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by joshvm 2y ago
Also related, the US mandated backup cameras for new vehicles in 2018 while Europe took until 2022. My uneducated guess from visiting the US is that very few people reverse-park and huge cars/SUVs have poor visibility, so the risk of b
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by joshvm 2y ago
Their long term plan is to make money via foundry/fab orders, so it makes sense to see this. But otherwise their share price is currently rock bottom because they're pouring money into infrastructure development (plus late EUV ado
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by joshvm 2y ago
Most of the common translation options should work offline (ie Fusion is capable), but Fusion sometimes gets stuck in a weird state where it insists it needs connectivity. Perhaps it's a quota thing but I've never found it to be c
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by joshvm 2y ago
Fusion as a CAD engine is great. I've not used the CAM side, and while I used to use Eagle a lot I've tried to invest more energy into Kicad. The online limitations are frustrating though. Randomly and inconsistently not being abl
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by joshvm 2y ago
See my other post - we had exactly this for NeurIPS. It is definitely worth seeing what GPT says about your paper if only because it's a free review. The criticisms it gave us weren't wrong per se, they were just weakly backed up
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by joshvm 2y ago
We had what we strongly suspect is an LLM-written review for NeurIPS. It was kind of subtle if you weren't looking carefully and I can see that an AC might miss it. The suggestions for improvement weren't _wrong_, but the GPT resp
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by joshvm 2y ago
92% suggests a harder benchmark is needed, so it's difficult judge. Especially when a lot of "high scoring" models produce cogent results with a high level of hallucination (eg Llama 3 is chatty, confident and quite often wro
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by joshvm 2y ago
This is partly why I enjoyed working at, and respected, my old company so much. Having owners who had been burned by terrible managers in the past, and who had families to support made a big difference in terms of the risks that we would an
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by joshvm 2y ago
The comments here are very focused on LLMs, which makes sense - that's where the hype is. If you really don't mind ignoring the nuts and bolts, you can treat all the large language models as black boxes that are getting incrementa
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by joshvm 2y ago
Well there is an unfinished section on the "contests" page that suggests this info might be added: https://davekiss.com/contests But generally I agree. I won an Instructables contest once, because the odds were ve
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by joshvm 2y ago
I've mentioned this in the past but I mind sponsorship a lot less when it's highly relevant for the channel. For example a lot of engineering channels are sponsored by JLPCB who provided machining services or PCBs for the project
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by joshvm 2y ago
In some sense yes, you learn a lot about energy management and you are acutely aware that you have no engine. On the other hand you always have no engine, so you learn to fly and manage your situation accordingly. At the more expensive en
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by joshvm 2y ago
I would only add that if people have an interest in aviation then gliding is a fun gateway, and relatively inexpensive. As a student it felt like a lot of money (an aerotow might cost 40-50 pounds), but a year subscription to my old airfiel
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by joshvm 2y ago
I don't know about I2C specifically, but a related device is a serdes (serial-deseria) which converts between a parallel interface and one or more differential pairs. https://www.latticesemi.com/what-is-serdes Someone
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by joshvm 2y ago
It's an American station built by American contractors for Americans. I say this with great fondness as a non-American working there. I spent a week trying to find a specific size of metric screw, the pain is real. Let's first be
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by joshvm 2y ago
Allegedly (and probably) yes, but it's really hard to tell. In the past, people have dropped magnets down there to pick up things that were dropped - occasionally tools, for example. The magnets come back with filings of metal stuck to
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by joshvm 2y ago
I guess something fairly simple - a hole in the ground. Or it gets bagged and put into waste drums (or deposited directly) - this is still what we do at outbuildings where there's no sewage or water infra. The answer is probably on Bil
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by joshvm 2y ago
A lot of Apple's AI tech is not public. It's things like computational photography/image enhancement, image organization, speech recognition - the sort of backend services that you need for modern flagship phones. You do bump
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by joshvm 2y ago
"Work package" is a pretty universal term in non-software project management, though a single WP could contain multiple todo items. I'm not sure whether it was coined by one of the frameworks like PRINCE2, but a lot of large&
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by joshvm 2y ago
I'm wintering for the South Pole Telescope. https://pole.uchicago.edu/
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by joshvm 2y ago
Yes, you can use the NOAA forecast site which will show the "oval" and has 24 hour/30min predictions. Or Space Weather Live has some location forecasts. Generally if you don't live at a high latitude you need a very str
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by joshvm 2y ago
Here are some additional photos from the current storm - https://www.instagram.com/p/C60Y-gIu4Ob/?igsh=N3AwaGZzODN3eD... Sadly we have pretty high winds at the moment and visibility is poor due to all the blowing
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by joshvm 2y ago
Currently pretty good at the South Pole. The pink skies are wild. Green auroras are fairlty common over the winter, but it's unusual for it to be this red. If you're interested in a real time video, here's one I captured a fe
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by joshvm 2y ago
The most impressive part to me (having wintered for IceCube) is how well organised the stack is, and how reliable the in-ice hardware is. The systems folks have had a decade to iron out most of the bugs and there are fairly tightly scoped t
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by joshvm 2y ago
Absolutely yes, though the original naming committee (Francis?) probably didn't think of it - it's literally a cube of instrumented ice. Not so much the other way around I suspect. A while back some IceCube folks paid for a shout-
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by joshvm 3y ago
wandb (ML data tracking) generates random run names using a similar strategy. Also something we implemented at a past company for our networked spectrometers. They'd get "element_adjective" as a hostname. Another time, we cal
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by joshvm 3y ago
This is probably true for simple objects, but there is almost certainly a market for hiring people who use SAM-based tools (or similar) to label with some level of QA. I've tried a few implementations and they struggle with complex obj
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by joshvm 3y ago
On Linux you can use nvidia-smi to set a power target directly in Watts, works well.
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by joshvm 3y ago
These are very US-centric, though I've not been to other countries' stations so there's probably some crossover. In two winters I've never heard anyone use fry/fried - toast/toasty is used at Pole. I imagine it
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by joshvm 3y ago
Localsend works really well so far, no issues with device discovery. I use it within our (heavily firewalled) intranet for offline file transfers between machines; particularly where you can't just scp something.

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