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by knolan 9y ago
> The important part of this is that I never be under any illusion that I something that I toss together and make capable of ‘running’ be definitive code that can be put into production or used as-is, and that under no circumstances must
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by knolan 9y ago
The ‘go to person’ is probably the best bet, most researchers are willing to learn new things so hopefully this would lead to improvements. I saw this formalised in a group in KTH where a person’s job was to help researchers and students ge
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by knolan 9y ago
I see this so often with academics. They’re not developers and only have basic coding ability. So they make all kinds of basic mistakes like trying to load a bunch of images converting them to float (IR images for example) and wondering whe
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by knolan 9y ago
I see your point but from my experience this is closer along the spectrum to ‘hello world’.
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by knolan 9y ago
So you printed it in pieces and assembled it? I’m sorry to be harsh but this is the kind of thing we get undergrads to do on day one of an internship. Why do you feel it was worthy of posting on HN?
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by knolan 9y ago
It looks laser cut, most schools would have a laser cutter nowadays because they’re stupidly easy to use. It would be difficult, and inadvisable to print something this large on a regular 3D printer. Thingyverse is literally full of designs
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by knolan 9y ago
Wow, you’re right. Downvotes because someone uploaded a poor laser cut design to GitHub instead of thingyverse.
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by knolan 9y ago
Which is daft because you can just cut another slot and shove a bit in at an angle to lock it — no glue needed. Also the CAD is useless unless you have the exact thickness of material to laser cut since you can't adjust the cut width.
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by knolan 9y ago
Well yes, if you assume that gods are real and reveal themselves to the world they created. Then you go down he dreary path of prime motivators etc. That’s no fun. If on the other hand you start with the premise that there is a magical worl
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by knolan 9y ago
It’s from Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. From this and other similar works such as Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods or Neil Gaiman’s Ameeican Gods, deities pop into existence from the pure belief of people. It’s a great liter
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by knolan 9y ago
The shift to zig-zag is particularly pronounced when I scan up and down the animation.
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by knolan 9y ago
Not only do they ignore it, they lie. https://www.skepticink.com/humanisticas/2013/03/23/is-the-io...
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by knolan 9y ago
Mostly you’re trading spatial real estate on your sensor for spectral resolution. A conmon approach is to use all vertical pixels for wavelength data. By using a diffraction grating to disperse the light vertically you get a view of the wor
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by knolan 9y ago
No, there is no charge unless you start to put apps on the App Store. https://www.pcworld.com/article/2933052/apple-frees-casual-i...
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by knolan 9y ago
Somewhat similar to content aware fill in Photoshop [0]. The untrained network can latch onto frequent patterns and match them to holes in the data. Why doesn’t it paint everything white? Are these actually transparent images or are they so
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by knolan 9y ago
Everyone is our company is issued a HP hunk of garbage. Mine sits on top of a set of drawers buried under some manuals. Almost everyone in our team has a Mac, a custom built PC or some other nice machine. I boot the HP probably once a year
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by knolan 9y ago
Copper can still play a role. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.fast
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by knolan 9y ago
Article incorrectly names the journal as Elselvier journal ScienceDirect.com. It’s actually Personality and Individual Differences
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by knolan 9y ago
This is also true for a lot of older people new to the internet. My mother doesn’t understand that her laptop can do more than browse Facebook and buy things on Amazon. Her bookmarks are the random pages of her friends. Her primary source o
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by knolan 9y ago
They dissipate it into the environment as heat iirc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_bank So instead of a resistor use old CPUs and GPU and mine.
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by knolan 9y ago
Even though I've fallen out of love with Matlab, its documentation is excellent. Brief description of the syntax for quick reference, a more detailed description, and finally detailed examples. Often there are references to the academi
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by knolan 9y ago
From what I understand a lot of power stations produce excess electricity at low demand periods because it’s too costly to completely shut a generator down. So they dump that excess into huge resistor banks. Why not use it to mine crypto cu
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by knolan 9y ago
I have the similar PowerBeats3. W1 chip and connecting cable but a bigger battery housing. I use them for cycling (I know) and they’re great. I think the Bluetooth dropped out once in over a year. Battery life is great and they just work. R
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by knolan 9y ago
That’s supposedly expected behaviour. When I’m standing at my rig in the lab it pings me to stand, just like when I sit at my desk. This actually means get up and/or walk about — which usually works to fill that segment of the ring. B
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by knolan 9y ago
Slow day in the office?! I use a roll of dry erase film for the walls of my lab. They stick to wall with static charge. I can keep pieces of work on the wall for reference for weeks by just moving them to out of reach areas. It does make me
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by knolan 9y ago
The only reason, if you can call it that, is academic inertia. It’s is taught as part of most engineering degrees and is accessible enough for students to stick with it.
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by knolan 9y ago
This a great resource for engineers to wean themselves off Matlab. Maintaining Mathworks licenses is expensive and they can be assholes about license usage. We recently purchased some additional toolboxes and all they could do was bitch abo
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by knolan 9y ago
Wouldn’t it be sensible to median filter the input images to remove these types of single pixel outliers?
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by knolan 9y ago
You can do 3D metaballs with Blender.
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by knolan 9y ago
What a poorly written article.

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