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It depends. Cattle grazing allows for use of land that would be otherwise unsuitable for agriculture. On the other hand, for land that would be suitable for agriculture, you're right that you'll get more output calories per area w
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Realistically, if you're getting LC style questions, the interviewer is probably not choosing the interview format and is just reporting their feedback in the applicant tracking system.
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We've seen this during the COVID pandemic supply chain disruptions as well, where just in time supply chain management doesn't work as expected when operating in an abnormal environment.
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You could have things overlaid on top of real life content in order to provide you assistance, hands free. For example, think about GPS turn by turn navigation while walking or having a recipe displayed while cooking it.
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What's a cape product? A Google search doesn't return anything that would appear to make sense here.
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That exists already, see for example https://coolnsave.com/products/the-original-patented-cool-n-...
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Since I had to look it up, Yuzu is a Nintendo switch emulator.
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One detail that's missing from the English article is why he got arrested. The French article mentions: Why was he under threat of a search warrant? The Justice considers that the absence of moderation, cooperation with law enforcement
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Hyperspectral imaging is about collecting images in more than three bands of color (red, green, blue) as perceived by humans. Lots of things look very different in the IR and UV spectra, especially flowers and insects.
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I'm not involved with the project but I'd assume it's helpful as a reference implementation. If there's a bug on a non-nvidia GPU, the same test case can be run on Nvidia GPUs to see if the bug is in common code or speci
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> don't want to stop at a crowded charging station for an hour 1-2 times on the drive. DC fast charging is closer to ten to fifteen minutes. It's a bit longer than gas but not ridiculously long.
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Didn't have to worry about running out of toilet paper during the pandemic shortages. It also does a better job of cleaning than toilet paper alone.
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That level of agency exists today. Any software developer can tell their manager that no, they're not doing X. The risk is that they get written up for insubordination or have to look for new employment. What the author of the article
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> So either Americans just don't care much about cozy shops any more, or American commercial real estate rent is too expensive, or some combination of the two are making it unprofitable to have a cozy coffee shop in American cities
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In this context, what does MFA stand for? Master of fine arts maybe?
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> Alberta doesn't lack for hills, which is what's needed to build pumped storage which is what's cheapest for seasonal storage. From what I understand, BC has a lot of hydro dams. I wonder if there is a way to use them for
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I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned, but they were also used for text entry in some text editing applications. For example, one could type ë by entering ¨ then following with e. The ¨ would be displayed at the position where the com
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The Montreal metro also had a pleasant three tone chime on the older MR-73 trains.
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There are blind people, who cannot know if a car is present if it's completely silent.
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What do you mean by a hotel that feels like an Airbnb? If you want to stay at a place that has a kitchen, and multiple bedrooms, there are suite hotels (eg. Homewood suites) and extended stay hotels. If you want someone to host you, then a
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Because the dollars are easy to measure, but the employee happiness and other fuzzier metrics aren't. Just like we've known for a while that getting software developers their own offices increases productivity (but costs money
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Zume was ridiculously over engineered though. They had a large commercial delta robot in a safety cell to spread tomato sauce ( https://youtu.be/TkhWonFm-Lw?si=18ihEFyY04IWRdEL ). Contrast this with the very simple robot Cost
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Restaurants are a very thin margin business, and prices at restaurants are pretty high already.
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There's the Ford Maverick that starts at $24k and is relatively small.
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Realistically, it's a difference of about 15 miles of effective range between the vehicles.
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Realistically, the dealership is likely to drive the car for a few minutes, if only to put it in the right place on the dealership lot, fill it with gas, and get it washed before delivering it to the customer. If there was an issue with the
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Depends on the use case. A car that requires five minutes of driving to calibrate its cameras once after exiting the factory would be completely acceptable. A drone that has a pre flight calibration when one first takes it out of the box wo
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The problem is that within an interview context, many times one is expected to just come up with a perfect solution within a short timeframe. It's possible to solve these on the fly, but you're at a disadvantage compared to people
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Oh I see what you mean. Typically, inference in a machine learning context means feeding a model some input and looking at its output. I'm pretty sure that they are running some model on the vehicle that takes pixels as input and says
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Gemini is kinda random about it. > No, there are no sovereign countries in Africa that currently start with the letter "K". I have access to a vast amount of information and can confirm this based on reliable sources. > Yes,
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