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> and includes two new chapters Specifically, Chapters 12 and 13, on "Wireless LAN Security: 802.11 and Wi-Fi" and "Bitcoin, Blockchains and Ethereum".
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Organic Maps is a fork of MAPS.ME, after MAPS.ME jumped the shark and pivoted to something involving cryptocurency. I think that "curated" refers to maintenance/development of the open-source project. By "curated ... by
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This slide ( https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16626/Cerebras%20WSE2%20La... ) lists announced Deployments at: Argonne National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center Edinb
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Probably not: https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/subsection2_38_3_4.htm...
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> We did our research and contacted Associate professors and Principal investigators on LI Academics typically don't use LinkedIn much (I assume this is what you mean by LI); if you want to reach them through social media then Twitt
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The answers to "What is the ‘strictly necessary’ exemption?" and "What activities are likely to meet the ‘strictly necessary’ exemption?" in this guidance FAQ gives some clarification from the UK Information Commissi
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As a native speaker of British English I did not find the title confusing: I think the confusion is that the typical meaning of "warn to" and "warn about" are different. "warning someone to avoid something" s
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The webpage for the course [1] includes not just these lecture notes, but also 4 problem sets and links to videos of the lectures on YouTube. [1]: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/nanda/cat/
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Yes - pandoc supports latex math if the `tex_math_dollars` extension is enabled: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#math
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~~D'oh - yes, that formula is true only if the triangle is right-angled, which is true for only a single base length.~~ Edit: Actually, this is always true: we are considering a right-angled triangle where the base is the horizontal di
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Yes, this is an oversimplification: the original statement seemed to be based on getting a fact about trigonometry backwards, and I was just trying to resolve the underlying confusion.
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But the correct statement is "no more than" not "at least". Consider a right-angled triangle with base length d and height 550, corresponding to transmission from a base-station to a satellite. The hypotenuse has length
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This interview with the AstraZenaca CEO discusses scale-up and supply: https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/01/26/news/interview_... It suggests the problem is with technology transfer to partners
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I haven't used it, but SuperFriendly share their Service Agreement template: http://agreement.superfriend.ly/
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I think the "20th century" solution to letting many users in different locations run regexes would probably have been to write a cgi-bin script in Perl, and have users paste text into a box on an HTML form. The results page genera
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For timelines, the book "Cartographies of Time" [0] has lots of historical examples. There is also a recent presentation of the design space of timelines in "Timelines Revisited: A Design Space and Considerations for Expressi
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Robin Hanson had a 2013 blog post titled "Hail Scott Siskind" - the surname was redacted from both the post title and the URL slug sometime between 8 Jan [1] and 24 June 2020 [2] (Slate Star Codex was deleted on 22 June 2020 [3]).
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Andrew McNutt's Forum Explorer also visualizes forum discussions and supports HN [1] (it was discussed on HN last year [2]). [1]: https://www.mcnutt.in/forum-explorer/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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Ben Recht [0] has worked on control theory and reinforcement learning. See his blog post "What we've Learned to control" [1] and the survey paper "A Tour of Reinforcement Learning: The View from Continuous Control"
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Maneesh Agrawala [1] and his group has done lots of similar work with the same basic idea of editing audio or narrated video as if it's text: * Content-Based Tools for Editing Audio Stories [2] (the software is released as an open-sour
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You might find Cycle Plots [1, 2] useful. [1]: https://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/topics/cycle-plot-climate-dat... [2]: https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/guests/intro_to_cycl...
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I think DavMail might meet your needs: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
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> my pipe dream of a personal CRM or PSA That sounds like Monica HQ: https://www.monicahq.com/
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It look like Chris Doran's company was acquired by Arm, and that he is back in academia as a fellow at Sidney Sussex College: https://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-chris-doran
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That seems almost certainly true, as at least four of the contributors seem to work there (Amarildo Zeneli, Thomas McClintock, Thomas Dimitri, Jack Papas). I wonder why they don't just release it as a Susquehanna (rather than "RTO
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Note that the JetBrains "Individual Use" licenses are less than half the price of the "Organization Use" licenses: you're still allowed to use an individual license whilst working for a company, as long as you only
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And Movement: https://www.movement.fm/spaces And MakeSpace: https://makespace.fun/ And GroupRoom: https://grouproom.io/
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> Jet is effectively a divergent colormap I wouldn't describe a rainbow colormap as divergent. A divergent colormap transitions from one color to another, with neutral color in the middle (e.g., from blue to red, passing through whi
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> Looks like this library generates static graphs. It can create interactive charts [0]. > Is there any specific reason to use this, as opposed to say, Apache Echarts I've never used it, so my initial impressions may be mistaken
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The novelty is not the scroll-to-zoom interaction - it's the creation of a declarative grammar for several visualization types (see Figure 2 for examples), and a system that implements this in a way that is scalable to datasets contain

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