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by ratsbane 10y ago
Does anyone know if (and where) it's possible to download a data set of all car accidents (or just fatals) for the last few years? I'd like to see things like date and time, weather conditions, lat/lon, make and model of car
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by ratsbane 10y ago
Oh, absolutely not. But I hope my car would.
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by ratsbane 10y ago
I've got a titanium spork and some dental floss in my backpack and in the trunk of my car I've got a hi-vis vest, white hard hat, and a two-way radio. Am I missing anything? Are some of these prepper people are missing out on the
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by ratsbane 10y ago
I'd make it event-driven. /usr/sbin/hire --ceo starts a setTimeout(function() {`/usr/sbin/fire --ceo`}, 'INTERVAL 60 DAY') (And that is a weird bit of pseudocode, indeed.)
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by ratsbane 10y ago
And there's this - Neural Compute Stick: http://www.movidius.com/news/movidius-announces-deep-learnin...
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by ratsbane 10y ago
The primary source: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63-3.html
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NIST's new password rules – summary(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
4 points by ratsbane 10y ago|2 comments
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by ratsbane 10y ago
I'm really surprised by these numbers. There isn't really any speed advantage or significant storage advantage to using tuples over lists. That really cuts down on the rationale for using tuples over lists, except for the "
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by ratsbane 10y ago
Interesting! The previous example I posted was Python 2.7.12 on Ubuntu 16.04.01. Here is OSX 10.11.5 w/Python 2.7.10 (also inconclusive with respect to speed, but OSX was half the memory): mb:~ doug$ ./listtuple The tuple
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by ratsbane 10y ago
Another (admittedly trivial) experiment with speed and storage: Iterating through a 10,000 element list was about 2% slower than iterating through a 10,000 element tuple, and the list was 16 bytes bigger than the tuple: #!/usr&#x2
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by ratsbane 10y ago
D'oh! Thank you, colanderman. >>> tuple = (94,) >>> getsizeof(tuple) 64
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by ratsbane 10y ago
Interesting article. I've always heard that about lists and tuples, but this article made me wonder how much less efficient with storage is a list. The following trivial example shows that, at least for very small lists and tuples,
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by ratsbane 10y ago
There's nothing intrinsically expensive about a robot arm. It's few motors, sensors, metal, plastic, and something like a raspberry pi. With cheaper components and volume production a robot arm could cost less than a Domino&#x27
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by ratsbane 10y ago
I wonder how they power that. Propane?
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by ratsbane 10y ago
Good find. An "extended major release" while they're onboarding 11 million new customers sounds painful.
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by ratsbane 10y ago
The timing of this as the switchover of Costco cards from Amex to Citi is happening certainly suggests a scaling problem regardless of the "updating its systems" excuse. I've heard Amex blamed for losing the Costco deal, but
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by ratsbane 10y ago
Whether anyone "wants" or "needs" an AR-15 or any other type of firearm, the rest of us need to know that anyone around us with such a weapon has some basic competence in using it and is responsible enough to do so. I h
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Natural language service (Bot framework)(wit.ai)
1 points by ratsbane 10y ago|0 comments
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by ratsbane 10y ago
I started saving file from my dashcam several months ago with that idea - to use the openalpr results as training data for a neural net, but the results I'm getting from openalpr aren't good enough to use without a lot of manual r
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by ratsbane 10y ago
phashes compute a hash on one image which you can then compare with the hashes for other images; butteraugli computes the difference between two images. If you're trying to find duplicates among a set of images, phashes will work in O
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by ratsbane 10y ago
I started training about 24 hours ago with a single i7 860 (2.8ghz) and it's still running, but I'm watching the loss going down so I think it might wrap up within a day or two. The machine I'm using has an Nvidia GTX 970, bu
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by ratsbane 10y ago
I cloned this a few days ago and had some questions when I tried setting it up, and Matthew's been very helpful when I emailed him, so yes, seconded. Great project!
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by ratsbane 10y ago
The openalpr project is pretty good, but it uses an older approach with lot of hand-coded logic instead of the convolutional neural net approach of this project. openalpr is faster than this, at least now, but I think the neural net has po
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by ratsbane 11y ago
I believe that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital does a pretty good job: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary... https://www.stjude.org/
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by ratsbane 11y ago
There are probably a lot more reserves out there that no one's found yet because the current reserves were sufficient for the demand. In the longer term there will be plenty. In the short term, though, existing reserves are mostly in
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by ratsbane 11y ago
I know the guy behind this, David Lowe. He's been working on it for a long time. It represents a massive amount of research and work and will be useful to many people. Congratulations to David, the team, and the NYPL!
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by ratsbane 11y ago
A lot of models were not mentioned in that list: Audi A8, any Mercedes, etc. I wonder if they just weren't tested or if the hack doesn't work with them. (And if that's the case, what is different about those models?)
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by ratsbane 11y ago
You might be happy to hear that Jesus College at Cambridge just decided to remove the Benin Bronze they've had since 1897 and that it might go back to Nigeria: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/12188018/Cam
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by ratsbane 11y ago
I took that class on the Stanford campus in the Summer of 2011. Keith was one of the most engaging instructors I've ever had. His enthusiasm and knowledge were boundless. The course was video-recorded and I downloaded and saved most
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by ratsbane 11y ago
I tried Let's Encrypt for the first time a week or two ago and was really impressed. This is the way to do it. Well done!

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