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da Vinci’s famous helicopter design finally takes flight(bigthink.com)
2 points by noplsbecivil 4y ago|2 comments
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
Not quite there yet, but https://solugen.com/ are trying
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
After reading this article, I was wondering if a similar approach could be used on cars? Could the braking energy be used in a similar way? What about for trucks?
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Future trains could provide carbon capture(spectrum.ieee.org)
87 points by noplsbecivil 4y ago|103 comments
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
I visited an architectural firm many years ago, where they had started to show prospective customers prototypes of designs via an xbox. The customers could walk around, go inside the building and the experience helped them win deals. Always
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ArcGIS Maps SDK brings geospatial data to Unity and Unreal Engine(spectrum.ieee.org)
101 points by noplsbecivil 4y ago|42 comments
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
I wonder which proteins alphafold is having trouble with
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Deepmind predicts nearly all proteins(theregister.com)
7 points by noplsbecivil 4y ago|1 comments
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The unlikely odds of making it big on TikTok(pudding.cool)
92 points by noplsbecivil 4y ago|81 comments
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
It would be great to see how/if the musical tastes of premium vs free users of these streaming platforms differed
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Streaming Economics in a Visual Format(pudding.cool)
3 points by noplsbecivil 4y ago|1 comments
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
wrote this below but worth posting here - A lot of the conversation here is based on anecdata (interactions with uber drivers or cabs) or people projecting what its like to be a driver on uber and they are unwittingly being exploited. I wor
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
Short answer - sometimes yes. I think this is where government regulation and laws could play a role in making these types of companies better, but its difficult because it involves scrutinizing individual product decisions that are often d
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
A lot of the conversation here is based on anecdata (interactions with uber drivers or cabs) or people projecting what its like to be a driver on uber and they are unwittingly being exploited. I worked at a company that provided products to
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
TIL that norman rockwell's grand daughter is an award winning translator (as well as an artist.) She focuses on hindi and urdu to english translations. Her Shahenshah-e-Kulfi is quite funny.
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Daisy rockwell granddaughter of norman rockwell wins booker prize(daisyrockwell.com)
3 points by noplsbecivil 4y ago|1 comments
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
"don’t really know anything other than how to be greedy" - this is a pretty bad faith take, and also simply not true. In the US at least, business grads typically take accounting courses, marketing courses, even statistics courses
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
Yes i did work at one of the above. The car count data was actually more interesting than people even realized. One thing even many quant funds missed was that the quality of our 'raw counts' still depended on cloud cover which wa
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
This was our experience with car count data which we sold to most of the sophisticated quant funds a few years back. We sold 'raw counts' and our own 'derived counts' that took into account cloud cover etc and was produc
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by noplsbecivil 4y ago
Me: 2 years at a satellite imagery company a few years back This is mostly true, though I will add there are some repeatable insights that people will pay for. In the financial sector, there were plenty of people who paid for car counts dat