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by silicaroach 5y ago
This perfectly describes the current state of academia. The belief in treating academia like a business to promote 'efficiency' and 'accountability' leads to all the ills you see in business. The bottom line is that yo
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by silicaroach 5y ago
I have astigmatism and dark mode is a nightmare for any length of time. I'm not a fan.
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by silicaroach 5y ago
It well and truly sucks to be a pig.
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Identify the concept you don't get and read! Specifically read a _variety_ of explanations on every concept you struggle with. Eventually you will find or form a point of view that will make it clear. There's no easy way, no on
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by silicaroach 5y ago
should read "... at fraction of the _comparable_ x86 Price" :-D
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by silicaroach 5y ago
github only has a picture. nothing anywhere suggests nano can be connected to shield. this has appeared twice in HN.
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by silicaroach 5y ago
It's China that's worried a) they want in on the idea and want to slow Musk down and b) they don't want their citizens able to connect to (basically) access to the internet beyond the GFofC.
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Always, for everything at work. Reach over, pick up notebook, write, done. No boot time, no drop down menus, no learning/adhering to someone else's way of doing things, no end-of-life versions, no stylus driver issues, _NO BUGS_
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Agreed Star Trek Discovery is horrible so I would actually suggest ... reading. I'd suggest as a start a) Expanse Series (it's way better than the TV series) and the Murderbot Series
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Do you want a PhD or just to work in ML? Sounds like the former and if so just offer your services to a professor as a developer and forget about the degree. The fact that you ask the question shows you have no concept of what it means to d
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by silicaroach 5y ago
You couldn't use it without looking at it. You can type without looking. You can mouse without looking. And if you use a touchscreen well ... The touch bar needed you to look at it.
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by silicaroach 5y ago
For the record the distance between Earth and Moon is about 384,000 km. So the asteroid came to within about 192,000 km of Earth. The real story is that it was not detected, not the distance.
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by silicaroach 5y ago
It's seriously depressing how biologists consistently underestimate the abilities of the creatures they study. How far more advanced might our knowledge be if they had some 'first principles' of mind, body, and function? Wi
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Depends what kind of news you want, no? What is in the NYT that you want/need?
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by silicaroach 5y ago
The Expanse Series, Murderbot Series
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by silicaroach 5y ago
People's grasp of statistics is tenuous at best. Case in point: 'virtually impossible' means 'possible'. By way of comparison: it is 'virtually impossible' to win a 6 number lottery, and yet ...
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Well there's a 'may' in that title. So likely just something put out by pro-veg or animal rights group. So another case of trying to scare people in to doing something. It would have been more believable if it had been som
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Very unfortunate as it would have been a boon for the northern communities. Or was it all a ruse to allow Russian mapping of the Canadian Arctic waters?
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Does no one give any thought to what they are doing? At the very best this system can only make predictions on what it has seen. It cannot validly assess a truly new idea. It _can't_ by definition. So if this is used say for deciding
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Ahhh ... universal climate change !!!
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Finally, a proper look at the cost in most respects of the real cost of a 'sustainable' technology. We need more of these but no one will pay nor pay attention. Unfortunately though, sail driven ships are kind of useless for the
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Get involved in your local startup and meetup scenes. Especially the meetup one. Good for making connections.
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by silicaroach 6y ago
Those companies want ML/DL ... today. You don't know what they will want by the time you finish your PhD. Do what interests you especially with a PhD. There will be times in your coming studies where you will question why you s
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by silicaroach 6y ago
No. Your skill set as described is not even 'junior' level. Doing a project and doing production code are vastly different eg. "I know my way around my highschool's chem lab." vs "I did a year product developm
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by silicaroach 6y ago
eh?
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by silicaroach 6y ago
Honestly, ask yourself _why_ you think you need strongly typed JS. Are type errors the most common source of errors in JS? Not even close. So why add another level of complexity for negligible gain.
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by silicaroach 6y ago
Wow ... this comes up a couple of times a decade. It's like the Simpsons 'We'll build a monorail'. It's right up there with the Solar Sail scam.
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by silicaroach 6y ago
Smoke screen. IF it was pulsed microwave energy then a simple RF spectrum analyzer would have detected it. There is no doubt whatsoever that the US embassy would have such a thing on site. So this isn't a factual report just FUD to
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by silicaroach 6y ago
The laser heats microparticles in the air ... so it must heat all the particles in its beam ... channeling the lightning to ... the source of the beam :-D
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by silicaroach 6y ago
it didn't. In fact it gave rise to the middle class, caused the coming in to being of inheritance and real estate laws, and empowered workers. Why? A wealthy land owner was only as rich as what the owned land produced. With all the

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