mprat

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by mprat 7y ago
Root AI | Woburn, MA | ONSITE Root AI is a robotics company dedicated to solving the biggest challenges facing the indoor farming industry. Today’s industrial greenhouses are modern marvels of efficiency and sustainability. These farms are
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MIT VP for Research on the importance of funding science(nytimes.com)
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9-5 Is Out. Try the 1-6 Instead(forbes.com)
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Dutch schools have comprehensive sexuality education starting in kindergarten(pbs.org)
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by mprat 12y ago
I also suggest keeping your .vimrc / .bashrc / .screenrc / whatever other config files you like in some kind of git repo so you can sync your config files to the remote machine nicely. The other nice thing about this is that
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by mprat 12y ago
Very cool. (1) Have you thought about using HOG templates for the matching step? Seems like you might get some interesting structural encoding similarities there. (2) When generating image patches, could they be different sizes? Or is the i
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by mprat 12y ago
I use http://zim-wiki.org and make my own sync / mobile options, since as of a few months ago there was no Android version. But someone /is/ working on a mobile app.
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by mprat 13y ago
Is the language Mathematica and Wolfram | Alpha now use not called the Wolfram Language?
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When Healers Get Too Friendly(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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SEO is dead, long live OAO
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by mprat 13y ago
I get the marketing / branding aspect. From a contractor's point of view, though, there still isn't any guarantee that the firm that is you that is doing contract work will do quality work - there is no audit system other tha
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by mprat 13y ago
I think this challenge, like any other in this space, is to know your product and your customers. In the case of a post on HN, the customer is HN readers and the product is a post. It's good to know that the good old principles of mark
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Stanford vs. MIT: How Marketing Trumps Technology In Startups(forbes.com)
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Building a microscope from old camera lenses(blog.robindeits.com)
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by mprat 14y ago
Presumably the reason you get a salary increase when you switch jobs is the value-add you give the company from the experience you are bringing in.
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by mprat 14y ago
My thinking about my future prospects as a potential employee (finishing school soon and thinking about the future) has led me to think about the things suggested in this article very seriously: I enjoy my hobbies involving the outdoors. I
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by mprat 14y ago
I don't think it should be a goal of a startup (or any business for that matter) to not fire any employees. The whole point of a business is to be successful monetarily. Sure, initially it may be to get a product out to market or get a tech
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by mprat 15y ago
The interesting part about this class is that it is a lab class, yet it is trying to be accessible to anyone and everyone around the world. It will be interesting to see the logistics of how the MITx people handle grading, forums, homework,
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by mprat 15y ago
This isn't an online class at MIT - it is just a course webpage for a class that is offered at MIT this term.