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by qchris 4y ago
I thought you were being facetious about what could have been a throwaway comment from a throwaway account, but then I checked their bio; this particular type of interaction is one of the things that I love about HN.
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In case anyone else is wondering, the term "syncretic" can be defined as "combining or bringing together different philosophical, religious, or cultural principles and practices." [1] https://www.dictionary.co
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I feel like this is the same problem that drove Intel into their current position; they do a really bad job at creating a separation of concerns. Their big turn around plan across the business appears to be treating foundry and chip design
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It drives me up a wall that they got off basically consequence-free for that--I'm guess they probably made up the fine in reduced time cost spent on authorization proceedings anyway. "Move fast and break things" isn't a
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by qchris 4y ago
Can you expand on b)? I'm not sure I understand why this would be difficult. If you already had a list of instances, as it seems like asynchronous clients could probably handle the scale of instances (source below list about 4k, which
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by qchris 4y ago
I'd also put companies like Digital Ocean into that space as well, plus other VPS providers, including specialty providers like Vast that focus on deep learning hardware, potentially Backblaze for backups, etc. Even if they're not
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by qchris 4y ago
Gotcha--I'll have to run the numbers on pixel sizes between the Mini 2 and Air 2S at various heights; I'm sure that the Air has a much nicer camera, but it would be interesting to see how big the difference is. I've actually
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by qchris 4y ago
Oh, interesting! I've thought about going for larger areas, but most of the places I've been interested in looking at so far (kelp forests, wetlands) are fairly small, and it's lower anxiety to do low and slow flights where I
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by qchris 4y ago
Hey, this is one of my projects too! I use a DJI Mini 2 along with the Litchi flight control app, which allows doing things like building up waypoint missions for covering a large area. I tried doing post-processing myself with OpenCV image
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by qchris 4y ago
I'm curious to see the niche, if any, that this is able to carve out for itself. It's low on RAM, but might fit the same sort of profile as a Raspberry Pi W, even on price. That said, the RISC-V architecture will make things inter
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by qchris 4y ago
Thanks for the insight!
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Totally genuine question as someone coming from a background in mechanical engineering, who now does a lot of software-y things: what do you consider to be "first principles" in computing? Are you talking about first principles in
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> "They are proposing that grad students share desks, taking turns with a scheduling web-app, so administrators can take over some of the space currently used by grad students"
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[2005] It feels like a disservice both to this post and to Paul Graham to exclude the date for this article. I'd imagine the timing on a post like this is critical context for understanding it, and to both exclude it in the submission
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by qchris 4y ago
For what it's worth, even if you don't buy their hardware (I don't have any either, although I'm looking hungrily at their desktops and keyboards), it looks like System76 offers an option for directly supporting Pop!_OS
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by qchris 4y ago
The most comprehensive current view of the Rust machine learning ecosystem at the moment is probably at https://www.arewelearningyet.com/ (I sometimes help maintain this site) Rust has a weird mix at the moment, and not one
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by qchris 4y ago
In the United States, the American Prairie Reserve [1] is doing something along these lines in the area around the Wyoming/Montana border. In particular, their purchases (which often include private ranches that come up for sale) focus
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by qchris 4y ago
Past HN thread on a similar project that had a lot of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871026
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by qchris 4y ago
I don't know if there's a name for this phenomenon, but it's sort of like an invisible Chesterton's fence. "Just make them out of a different steel" feels like a idea that is elegant, but even as someone that&#
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by qchris 4y ago
I'm sorry, this is a pretty awful take on the tl;dr for this particular article, and pretty solidly misses the point. > data is collected both by Amazon and third-parties and that Amazon shares user data with as many as 41 ad partne
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by qchris 4y ago
This is pretty close to my own experience. I actively use Snapchat more than any other social platform because in many ways, it's not really a social "platform", in the same way that Instagram or Facebook or Tiktok are platfo
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by qchris 4y ago
Wow, I'm really excited for this! I'm actually currently rendering a MapLibre-based web map of some drone orthomosaics I've built on my personal site[1], which is using Rust on the backend to dynamically assemble the Javascri
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by qchris 4y ago
And for the machine learning/data science domain: https://www.arewelearningyet.com/
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by qchris 4y ago
That's very understandable--there has been a significant amount of influence from Amethyst on Bevy's design[1], and a number of members in that community have ended up joining the Bevy project in one way or another. Cart, the lead
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> I guess we're using the word replication differently. You seem to be using it to mean a general re-review and re-analysis of everything - basically a funded more aggressive peer review followed by an actual re-running of the study
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> Even if you somehow waved a magic wand and fixed replicability perfectly tomorrow, entire academic fields would still be worthless and misleading. Even ignoring how, frankly, paternalistic and condescending this sentence comes off as,
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This isn't intended as snarky, but I don't understand what "it's the same as everything" is supposed to mean. What is "it"? What is "everything"? Why are they the same? I'd also argue that y
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by qchris 5y ago
My favorite article on this topic is "Escaping science's paradox" by Stuart Buck[1]. I'm, in particular, interested by the idea (at least within the United States) of "red teaming" science. This would involve h
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by qchris 5y ago
I get the skepticism, truly--I actually wrote a couple articles about ethics and machine learning, and I completely agree there have definitely been cranks or bad actors using this kind of technology in both this space and many others. But
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by qchris 5y ago
I'm generally pretty skeptical of claims of applying machine learning to improve healthcare outcomes (they often seem to be a poorly thought-out veneer), but at first glance, this one actually seems pretty exciting. It also seems like

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