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by sgillen 6y ago
The Linux kernel. Just because it’s everywhere right now. Even in 1000 years when hardware has moved on, someone will want to virtualize/emulate some hardware that was running Linux.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Most of the criticism Stephen gets seems fair. Clearly the guy is a megalomaniac. That being said his ideas are interesting and he is also clearly a genius(just maybe not to the degree he thinks himself) and I’m happy he’s working on his cr
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by sgillen 6y ago
I think that the communities experience has led them to the belief that the suction gripper is simply the most effective gripper currently available. It’s possible to get other grippers working in theory, but I think if you want reliability
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by sgillen 6y ago
I believe your impression is wrong. I believe that amazon shut down its picking challenge in 2018 because it was clear to them the technology wasn’t ready to replace humans in there distributions centers yet. I’d be happy to be proven wron
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by sgillen 6y ago
What’s wrong with using mathy names to describe mathy products?
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by sgillen 7y ago
I don’t think the vulnerability was in malloced memory, it was some buffer on the stack. I’ve actually patched OpenSSL to stop heart bleed as an excersice and iirc the fix was in fact just preventing a typical buffer overflow.
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by sgillen 7y ago
I mean obviously you could be right about that. In the case I linked though basically the exact same thing happened, the speaker ordered some coffee and received that plus a free nespresso machine! It’s possible that the credit card wasn’t
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by sgillen 7y ago
You may be a money mule! And you may want to report this, someone vulnerable could be racking up massive debt paying for free stuff. see : https://youtu.be/2IT2oAzTcvU?t=300
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by sgillen 7y ago
>> What's interesting is they describe it working on forecasts (for wind and sun) instead of instantaneous renewable production. I wonder what the rationale for that was? Basing the algorithm on instantaneous information should b
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by sgillen 7y ago
Maybe the person you are replying to should have qualified “popular open source repositories”.
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by sgillen 7y ago
I mean if everything bad about one country gets deleted, but this treatment is not given to other countries, I would call that a problem. Not saying that’s where HN is at at all.
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by sgillen 7y ago
wow, this feels like a case of really poorly optimized software.
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by sgillen 7y ago
Maybe, it’s an open question whether or not what you are calling time is a useful way to look at the problem the article is talking about. The article wants to know if time is a universal constant (as in quantum mechanics) or if it’s mallea
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by sgillen 7y ago
If you have a good linear model for your system you can pull out an LQR. It does not account for how bad your linearization of the true dynamics might be. Also from my experience you still need to tune the Q and R the same amount that you
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by sgillen 7y ago
I would argue that to some extent that’s how the stock market works all the time. You’re betting about how other people will react to information.
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by sgillen 7y ago
My teacher had a vendetta against typing (or a hard on for cursive?) so we spent I think a few days (maybe three?) learning to type for an hour each day in the library, and then the rest of the year learning cursive. I am 25 btw, idk what m
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by sgillen 7y ago
what would cars be replaced with then? Driverless cars that you rent on demand?
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by sgillen 7y ago
> All I'm saying is that since we're no longer compute-bound, I'd like to see more big-picture thinking. We're so obsessed with getting 99% accuracy on some pattern-matching test that we completely miss other options.
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by sgillen 7y ago
You can make some toy robots do things. See https://gym.openai.com/envs/#classic_control The networks and data required to solve some of these is really small. I’m sure you can find some simple RL code out there to po
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by sgillen 7y ago
If you’re good at some niche in software, and maybe a little lucky you can start freelancing.
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by sgillen 7y ago
Still wondering what the use case is...I just can't see what advantage the pi would have over using FreeCAD on any typical desktop or any laptop... I guess education? Especially given the pi is very cheap and can be used for all sorts
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by sgillen 7y ago
Could you expand? What exactly do you mean what would people be betting on?
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by sgillen 7y ago
I would say 10 fingers is optional if you can manage the other two. Fun fact I type with 3.5 fingers at a reasonable speed and without looking at the keyboard. I never have problems with wrist pain. I tried to teach myself to use all 10 fin
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by sgillen 7y ago
That’s interesting I would have thought it would be the opposite. Julia being good at smaller experimental work and maybe creaking when things get scaled and put into production. Coming from a matlab background I found Julia much more natur
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by sgillen 7y ago
I mean to be fair I think the person you are responding too just finds flux more pleasant to use, not more feature complete. I use pytorch mostly and always find tensorflow very cumbersome, but I assume it’s because I haven’t spent enough t
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by sgillen 7y ago
It’s really about the willpower and desire to have it happen (by which I really mean budget...) .We have the technology to go but it doesn’t make any sense to devote the resources it takes to make it happen. Yes it would take years to put t
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by sgillen 7y ago
you can just hashbang to python3 which is a symlink to whichever python3.X the user has. If your code won’t work for older versions you can make an explicit check that the version of python is greater than whatever you need.
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by sgillen 7y ago
Could also be an optimal routing thing too. If google maps sends everyone down the same path it might become too congested. Especially if the route is a detour around construction or and accident or something.
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by sgillen 7y ago
Definitely, looks like others are taking note. All of TIs newish launchpads seem to have a built in usb debugger/programmer. Pretty sure that was a direct response to the popularity of Arduino.
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by sgillen 7y ago
Arduino's have always been a little pricy for the hardware you get. I think a lot of what you pay for (at least for a regular, non pro, Arduino) is the ease of use and the eco system. That being said, do you have any examples of other

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