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Also striking is this graph of life expectancy at birth for the population of France in each given year, in Figure 1 of this paper [0]. You can click on the figure to see it without needing to login. [0]: http://www.nature.com&#x
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These are under the first section of the 'First 100 Days' tab.
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It forces you to assign a weight to each objective, converting from a multi-objective to a single-objective optimization problem (the weighted sum method). By varying the weights and re-running, you could identify a set a solutions on [conv
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by jamessb 10y ago
There has been previous work that was similar to what I think you mean (and predates AprilTags) [1]. The idea is to use markers that are grids, with each cell colored either red, green or blue; tag detection is then done by finding the rect
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IIRC from a conversation with an employee, the two were initially very close: I think the deal included something like CC co-locating servers in a GS datacenter as well as licensing its software, but both ended several years ago in anticipa
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You can still buy dimmer switches. Most have a rotating knob, rather than a linear slider, but here is one with a slider (which also looks much nicer than your grandmother's): http://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products&#
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Presumably you mean "Whitehall", rather than "white wall"?
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I think the fundamental source of confusion might be due to not understanding the concept of a random variable. In his example, X is a random variable; the expectation E[X] is an functional applied to its probability mass function. Given
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For example, any person with a modicum of physics background will recognize the following as a kinetic energy calculation, even if I use random letters for the variables. Someone with a physics background might assume that X is the kine
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The comparison to dreaming reminds me of a comment in Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms : "One way of viewing the two terms in the gradient (43.9) is as 'waking' and 'sleeping' rules. While the
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Also see Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning : http://www.ualberta.ca/~szepesva/RLBook.html
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This is also done by Project Seen [0,1] and sans bullshit sans [2]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9783275 [1]: http://projectseen.com/ [2]: https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans
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And see the MIT "Underactuated Robotics" book (Free online) [1] and associated MITx course [2]. [1]: http://underactuated.csail.mit.edu/underactuated.html [2]: https://www.edx.org/course/under
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I've resorted to selecting the field, pasting into Quicksilver [1] and using the "Type Text" action to get around these restrictions. [1]: https://qsapp.com/
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Cool. There was some discussion of the LIDAR data-set when it was released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10379279
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The fact that the currency dropdown offers a choice between euros and Swiss francs is also quite a strong hint.
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Weather patterns for a particular area, places to anchor and dock, safe passages through reefs. You can't always google the answer and much of it is gleaned from other sailors who used experience and their tools to figure it out. Lot
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Yes, but the functionality is still available as an Add-On: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal
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See also the art project Velopedia [1] (and its recent discusison here [2]), which consisted of images that looked like CAD renderings (but using photoshop) based on similar sketches of bicycles. [1]: http://www.gianlucagimini.it
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I don't think he has gone: both his blog [0] and the American Scientist site [1] refer to him as a senior writer in the present tense, and he had an article about deep dreaming in the Nov-Dec 2015 issue [2]. His blog is interesting, an
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There are various cheat-sheets/decision trees to suggest which machine learning method e.g. http://www.saedsayad.com/data_mining_map.htm http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/machine-l
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Australia is in the Commonwealth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwea...
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Yes: > “My coauthor (asked): ‘What image do you want to use? How do you feel about the Lena image?’ And, I said ‘Definitely not.’” Her coauthor wholeheartedly agreed. And then Needell half-joked: “We should go against the grain and use
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This seems somewhat pointless - surely anyone trying to tranfer fudns to a terrorist organisation would not use its real name. I'd also expect quite a lot of false positives if they're simply flagging all transactions containing t
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It doesn't hide anything related to git The link between /usr/bin/git and /Application/Xcode.app/Contents/.../bin/git is hidden. I don't know how you would discover this: ls indicat
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The closest thing to a documented case I've seen is a report of people gaming the Time Person of the Year poll so that the top person was moot, and the first letters of the candidates spelt out "Marblecake. Also the game.":
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Design tool like Cello produces a string of characters representing the sequence of a DNA molecule, not a physical molecule of DNA. To actually do something with this in the real world, you would need to place an order with a DNA Synthesis
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A major problem with further scale-up is the availability of parts. In an electrical circuit the signals voltages that are constrained to wires; in a a genetic circuit the signals are concentrations of proteins/compounds that are diffu
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It's currently only feasible to produce very small circuits (the paper goes up to 8 gates and 3 inputs), and Cello is currently focused on a narrow class of circuits ("asynchronous combinatorial logic without feedback"). The
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The circuits are combinatorial logical circuits implemented as transcriptional circuits: they produce a particular protein (in this case YFP - yellow flourescent protein) when they receive an appropriate combination of inputs (presence of a

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