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by robkop 8y ago
I think one Mr Charles Babbage might disagree with you on that. Also I wouldn't say that any were actually manufactured. The first fully working model of the difference engine was created in the 1990s and as far as I know there never w
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by robkop 8y ago
This is a very interesting argument . I think it's worth noting that you can calculate an estimate of the externalities and remove that from the profit to achieve a more balanced justification. Though unfortunately, unless you counted
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by robkop 8y ago
Thanks, I'll have to check that out.
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by robkop 8y ago
I listened to the podcast back when it came out and was disappointing that they didn't go into technical detail of how the restoration was actually performed. The only things that (I remember) were discussed were dealing with variable
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by robkop 8y ago
You need to stop spreading incorrect information. The state department estimates that there is between 800,000 and 2,000,000 prisoners in these camps. Also the conditions inside these camps have been reported to be far worse than those you
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by robkop 8y ago
Juicers is a lime only term afaik (it referd to someone who charges lime scooters) and the rest are reasonably common Australian expressions (maybe scofflaw is a little less common).
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by robkop 8y ago
I think you're missing something important in this. If you make the fundamental assumption that what happens to people has a level of randomness to it (don't think we'll ever be able to escape this assumption) then insurance
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by robkop 8y ago
Not sure if such a balance exists for external bodies but there does exist a limit very similar that constrains the maximum size of a star [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_luminosity
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by robkop 8y ago
Couldn't agree more, by the end it was readily apparent that the host was on a strict time schedule and was required to talk with each Nobel laureate about their specific work. A real loss considering that some of the conversations wer
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by robkop 8y ago
You really can't compare freenode to slack, their scales are so vastly different that you're practically making a strawman.
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by robkop 8y ago
Absolutely not an insane goal. If you want to see progress in picking items a good starting point with a bunch of resources is the Amazon picking challenge. In terms of navigation, magnetic line following is trivial and more complex navigat
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by robkop 8y ago
Just a personal anecdote but yep, I've seen that one for real.
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by robkop 8y ago
Not a scientist in this field at all but could it possibly have less interference from mediums such as the atmosphere? Hence less signal loss over transmission?
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by robkop 8y ago
Depends who's figures you go by. As per [1] they're at 6%, double your source. [1] https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/04/27/...
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by robkop 8y ago
I assume you are taking about red-flow? I head about them several years ago but haven't seen much since. Do they have the scale/ pricing to sell to the average consumer yet?
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by robkop 8y ago
With only 127 people being tested and a false positive rate of 0.7% I'd be hard pressed to see this as a viable system in its current form. It's certainly less invasive but you have to ask how effective it can possibly be when it&
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by robkop 8y ago
A lot of peer reviews in ML are currently completely open. For instance you can view the reviews for papers in previous and upcoming conferences here [0]. Also in terms of replicability ML is in a unique position where a lot of research is
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by robkop 8y ago
A while ago (around 2 or so years) I did quite a bit of mechatronics and Kalman Filters were used resonable effectively for data fusion in IMUs. I wouldn't be surprised if there were better methods around but all the standard chipsets
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by robkop 8y ago
> looking at the state of Google Translate last time I checked Google Translate was a seq2seq based model with symbol level embeddings. The way symbol embeddings are generated doesn't lead to any real understanding of the sentence&#
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Bell is also currently working on the V-280 Valor which is more of a direct successor to the V-22. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_V-280_Valor
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by robkop 8y ago
Worth noting that after the initial problems the V-22 turned into the safest rotorcraft that the marines have to offer. [1] http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/v-22-is-the-safest-most-su...
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by robkop 9y ago
I would strongly argue that the motivation for nukeing Japan was not to give the Soviets an impression but to ensure that American troops didn't have to land on hostile beaches on the Japanese mainland. The decision was mainly made to
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by robkop 9y ago
What's the advantage over just using tensorboard and writing summeries of whatever you want?
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by robkop 9y ago
> Tesla refuses to disclose buyer lists to third-party research companies that have been trying to conduct such surveys. I would prefer it if my car manufacturer wasn't selling out my personal details so I can be harassed for survey
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by robkop 9y ago
Possibly they were thinking of first a DNS query then the actual query? That would result in two round trips.
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by robkop 9y ago
I assume they are pumping enough power to a single point to ionise the air and produce light. Would that much ultrasonic power be enough to burn human skin?
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by robkop 9y ago
I wonder how they plan to reduce the costs of fairings when spaceX fairings cost most than their entire launch cost.
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by robkop 9y ago
Letting people die younger, faster makes sense that it would reduce healthcare spending but what doesn't make sense to me is that you loose all future productivity and value that these people create. They say that the costs are barely
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by robkop 9y ago
To cause a short you would need to be able to get inside the motor and nowdays you can buy fully sealed IP68 brushless motors (or even IP69K at a higher cost) for your attack drones. Just as a side note, as long as your elemental carbon nan
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I would worry about spraying rapidly hardening foam in a room filled with people (not sure if you can breath under it, nevermind how you get people out). String polymer sounds like it could work, my only concern would be if you could design

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