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by ptero 2y ago
It feels like I am always peddling Lyn Alden on macro questions. One of Lyn's recent public articles analyses long term returns and argues that most investments suck, and a few superachievers pull up the averages. So Apples and Nvidias
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by ptero 2y ago
Mistral's open models are not large. If Mistral were to shut down users could easily find another provider to run inference or bring it in house. I think even their commercial models are relatively cheap to run (at least compared to fl
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by ptero 2y ago
To me, this is the right move. The skillset needed to build such RF endpoints is not that rare. Any decent EE college graduate should be able to rig one up with an off the shelf software-defined radio and some literature review. If all they
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by ptero 2y ago
Most cars have ultrasonic sensors for parking and radar for longer range detection, such as cruise control.
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There are, IMO, many things that would be important to mention if we wanted to try to glean the account holder's real intent on the disposition of his retirement account. For example, how long he had relationship with each girlfriend (
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by ptero 2y ago
TLDR: A person named a girlfriend as a retirement plan beneficiary. They later broke up, he had another girlfriend, they eventually also broke up, and 10 years after the second breakup he died single and childless. His brothers want money t
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by ptero 2y ago
Those numbers were a form of "verbal highlight" of items in a long sentence, not actual links. For specific ADS-B fields, ADS-B exchange used to have a great data fields overview. ICAO should have a spec, too.
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by ptero 2y ago
Thank you for the info, I am glad to hear that the data is being collected and used. Getting it from raw ADS-B reports makes all fields available without the lag (and thus more useful for weather reporting and forecasting), but the record
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by ptero 2y ago
Thank you for doing this! As my own sidebar, I spent many years at a national lab working with distributed sensor networks (primarily ATC and other radar for detecting non-weather stuff :) ). I thought about using ADS-B as input for weather
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by ptero 2y ago
Even if you buy one you will almost certainly need to get spectrum approval to transmit, which is non-trivial and comes with many strings.
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by ptero 2y ago
On the contrary, it is for any images created with their software, whether you store those images in their cloud or at your own computer.
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by ptero 2y ago
IALAL, but the content from the Adobe clarification posted earlier tells it applies to all files created with their software, regardless of whether you host them in the cloud or on your own computer.
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by ptero 2y ago
A lot of people complaining about GenAI claim that results that are correct 90% of the time are useless. That, to me, is not true. There are plenty of examples where a 10% incorrect answer is perfectly useful. For example in software with g
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by ptero 2y ago
In what country? For example in the US today, scholarships are competitive (as any free money is), but the selection criteria has little to do with merit. Even top universities (MIT, Stanford, Harvard) specifically do not provide merit-ba
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by ptero 2y ago
> [merit slots] will become competitive without a strict standard required Yes, and I see this as a good thing. If someone wants free tuition at a top university, they have to be very good, way above average. Free tuition at a good, but
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by ptero 2y ago
The problem with scholarships is that the criteria is not clear and selection is (at least seen as being) at a whim of whoever is in charge at the moment. Merit slots, given via clear exams, give everyone a good idea of whether they are lik
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by ptero 2y ago
The biggest problem is the fundamental inability of two higher education camps: "education should be free" and "education should be market priced" to agree on anything. It would be better to have a mix: free education sl
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by ptero 2y ago
Complying with the user preferences would be a good one. My elderly dad doesn't use his iPhone for anything sensitive and it is not even password protected. If that phone gets lost I will replace it. He doesn't need his apple ID t
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by ptero 2y ago
This sounds great, I would love to buy one! Is there a static specs page? The site seems to have been hugged to near-death but even if not it would be great to know the basics not in a video form: size, weight, OS (e.g., can I run my favori
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by ptero 2y ago
Unless there is a specific, believable, near term risk people will just ignore it. Most would submit genetic material to 23andme and similar organizations with no restriction on its use. Yes, if could theoretically backfire not just on them
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by ptero 2y ago
eternal-september.org is a good, free option. But the frequency of usenet posting (at least on groups that I still look at) is pretty low...
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by ptero 2y ago
If one cannot disappear for a week to think or study he is putting himself at some serious life disadvantage. My 2c. I do not mean telling family that I am disappearing for a week starting tomorrow, but that I want to disappear for a week i
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by ptero 2y ago
I suspect at least in part due to the difficulties with reliable tracking and ID, not the negation component. Plus due to the fact that RF is (so far) still very effective at least against cheaper stuff. But once that changes the game will
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by ptero 2y ago
> It might be able to defeat something “Hamas grade” or a Mavic with an RPG taped to it That alone would be a major capability for a layered defense system. Cleaning up decoys would be another one (not necessarily getting those down, IDi
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by ptero 2y ago
I highly recommend Lyn Alden, who spends a lot of time on analysis of the macro conditions and potential outcomes, expressing her findings and opinions in clear, engineering language.
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by ptero 2y ago
"Get next major feature to release and you can go as a friend" might have been part of an earlier agreement.
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by ptero 2y ago
> what appears to have happened is that the local housing market now values those condos higher than it does their detached home. I think it is even more benign: they are trying to stay in the same area and in their area (likely sparsely
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by ptero 2y ago
They are also discrete, coming from a finite set. I remember at the undergrad differential equation class the teacher asked for some arbitrary coefficients so we can classify the result. She was very surprised that 3 differential equations
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by ptero 2y ago
Two questions that immediately jump at me are: 1. What is random? They seem to have run numerical experiments, which suggests they used (something equivalent to) uniform integer coefficients from a bounded set. And that could affect finding
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by ptero 2y ago
Not trying to knock Raytheon, those are useful technologies, but those sometimes work against some targets (mostly on clean test ranges) and are not even close to a complete solution. Reliably detecting and tracking drones is a very hard pr

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