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by gashad 2mo ago
This reminds me of themes I recently saw in [Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib5GBkD555M ) (Warning: the last 3 slides seem like an advertisement). One thing I
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The Interest Rate on Your Codebase: A Financial Framework for Technical Debt(chiply.dev)
4 points by gashad 7mo ago|0 comments
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by gashad 8mo ago
Ken Kifer wrote a bunch of amazing bicycle content! Here's a mirror of his pages: https://www.phred.org/~alex/kenkifer/www.kenkifer.com/
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by gashad 2y ago
What sort of effort would it take to make an LLM training honeypot resulting in LLMs reliably spewing nonsense? Similar to the way Google once defined the search term "Santorum"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by gashad 2y ago
Not saying anything about the current storm, but a storm as strong as the Carrington Event[1] would make modern day life on Earth pretty unpleasant. Some of the potential impacts are documented in Severe Space Weather Events: Understandin
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NSA's Top Ten Cloud Security Mitigation Strategies(nsa.gov)
2 points by gashad 3y ago|0 comments
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Relevance in Mapping according to Paul Ramsey (2015) [pdf](s3.cleverelephant.ca)
1 points by gashad 3y ago|0 comments
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Fundamentals of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)(storymaps.arcgis.com)
1 points by gashad 4y ago|0 comments
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by gashad 4y ago
I researched duct cleaners recently and found a similar set of dubious businesses. There are several businesses named "American Air Duct Cleaning of [insert city name]". Google Maps has 70-120 5 star reviews. They all say things
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What You Need to Know(blog.cleverelephant.ca)
2 points by gashad 4y ago|0 comments
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Fix bugs as soon as you find them(ministryoftesting.com)
2 points by gashad 4y ago|0 comments
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OMG Engineering Tenets(onemoregame.com)
1 points by gashad 4y ago|0 comments
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Buggy Image Resizing Operations(cs.cmu.edu)
1 points by gashad 5y ago|0 comments
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by gashad 6y ago
I just learned about the Citadel/Robinhood connection from this https://marketsweekly.ghost.io/what-happened-with-gamestop/ , which the author https://twitter.com/alexisgoldstein/status/13
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by gashad 6y ago
Anyone else not logged in to Facebook find the "See more of Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook" pop-up a bit disconcerting?
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Recreating historical streetscapes using deep learning and crowdsourcing(opensource.googleblog.com)
1 points by gashad 6y ago|0 comments
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Getting Comfortable with Death and Near-Death Experiences: How Doctors Die(2013)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by gashad 6y ago|0 comments
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DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf](media.defense.gov)
107 points by gashad 6y ago|53 comments
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by gashad 7y ago
Maxar (Formerly DigitalGlobe) is hiring a software engineer for the Product R&D group based in the Westminster, Colorado office. Maxar operates the highest resolution commercial imaging satellites in the world. See some Maxar images he
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Google Maps 101: how imagery powers our map(blog.google)
3 points by gashad 7y ago|0 comments
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Original Diablo Pitch Document (2016)(graybeardgames.blogspot.com)
1 points by gashad 7y ago|0 comments
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by gashad 7y ago
Good question! This does seem like an embarrassingly parallel problem. Whenever I've used the big HPC centers, the secret sauce has been a fast low latency network interconnect. The fast interconnect is useful for PDE solvers which nee
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by gashad 7y ago
Yes, see also "Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap" https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/5/232/htm Figure 3 demonstrates the scale of corporate OSM edits.
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by gashad 8y ago
It's got to be Pei Wei. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pei_Wei_Asian_Diner Corporate is based in Arizona, has 200 stores, talks of a rollout of Quinoa, etc.
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by gashad 8y ago
I'm surprised the article didn't call out what happened to Digg during their redesign and subsequent flood of users leaving for Reddit. I figured that's why Reddit thought it was worth the money of hiring 20 designers.
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by gashad 10y ago
AWS doesn't charge to put data in to s3. It's free to pull data out from its region to any AWS service within the same region. It can get expensive to pull data out across regions or out of AWS infrastructure (ie. to your privat
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by gashad 10y ago
Click "Web" below the article title on HackerNews. Then click the first result in the Google search.
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by gashad 11y ago
Such a good read. Fun fact: it was first published 4 years ago to the day.
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by gashad 11y ago
"“It was a binary thing,” he says matter-of-factly. “We didn’t get into suborbital space within the 10 years; thus it was not a success.”" I had to read that sentence twice. I saw "binary" and didn't think 10=ten.
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by gashad 13y ago
> "... [Toyota engineers] drew a layout identifying spots where there were slowdowns. They reorganized the shelves by food groups and used colored tape to mark the grain, vegetable, fruit and protein sections. The time clients spent

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