jrussino

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   by jrussino 5y ago

   I have young children and my wife frequently has her phone out to take photos & videos of them - trips to the zoo, ballet practice, "oh do that cute thing you just did again". What I'd really want is to go back to a world
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   by jrussino 5y ago

   I think the kernel of the problem is this: you make money by selling a solution to a problem that someone has. You can do this by looking at the existing set of problems and coming up with a solution (product, service). This is good. BUT yo
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   by jrussino 6y ago

   Are movies art? It seems to me that these two things are pretty analogous. Movies make use of many arts: music, visuals, storytelling, etc... Some movies are junk that people consume passively in the background or to have a laugh and/o
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   by jrussino 6y ago

   Is there a solid open-source Rpi-based home security camera solution yet? I'd like to set up something of comparable quality to say a Ring doorbell camera or a Nest/Blink security cam or a baby monitor but that I can fully control
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   by jrussino 6y ago

   Which bike? I also have two little kids and would do this in a heartbeat if I felt that they could be reasonably safe.
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   by jrussino 6y ago

   I was considering buying a bunch of hue bulbs but this feature is making me hesitant: The hue bulbs can “remember” their last setting, but if you power cycle them twice in a row (without waiting ~15 seconds in between) then they reset to th
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   by jrussino 6y ago

   This is probably one of the best resources for watching live: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/watch-online... https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/
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   by jrussino 6y ago

   See my response to your sibling comment; clearly we still have a lot to learn, but there is already some understanding of the biological mechanisms of synaptic plasticity (which I think is what the parent comment is referring to as "
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   by jrussino 6y ago

   It has been over a decade since I studied neurobiology, but from what I recall we do have at least some understanding of how synapses become "weighted". For example: long-term-potentiation, the idea that "neurons that fire to
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    Whenever the topic of of redistricting/gerrymandering or voting comes up, I always like to recommend CGP Gray's series of videos on the subject: https://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom I think the &
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    Reminds me of this one (the final gear is embedded in concrete): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    It’s also one of the things that was satirized in the SNL “Californians” skits: https://youtu.be/Tt-tG6ufH90
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    > I mean understanding the 3d scene in detail For “classical” (non-ML) computer vision/photogrammetry, you may be interested in this text by Hartley & Zisserman: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mul
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    FYI: On the holdings plots I see "invalid date" on all of the x-axis labels https://cathiesark.com/arkk-holdings-of-tsla
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    I wonder how much of the difference is attributable to sensitivity (or lack thereof) to the art/medium/representation, and how much is due to the fact that the fears addressed by the work of art were more relatable to people at th
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    "Milk does not keep for very long in a warm environment" (3:39) This was the explanation I was given, and it seems simpler to me: the addition of milk to coffee predates widespread refrigeration. Cows are milked in the morning, an
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    Can anybody recommend a good spiritual successor to KidPix? I have a four year old and would love to give her something like this to play with (perhaps on an iPad). There are sooo many drawing apps targeted at kids and it's hard to kno
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    I agree - this was my one minor nit-pick after reading the post as well. I'd love to see muddy maps for other past presidential elections if you can get a hold of the data (and this one too, once all the votes have been counted). Reall
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-lander/ ;-)
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    Cool! Personally, I like the idea of building a Dyson swarm out of it (sorry Mercury!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    I empathize with this viewpoint, but I can't understate how strongly I oppose this idea. Road noise is extremely unpleasant! If somehow the electric motor vehicle had been invented first instead of the ICE there is no way anybody would
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    I’ve lived in a few apartments that were situated along busy roads. Something like this would be nice, but I’m hopeful that we’ll someday get to a point where (almost) all of the vehicles on our roads will be electric. Has anybody worked ou
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    I think even the author's own example can be criticized this way. He describes himself as a top-25% artist and humorist, but not among "the best" at either of those. But you could just as easily re-frame that as him being amo
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    Have you found any good counterexamples? We let our three-year-old watch Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and I love it because it is exactly this: short (~10 minute) stories about situations and conflicts that a young child will encounter in ev
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    In case you missed it - you can switch from the default streetview/Myst-like interactions to "dollhouse" mode and fly through with WASD/mouse/arrow keys. Not exactly FPS controls but closer. However, the gaps in the
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    by jrussino 6y ago

    I have used these in the past for robotics fieldwork. It’s far from ideal, but way better than nothing when I need to use a laptop outdoors on a bright day: https://www.thinktankphoto.com/products/pixel-sunscreen-v2
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    by jrussino 7y ago

    I remember seeing this a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnhXfVYWYXE That one is probably obsolete now, but if you search around you may find that this is still possible for whatever is Rigol's current e
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    by jrussino 7y ago

    I need to create Python bindings for a C++ library and after a brief survey of the available options was planning on using SWIG ( http://www.swig.org/tutorial.html ). How does this compare?
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    by jrussino 8y ago

    "Moon to Mars" is hot concept at NASA right now: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/moon2mars/ . The idea is essentially: send people to the moon (to stay) in the 2020's, and then to Mars in the 2030&#x2
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    by jrussino 8y ago

    Similarly: I'm in my early thirties with young kids. Apartment life is getting cramped and we're ready (eager) to finally buy a home. How should this prediction/speculation factor into my decision?