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by saeranv 7y ago
I use Python full time and I found this useful. Starred it for future reference. Why does everyone find the <thing> notation confusing? <list> means its a list, and so on. I'm really surprised it's tripping people up.
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by saeranv 7y ago
On the other hand, a generalist is in the best position to understand where it is most beneficial to go deep. Even just the exercise of thinking through your domain, and trying to identify where you should best allocate your resources is us
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by saeranv 7y ago
I find it very surprising that he suggests writing the introduction at the end of the paper. He doesn't explicitly mention the abstract, so I'm assuming the introduction includes the abstract of the paper. If that's true, I f
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Ask HN: What are easy to read, and reliable news sites for elderly people?
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by saeranv 7y ago
I feel like I'm constantly looking up SO or blog posts that benchmark Pandas methods while I'm coding with Pandas. You have to, since the inefficiency you add with a slower method is nontrivial.
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by saeranv 7y ago
There is an instrument called an infrared thermometer. It measures the long-wave radiation emitted from a target object and computes it's temperature. However that will only give you the measure of a single spot, which could be inaccur
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by saeranv 7y ago
What's wrong with them being ideologically progressive? This is tech developed for the Democratic Party, of course they're going to be progressive.
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by saeranv 7y ago
This guy's time management is impressive. If you're diligently spending 1 day a week exploring new research methods, writing and reviewing your lab notebook, staying up-to-date on current SOTA research, writing SOTA algorithms for
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by saeranv 7y ago
I feel like this too. However, I've found I can instantly get into non-verbal focus while playing chess. You might want to give it a shot. FWIW I'm not a particularly good, or experienced player either, just someone that enjoys it
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How a Kalman Filter Works in Pictures (2015)(bzarg.com)
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Good find. So that diagram implies that they are in fact able to visualize the 3D scene in some fashion.
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I think you missed the point of this article, it's meant to light-hearted, and satirical.
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So, whereas our optic system consists of two eyes, and two lenses that converge light from the environment into the photoreceptor cells of our eye, this creature has it's photoreceptors on the outside. Since the purpose of our lenses i
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Be Optimistic About the Future – Kevin Kelly and Marc Andreessen(youtube.com)
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Eliezer Yudowsky on Trump, History (2016)(facebook.com)
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by saeranv 7y ago
I think KA fulfills a critical niche in the ecosystem of online study materials out there: he actually works through the math in real time on his 'blackboard'. That's one thing you can't get from watching 3Blue1Brown vid
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by saeranv 7y ago
Author Neal Stephenson, he writes about this in "In the beginning there was the command line".
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There are a couple of different facets to this that the article ignores. The energy consumed by computers can be offset by recovering waste heat to offset space or domestic hot water heating (which is the bulk of your energy consumption in
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by saeranv 7y ago
Handwritten notes allow you to use different modalities to interpret information, which promotes deeper understanding.
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Democracy Incompatible with Human Bias, Will Fail(politico.com)
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by saeranv 7y ago
I'm curious about what you need to do to get your kids ready for school? I'm not sure what age middle schoolers are (haven't heard of that term before), but shouldn't kids be capable of waking up, dressing, and going to
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by saeranv 7y ago
He's not great, but I'm disagreeing with the false equivlance here. Trudeau is better compared to Harper who gagged scientists, compared to Scheer who wants to rely on subsidies and regulations to limit carbon, compared to Doug Fo
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by saeranv 7y ago
Trudeau has done this in Canada. I, like you, thought it would be a brilliant way to get around the traditional conservative opposition to taxes, but surprisingly - they still opposed it, and provincial conservatives have challenged it in t
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by saeranv 7y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that this is not something that "both sides" are equally responsible for. In Canada/US, conservatives/Republicans generally refuse to implement a carbon tax; wher
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by saeranv 7y ago
I would say that if the fan is used as part of a ventilation scheme, yes the dehumidification, and moving air displacing hot air coming from your skin is helpful. If you're in a closed room you just get the benefit of moving air, which
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by saeranv 7y ago
Reading through their plan on sustainability: https://storage.googleapis.com/sidewalk-toronto-ca/wp-conten... I think tracking building energy and indoor ambient conditions in order to optimize the former is a good exa
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by saeranv 7y ago
I worked on a laboratory building in a cold climate recently. Labs typically consume a ton of energy (relative to offices/residences) due to the energy spent on conditioning and forcing air for fumehoods. We investigated a couple of di
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Also the AC dumps heat outside, which in urban areas contributes to local heat increase (i.e Urban Heat Island effect), which in turn requires even more AC too fight.
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How are you deriving the 30W of AC capacity here?
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It's more complicated then that. Take a look at this psychrometric chart showing the environmental bounds at which human comfort is guaranteed: http://comfort.cbe.berkeley.edu/ You can see there that even at extremely

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