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by ksk 6y ago
>We have to have systems in place which have such monetary/time losses factored in. Sure, everyone agrees with that. Can you propose a model that will work?
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by ksk 6y ago
Are there any reasons to use a full synth these days? I'm not a musician but I've been dabbling in digital audio on and off and I really like the sound quality of sampled instruments especially for Piano. I haven't used the o
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by ksk 6y ago
>to me, the defining sadness is that the past decade has been the death of apis, the end of interoperability. the word web evokes a weaving together, a connectedness, and that, to me, always extended far beyond the link. I think to an ex
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by ksk 6y ago
Yup, we're in violent agreement :)
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by ksk 6y ago
Well, but the point was that human performance on any task has a lot of variability. Therefore - 'worst' - as a label, does not strictly apply in the qualitative sense. Maybe a probabilistic risk model would be more appropriate. W
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by ksk 6y ago
>That future may not even want or need cars. Agreed, 100%. Instead of AV, we could focus on remote presence and other tech to make cars and/or daily commute unnecessary.
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by ksk 6y ago
>Because the author’s skepticism doesn’t extend to the human factor. And your over-enthusiasm for AV doesn't extend to the human factor. We all have our own blinders ;) >The notion that we are safe because we can read humans is n
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by ksk 6y ago
Well, those countries are not global powers, yet. Quite a bit of the China bashing comes from the US, and that's why I brought it up. If we judge the US and a lot of the other so called world leaders by the same standard as we judge Ch
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by ksk 6y ago
Not the OP, but personally I don't want other self-driving cars on the road with me risking me and my family. We know how easily, and plentifully, software bugs get introduced every single release, I would imagine developers being the
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by ksk 6y ago
What does "worst" mean? Did they get into an accident once or twice, but drive just fine on otherwise? Do they drive bad every single day? etc etc.
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by ksk 6y ago
>Through adoption of autonomous vehicles, many predict we will drastically cut the number of fatalities. Who are these many people, and why should we believe their predictions? > We’ve proven to be perennially distracted, we have terr
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by ksk 6y ago
By design, democracy favors entities who care, and therefore lobby for change. Corporations do the majority of the lobbying and it shows.
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by ksk 6y ago
The US peoples voted into power a President who pardons war criminals. And the next incoming President supports (or has supported in the past) wars and bombings which cost the lives of countless non-combatants. Which places has China bombed
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by ksk 6y ago
>You’ve just had a “protectionist” President, US is worse off by almost every measure... as a counter example to your “protectionism is needed” That is not a counter-example to anything AFAICT. We didn't have a 'protectionist&#
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by ksk 6y ago
You are correct that its easy to mis-apply broad sweeping statements based on individual complaints, however, Apple's extended warranty program generates billions of dollars and the Apple repair market is also worth hundreds of million
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by ksk 6y ago
+1 That is an amazing book.
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by ksk 6y ago
>If you don’t like their computing model then don’t use it. Railing that they aren’t supporting your vision lockstep is pretty freaking arrogant. If you don't like/agree/see value in this persons comment then why are you e
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by ksk 6y ago
>Could it be possible that male fossils are more likely to have usable DNA and thus bias the results? You can't change the hypothesis to match data. We try to avoid doing that in science ;)
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by ksk 6y ago
>Googlers are not that stupid, there would be huge internal strikes if the health data was sold to, say, health insurance companies. So if any random set of employees at Google don't threaten to quit, that means that they're do
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by ksk 6y ago
Why would your personal data be safer with an advertising company? Google is amassing personal data so they can charge higher rates for their so-called targeted/personalized ads. With all your personal data residing with a single ad co
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by ksk 6y ago
Hmm, yeah that is odd! Maybe its a bug in the alignment tool?
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by ksk 6y ago
What software do you use ? We use bwa/samtools/varscan/bcftools and we've reprocessed old data right from the fastq files a few times. So far we haven't gotten different results.
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by ksk 6y ago
I think coming up with the final formula requires an understanding of not just taste/food science, but also manufacturing logistics, raw material sourcing, etc. There's probably a lot of trade-offs involved, as you can imagine as
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by ksk 6y ago
Yes, Apple can and does design chips. But as you can imagine - "Designing chips" can mean anything. With respect to CMOS chips you can go from from calling up Sony and ordering one off the menu with your custom requirements, to de
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by ksk 6y ago
If speed was ever a major factor in ranking - the search results would be dominated by pages without trackers/ads/etc. Google would never do that.
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by ksk 6y ago
Can you explain the contribution of Apple here? I believe they simply buy the sensor tech from Sony. Sony currently makes the the best (or close to the best) consumer grade sensors for a wide variety of markets from dinky sensors for smartp
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by ksk 6y ago
You hit the nail on the head, the set of images that can only be taken with a DSLR/MILC is getting smaller and smaller. To counter that a bit I'd like to add that there is a rise of video/youtuber folks wanting smooth 4k vide
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by ksk 6y ago
I strongly suspect you may be putting everything on auto and hoping the camera will focus on the right thing. It wont, because the camera has a very crappy auto-mode. It will, when you learn how to use manual mode and pick your own focus po
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by ksk 6y ago
A 600mm F/4 lens gathers a lot of light per-unit sensor-area, and there are many reasons why professional nature photographers have historically needed such a large lens (1) Older digital sensors weren't good at all with high-iso
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by ksk 6y ago
I was going to type the sentence differently, but then had a brain fart. Sorry about that :)

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