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by ryandamm 10y ago
Because it's supporting an authoritarian liar, who denies the validity of established science, the rule of law, and the normal checks and balances of government. He also has suggested he'll trample on civil rights, including the f
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Since this space appears to be a referendum on Thiel's involvement with Trump (mostly), let me just offer this perspective: in Thiel's main business of being an investor in startups, this could backfire if enough founders find the
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by ryandamm 10y ago
I had some heavy-duty hydraulic brakes fade on me on my 2kW electric mountain bike. Scary times. I think the failure mode of cable-operated disk brakes might be better (though I've since ditched the bike, so that's speculation).
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Onshape.com - check it out. WebGL is good enough for some CAD users.
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by ryandamm 10y ago
To be fair, Chinese capital outflows are going everywhere in the US (and Canada), high tech is a tiny part of it. (Though there are structural reasons why capital leakage via investment is easier than other capital leakage.) In your own cou
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by ryandamm 10y ago
They used to make people sick. But we've adapted to watching screens, mostly. (First person shooters still make a lot of people ill, on regular TVs.) Plus, a grammar evolved (180 degree line of action, visual weights, etc) that allow e
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Thanks for posting this, I love Harold McGee and wasn't aware of his posts here. I've now got a bunch of browser tabs open with his other articles, can't wait to read them all... He used to write occasionally for the NY Times
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Even back in the late 90s / early 2000s, my friends and I felt like Harvard Square was becoming progressively less interesting -- favorite bars and cafes making way for cell phone stores and banks. Seems like a trend -- extrapolating b
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by ryandamm 10y ago
This is why cinema lenses report t-stops ('transmission') in addition to f-stops. The t-stops tell you about exposure, and account for losses between surfaces and absorption within the media. The f-stop tells you about depth of fi
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by ryandamm 10y ago
All it takes is the next Google to decide not to apply, or to turn down their acceptance, to bend the return curve. Check your priors.
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by ryandamm 10y ago
This is a very consumer-oriented post. Unfortunately, there's a clear tradeoff with startup advice between specificity and universality; for my startup, this one is far too specific to apply to us (I think, with some degree of confiden
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Note that 'worse field of view' corresponds to 'better effective resolution' for a fixed number of pixels. There's always a tradeoff between FOV and pixel density. I think the Gear made a good compromise for more pa
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Yeah, we all saw how Glass went over. Perhaps this is made out of cloth so aggressive bystanders don't cut their fists on it when they punch you in the face?
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by ryandamm 10y ago
One of the issues here is the content isn't tied directly to the pixels in the display. You have competing rasters: the raster of the input video (or desktop rendering), and the raster of the display device. They don't necessarily
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by ryandamm 10y ago
I've actually played around with this (used to make 'immersive' 2D videos for fitness equipment; [1] is a former startup of mine). We tested existing footage in VR: completely nauseating. That is, it's nauseating if you&
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by ryandamm 10y ago
This is actually one of the best, current use-cases for today's mobile VR. There will be more, though.
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by ryandamm 10y ago
The PSVR also specs 120 fps (and is capable of it), whereas Oculus and the Vive are at 90.
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Right now, all tethered VR projects are arguably MS-dependent; there's no way to run those headsets on OS X or Linux, as far as I know. So it's an ecosystem thing. And for sure, it seems that Microsoft is more interested in AR tha
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by ryandamm 10y ago
I think we're going to get better vision before we get hard AI. Just my two cents. (Then again, I'm biased.)
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Google Files Patent Application for Hand-Controlled Mobile VR Headset(uploadvr.com)
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by ryandamm 10y ago
From Wikipedia's article on NTSC: "483 scan lines make up the visible raster" The 525 includes a lot of other stuff. Easy mistake because PAL shows 576 lines (out of 625), but only at 25 full frames / 50 interlaced half-
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Lytro Demo Offers Promising Look at the Future of Lightfield Video for VR(uploadvr.com)
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Amazon’s VR Shopping Experience May Be on Its Way(uploadvr.com)
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by ryandamm 10y ago
I wondered the same thing, even tried Googling his height. I think it's partly exaggerated by a somewhat-wide lens, and the two flankers leaning back in their chairs while he leans forward (nearer objects being represented as larger).
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by ryandamm 10y ago
This kind of makes me happy, that this exists. This must be the saddest AI ever, though. Or at least the most pessimistic about humanity, being trained on YouTube comments...
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Large population, favorable demographics (entering its 'demographic surplus' phase), lots of untapped potential? Also: English-speaking, personal and professional ties to SV? Solid educational system, history of in-sourcing US-bas
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by ryandamm 10y ago
PPP is a kind of useless statistic for comparison, here. YC partners are looking for real-money returns. That said, I'm bullish on India in the 10-20 year time table. Eventually it will be the most populous country in the world, and we
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Yeah, but GPS isn't a handshake, and most commodity drones rely on it. You can't take it over, but you can probably blind it.
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Endgame is not just signal, it's inputs like GPS. Also, without external inputs, it's damned difficult to keep a lock on your location. But... not impossible. Counterpoint, which confirms your comment: I spoke with a drone designe
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Meh, not written by someone who lives here: " the 280"? Freeways don't get articles around here, bub. Clearly a plant from the LA startup scene.

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