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by joshvm 4y ago
A common use is the Hamming distance, which is the number of different bits between two streams. It comes up in things like the census transform, which is used for image matching. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Cen
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by joshvm 4y ago
I also got a 13 Mini. It's a nice phone, but it feels very dense, especially with the magsafe case. I'm not sold on the experience coming from Android, but it seems like it's a case of learning workarounds. In hindsight, I re
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by joshvm 4y ago
In the short term, I think a mobile phone with an offline copy would probably be fine. You can buy something with a large amount of storage (you need 100 gig or so for offline wiki with images), is fully waterproof, more portable and can be
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by joshvm 4y ago
Have a look at the work by Christian Buil [0]. He's been building incredible DIY astronomy widgets for years. Off the shelf you're looking at around $8k for a spectrometer from Ocean Optics. Just point the fibre at sun on a white
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by joshvm 4y ago
It's easier to rotate the grating. That's how we did this in labs in undergraduate (we did a session on imaging the sun with a high res spectrometer). Or put it on a stepper or servo motor and sweep it in several positions. We use
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by joshvm 4y ago
> US citizens are still required to pay income tax to the US even when working and living abroad Strictly, this is true. You still have to file a tax return as an expat and you have to declare your income (which is why in lots of other
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by joshvm 4y ago
A UK private dentist gave me both bitewings and the pano for my Antarctic medical. On the other hand I wasn't allowed my gall bladder ultrasound from a private hospital or my chest xray from the city hospital (but they gave me my ECG a
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by joshvm 4y ago
Historically, communities have lived on very simple staple diets, like the Three Sisters in the US. You can survive almost entirely on just maize, beans and squash. The Iroquois supplemented with foraged nuts and fruit, plus hunted/far
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by joshvm 4y ago
It's called the Program and Debug interface and uses two wires (PDI/O). That's for xMega though. There's also debugWire (one wire). But many chips also support JTAG as well (for both programming and debugging as opposed
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by joshvm 4y ago
The historic solution is in a safety deposit box at a bank. If you're talking about things like crypto cold wallets which might be extremely valuable, why risk leaving it at home? The cost for small items like documents tends to be rea
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by joshvm 4y ago
Most companies offer manual processes to get round failed 2FA - for example, provide copies of ID, a video chat to confirm, security questions about account details (eg last trips you took), etc. I've had to do this for a couple of ser
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by joshvm 4y ago
Not sure if your comment is meant as a disagreement or a question. Generally the way hyperparameters are adjusted is some mix of intuition/experience and random/grid searching. Plus most people don't have the resources/i
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by joshvm 4y ago
You can visit for 90 days but what you're allowed to do is restricted to tourism and "temporary business". The US substantial presence test is actually something like 31 days in the current year, and ~180 calculated as a weig
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by joshvm 4y ago
The time it takes to round-trip postcards to Pole really depends on when you send it. If you send a postcard after mid January or so, it likely won't arrive on station until after winter, in October/November. The station opening f
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by joshvm 4y ago
Sure, there are many sides to ML. One is the data science bit, curating data, picking a good model. Adjacent to this is research into new models or training methods. The other side is deploying it efficiently, and that becomes a more routin
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by joshvm 4y ago
Note that this is specifically for write/modify operations. You can perform multiple SELECTs in parallel, so depending on the workload this may be acceptable. As the devs say: "Experience suggests that most applications need much
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by joshvm 4y ago
Yeah it doesn't seem to be comprehensive. There are certainly USB-C chargers in the database, but maybe only the ones that are also sold with lightning cables?
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> I'm going to guess that apple's products warn about the danger in using non-apple products - risks of damage and all that. Not that anyone checks this (and the UX isn't great because you can't see category listings
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by joshvm 4y ago
I used an X1 for a year, though with Windows. I'm not sure I'd recommend it at the price Lenovo want, but it has some nice points. Price is really the main downside for me. It's in the same ballpark as a Macbook Pro (the mode
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by joshvm 4y ago
I worked at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station for a year, looking after IceCube (big neutrino observatory). It's a US base, but science staff tend to be more multi-national as universities have much more freedom on who they can hire. O
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by joshvm 4y ago
Kiwi Marmite is a bit more sugary than UK Marmite from what I remember. It's not bad, but it doesn't quite scratch the itch. We had all three variants in Antarctica, having deployed via New Zealand and with a couple of Brits and a
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by joshvm 5y ago
Yep, at A level (2007 ish) we had a college trip to visit CERN while it was being built. It was cool to see ATLAS before they joined up the beam lines. My college physics department was otherwise very underwhelming and I'm amazed they
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by joshvm 5y ago
Yes. At NeurIPS (big AI conference) the vast majority of papers are presented as posters. Getting a paper accepted into the conference proceedings is considered a good achievement, the presentation format doesn't matter so much. Many
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by joshvm 5y ago
John le Carré famously disliked Bond and called him an "international gangster" and invented George Smiley to better represent of real-world espionage (bear in mind that both authors worked for British intelligence, though le Carr
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by joshvm 5y ago
You can also do this journey by Nightjet now, takes a bit longer (14 hours) but you can sleep through most of the time. There are also a few options for single change journeys (eg via Zürich) but they might not be the fastest. https:/
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by joshvm 5y ago
Plenty of gene names are partial/full backronyms that don't really bear any relation to their function. For example the R in MARCH stands for "RING Finger", RING means "Really Interesting New Gene" [0]; finger
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by joshvm 5y ago
Currently about 16.5k tax free. If you live in London you get slightly more, and if you're an STFC-CASE student you get more again (total of around 20k in London). It equates to somewhere between 19-22k if you were paying income tax. F
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by joshvm 5y ago
It used to be, but a lot of data got pay/subscription walled I think. I would recommend GPS Test, it's open source, no ads and does just as much. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.
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by joshvm 5y ago
I'm skeptical that a PCB is less strong than a breadboard. Have you tested this? If you use an SMT button you can always add a reinforcing layer of plastic under the PCB. If anything, surely it would be more comfortable to sit on a low
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During my physics degree we had relatively fine-grain evaluation - every module was examined and graded (e.g. /100) individually and the sum formed the basis of your degree. Some modules were compulsory, some you had one shot to pass (

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