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by joshvm 6y ago
It's also dependent on how long you spend in the UK (not just out) and other things. If you spend half the year abroad, but then come back for 90 days (in a home you own or rent), you're resident again. HMRC have a flowchart you
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by joshvm 6y ago
Fact retrieval performance varies a lot and is a good test of an assistant. Alexa is very good, because it can't rely on a screen (and it seems a lot of people work on making it good at knowledge type stuff). Google is also decent most
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by joshvm 6y ago
It sounds cynical, but I've found that porting Python code to C++ and using Qt is much less headache than trying to make a clean Python "app" that can be run by non-technical users. However a simple solution is to distribute
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by joshvm 6y ago
This is still quite popular in science fiction and fantasy literature. There are several periodical magazines like Asimov's Science Fiction which still regularly publish new people (regular as in 6 issues a year, but you could subscrib
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by joshvm 6y ago
Believe it or not, Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
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by joshvm 6y ago
Oops, yes, I meant steady-state! :)
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by joshvm 6y ago
There was very much a prediction of the Big Bang, before it was strongly supported by experimental evidence. This is what Penzias and Wilson got the Nobel prize for. Their accidental detection of the Cosmic Microwave Background matched a pr
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by joshvm 6y ago
In the UK there have been fairly successful movements to stop councils trimming verges, since it promotes wildflowers and insects. This was pre-covid, but probably it's helped. You should check out Wilding by the serendipitously name
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by joshvm 6y ago
If anyone is interested in the paper I mentioned, you can read it here (open access): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632071... I've worked with Richard and the folks at STE on a di
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by joshvm 6y ago
I think this is the story, it's good fun: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ The evolved circuit used fewer gates, but only worked on the device under test and when they removed gates that
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by joshvm 6y ago
This is basically what I've spent the last two years working on - my postdoc has been building an open-source drone payload that does real-time animal detection in visible/thermal images. Drones aren't practical for total cou
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by joshvm 6y ago
Ecology is incredibly difficult because everything is horrendously under-sampled. Essentially all ecology reduces to counting species over time and somehow extrapolating to huge areas. So-called total count surveys are extremely expensive.
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by joshvm 6y ago
Yeah LPKF's stuff is very high end. I'm 99% sure the only reason we have any of their machines is that someone had a massive budget to blow with a tight deadline. Or they had no idea what they were buying and got sweet talked by a
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by joshvm 6y ago
This does somewhat exist for commercial 3D printed PCBs (not ICs) : https://www.lpkf.com/en/industries-technologies/electronics-... LPKF sell a funky machine which will deposit 3D traces onto a printed part. We ha
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by joshvm 6y ago
This is likely done using OCR: > OCR is executed on the ROI for each camera frame in order to extract additional information, such as packet size, product flavor variant, etc. You could probably also do some very simple statistics like a
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by joshvm 6y ago
There's no reason you can't run these pots without water (in theory). I don't think you'd damage the heating elements themselves. This is an issue for heating wire like NiChrome where if you put a high current through
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by joshvm 6y ago
Similarly glass-break detectors for home security systems have done this for years. The advantage of an ML model is that you can do multi-class prediction for a sound clip with somewhat arbitrary complexity and the cost of execution is more
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by joshvm 6y ago
For surveying-type requests you should probably be using a Google Form which links to a Sheet (with limited access control). You shouldn't be giving everyone simultaneous edit access to the document.
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by joshvm 6y ago
Also it's fun when you have to speak to customer support and you're not sure if you made up the answer or not. It's extra fun when the security question is something embarrassingly obvious like "what town did you grow up
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by joshvm 6y ago
There are already insurers which offer incentives to employees who exercise as tracked by their smartwatch. Vitality UK does this [1]. On the face of it, this doesn't seem terrible . It encourages people to stay active. So far it seem
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by joshvm 6y ago
You can build your own LAN system. You just need to plug a camera with a wide lens into a Pi, optionally with a PIR motion sensor. Possibly with some IR illumination for night vision.Have some code which motion triggers the camera (either i
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by joshvm 6y ago
Hoo wow that's some sticker shock. I recently bought some cheap boards for some students I'm working with and they're absolute rubbish - about £2 each for a half size board. They're from Elegoo who make a lot of knock of
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by joshvm 6y ago
The top end Sony headphones actually ask for a photo of your ears to do exactly this. It's only for use with the fancy spatially aware apps - pretty much only Deezer does this at the moment? I signed up for a free trial (and I did send
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by joshvm 6y ago
You can look at our equivalent, the UK Government Digital Service which hires a lot of tech people. You could probably learn the relevant stuff on the job. Cybersec I have zero qualifications in, but it seems also like a lot of practical jo
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by joshvm 6y ago
You can do reasonable software sync with identical cameras and threading - it gets you to within a few milliseconds. Even for slow objects it's a problem because being a few pixels off might make the difference between matching and not
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by joshvm 6y ago
Most job requirements specify a suitable undergrad degree or equivalent work experience. At some point what degree you have doesn't make any difference any more. It's what experience you have, be it through research or on-the-jo
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by joshvm 6y ago
If you have an issue, the onus is on the institution to fix the problem. It doesn't matter if you're part of a lab or not, your advisor has a boss, and your university should have a support network. If it doesn't, then strong
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by joshvm 6y ago
We used to play 2-player liero over the school LAN. It was great because it'd fit a 3.5" floppy disk and was totally portable. It's real time worms, and apparently inspired Noita. Though reading up apparently it didn't h
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by joshvm 6y ago
Last time I spoke to Omnivision they wouldn't even consider a purchase order (from an R&D company) unless we were buying 2k units. So don't bother unless you're building consumer electronics. Other companies like e2v do h
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by joshvm 6y ago
This depends quite a lot on the domain. In some image processing tasks you can actually be cpu-bound during dataloading. So either you get tons of RAM and preload the dataset, or you use more cores to queue up batches. You still need a good

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