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XaLogic’s XAPIZ3500 Hat Brings Machine Learning to the Raspberry Pi Zero(blog.hackster.io)
2 points by nmstoker 7y ago|0 comments
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by nmstoker 7y ago
If this is correct then it's good news for those balloon based internet projects which always stuck me as short sighted in light of the view at the time that helium was running out
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Well done posting that link. This topic seems to have brought out a lot of (unnecessary) confusion in the comments!
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by nmstoker 7y ago
That's great - I hadn't heard about that, thanks for putting me right.
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by nmstoker 7y ago
What an unfortunate name! SnatchBot will likely have unwanted associations and they clearly didn't do much background research. As for the article, it's written in a very pompous wordy way (especially given their over confidence i
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Amazon at 25: The Story of a Giant(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by nmstoker 7y ago|0 comments
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Edit: Oops - somehow missed the other post mentioning this book. Sorry! These are covered with a charming personal story by Simon Winchester in his book The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World It's reviewed
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Looks like we need a bit more clarity on what they mean by "glass". If you look at glass in medieval glass windows it's heavily distorted by gravity (fatter at the bottom than the top) and that's after ~900 years, so pre
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Seems an unfortunate state of affairs Here's what the conference said on the matter: https://www.blackhat.com/latestintel/06142019-black-hat-usa-... It creates a healthier society if we can listen to people even w
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Looks great. Off topic, but did anyone else see Phiresky's other work: AI that mimics human backchanneling so it pretends it's listening (saying "yeah", uh-huh" etc) Remarkable work! https://streamable.co
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Precisely! And then they'll get it wrong (or worse still say they won't do it the way you ask even though you will know better why those choices are needed!)
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by nmstoker 7y ago
In reply to the "what about the expert" comments, bear in mind that the alert is when the route deviates by over 500m. So in urban areas this isn't going to trigger for most cases where it's just a smarter neighbouring r
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by nmstoker 7y ago
I think you mean Wong Kei! It's great, but similar in set up (multi-story, tasty yet cheap, and legendary rudeness). Was hugely disappointed to take a friend there a few years back and find they'd dialled down the rudeness complet
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by nmstoker 7y ago
I agree about the title change but it's not exclusively medical (eg the Great Depression)
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Yes, this was a huge disappointment when I read Chemistry & Physics years ago. The naive view of papers was that they were to move human knowledge forward, but it became clear they were an elaborate knowledge withholding device! Fortuna
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Seems to have coincided almost exactly with my Chromecast stopping displaying my photos (in ambient mode).
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by nmstoker 7y ago
It's not a precise timeframe nor a perfect correlation, but since Uber has been undercutting them there's been a trend to worse behaviour by cabs, with poor navigation and dishonesty around payments (keeping the meter running, dis
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by nmstoker 7y ago
It feels like this says more about the status of the law and behaviour in Prague than it does about the apparent merits of Uber style services. In London we used to have a good taxi system that was well run with trustworthy drivers in &quot
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by nmstoker 7y ago
This seems like a great feature, surprised this didn't seem to get more notice here. Are there any potential downsides? (assuming it doesn't make terrible suggestions of course!) If the PR wasn't any good, presumably you can
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NHS to sign up patients for 'virtual' A&E (ER) in tech revolution(theguardian.com)
1 points by nmstoker 7y ago|0 comments
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Wondering if these changes will finally make the data service more robust for users. The main issue seems to be that it's so hit and miss about correctly recognising you, failing with messages about being logged in in too many other lo
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Much as it's maligned, the original did attempt to solve some genuine problems and narrowing the audience / focus seems sensible. Given a lot of the negative points were around the reaction of others to having a camera pointed at
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Interesting you should say this, as I've found Google News to be "desperately local", to the point of excess. I'm all for regional news and mixing things up, but typically when I've traveled somewhere within the UK
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Perhaps Google, Apple or others have a product opportunity here: build a pre-border crossing full phone archive process. You pump literally everything personal to the cloud before you go, leaving a limited core of anonymous functions workin
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by nmstoker 7y ago
I'm no lawyer but it seems hard to imagine it could be illegal as it would be based on supposition rather than fact and only someone in possession of the unredacted report would know for sure if it were right.
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Minor point: the headline keeps it quite neutral as to whether this is a good thing or a mistake!
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by nmstoker 8y ago
I think you're overblowing things here. It's not "toxic BS", it's just a piece he put out on his blog with his opinion. Your mention of tank printers is helpful but given his article is from 2016 the trend may not h
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Amazon beats optimistic profit expectations for Q1(techcrunch.com)
2 points by nmstoker 8y ago|0 comments
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by nmstoker 8y ago
Why start with consumers? Surely there are narrower goals to go for first (eg retail), nail them and then expand into consumer (super wealthy luxury first and work down) Retail would be much easier to make a case for this: it could be share
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by nmstoker 8y ago
The problem here is the arbitrariness of the decision - this level of care for their passengers seems almost entirely absent from EasyJet in various other regards, so why this? And there are presumably other passenger risks that they are no

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