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by parksy 7y ago
If it's a property of an object that defines the object, it's a dimension. Spatial location gives us 3 dimensions, rotation and size give us 2 more. The dimensions don't all have to use the same units.
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by parksy 7y ago
Then you know of no sane scientist or engineer, at least any that might have a passing familiarity to n-dimensional data or basic mathematical concepts. Dimensions are the conventional term when talking about aspects of data. It doesn'
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by parksy 7y ago
Beyond geopolitical concerns - as the tech becomes more widespread and easier to use, to the point where teenagers start using it to punk one another, no one will believe anything they see, hear or read ever again without an extremely robus
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by parksy 7y ago
Not really, that's what physically happened. Local copy may have been deleted. Developer may have just got a new laptop and traded the old one. Argue at length over having multiple redundant backups perhaps, but the simple truth is his
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by parksy 7y ago
Not a statistician by any means, but could traffic source be a factor that's evaluated alongside conversion by a bandit algorithm when calculating the chance to show a particular option? Or other factors as well (detected device capabi
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by parksy 7y ago
I use it for my side project's album covers. I can upload images, overlay text, add basic shape layers. It's no photoshop / sketch but it does the basics well enough which is why I use it, and being online I don't have t
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by parksy 7y ago
The main problem these days is information is generated much more quickly than it can be classified. Short of forcing everyone in the world to adopt a standard for semantic markup for everything they publish, which will almost certainly nev
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by parksy 7y ago
Unfortunately due to the death of net neutrality, you find wherever you host your repository, there's more latency and network dropouts, and if you want to share your code only users with "Full Access" tiers at their ISP can
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by parksy 7y ago
Plastic waste per person is a different story. https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution USA: 0.34kg per person per day China: 0.12kg per person per day (just under a third of the US figure). In cultural terms, China is
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by parksy 7y ago
That's Numberwang! Let's spin the board!
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by parksy 7y ago
If it was trained on the entire body of scientific knowledge (or you know, as close as possible), would it be able to spit out useful correlations by interpolating? If trained on massive sets of source code and briefs (or perhaps a set of u
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by parksy 7y ago
Personally I think these types of writings offer valuable opportunity for reflection, I found the stream of thought approach appealing and overall enjoyed the experience of reading this. I think if you have reached a point where you've
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by parksy 7y ago
Yeah an uber that smells of farts, vomit and piss, and the seats are sticky... that has become more commonplace for standard uber. Uberx is much nicer for an extra dollar or two (for standard trips), no more farty taxis. But using my power
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by parksy 7y ago
I totally agree.
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by parksy 7y ago
Spot on, there's no "find good company" algorithm because the type of company I might like working for could be totally different to the type of company you or anyone else wants to work for. It comes down to knowing yourself
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by parksy 7y ago
I don't have a "who is a good company" algorithm, it's pretty complex and outward seeming behaviours don't always reflect what's going on inside , and our own interpretive judgements from past negative experien
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by parksy 7y ago
I'm also interested in what motivates this behaviour. Anecdotally I feel that the current incentive structure is entirely financial. People may get into a field to do good, but they have to justify an ROI on everything they do. Society
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by parksy 7y ago
But in a way, that's the beauty of disruptive use of technology. Without the innovation of the Uber app, the traditional taxi cartels would have no incentive to improve their services and the fact that they have been forced to do so in
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by parksy 7y ago
"No amount of programming can produce imagination" is a very bold statement to make. The brain exists in a physical universe, made out of matter/energy, and its behaviours are entirely dictated by the laws of physics; that&#x
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by parksy 7y ago
I'm familiar with this scenario. It took a while to find the right approach and build the confidence to challenge a room of people with this mindset. It is definitely possible to stand up to this mentality and succeed in a workplace, b
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by parksy 8y ago
Depends on the definition of useless or meaningful. If meaningfulness only extends to immediate political, social, economic or technological interactions then maybe an organic colonisation seems useless, I guess. Unlike plants, through the
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by parksy 8y ago
Kind of agree (as a developer who appreciates art) - right now we're constraining ourselves to grid-based layouts. Having been in web professionally for 15 years and recreationally for 25 years, I've seen UI conventions change a l
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by parksy 8y ago
Can you at the very least expand on why it's so terrible, maybe a couple of examples so we can understand where you're coming from. All we really have is "Good God, my eyes" and similar epithets implying your stance tha
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by parksy 8y ago
I enjoyed reading it. The creative language implies a seething rage and firmly sets an emotional and moral agenda based on a perceived sense of outrage, something a vast majority of articles these days try to avoid or hide and for that reas
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by parksy 8y ago
I enjoyed reading this article immensely. I'm a nobody bedroom producer but the description of the feathering and blending out tracks, and his interaction with the audience and how he's using layers to tell a story from his mind a
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by parksy 8y ago
Modern fighter aircraft are often designed to be aerodynamically unstable. This allows the removal or reduction of control surfaces, design of an airframe that is shaped to produce a small radar signature, and by naturally being unstable th
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by parksy 8y ago
This is pretty cool. I remember when Magic Carpet came out back in '94 ( https://ultimatehistoryvideogames.jimdo.com/magic-carpet/ ) It had a magic eye feature, which I haven't really seen before or since so i
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by parksy 8y ago
I don't think anyone was making an argument based on human behaviours thousands of years ago, or how an argument based on primitive cultures is relevant. Unless your point is that if these hypothetical forest-children existed, modern
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by parksy 8y ago
Define "Productive" Define "Success" Assuming I qualify, no two weekends are the same, I don't have a routine. This particular weekend? I slept in. I sent an email that I've been drafting all week. I had dinner
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by parksy 8y ago
I think this is great but would having the phones all lined up in a box like that cause any significant detriment / interference in their networking / radio communications? I hope the state gets the funding it needs.

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