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by joshvm 7y ago
Yes, this is how I did this when I had easy access to GCP credit. Have a GPU VM with one of the ready to go images that launched jupyter on boot (or in a tmux session). Then just port forward 8888 over ssh. Worked very well and I found it f
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by joshvm 7y ago
Absolutely, the key phrase is "current usage and reserves". There will almost certainly be ways developed to stretch or augment or displace uranium as a nuclear fuel. Thorium salt reactors look promising. But unfortunately there h
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A common argument used to be that at least the amount of uranium is finite, so we can simply plan where to put it. Another interesting aspect is that we only have a few centuries of nuclear power left at current reserve and consumption rate
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by joshvm 7y ago
Safety is not necessarily the concern, though clearly important. It's also the huge task of decommissioning afterwards. Even "safe" nuclear power stations require the disposal of all sorts of irradiated mundane things like PP
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by joshvm 7y ago
> When price comparison search engines were all the rage, Google realised that if the "purchase" button led off-site, that was a marker that an intermediary was pushing the price up through affiliate schemes, so started to push
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by joshvm 7y ago
This is somewhat the point of openreview, except the reviewers are still anonymous. https://openreview.net/
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A slightly different take, Google Soli (in-phone radar), is in the Pixel 4. https://atap.google.com/soli/
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It's worth mentioning that often parts aren't manufactured to be high precision variants. That would be extremely expensive. What happens instead is the parts get measured and "binned" by how close to spec they are. In a
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by joshvm 7y ago
This is built on ROS by the looks of it. Most robotics users run everything in simulations anyway (have a look at UR arms). At a basic level look at Turtlebot. You can add all sorts of sensors, simulate environments and even realistic physi
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by joshvm 7y ago
USA 245 is an Earth observation satellite, its apogee is only about 1000 km. 42,000km would be for a geostationary satellite. But yes, 300km is pretty close in space. Since you have no issue with atmospheric distortion, the optics become a
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by joshvm 7y ago
You want to test this stuff as realistically as possible. Changing the amount of fuel means changing launch weight which means (presumably) changes in throttle profile etc. The control systems are also probably designed with a certain weigh
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by joshvm 7y ago
There are plenty of fire-and-forget weapons that will attack a designated target autonomously. Some may even be totally automated, like CIWS, if you put them in some paranoid mode. A landmine is indiscriminate, by that logic anything with
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by joshvm 7y ago
This software (Trifacta Wrangler) was demoed at NeurIPS this year and looked very impressive. https://www.trifacta.com/products/wrangler-editions There is also the non-maintaned version that the company spun out from:
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by joshvm 7y ago
You can set up alerts if you exceed a budget, and you can program a response to turn off billing on a project. Google has a guide for doing exactly what you want. It's not a particularly clean fix, but it is fairly easy (copy paste) an
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by joshvm 7y ago
This is usually due to dust/gunk in the port or cable. My Pixel slowly lost its grip until I scraped the crud out. I used the plastic toothpick from my penknife, it's an ideal size (and non conductive).
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by joshvm 7y ago
Yes, at work we've got a variety of standalone FLIR cameras (Taus, Bosons, Duos, the One and Leptons) - pretty much the entire camera core range. I work in ecology and occasionally for outreach or when working with non tech people, the
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by joshvm 7y ago
I'm mostly interested in the CAT as my job (research) involves a lot thermal imaging, so there's a nerd factor (the lepton on its own is about £3-400 with a capture setup). I know there's also the FLIR One, but eh, for field
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by joshvm 7y ago
That looks good! It's an interesting way around the problem, just put an Alexa/G Assistant terminal in and you can interact via voice and avoid the phone all together. But that thing runs YouTube too?? Dual SIM is nice. If it coul
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by joshvm 7y ago
Are there any good websites with turn by turn directions that are accessible on dumb phones? I had a Nokia candy bar phone with 4G(!) which was reasonable if you wanted to win an argument using Wikipedia, but Maps was unusable because the a
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by joshvm 7y ago
At this stage the sibling comment to use GCP is pretty solid recommendation. You can use Google for labelling (Mechancial Turk style), and AutoML Vision to train your model. It's going to be a bit pricey, but cheaper than your time to
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Also FYI I get an invalid security cert loading the homepage.
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If I understand correctly this patent is only active in the USA. Anki is based on SuperMemo-2 and they freely admit it. SuperMemo (based in Poland) has pretty liberal licensing: https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/li
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by joshvm 7y ago
It gets a bit messy. In order to capture an image, most image sensors are triggered. Some sensors will operate in "free-run" mode, but in reality something is sending a capture signal to the camera. In sensors where you have very
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by joshvm 7y ago
Bear in mind Elements of Statistical Learning is a grad-level text. I would never recommend that to a beginner to the field over an Introduction to Statistical Inference, by the same authors. Geron Aurelien's Oreilly book is great - H
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by joshvm 7y ago
I had a workshop spotlight. Those sessions were generally a lot calmer. A big problem was cramming hundreds of posters in one large space, with a relatively poor search experience (posters were kind of arbitrarily organised with some catego
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by joshvm 7y ago
I believe the idea is partially to understand how to train models to recover from skids. ABS gives you an assist, but it may be that the car can drift itself out of danger? > “We’re trying to develop automated vehicles that can handle e
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by joshvm 7y ago
But you would run expensive machine learning jobs on them, and these (GPU instances) tend to offer more significant absolute savings when they're pre-emptible.
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by joshvm 7y ago
Shotwell's comment is extremely patronising under the circumstances. This doesn't affect kids looking through telescopes at all. If it's bright enough to see through an amateur telescope, it's bright enough to ruin a pre
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It's a Friends reference: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DrwVB4vMx-Q
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It's worth mentioning that this exists in Beijing down to the subway station level. Every station (at least the ones I passed through) had a security booth with an xray machine. It felt distinctly dystopian, but it was a fairly quick a

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