sjburt

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by sjburt 7y ago
This article is an excerpt from the book Turing's Cathedral, which, coincidentally, I'm currently reading. Sometimes I wish it went into a little more technical detail (and I think it's a little too charitable toward von Nue
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by sjburt 8y ago
He's using a cheap phone and turned off 4G.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Everyone is quick to assume an MCAS malfunction for the Ethiopian Air crash but eyewitnesses reported smoke and flames coming from the plane, which seems to indicate something else.
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by sjburt 8y ago
SIFTs are rotation invariant. However, they are not good for classification. Anyway, the early layers of an NN should be performing an encoding that creates scale and rotation invariance though, so that later layers can classify. That'
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by sjburt 8y ago
The SF housing inventory is not large, only a few hundred homes on the market, and few thousand sales per year total. A couple hundred people that can buy at any cost, and a thousand more that are willing to push their finances to the limit
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by sjburt 8y ago
These are terrible charts. With the comparison to Uber and the lack of horizontal grid lines or trend lines, you can't see how Lyft is performing at all. And the comparison to Uber is only somewhat relevant in valuing Lyft.
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by sjburt 8y ago
I like having my mouse closer to my typing position. I've gotten fast enough at the top number keys that I don't mind too much.
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by sjburt 8y ago
I sometimes use "they" when I feel like using a gendered pronoun would distract from the topic at hand. It's incorrect but sometimes it makes sense.
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by sjburt 8y ago
I haven't looked around, but the 10x10mm form factor seems quite small for an A7 product. And they have some shared memory which should be an advantage over a serial interface between two separate processors.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Tip of Tree / Top of Tree. I.e present as of the most recent commit on the main development branch.
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by sjburt 8y ago
In my team we'll just create a README or TODO and make a PR with that.
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by sjburt 8y ago
I think the point was that there were two separate communities of divers, one largely British and one largely mainland European.
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by sjburt 8y ago
The irony is that it's actually one of the safest (and cheapest) tranquilizers and that's why it's used on large animals. It's hard to weigh a horse, so you want something that doesn't require a very precise dose.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Yeah, just pile on another layer of code you don't understand. And then wonder why it's slow or doesn't work the way you expect.
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by sjburt 8y ago
I think once you understand the graph, then looking at what the graph looks like and what you want it to look like usually leads you to being able to figure out what operation you want. And then git fetch/push/pull are mostly abou
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by sjburt 8y ago
Also, the application of "mitochondrial" to the common female ancestor is somewhat spurious. There is a common male ancestor as well. And if mitochondria did not exist, there would still be a common female ancestor. The mitochondr
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by sjburt 8y ago
Likely they would rather send people home and pay them than risk theft or sabotage.
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by sjburt 8y ago
> In an email to Ars Technica, AEye CEO Luis Dussan confirmed that AEye's lidars can cause damage to camera sensors—though he stressed that they pose no danger to human eyes. So, yes.
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by sjburt 8y ago
The battery-protection performance throttling is either on or of, and you can check the status in iOS 12 (settings>battery>battery health). If it's off ("Peak performance mode") and your phone is slow, it's somethi
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by sjburt 8y ago
National Archives had them undigitized. Amazon said it would digitize it and sell the digital copies until it recouped the investment to digitize them, and then National Archives could distribute the digital copies. It's no different t
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by sjburt 8y ago
I don't understand what the NYT seeks to gain from this kind of headline. Blum's positions were not unpopular or unusual, except maybe within the DC bubble.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Google also has a map of WiFi access points. By looking at which points are in range you can determine location.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Between coyotes and racoons it's hard to imagine anywhere that is really safe, at least in Canada/US. Maybe Europe is safer on that front, but there are still diseases and cars to worry about as well as other mishaps.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Yeah, the problems with python packaging can not be fixed by any tool. There is simply no way to determine the dependencies of a python package without downloading it and all its dependencies. And, no accurate way without actually interpret
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by sjburt 8y ago
Most of the CIA records have been released over the years, and any major operations have entered the public record by now. Dulles was also very keen to brag about his successes and intent to bury his failures. The fact is that the CIA in th
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by sjburt 8y ago
I think the issue is that you might equate the TDP with power consumption and think that a particular chip is more efficient than another. Or that a smaller PSU would be sufficient. I would have expected a motherboard set to "auto&quot
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by sjburt 8y ago
Modern SSDs (last 5 years or so) will wear level by relocating infrequently written blocks.
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by sjburt 8y ago
I would imagine there is a scam where you buy two of a mid-price item and then go back and claim you only bought one and were double charged. Not sure how many times you can get away with that at Costco due to the membership, though.
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by sjburt 8y ago
It's also pretty annoying in the summer when the sun comes up at 4:30.
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by sjburt 8y ago
The day length changes less as you get closer to the equator. It's not nearly a big a deal in Tuscon as it is in San Francisco (or Eureka).

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