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by knbknb 7y ago
Years ago I have made a bargain deal by buying a used Vitra office chair https://www.vitra.com/en-us/office . Some company got rid of a whole lot of them, and another company refurbished them. I think adjustable armre
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by knbknb 7y ago
Yes there is evidence. From Pro-Med Mail: A second PCR-positive dog, Hong Kong https://promedmail.org/promed-post/?id=7112693 Apparently it was a very old dog though. Published Date: 2020-03-19 15:56:45 Subject: PRO&#x
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by knbknb 7y ago
Do you know how they were tested? By having a blood sample taken (the classic way), or was this one of the new quick-tests that the German Wikipedia article mentions? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2#Schnellt
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by knbknb 7y ago
I agree with you. He likes to give long speeches, but doesn't have anything to say.
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by knbknb 7y ago
There was a behind-the-scenes talk at 36c3 in Dec 2019 where a few Wikipedia Admins show what the infrastructure looks like and what they actually do: Infrastructure of Wikipedia https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-73-infrastr
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by knbknb 7y ago
Do we have a power-law distribution here? (They are rare)
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by knbknb 7y ago
It's a vision, not a plan.
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by knbknb 7y ago
Off the top of my head, starting from some course notes on "Digital Transformation" : Big Data - "I wish I had more data literacy" will be considered desirable by more people of the educated population. Although many peo
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by knbknb 7y ago
I also think that Amazon will get Robotic Picking and Refilling in their Warehouses to work. Of course this will result in an large number of heartless firings of workers. I doubt their cashierless brick-and-mortar stores will take off. (In
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by knbknb 7y ago
Didn't know this name. I just learned that he was a co-writer for the TV series "The Deuce". Very interesting
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by knbknb 7y ago
Will Starlink, when operational, put price pressure on satellite phone and internet service providers such as Inmarsat? Or will prices for internet coverage in remote areas just as expensive as before?
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Strike with the band – The meritocratic failures of classical music(thebaffler.com)
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by knbknb 7y ago
If the adult child finds out what happened, and the insemination doctor is still alive, is the child then entitled to a part of the doctor's (future) heritage? Or if the child finds out when it is still small, or a teenager, will the
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by knbknb 7y ago
How often do you go "back to basics" (read introductory book chapters, or classic papers, etc)?
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by knbknb 7y ago
This is a great insightful talk; starts with interesting historical perspective. Great video, great slidedeck. Why no comments?
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by knbknb 7y ago
What's his name? I'd like to hear his songs.
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by knbknb 7y ago
The Great Courses has a non-free 24 * 30 min Coure "Stress and the Brain" given by Sapolsky .
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Where Are All the Mobile Developers?, Indeed Study Asks(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Polyfilling is also some kind of "roll-your-own X". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyfill_(programming) In web programming, it might sometimes be useful to write your own polyfill when you need to add a sing
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In humans (this time, not in mice )
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Maybe Stanford University no longer gets any license fees from Google for this patent. not sure
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by knbknb 7y ago
I recommend to read or even do the mathematical preliminaries, or whatever it is called. The first section(s) of Volume 1 represent 40 pages of very carefully compiled math fundamentals. I'll read it again when I have the time. The oth
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‘You Can’t Take My Door’, Song Created by a NN from Country Hits(laughingsquid.com)
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by knbknb 7y ago
I thought the Python equivalent to Shiny is Bokeh, see https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/gallery.html#gallery ) ?
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by knbknb 8y ago
I remember this book + I own it. It is a very good book but way over my head. (Additionally, it serves well as a doorstop). Still I admire the amount of diligence and energy that went into this. Wolfram spent several years _obsessed_ with t
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The Bitter Lesson(incompleteideas.net)
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by knbknb 8y ago
Matlab has lots of solvers for all types of families of differential equations. I think these are lacking (in their completeness and richness of documentation) in other programming languages ( at least this holds for R - much fewer solvers
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by knbknb 8y ago
If you like to shop for food, buy higher-quality versions of everything. Buy the expensive fair-trade chocolate instead of the plastic bag of chocolate muffins, or the chocolate bar from the vending machine. Or go to a vegetarian restauran
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by knbknb 8y ago
Software Engineering Radio has recently (Nov.2018) released an 1 hour long interview with Stephan Ewen, CTO of data Artisans: http://www.se-radio.net/2018/11/se-radio-episode-346-stephan...
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by knbknb 8y ago
In Europe, the food industry can legally apply lots of food-altering measures from a large bag of tricks. To name a few: Foaming up stuff, adding water to add weight; using cheap low quality substitutes; removing bitter ingredients from dec

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