fleetingmoments

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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
I was stationed at a very remote weather station where apparently, in previous years, some of the meteorologists were too lazy to change the sun exposure sheets during the year. Just before the relief voyage came there was a sunny day and t
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
I use a Chrome plugin called The Great Suspender, it makes a huge difference by 'suspending' all tabs that were not accessed in the past x minutes. You can set it up so it doesn't suspend certain tabs based on URL (Gmail, Dri
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
True, but if it turns out LIDAR is overkill and that self-driving can be done with only cheaper sensors (cameras), Waymo might be behind the curve on the use-case that the market will opt for.
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
Not true, anyone could take them to a sleep lab and compare to Polysomnograph-based sleep scoring. I'd love to see a large, independent study on this for a couple of the leading trackers.
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
There are some common algorithms for sleep/wake classification from accelerometer input, but sleep stages algorithms are all proprietary as far as I know.
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
None of the popular wrist-based trackers have an oximeter. You need red and infrared light for that, and it is really tricky to get accurate measurements at the wrist in any case. You don't measure respiration rate with oximetry in an
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by fleetingmoments 10y ago
What about things that are for the public good but doesn't have an immediate market demand, like government-funded research grants for scientists? The market is only concerned with short-term profits, it's not the optimal allocati
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by fleetingmoments 10y ago
We often take this approach at my company. The heavy lifting of feature extraction from raw data (wearables in our case) are done by python/numpy models. The population level stuff is then often handled in R by data scientists with mor
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by fleetingmoments 10y ago
I'd really like to know what you do to make a 2 year Macbook Pro upgrade cycle worth the cash outlay. Performance updates have been really incremental between releases for the last while. I do some serious machine learning and DSP dev
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by fleetingmoments 10y ago
I think he means one lens that corrects for myopia (-) and one that corrects for hyperopia (+), not different diopters of myopia.
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by fleetingmoments 10y ago
As a non-US citizen who as been to all the countries in question the answer seems obvious: Their citizens are much unhealthier.
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by fleetingmoments 10y ago
Applying the patch directly on production, with no backups, too (!)
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by fleetingmoments 10y ago
Like being an absentee landlord. If owning and renting out property you do not live at and are only collecting passive income from was made illegal, way more people would be able to afford housing and it would solve a lot of equality issues
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by fleetingmoments 10y ago
It's about the language used. You can absolutely cover yourself without directly implicating the company. Don't say "we're violating this and this patent", because even if you're technically not, it would look
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by fleetingmoments 10y ago
Would you say there is a decent market for digital accessibility consultants in order to assist designers in this way? I know a blind person in IT who is actively looking for work like that, but is having trouble figuring out where to start
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by fleetingmoments 10y ago
I spent a year on Marion Island, it sounds pretty similar. It's quite a strange feeling adapting back to civilisation afterwards. Going 60km/h in a car feels terrifying. Having to remember to take money everywhere with you in orde