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by jackbrookes 4y ago
> Meetings in VR are a gimmick I expect you're wrong - spatial audio, body language, face tracking, eye contact are all super valuable and possibly in VR
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by jackbrookes 4y ago
Generally agree, but in my experience there are plenty of times when there are minor changes have been implemented in <1day e.g. changed the behaviour of a button or interaction. The standups let the team know that the change has gone th
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by jackbrookes 4y ago
If this was the case, we could just build the cookie consent mechanism into browsers
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by jackbrookes 4y ago
> Assuming I have 100k text blurbs I want to classify of sentiment and/or emotion and want at least 95% accuracy, what are the options? The way I think Google does it with reCAPTCHA is to request classification for each item multipl
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by jackbrookes 4y ago
You can do this on the Oculus PC app with Oculus Dash
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by jackbrookes 5y ago
The lenses focus the screen image about ~20m away from you, and so your eyes are far more relaxed than when focusing on a monitor 1m away.
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by jackbrookes 5y ago
It's not about offending someone, it's about allowing people from marginalised groups feel comfortable.
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by jackbrookes 5y ago
It's useful for APIs that return dictionaries that have a reliable structure
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by jackbrookes 5y ago
Its very useful for certain types of tasks that are inherently repetitive. It will construct debug strings very easily, for example e.g. type `pr` in a function with x & t and it may predict... The `print(f"The value of 'x&#x2
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by jackbrookes 5y ago
To address (1), I think shopping in what may end up being the "metaverse" will look somewhere in-between a current 2D lists with pictures and current aisle based stores. They don't need to be exact replicas of current stores,
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by jackbrookes 5y ago
>The most annoying things are still Google and YouTube ToS accept dialogs I get all the time because I'm effectively using an incognito browser, and I'd get those on any phone. You may be able to add a list to uBlock which bloc
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by jackbrookes 5y ago
Sometimes you don't quite know how to implement something, without thinking about it for a while. All of us would a lot of the time search StackOverflow for the solution to a simple problem, e.g. "recursively list all the files in
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by jackbrookes 5y ago
This is surely a problem with AdBlock Plus not Edge? AdBlock Plus has been well known to let some ads through: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads
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by jackbrookes 5y ago
Mortality rate would be undefined (0/0) ;)
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by jackbrookes 5y ago
The percentage efficacy can be misleading, it is not a like-for-like comparison. https://www.vox.com/22311625/covid-19-vaccine-efficacy-johns...
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Writing sustainable software for real-time human behaviour experiments(jbrookes.com)
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by jackbrookes 6y ago
Same as a typical western diet then?
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by jackbrookes 6y ago
You can buy dummy headless display dongles very cheaply, e.g.: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Headless-Display-Emulator-Headless-...
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by jackbrookes 6y ago
Magic Leap's controller uses this technology, and as far as I am aware most people said it has inferior tracking to Oculus/HTC/Valve's approaches. https://developer.magicleap.com/en-us/learn/gui
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by jackbrookes 6y ago
No, you can run native ARM apps sourced from outside the windows store.
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by jackbrookes 6y ago
You do, by uninstalling Windows.
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by jackbrookes 6y ago
Looks great - I'd also be interested in a chat app that lets users move their camera in a 2D space, even across "rooms", so you can form small social groups. I know you can do these things in 3D in things like Mozilla Hubs bu
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by jackbrookes 6y ago
As well as SLAM and tracking the controllers.
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by jackbrookes 6y ago
The inverted scrolling direction is now standard on Windows precision touchpads I believe, as well as Macs (i.e. two fingers upwards scrolls the page downwards).
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by jackbrookes 6y ago
Have you read about Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle? Seems related: Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle HN Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17529408
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by jackbrookes 7y ago
VR systems project the image to near infinity to allow your eyes to relax.
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by jackbrookes 7y ago
In R a dataframe is just a named list of vectors, where each vector has equal length.
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by jackbrookes 7y ago
I believe Unity does this if the scene is split into several separate UI canvases: https://unity3d.com/how-to/unity-ui-optimization-tips
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by jackbrookes 7y ago
Every video game ever made has this problem suffers from a lack of haptic feedback and gaming is still one of the biggest activities in the world.
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by jackbrookes 7y ago
What is the state of the art in Python data visualisation compared to ggplot2 in R? Over the last few years I have gone exclusively with ggplot2 because it seems so intuitive and customisable.

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