nicodds

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Extract data from PDFs and images using Gemini(github.com)
1 points by nicodds 2y ago|1 comments
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by nicodds 2y ago
A simple tool to extract data from PDFs and images using Google's gemini-2.0-flash-001 model.
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by nicodds 2y ago
I recently came across Barricelli reading Labatut's book "The MANIAC"
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by nicodds 2y ago
A voice from the field here (Puglia, southern Italy). I can assure you that the landscape has changed drastically in a decade. Where a few years ago you could see immense expanses of green, now you see a ghostly landscape. It's incredi
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by nicodds 2y ago
Not to be picky, but Sora is here: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sora,_Laz...
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by nicodds 4y ago
I think mechanical ventilation (MV) is less risky and almost as effective in preventing spread of viruses. Probably, coupling MV with a boxed UV lamp (no UV radiation outside the box) would be more effective.
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by nicodds 5y ago
It is like quantum mechanics: the measurement process produces a perturbation of the physical system
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by nicodds 5y ago
Personally, I like very much leveldb/rocksdb. They're very fast and solid.
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by nicodds 5y ago
You're right, that is big issue. Anyway, it's a matter of a lot of things that adds up together.
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by nicodds 5y ago
An Hydro plant doesn't have the same security requirements as a nuclear one. You may think for example to shielding for ionizing radiation. It all adds up to the count.
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by nicodds 5y ago
That is not completely true. Thermodynamics tells that, overall, to produce energy, you must spend a lot more energy. You may think to the nuclear plant: it doesn't build by itself, you produce lots of environmental pollution to get it
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by nicodds 6y ago
If you think about it, the adult-media field is scalable by design
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by nicodds 7y ago
I think being a generalist is definitely a value. In a near future, specialists will be substituted by artificial intelligence (AI). Generalists, instead, will stay at their place, since they do what AI (currently) can't: making connec
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by nicodds 7y ago
Almost like Donald Knuth's TAOCP!
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by nicodds 7y ago
This is a good introduction to the topic: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cr00033a001
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by nicodds 7y ago
This is one of the magnetic field effect on radical pairs recombination. Once you put a magnet near the site of a chemical reaction where radical pairs are formed, the rate of the reaction may be changed, due to the additional energy levels
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by nicodds 7y ago
It seems like the story of the chicken or the egg: do these differences come from meditation or are they the reason that push people towards meditation?
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by nicodds 7y ago
This is really common in Italy. Some years ago there was also some politicians involved. They rent houses of public property for an epsilon of their price. In the palace where I live, there are families paying 50 euros/month for their
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by nicodds 8y ago
I'm a physicist, with a PhD in physics. I worked for a while as a post-doc in Italy and recently I quit University, working now in the private sector as a Data Scientist. I'm happy with the change, my life is more relaxed now. I&#
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by nicodds 8y ago
When I was in academia, I was involved in experiments consisting in the exposure of flies (drosophila melanogaster) to 900 MHz controlled electromagnetic fields. I participated to the design of the exposure chamber, essentially a bi-planar
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by nicodds 8y ago
Hello people! A voice from the field here. As in most of the cases in Italy, we can say that the approach is: "the situation is hopeless, but not serious". Apart from the joke, it is a sad period and the Xylella case is just part
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by nicodds 8y ago
Do you know about data science competitions on https://www.kaggle.com ? There are lots of resources, codes and insightful discussions
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by nicodds 8y ago
I think the writer is overgeneralizing his particular use case. Surely, the situation he represents doesn't need any AI/ML, but it is the result of a simple use case, with little variables and with an easy workflow. Does the same
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by nicodds 9y ago
maybe this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6PpPqbR4YU ?
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by nicodds 9y ago
The main advantage of this fusion reaction is that it is aneutronic, i.e. it doesn't produce any neutrons, so it is relatively safe. Petawatt class lasers are nowadays possible and several examples exists (Los Alamos, Oxford central la
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Spotting fake reviews on TripAdvisor(kaggle.com)
1 points by nicodds 9y ago|0 comments
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by nicodds 9y ago
Suppose you are a physicist and you have a theory you want to test, ok? Then, you design an experiment to test your theory. If it fails, you are sure that your theory is wrong. Otherwise, you know that it works, unless future experiments sh
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Tired brain cells lag behind in cognitive tasks(nature.com)
1 points by nicodds 9y ago|0 comments
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Short summary of an adventurous journey in the NOSQL world with Redis(labs.alcacoop.it)
5 points by nicodds 16y ago|0 comments