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961.
by ipsum2 5y ago
> I read about an approach a few years ago which needed hundreds of milliseconds of computation for simple operations. Has the state of the art improved? Google still relies on the same group you read about, probably. From the docs: >
962.
by ipsum2 5y ago
FPV drones are good counter-example to this.
963.
by ipsum2 5y ago
Yes? It's literally the first line of the repo description. > A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood. This font is a fork of Shannon Miwa’s Comic Shanns (version 1).
964.
by ipsum2 5y ago
People have been doing this for forever, it's not a new technique by Kenji.
965.
by ipsum2 5y ago
You mean add fluorescence, not glow in the dark, right? It's not trivial to generate the necessary luciferin/luciferase, but adding GFP is a basic project.
966.
by ipsum2 5y ago
How much work are you doing at these 10 companies? Are you writing code or just literally doing nothing?
967.
by ipsum2 5y ago
Conflict of interest - say you're working for two companies that are in vaguely similar spaces (e.g. Google and Apple). Seems like grounds for a lawsuit.
968.
by ipsum2 5y ago
I upvoted this because its an amazing example of a project achieving the exact opposite of what it aims to do (bring money/views to positive climate change). Remarkably, these are professors at NYU and UT Austin.
969.
by ipsum2 5y ago
Why not use real sticky notes?
970.
by ipsum2 5y ago
Honda Sense lane keeping is only for > 40mph. In addition, you need to press a button if the vehicle completely stops.
971.
by ipsum2 5y ago
I don't think Elon has a day-to-day role at SpaceX unlike at Tesla, right? From what I've read, Gwynne Shotwell is the main person in charge there.
972.
by ipsum2 5y ago
> the members of the editorial board have very little connection to the business side of the newspaper And yet you will never see the editorial side write negative things about the business side of the newspaper. People bring up this dis
973.
by ipsum2 5y ago
It's a shame that Wikimedia couldn't donate money to Phabricator for it to stay alive, considering it raised ~$30mil in 2019.
974.
by ipsum2 5y ago
What do you like about nteract over Jupyter's frontend? The website is devoid of details.
975.
by ipsum2 5y ago
It seems like spraying some Skittles would be easier than spending time baking brownies, but I have no experience in this area.
976.
by ipsum2 5y ago
I didn't know THC infused foods were so easy to make. Sounds like people should just skip the middle man and spray the distillate on candy themselves, and probably(?) save on huge markup.
977.
by ipsum2 5y ago
"Just", because the blog post sounds like it was doing fundamental basic research on longevity based on brand new ideas ("I was chatting with some friends about how I thought I had an idea for how to make dogs live longer.&qu
978.
by ipsum2 5y ago
Sounds like they're just commercializing the work done by the Dog Aging Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Aging_Project .
979.
by ipsum2 5y ago
Google has great web documentation, I still have this tab open from earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27233019
980.
by ipsum2 5y ago
> but the time from release to it sparking some kind of geopolitical incident could probably be measured in hours. This sounds like a huge exaggeration. At the resolution of DALL-E, anyone can photoshop or draw something of the same qual
981.
by ipsum2 5y ago
This argument doesn't hold water. Models like DALL-E, that can create cartoons using word phrases are not open sourced. That's probably not because of "AI safety".
982.
by ipsum2 5y ago
Seems like the CEO is a one-trick pony, making everything he touches a startup incubator. How does this fulfill OpenAI's mission of bringing about AGI?
983.
by ipsum2 5y ago
The actual paper: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.100...
984.
Early Study Shows Flickering Lights/Sound Could Be a Weapon Against Alzheimer’s(news.gatech.edu)
2 points by ipsum2 5y ago|1 comments
985.
by ipsum2 5y ago
There's nothing magic about the outside that prevents COVID from spreading. If someone with COVID happens to cough in your face while you walk past them on the sidewalk, you have a good chance of getting it.
986.
by ipsum2 5y ago
> like Adafruit, but even there the margins are tight and the operations are small I'm surprised, Adafruit has a 50-100% markup on most items compared to Aliexpress/other Chinese electronics.
987.
by ipsum2 5y ago
How does this relate to the article?
988.
by ipsum2 5y ago
That's a nice throwback to scene/warez days
989.
by ipsum2 5y ago
> Amazon is internet services infra, shopping, logistics, fulfillment, consumer hardware, networking, a payments stack, publisher, grocery store, and now a fucking entertainment company. How many of these do they have a monopoly on? Keep
990.
by ipsum2 5y ago
I don't know if the maintainers of Freesound are around, but this file https://freesound.org/media/html_player/img/icon_background.... is loaded every couple miliseconds when the audio file plays, result

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