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by oxplot 11y ago
Thanks. I'm actually one of those people who was under the impression that USA data was fairly complete.
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What I learned from competing against a ConvNet on ImageNet (2014)(karpathy.github.io)
2 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
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by oxplot 11y ago
I have noticed an interesting effect where initially one is given the freedom to use all tools available to achieve a task, and over time restricted to an increasingly smaller subset. I find that this makes me optimize the process and in ca
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by oxplot 11y ago
"my replacements stand out more when overused" - I have a different experience where repetition of "to be" derivatives equally stand out. As my first editing task after writing a paragraph, I eliminate such repetitions.
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by oxplot 11y ago
Can you elaborate what social problems you're referring to and how it's affected USA?
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by oxplot 11y ago
This is even more interesting! I wonder if this means RMS would have to open their street data (e.g. maps, sign locations, speed limits, turn restrictions, etc).
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by oxplot 11y ago
Reverse engineering data in commercial products. Of course this is not a viable solution for anything but private personal stuff.
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by oxplot 11y ago
This is a fantastic news. As an Australian and someone who has worked on personal projects requiring a geocoded address database, and had to jump through million hoops to come close to it, this is invaluable. Here's a related thread I&
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by oxplot 11y ago
I never liked reading books cover to cover and still don't. But I find that new (or different to the usual) quiet environments make it a lot easier to concentrate. For me the public library is one of those places. I put my phone on s
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by oxplot 11y ago
This. Especially consistency because it leads to that "trust" you allude to, that I can walk into any Mcz (what we call McDonald's here in Australia) and expect the BigMac to taste, look and even feel a certain way. And speed
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Most Common Use of Time, by Age and Sex(flowingdata.com)
1 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
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by oxplot 11y ago
I am aware what I received (and it's not what you described). I was asking how I could receive a signal with the entire planet blocking the way.
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by oxplot 11y ago
Do you mean the frequency? I googled NOAA 18 and Wikipedia told me ~130Mhz.
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by oxplot 11y ago
OK, then in that case I managed to receive the signal from a satellite 800km above but passing over the other side of the planet. How's that explained?
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by oxplot 11y ago
I used ANT500 [1] that came with HackRF One. I had to play with the angle a little to get a clear signal (horizontal worked for me). [1]: https://greatscottgadgets.com/ant500/
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by oxplot 11y ago
I'd assume this thing having been launched in 2005 has enough memory to hold imagery for the entire planet so one wouldn't have to be in the region they want data for. That's my assumption and it seems to agree with the data.
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by oxplot 11y ago
OK, since I pack a HackRF One, I couldn't resist trying this. Inside my apartment in middle of Sydney, this is what I got for IR imagery from NOAA-18: https://imgur.com/UbCBQd5 Super super cool.
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Electronically controlled molding process for custom fit earphones(kickstarter.com)
2 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
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Explosions Leave Crimea in the Dark(research.dyn.com)
1 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
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by oxplot 11y ago
Hmm, I'm very surprised that magstripe readers don't have sensors that detect physical presence of a card, even to this date. But regardless, the main point for me was how trivially one could downgrade the security by setting the
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The Rest of the Lenna Story(cs.cmu.edu)
2 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
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Shut up about the y-axis. It shouldn’t always start at zero(youtube.com)
1 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
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by oxplot 11y ago
I wrote the parent comment on the go so here's more details. I'm specifically referring to the python script [1] mentioned in the article titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks" [2]. I don&#x
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by oxplot 11y ago
"that's two potatoes in series" - rarely one comes across such a combination of words. I'm still laughing.
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by oxplot 11y ago
Hmm, given that a few hundred line python script fed with large stream of characters can start producing sentences with correct grammar (however mostly nonsensical), I agree that we, given the complexity of our neural networks, don't n
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by oxplot 11y ago
Given the author's comment: "Xorshift generators (also discovered by Marsaglia) are fast and do very well on statistical tests (much better than MWC1616). An xorshift variant called xorgens4096 has been implemented in Javascript b
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ON Semiconductor to Acquire Fairchild Semiconductor for $2.4B in Cash(fairchildsemi.com)
1 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
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by oxplot 11y ago
You don't need the full versioned repo, just the top commit (ie cloning with depth=1). Also, git compresses the objects before sending them.
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What the world eats (2014)(nationalgeographic.com)
50 points by oxplot 11y ago|21 comments
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by oxplot 11y ago
Daniel mentions in the comments [1] that this is a binary build and implies that it's not meant to be hotlinked to. [1]: http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/11/16/the-most-popular-curl-...

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