#... Per capita, at least 5 times more people die in the US from police firearms compared to similar countries. Compared to Austral
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by femto 9y ago
Just what your ordered? http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map Given that it is all based on the OSM database, I'd imagine OpenHistoricalMap would
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by femto 9y ago
Background: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRailwayMap It seems to consist of a set of railway specialised tags, which exist within the OpenStreetMap database. OpenRailwayMap then runs their own tiling/ren
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by femto 9y ago
The problem in NSW is some farmers taking more water than they are legally allowed to, to the detriment of all other users of the river system, and then the law not being enforced. In the 4 Corners report that exposed the (mal)practice, th
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by femto 9y ago
There's also a neat book for those interested in the engineering details of their receivers: "Low-Noise Systems in the Deep Space Network" Edited by Macgregor S. Reid https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/monograph&#x
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by femto 9y ago
Thanks for the reply. Paid journalists make sense, in that they can probably produce words faster than an amateur. I hope it's a success.
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by femto 9y ago
In my experience, contributing to Wikinews was a daily grind compared to Wikipedia. Wikipedia was a chance to craft something long lasting over a period of time. Wikinews involved a similar amount of effort per article but invariably the i
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by femto 9y ago
A basic of driving a steam engine is not to waste steam, since steam represents fuel, which in turn represents money. As you say, not having an accident is more important than wasting a bit of fuel (hence safety valves on steam boilers), b
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NBN needs protection if it is to make a profit: CEO Bill Morrow(smh.com.au)
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by femto 9y ago
For what it's worth, the definition of 5G isn't really settled yet. To some people it means a high rate multi-antenna system in the existing radio bands (in the approximate frequency range 900MHz to 2GHz). To others it means a w
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by femto 9y ago
Two observations: 1) The "edge cases" typically change slowly over time. If you are an edge case, it's not your turn this year and someone else's turn next year. Your circumstances define you, and are potentially reinf
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by femto 9y ago
If you think of Apple as a curator rather than an inventor it makes more sense. Buying from Apple gets you an integrated package of curated technologies. Curation includes managing the risk of things not working, so they will provide techn

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