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by sampo 4y ago
Also LIFX bulbs (a competitor to Phillips Hue) you can control by sending them UDP packets over your wlan. https://lan.developer.lifx.com/docs But the API provided by the Phillips Hue bridge is maybe more high level. https
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Philips Hue: You can use the phone app to control individual bulbs directly with bluetooth, but for more control you need also the Hue brigde, which talks to the bulbs over Zigbee (a wireless protocol), and to your phone app over your wifi.
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Yeah, the neural network "diffusion models" are not very well named. If you have background in natural sciences, you would understand diffusion to mean, well, diffusion. Whereas there generative neural networks are about (1) blurr
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> Am I like the last person on the planet who doesn't want to live in a dense city? There is currently more people who want to live in dense cities, than there are supplies of homes (apartments) in dense cities. It would be nice to
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Or use both.
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> A problem with each state doing their own thing, is then the state can take away human rights (1) Why would the state residents vote for a state legislature that takes away human rights from them? (2) And if this is seen as a real dang
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> The two biggest problems in US politics are the two-party system and unproprotional representation. In my opinion, runoff voting, transfer voting, ranked-choice voting, are just small fixes that allow the occasional independent candida
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You make 5 people to go through long and demanding training, knowing that 4 out of 5 will have to change careers afterward, as the training wasn't a good fit for them. Just so that you can weed out that 1 out of 5 to hire. Doesn'
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> If this is true, then you almost have to concede the model is broken. PhD training prepares people for the academic career and faculty positions. Less than half of PhD graduates actually end up in the academic career. So yes, you could
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> If you can't be specific enough to be scientific about it, just keep it to yourself. This is some serious gatekeeping. A PhD student is an apprentice, on a path to get scientific training. They are not yet trained enough, so that
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> There was one study about that, which was... not very robust science. It relied on self-report of the biker Here is another study, where they measured the distance to overtaking cars with a distance sensor: https://www.scien
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> Do drivers take greater risks from wearing a seatbelt? Some people have suggested even that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation#Seat_belts
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> Is there any data to substantiate this? Risk compensation is a known theory in psychology. But as is normal for psychology, arguments fly back and forth, and there is no settled consensus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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> Feels odd to erase that correct, active definition I think this is because Americans feel big-brotherly protective (in a creepy way) about their Latin American communities. Altered versions of e.g. Italian food (e.g. pasta carbonara wi
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The real test is, how much money do you need to buy a house with a backyard (so you can plant a tree) in the NYC area?
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Some stores in Finland have them. But you might be correct: Looks like the stores in Finland have stock left but seem to have difficulties ordering more. The demand must be so low, that they're still only slowly running out of the stoc
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> Does Python handle matrix math as well? If you're playing around interactively, it's a bit easier to write (in Matlab) m = [1 0 0 ; 0 0 -1 ; 0 1 0] than (in Python) m = np.array([[1, 0, 0], [0, 0, -1], [0, 1, 0
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> I am trying to understand the rationale behind this. Is there some industry or region where Long, Lat is the customary way of representing a location? Historically, cartography was Lat,Long (1). Then software developers took over, and
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According to Wikipedia, their national rugby team wore black clothes in around 1905 and the team nickname "All Blacks" got popular. Then according to this article, the popularity of the rugby team then has made the color a popular
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Looks like you can first volunteer to work as a reviewer of manuscripts for the journal, to earn rights for reduced submission fees, or completely free submissions. Maybe the Economics community has problems to find reviewers, the journal i
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> -- This is not accurate. Elsevier journals also charge huge amount of fees (around or over $1000 depends on the journals) from academics for submitting and/or publishing their manuscripts. This is not an accurate description. Non-
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> Coke Studio has done this several times. This is the first time in 5 years that they have hit over 100M views in Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/c/cokestudio/videos?view=0&sort=p&fl...
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This google ad was also somewhat popular 9 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech-news/googles-india-...
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Mathematica had notebook interface since 1988, and Maple from 1992. You'd think these were the examples that Jupyter notebooks are copied from.
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Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Cement and Fired Brick Hut(youtube.com)
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> the insurer in the article seems to do pretty sound analysis to ensure his expected return is positive Just like casinos ensure their expected return is positive. So?
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> I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Twitter is probably the best social media platform for interplanetary communication, where low bandwidth and delayed transmission are fundamental bottlenecks In a Vernon Vinge's novel,
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> But I've noticed that the people who tend to have the biggest problem with music theory are engineers. My problem with music theory is that in the presentation there is no clear separation of what can be derived from first princip
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I think it's a reference to the movie Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
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The Babylon Bee was actually suspended from twitter a month ago, looks like. https://babylonbee.com/news/twitter-has-shut-down-the-bee

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