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by roddylindsay 3y ago
"Clean Energy Associates’ (CEA) “Energy Storage System Supplier Market Intelligence Report” asserts that the incentives offered by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are the catalyst for the surge of the number of
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
I don't follow. Neuroscience imaging tools like fMRI are only used because it is impossible to measure the activations of each neuron in a brain in real time (unlike an artificial neural network). This research paper's attempt to
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
Deepfake detection will always be imperfect. The only solution the epistemological challenge from deepfakes is to securely authenticate legitimate media. The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA -- c2pa.org) is an emergin
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
You can definitely explain Bayes' theorem without calculus. I just asked ChatGPT to do it and it came up with a great example using a deck of cards and some fraction math.
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
I would assume that a data science class is mostly "good old statistics." But if "data science" is the phrase that gets education boards to put more student butts in seats in stats class, I'm all for it.
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
A high school "data science" course, if designed properly, will be far more useful to students and beneficial to society than calculus. Every high school student should learn how to grapple with uncertainty, how to evaluate statis
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California can take the lead on preventing AI harms(capitolweekly.net)
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by roddylindsay 4y ago
DTS is a lossy codec that can encode multiple audio channels into normal stereo audio. The encoded waveform sounds exactly like a dialup modem.
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by roddylindsay 4y ago
I think Searle would agree with you that the room does in fact speak Chinese. His point is that the neither the person, the machine, or "the room" understands Chinese, at least in the usual sense of that word when it comes to
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by roddylindsay 4y ago
Quadraphonic CD-4 records from the 1970's encode 4 discrete channels into a single record groove! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Discrete_4 The trick is to encode two additional channels on a 30kHz carri
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by roddylindsay 4y ago
This is hardly an indefensible position. John Searle, for one, has argued this point for more than 40 years: "Imagine a native English speaker who knows no Chinese locked in a room full of boxes of Chinese symbols (a data base) togethe
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by roddylindsay 4y ago
For ranking the candidates these predictions are combined into a score by weighting them: "recap.engagement.is_favorited": 0.5 "recap.engagement.is_good_clicked_convo_desc_favorited_or_replied": 11* (the
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by roddylindsay 4y ago
What could go wrong?
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by roddylindsay 4y ago
The Monterey Bay Aquarium was founded by two daughters of David Packard of Hewlett-Packard fame (along with Stanford professor Chuck Baxter who died last year.) Deep tech roots there.
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by roddylindsay 4y ago
Hustle (hustle.com) helps Democratic campaigns, progressive advocacy groups, nonprofits, schools, and other organizations mobilize their constituents via text and video messaging. We are hiring remote US-based software engineers: https:&#x
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Show HN: Envelop Stream, a mixed-reality music venue (on desktop Chromium)(envelop.us)
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by roddylindsay 4y ago
Hustle | Full-Stack and Backend Engineers | U.S. Remote (NY, CA, MA, FL, DC, VA, MD, NC preferred -- other locations considered on case by case basis) We empower organizations to humanize communication, maximize their engagement efforts, an
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by roddylindsay 5y ago
Ah yes, the Friday night security incident drop.
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by roddylindsay 6y ago
Circa 2008-2009 when I was at FB I wrote a dashboard widget for the ops team that scraped Twitter for mentions of phrases like "Facebook down" in the past 5m. It was in use for a while.
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by roddylindsay 6y ago
Thank you Audacity for an absolutely indispensable piece of software for anyone who works with audio.
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What Today’s Tech Leaders Can Learn from 1850s San Francisco(theinformation.com)
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Suzanne Ciani (60's electronic music pioneer) performance in VR and 3D audio(youtube.com)
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Why social media regulation is cursed by Net Neutrality(theinformation.com)
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by roddylindsay 6y ago
Just need to recall Chesa and we're off to the races..
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by roddylindsay 6y ago
Opus is awesome. Up to 255 audio channels supported!
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Show HN: Earshot – open-source transcoder to livestream Higher-Order Ambisonics(github.com)
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by roddylindsay 6y ago
Introducing the Earshot project — a free and open-source transcoder for live streaming Higher-Order Ambisonics. Using Earshot, spatial audio developers can build new and innovative immersive live experiences for the web. Earshot solves the
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by roddylindsay 6y ago
A simpler and cheaper brain-stimulating intervention to improve language learning has been known in the literature since 1972. No fancy electronics necessary. “The results of this study are interpreted as confirming the hypothesis that the
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by roddylindsay 6y ago
Came to the comments to recommend this as well! Fantastic read.
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by roddylindsay 6y ago
Once this technology gets incorporated into DJ mixers / CDJs, this is going to make DJing much more creatively interesting. Historically, blending between mixed stereo tracks has limited to mixing EQ bands, but now DJs will be able to

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