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sjtrny
12y ago
I think we can safely disregard your negative Manhattan car owning experience when deciding on whether to own a car. Anyone who bothers to keep a car while living there is automatically deemed insane.
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AFAIK they are not offering these stickers for sale. They are presenting examples of stickers that people have made.
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12y ago
> alters the trajectory to bring down the rocket in a less populated area, fewer people die It might also cause more deaths.
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12y ago
Different regulatory requirements and banking systems. For example Stripe still only has support for sending funds to third-party bank bank accounts for US users and US bank accounts.
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12y ago
I like this analogy, I find myself falling into a similar pattern. Particularly when I can't understand something because I lack the understanding of its mathematical basis for example. I put it aside and have found myself returning to
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12y ago
This is true for some PDFs but not for academic ones produced by PDFLaTeX.
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12y ago
Your OS doesn't support full text search of PDFs?
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> By getting a Phd you've basically narrowed your potential job space down to literally a few dozen spots. No you haven't. The job market is just as open. What I think you mean is "PhD's want jobs which are rarely ava
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12y ago
"For all intensive purposes" is in common usage. It's still incorrect.
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The thing is this doesn't apply to rural communities. It is very distance limited.
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You have to have permission from the home owner to switch them over from ADSL to VDSL and to give them a new modem. Here in Australia the plan was to run Fibre to the outside wall termination point on each person's house by default (op
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Hardly. You are forgetting that most people's copper cabling is degrading quite rapidly or is already of very poor quality. Furthermore the number of nodes required on the street due to the 70m limitation would be a lot higher than wit
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What about accounting? Most professionals need a basic grasp of accounting.
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> making it possible Possible if you have a giant antenna and a large power source attached to your phone. I'll believe it when I see it. Getting LTE over that distance is very unlikely to work with standard hardware. Also consider
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It's not direct phone to balloon communication. It's phone to fixed ground based wifi, fixed ground base to balloon. Although this is kind of glossed over in a lot of PR.
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It's less advice and more PR.
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Accelerated gradient descent is pretty common everywhere.
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I think you have made a good point and possible solution here. But I am keen to see if researchers can quickly address this issue with NNs. Someone might find an easy fix to this problem.
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How can they isolate RF as the cause when RF is constantly surrounding us? Did the subjects live in shielded rooms?
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Oh really? I thought it was a unique idea. Thanks to you I would never have know others had also thought about and created such a business. You have thoroughly changed my perspective on the world.
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40 year old virgin did it first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEHD6jHXt58
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I'm not sure you grasp what Tex Live is.
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Phone sends GPS coordinates to drone.
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At some point in the execution culling has to happen. It will always happen on the GPU so adding your own CPU based culling will lead to double checking and lower performance in most cases. It only makes sense to do your own culling if your
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I've spent many restless nights thinking about how to best integrate git and a web latex editor. It's a hard thing to do as there is a clash of philosophies. The web latex editors are about making your word processing as simple as
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Version control and speed are two reasons why I prefer local editing rather than writelatex.
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12y ago
What sort of machine are you using that causes a desktop environment to use a non negligible amount of system resources?
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One way is to eliminate all other possible options. I'm not quite sure that the evolution example is a good one. We have the opportunity to observe some parts of evolution.
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The software is far from perfect. From a research perspective we just want the data. The reason why the software works so well is because it is a lot more than a colour video camera. It captures depth images too.
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Cancer doesn't just include tumours though. Leukaemia for example doesn't present itself as a tumour (and there are many types of Leukaemia).
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