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by ramanan 10y ago
Reminds me of one of my all-time favorites - The 500 mile email https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by ramanan 10y ago
Bicycles are surprisingly stable as long as they are able to maintain some momentum. minutephysics had a great video about this too: How Do Bikes Stay Up?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAc5t2lkvo
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by ramanan 10y ago
It wouldn't be that easy. The drone would still need EM windows for its other requirements, possibly communication and navigation.
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by ramanan 10y ago
OP here, the post was really meant to invite discussion. I would love to hear more from people deploying machine learning techniques at their projects, teams and companies.
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Moving machine learning from practice to production(engineering.semantics3.com)
112 points by ramanan 10y ago|4 comments
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by ramanan 10y ago
For those interested in the use of microwave links for HFT, there was an interesting post [1] a while back and some discussion on HN [2] too. [1] https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-ba...
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Debugging Neural Networks: A Checklist(engineering.semantics3.com)
3 points by ramanan 10y ago|0 comments
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The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (2000)(joelonsoftware.com)
5 points by ramanan 10y ago|0 comments
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Hello, Perl Developers(aws.amazon.com)
4 points by ramanan 10y ago|0 comments
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An unexpected journey, a Postgres DBA's tale(engineering.semantics3.com)
1 points by ramanan 10y ago|0 comments
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by ramanan 10y ago
You might be interested in bro pages then! http://bropages.org/
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A Perl toolchain for building micro-services at scale(engineering.semantics3.com)
142 points by ramanan 10y ago|52 comments
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The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think(theatlantic.com)
2 points by ramanan 10y ago|0 comments
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by ramanan 10y ago
Reminds me of a similar article covering the work of Douglas Hofstadter, the author of GEB : The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-...
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Intercom raises $50M to continue heavy investment in product(intercom.io)
1 points by ramanan 11y ago|0 comments
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by ramanan 11y ago
Proactively thinning selective regions of forests and controlled burns seem to be the route forward to prevent (rather than react to) large-scale fires. This short video from MinuteEarth, while not going into much detail, does have a lot of
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by ramanan 11y ago
A related video on the numbers behind piano music, on why it is mathematically impossible to perfectly tune a piano : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hqm0dYKUx4
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Next-Level Writing for Medium(medium.com)
1 points by ramanan 11y ago|0 comments
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by ramanan 11y ago
I remember seeing this on Numberphile a few weeks ago [1]. For anyone interested in this, I suggest taking a look at hyperbolic baseball & golf [2] too ! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KHCuXN2F3I [2] https:&#x2F
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JSFiddle for SQL queries (data visualization too)(redash.io)
2 points by ramanan 11y ago|0 comments
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Krugman: Battles the austerians(bloomberg.com)
1 points by ramanan 11y ago|1 comments
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The Square Root of Two to 1M Digits(apod.nasa.gov)
2 points by ramanan 11y ago|0 comments
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Illegal prime(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by ramanan 11y ago|0 comments
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by ramanan 11y ago
I think that you are referring to LTCM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management ) which blew up in the late 90s. For others interested, I would strongly recommend the book "When Genius Failed&q
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Large Hadron Collider discovers new pentaquark particle(bbc.com)
1 points by ramanan 11y ago|0 comments
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by ramanan 11y ago
Related link : The Mercator Puzzle : https://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/poly/puzzledr... A nice way to get a feel for the distortions.
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by ramanan 11y ago
CGP Grey! I came here to post the same link. His entire series is very informative. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7679C7ACE93A5638
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by ramanan 11y ago
Perhaps what throwaway8198 is referring to are the practical consequences of Maxwell's laws as formulated by an American team in the 1960s [1]. For a thorough, more recent study, I highly recommend [2]. [1] https://en.wikip
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by ramanan 11y ago
After having read the PRL paper [1], I am not really sure why they left out gain (and pattern) measurements for the antennas. In my experience, radiation efficiency is only one part in determining the received signal strength. The impedance
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by ramanan 12y ago
and what number would you choose ? waitbutwhy had an interesting discussion on this a few weeks back: http://waitbutwhy.com/table/how-long-would-you-live-if-you-c...

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