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Batteries, Not the Model 3, Are the Real Keys to Tesla’s Future Success(cleantechnica.com)
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by sgillen 9y ago
I've read the primary bottleneck is the batteries coming out of the Gigafactory. ( https://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/12/batteries-not-model-3-r... )
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by sgillen 9y ago
Can someone explain to me why this is getting upvoted? It seems like obvious clickbait, the first shift is a platitude and the second one reads like corporate buzzwords strung together (synergy + 10x thinking). And at the end the author tri
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by sgillen 9y ago
I think the greatest value is probably in the speaker itself, most of the other features do just feel like fluff. Though personally I prefer a more “dumb” speaker I can control with my phone.
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by sgillen 9y ago
This is true, I’m not sure the article is saying that the “dumb” versions aren’t complex to make/manufacture/use. Just that sometimes they are more reliable to use in practice.
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by sgillen 9y ago
I mean I see what you are saying but in the case of spell check and driverless cars you aren’t replacing the dumb version with the smart version you are augmenting it. If your spell checker fails you can still manually do it without any fri
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by sgillen 9y ago
That's a fair point, it's been very effective in "simulated combat", but I guess the military can make that say whatever you want.
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by sgillen 9y ago
Worth noting, The J-20 compares favorable to the F-35, but what really gives America it’s air superiority is the F-22, which is still unmatched by China to my knowledge. America actually sells the F-35 to other countries it likes, and there
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by sgillen 9y ago
Also all of python (absolutely beautiful language) and the associated eco system. I’m thinking mostly of numpy/scipy/matplot lib etc, but there are so many more.
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by sgillen 9y ago
OpenCV? Basically the de facto standard in computer vision.
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by sgillen 9y ago
Valgrind and gdb for me.
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by sgillen 9y ago
I’m sure it’s technically feasible, but it’s very labor intensive, there is very little demand (as far as I can tell), and there is a very high risk of a lawsuit.
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by sgillen 9y ago
Like others have said it is probably is a physical bug under there. I had this happen on my Nintendo DS as a kid (I think) it was infuriating because it would actually register touches on the touch screen!
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by sgillen 9y ago
Was still probabably influenced by the rise of Donald Trump though, since he was making waves (or maybe had already won?) in the primaries at that point.
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by sgillen 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/
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How Elon Musk does it: Failure is most definitely an option(economist.com)
9 points by sgillen 9y ago|0 comments
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“We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (2004)(atdt.freeshell.org)
246 points by sgillen 9y ago|96 comments
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by sgillen 9y ago
I mean to be fair they might be releasing to these vendors and having them make sure everything still works as expected, which I imagine would take awhile. I mean Intel is definitely not handling this well, just playing devils advocate here
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by sgillen 9y ago
The author of the quote may have meant biggest leak in Apple's history, which it may well be. As for biggest leak in history, maybe the shadow brokers leak of all those NSA tools? I'm not sure if anything huge resulted from the Wi
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by sgillen 9y ago
Looks really cool, does anyone want to speculate on how it works? They say they have four sensors in the broom head? what do you think they are? pressure sensors maybe? do you think they have an accelerometer in addition to these sensors?
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by sgillen 9y ago
I think he is referencing several theorems about fault tolerant computing. I think the reasoning goes that if we assume some level of correlated noise, then these theorems tell us we need an error correcting code that runs in O(e^n) where n
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by sgillen 9y ago
Here is a paper Kalai published that obviously goes into a lot more depth than the interview. https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.00992
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by sgillen 9y ago
I agree with the idea that an overide because the car has been stopped for too long is less dangerous than a more active sort of overide. But I think it still is a safety issue. I’m mostly thinking of when we take the human out of the equat
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by sgillen 9y ago
I agree with you, unless you have serious ADHD I don't think Adderall etc. would work very well. I would imagine that Adderall would be useful for TRAINING for games, if you need to practice some repetitive task over and over (I'm
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by sgillen 9y ago
Looks very cool, am I correct in thinking this won't produce images that are seamless without a good mask to go along with the image? If that's the case I'd be curious to see how it works with masks generated with e.g. photos
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by sgillen 9y ago
The economomist continues to be high quality. It is an expensive way to get your news but I think it’s worth it.
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by sgillen 9y ago
Maybe we’ll see move towards publicly or philanthropically funded news sources. I can see why having a high quality news source would be an attractive recipient of donations for some people. I’ve already seen the New York Times push this a
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by sgillen 9y ago
I think putting in the effort and basically hard coding many popular solutions is an underutilized strategy in dealing with these sorts of things. Many times I see programmers try to come up with a general solutions which becomes a much mor
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by sgillen 9y ago
Either is going to be fine honestly. I agree with the others in that I would choose .io
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by sgillen 9y ago
I haven’t seen very much of this in my experience. Most Mac using scientists and engineers I know use a MacBook for email/webrowsig etc. but when they need some serious computation they use an external cluster (which they talk to with

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