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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I get the frustration, but how do you actually keep a team aligned on the same goal when they're all working in different locations? I can think of two tools: - Task managers, like Trello or Asana or Jira or whatever. They use text to
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Remember that Nike only manufactures a small amount itself. Most is contracted out to factories overseas with different incentives.
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
GPT-3 reportedly cost $10M, and Deep RL is notorious for requiring way more epochs than supervised learning tasks like transformers or CNNs. And that's not even accounting for the cost of robots (which will need frequent repairs when t
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Other comments point out valid technical concerns, but even if those were solved, there's still not a clear application in manufacturing. If it has already been automated (e.g. semiconductors, welding car frames) then there's not
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I'm just curious how you started following Hacker News?
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
> For example, a NASA document is explicit in saying that a factor of safety only covers #1 and manufacturing tolerances and does not cover #2 - #5 Why do different fields have different definitions? Because they're different fields
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I never realized the main transformer element worked on rectified AC. Could someone explain why we rectify the AC power before the transformer? I always thought transformers worked on AC power anyways.
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I find it interesting that Thea always uses "Our" with respect to "our products", "our firmware". It's super interesting that even though it could be "my", she thinks of it as a product of a team
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
There is a video here that explains the concept: https://www.mahle.com/en/news-and-press/press-releases/mahle... If you're like me, and thought this was basically a squirrel-cage motor, then they key poi
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I had an off-topic thought that the ideal of Slack (the chat service) is actually very well explained by "slack" as defined in this article. This article holds "slack" as the ability to respond to a new task immediatel
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I think it's notes from the live/audio interview? But agreed, it would be more powerful if it were flowing prose
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Is there anything standing in the way of making such an app? This seems eminently solvable by a motivated app developer.
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
In this trial, shots were given in May-August to children a minimum of 5 months old. Assuming children that have not reached 5 months by August (or say October) can't be vaccinated in time for the seasonal peak of Malaria, should we r
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I just squished a plastic bag as much as I could, and got it down to an inch cubed. So if I hypothetically did that for 2000 bags in 1ft^2 (sorry for English units), I think that would mean it could be 13-14in thick. So maybe it is reasonab
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I'm an American who has lived overseas and I think I have a little more nuance than this, but overall I have the mindset you describe. I think it's kind of like the factoid that ~70-80% of people say they are better than average a
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Hypothetically, if I built a system tomorrow that recommended which roads and bridges were most worth spending on (because they actually enable economic activity but are in poor condition, so not vacation bridges), is there enough leeway in
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
Have a source? That seems like an awesome way to recycle grocery bags.
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
Maybe we finally found an application for Blockchain...
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
Haha, or e.g. "Welcome to our gas station. We're optimistic that you're getting the number of gallons that you paid for." But in reality I think the other responses get it right. I would say it's a marketing decisio
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
Seems like the cars didn't fall that far short, but I think the implied grievance is that Tesla is systematically optimistic about the range of their cars where other automakers (Mini Cooper, Porsche, etc) make very conservative esti
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
Are they more receptive to feedback when you just launch straight into it? Or is there something different that you do to prime them to be receptive?
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
I'm reading a whole lot of frustrated comments here and totally get where the frustration is coming from. But in a different direction, I wanted to offer a thought for how to improve: Rule #1: Always ask people if they want feedback be
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
Sort of a methodological question: why does a crash max out at 30%? The author seems to point out that even a 30% crash wouldn't fix it and therefore no crash would, but I'm wondering why crashes can't be larger than 30%.
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
While the equation you give is valid, I think it is probably not that useful given the "volume" is open to space and so we can't solve this equation. I think more useful is a static equilibrium, specifically that d(pressure)&
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
Also discussed by https://phys.org/news/2021-01-camera-virtual-environmental.h... TLDR: the transmission of video data emits about 61g per gigabyte, which is significant CO2 emission. Therefore, reducing bandwidth util
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How to reduce the environmental impact of your next virtual meeting(news.mit.edu)
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
Agreed. Would love to hear more technical details. Particularly about the remote managed part, and how the user accesses it.
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
1) Would a random driver (random steering and throttle) also have avoided these crashes? It seems like they were fatal because several variables coincided very exactly, and really any other input would have avoided them. 2) What input is th
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
A lot of really insightful and disturbing stories in the comments here about discrimination in hiring. To bring them all together and improve, what hiring practices have you observed that have really worked well? (Particularly interested in
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by robbmorganf 6y ago
> Since NNs are known to be "equivalent" to kernel methods I remember reading this somewhere, but I can't find the exact paper. Do you think you could link me to it? Also, I seem to recall the paper didn't provide a m

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