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by plafl 10y ago
For me it sounds like the researchers are saying: we are so cool now we can tease you all we want because we can have 10 investors just by snapping our fingers. Sounds a little like a childish revenge after years of crawling for funding. I&
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by plafl 10y ago
Predict probability of car accidents based on the sensors of your smartphone
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Engineering simulators are used for this purpose, I have worked on them, and seen them being used precisely for trying to find unexpected system behaviors under sensor or other subsystem failures (valves, computers, motors, power,...). This
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by plafl 10y ago
I don't know, but maybe it had a net positive impact on the world. Maybe not everything is about reducing labor costs, maybe it improved car quality or assembly speed. It would be great to know what is the most important incentive auto
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by plafl 10y ago
What machine learning tools are missing from python? I think it's the best supported language but I would like to know what I'm missing
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by plafl 10y ago
My bet is that is not really about audio quality, but because in order to understand speech you need to fully understand the language. Try to write down something you hear in a foreign language. As someone who has learnt English as a foreig
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by plafl 10y ago
You can have an accident if you drive while being drunk. The fact that most of the time there is no accident doesn't mean that it's not dangerous. Sometimes it looks like we take economic and political decisions similarly.
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by plafl 10y ago
I started to read the article but after reading some paragraphs it still continues spreading mistrust about scientists. This is a very bad indicator in my experience. I think there was some article about it here some time ago, since we cann
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by plafl 10y ago
For a senior developer, let's say 10 year working experience, there are some jobs above 50k but they are an small percentage. If I were a fresh graduate, or senior willing to relocate, my advice for any spanish engineer would be to mov
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by plafl 10y ago
> In the US, the average person has grievances, is made fun of constantly on TV, and watches as people argue solutions that don't seem to have anything to do with the problem but sure fit their "let no crisis go to waste"
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by plafl 10y ago
They give at least an estimation. I think that giving some error margins would make them more useful but I doubt the general public would appreciate it. Take for example the data here: https://ig.ft.com/sites/brexit-pol
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by plafl 10y ago
It could be also that younger people were more undecided about what to vote. I don't really know, I'm not even from UK, just an hypothesis.
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by plafl 10y ago
> The UK can easily fill this up with high-skilled immigrants (Masters/PhD’s in technical fields) Is that so? I'm not sure it's true. I have a master in a technical field and given enough money I would be of course be will
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by plafl 10y ago
A race condition I guess. At least we didn't try to drink at the same time. For the record I usually write functional code. Let me put another example instead of coffee. If I have a differential equation, "dx/dt=f(x,t)",
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by plafl 10y ago
I have a cup of coffee, if I drink a little I don't think a new cup of coffee with less coffee has been created, just that the old one is different. There are some times where imperative thinking seems more natural.
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by plafl 10y ago
There is an over representation of open source in the amateur and student communities because open source it's usually free while commercial products are very expensive. It's true however that there is a tendency where open sourc
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by plafl 10y ago
Why should all events have non-zero probability? So that you don't divide by zero when applying Bayes theorem? Why would you condition on a zero probability event to start with? I find all the arguments between bayesianism/frequen
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by plafl 10y ago
Bigger countries can pressure smaller countries to adopt their invasive legal system, unless it benefits the most powerful people like for example tax havens. I don't think there are so many countries that we can afford natural selecti
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Same in Spain
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by plafl 10y ago
I didn't know the saying but I like it a lot. I will add that once you fail you no longer fear failing.
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by plafl 10y ago
I think that the kind of interview you get tells a lot about the person that is interviewing you. I have been interviewed by professors and PhDs, and I have worked with them too, and never they expected anyone to remember some specific know
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by plafl 10y ago
My own experience is that carse indicate something like 10% more speed than the real one. You can check that with a GPS, which gives very precise speed measurements. So maybe 9mph excesive speed will not trigger any radar.
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by plafl 11y ago
That's actually the main reason I try to move all my workflow to emacs. Most probably it will be maintained 40 years more and the time I invest in learning to use it it's not going to be wasted.
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by plafl 11y ago
Beautiful. The next time someone asks what is machine learning about I'm going to send a link to this page.
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by plafl 11y ago
I would recommend studying a career heavy in applied mathematics. I'm an aerospace engineer and I have worked on hydraulic simulation and UAV navigation before further studying machine learning and working as data scientist. The most i
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by plafl 11y ago
Researchers don't pay for access to journals, universities do. There is a personal benefit for a researcher to publish on a prestigious but paywalled journal but no personal cost.
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by plafl 11y ago
I wonder why I'm not entitled to free updates that correct bugs in some software I paid for
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by plafl 11y ago
The problem is that you need to give back everything, even if the GPL code you are using is a tiny part of your product. That's why I prefer LGPL.
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by plafl 11y ago
I'm always wary of articles that try to support their point by showing some ridiculous correlations. It's very easy to look at thousands of correlations and select the few most ridiculous, ignoring the vast amount of them that may
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by plafl 11y ago
Viscosity is fundamental. A two dimensional airfoil inside inviscid fluid has zero drag (maybe you expected that) and indeterminate lift (that for me was a surprise), unless you force the stagnation point to be on the trailing edge. This ma

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