mojomark

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by mojomark 9y ago
I'm not knocking this initiative, I hope it is very successful and helps the blind. However... About 10 years ago I sat down with the folks at the Maryland School for the Blind (1) to demo a similar mini LIDAR based design with haptic
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by mojomark 9y ago
This article speaks to regional income convergence. However, national wages, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data (1) for Usual Weekly Earnings (parsed by education level in particular) show clear divergence - along with a clear dis
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by mojomark 9y ago
Yay, I found the rabbit hole - technically, no cellestial body rotates purely around the other (thanks mass!). So, perhaps adding epicycles wasn't erronious after all - just a measurement from a different reference point.
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by mojomark 9y ago
In your slide - why is back propogation a further stretch from a true bio-NN than an ANN without back propogation?
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by mojomark 9y ago
It's true that some supervisors operate in this manner (i.e. oppressing employees based on their own compensation), but those are egregiously sub-optimal supervisors indeed.
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by mojomark 9y ago
> as her sub-employee are risking the most severe of all offenses - asking for more than what your supervisor makes. This is a flawed philosophy. As a manager I have had a few critical pulling in higher salaries than my own. If you are a
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by mojomark 9y ago
All of the "problems" you state are valid, but targeting patent enforcement to fix the problem is like trying to stiffle a food poisoning epidemic by changing the way people eat instead of fixing the source of the problem which is
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Can POW thwart predatory ticket resellers (e.g. stubhub and other a-holes)?
1 points by mojomark 9y ago|0 comments
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by mojomark 9y ago
I've always heard it called a 'rabbit' [1], but I like 'sacrifficial jerk' and will probably use that from now on. 1. http://radartest.com/Top-5-Tips.asp
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by mojomark 9y ago
Or get woken up by your robot and told what to do (probably dance).
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by mojomark 9y ago
"We identified the emergence of entire categories of new, uniquely human jobs... trainers, explainers, and sustainers." OK, great, but... a.) these jobs will only be "uniquely human" until AI becomes self-generating and
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by mojomark 9y ago
Anyone interested in e-ink displays may also the PrintLess Plans product of interest: https://www.printlessplans.com
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by mojomark 9y ago
>People from 1980s are still alive. Please put this on a t-shirt.
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by mojomark 10y ago
"When the girl arrived at the hospital, she had wounds all over her body." "“These aren’t Jungle Book stories, they’re often harrowing cases of neglect and abuse...” If you read the entire article, it's clear that this i
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by mojomark 10y ago
A rescue puppy and a bag of dog food.
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by mojomark 10y ago
Depends highly on the 'job' - Big Machine/Small Role or Little Machine/Big Role? If my job is to be a single cog working on tiny tasks in a large machine, I prefer to work remote since a lot of unproductive people tend t
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by mojomark 10y ago
> Ownership is a legal concept. > The only solutions to this problem are legal solutions. It is a legal problem to begin with. This is a flawed statement. Yes, "ownership" is a man-made construct (1). However, laws are only
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by mojomark 10y ago
> I would have also probably changed my name after the first occurrence. There was nothing wrong with my name, until I was about 12 years old and that no talent ass clown became famous and started oppressing his people. No way, why shoul
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by mojomark 10y ago
*reins
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by mojomark 10y ago
I dont hate ISPs in general, I hate ISPs like Comcast that leverage their virtual monopoly in local markets (they are the only high speed provider in my area) to avoid inestment in decent customer service while simultaneously charging exorb
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by mojomark 10y ago
> ...a social issue should be solved with social/legal means, not technical ones. So, say my AR software needs to scan an environment in order to function, but the law says that I cannot scan a particular "excluded" surfac
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by mojomark 10y ago
"The idea One night, whilst studying for his GCSEs, Yasser our CEO came up with the idea for Den because he didn't want to get out of bed to turn the light off." I'm sorry, but if laziness is the underpinning of Den, the
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by mojomark 10y ago
I second the recommendation to write/file patents yourself vice wasting money on lawyers. As implied, you generally won't be succesful selling an idea without a decent demo prototype, so dont fall into the trap of thinking the pat
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Guifi = (AvadaKedavra.ISP[i]) and NetNeutrality(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mojomark 10y ago
Ah, got it. Sounds like as you look to scale you could probably increase your margin by doing your own trucking.
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by mojomark 10y ago
@Luke - A few years back I looked at opportunities to resolve the issue of having surplus containers stacking up largely in U.S. ports due to trade (import/export) imbalance. As you probably know, it turns out that its generally cheape
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by mojomark 10y ago
In case anyone is interested - NVIDIA on PPD: http://phrogz.net/tmp/ScreenDens2In.html#find:density,pxW:19... They claify that while acuity limits for a person with 20/20 vision is 60PPD, the average acuity is mor
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by mojomark 10y ago
>We're going to need a new word for resolution at depth. Well then I have good news for you - we already have a metric for resolution irrespective of the depth at which an object is rendered, and we've had it for years. That me
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by mojomark 10y ago
Some guys I know launched this product which could be used as a large format e-ink monitor: https://www.printlessplans.com However, it seems working with the epaper display suppliers is a bear.
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by mojomark 10y ago
Indeed - I'm only 50% through, but defibitely a MUCH more informed and insightful article already

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