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by nbanks 8y ago
I know someone starting a masters under Yoshua Bengio at UdeM. It's been a great school for statistical machine translation for quite a while. I wonder what he'll be making in ten years.
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by nbanks 8y ago
That seems to be the case for openAI, since the compensation was lower than other offers.
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by nbanks 8y ago
The rock pro 64 will hopefully come out by May 1 from pine64 with faster dual A72 cores + quad A53 cores. Their shipping is slow.
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by nbanks 9y ago
For apps where an ad blocker doesn't work, I tend to click on ads that I want to see in the future. This means someone is paying for my clicks even when I go back immediately instead of reading the content, but at least this leads to
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by nbanks 9y ago
I didn't realize that Uber worked without mobile data.
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by nbanks 9y ago
This must be helpful for transporting the rocket by truck for reuse (see youtu.be/qohKt8ckCS4). If the rocket remained vertical, the drone ship would have to dock very close to the launch pad.
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by nbanks 9y ago
I wonder if they throttle back the central booster to ensure its fuel lasts longer than the two outside boosters. This is likely far easier than the cross-feed system though it would lower the total thrust.
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by nbanks 9y ago
My first battery was definitely swollen, and this may be why the screen doesn't snap back into place.
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by nbanks 9y ago
That's what a 64GB iPhone 5 cost at the time.
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by nbanks 9y ago
I replace my iPhone battery with a cheap one off eBay every year or two when something else breaks. Battery life is pretty good, but the screen pops up now making the phone 0.5mm thicker. It's doing OK for a 5 year old phone, but my
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by nbanks 9y ago
This is definitely a good thing, especially when it's juxtaposed with Cards Against Humanity's Holiday Hole last year. It's as if they're not really against humanity after all. I wonder which publicity stunt is better
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by nbanks 9y ago
It is possible to compile your own Kernel in Red Hat. You may loose some customer support, but at least everything will be familiar.
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by nbanks 9y ago
True enough. All generations need this type of speech. For example, I first came across the term chronological snobbery reading C.S. Lewis, according to Wikipedia he used it in "Surprised by Joy" which was written 50 years ago.
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by nbanks 9y ago
This is also why milk costs 50% more in Canada than in the US. Still, a reliable supply of food reduces the risk of famine which is more important than a purely competitive market.
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by nbanks 9y ago
Some CO2 hydrogenation processes can produce liquid fuels which is kind of like recycling gasoline, but this is much more complicated than recycling batteries. It may still prove useful for fueling rockets or aircraft in a CO2 neutral way.
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by nbanks 9y ago
This makes sense--it explains why it takes as long to charge my mobile phone as a model S. Obviously different chemistries can charge at different rates, and the power supply and cooling needs to scale with the battery capacity, but if the
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by nbanks 9y ago
I've been using Fluxbox for a decade, and couldn't stand OSX or Windows when I tried using them for a few months. Fluxbox looks slick and it's super fast, though it took a while to configure. I have nothing behind my window
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by nbanks 9y ago
It's probably quite common. This is the part of Elon Musk's story which people rarely mention. Divorce is a high cost for any business, and I'm sorry you went through it. I've read it takes a couple hours a day to main
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by nbanks 9y ago
I never understood the logic of this issue. If a fetus is human, then both male and female fetuses should be protected. If a fetus is not human, then this can't be a women's rights issue because women are human. If abortion is
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by nbanks 9y ago
This is the first thing that came to mind. The second is giving med students more hands on time with ultrasounds. The price is low enough that students could practice on each other in class.
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by nbanks 9y ago
Anyone know how the specific impulse compares to other engines? I guess the fuel is similar to spacex--better than anything other then hydrogen.
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by nbanks 9y ago
However spacex could easily survive off 3% profit for now, as long as they still keep collecting all their used rockets. I only remember them launching one used rocket so far which was successful, and presumably they'll work out any re
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by nbanks 9y ago
Even if google doesn't hire most of the people who graduate, having more people who can do tech jobs could help increase the supply and stop salaries from inflating more.
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by nbanks 9y ago
Gas pipelines hold hundreds of bar of pressure; I don't see how one atmosphere is a problem.
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by nbanks 9y ago
I firmly believe right turn lanes ought to be to on the right side of the bike path because cyclists are way faster than pedestrians crossing a crosswalk. That way the motorist has to cross the bike path as one step, then turn right as a s
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by nbanks 9y ago
Large and fast bikes are already a problem without electric assist. A typical triathlon bike can easily do 35km/h, and the wider Milan Velomobile can do over 50km/h. In the US and Canada, it's illegal to use electric assist
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by nbanks 9y ago
Breivik managed to obtain his guns legally in Norway despite fairly tough gun control. It took him a while to do it. He said his semi-automatic .223 would be used for deer hunting. It would make sense to ban semi-automatic rifles since b
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by nbanks 9y ago
There's a Montréal-Toronto facebook group with 18k members I've used a few times to save on gas money. Typically people charge $30-$40 per seat for the 6 hour trip. I drove a guy who was trying to make an app which would do this,
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by nbanks 9y ago
Since an autopilot in an aircraft will not avoid a mid-air collision, this doesn't seem like an inappropriate term. Tesla's autopilot maintains a heading and speed, just like an aircraft autopilot, and usually behaves better in i
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by nbanks 9y ago
I set a few groups to "see first" which helps prune down the number of useless things in my newsfeed. Occasionally I'll click an ad or mark it as unwanted to try to train the FB algorithms. The most useful things on FB are e

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