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by steve_gh 6y ago
IoT runs across a range of use cases and connections. There is a lot of emphasis on WiFi IoT applications, but this makes things hard in other places. I'm working on various IoT sensor products that require a cellular connection - NB-I
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by steve_gh 6y ago
Maybe we need a heavy Carbon Tax on Proof of Work cryptocurrencies. Using the energy consumption of Argentina to verify financial transactions does not fit with moving to a Net Zero economy.
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by steve_gh 6y ago
The Tractatus is basically an exploration of the limits of Tautology - anything that follows from the axioms is tautologous. And we have no grounds to speak about anything else
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by steve_gh 6y ago
Great memories. My first programming experience, and my first computer.
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by steve_gh 6y ago
I think it is worth pointing out that there is a cultural factor in the ordering of the reasons - in the UK, the most important item in a list is often placed last. For example - a work colleague drops by. You discuss multiple things. On hi
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by steve_gh 6y ago
A related issue is flood scour in waterways around the support pillars of bridges. Climate change is invalidating the hydrological assumptions that the bridge supports were designed around.
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by steve_gh 6y ago
> how to avoid the tail wagging the dog Hahaha. I once worked at a major telecoms equipment manufacturer. Our competition analysis group had two functions. One was to work out what our competitors were doing. But the really good people w
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by steve_gh 6y ago
Securing MQTT is all good and well. It's more difficult with MQTT-SN (lighter weight and lower bandwidth) can run over UDP which is recommended for running over NB-IoT and similar cellular systems.
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by steve_gh 6y ago
Actually, a lot of smaller market towns in the commuter belt have been doing well (But not during full lockdown) as people are shopping locally, rather than from the office site (London)
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by steve_gh 6y ago
A brilliant bit of writing. My favourite WG short story
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by steve_gh 6y ago
The BBC is pretty close to the centre of political debate, for the UK. They always tend to be somewhat critical of government - the last Labour (centre-left) Govt thought them right wing, the current Govt complains they are left wing. If yo
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by steve_gh 6y ago
>> GP hasn’t progressed much because the problem is super hard. In general, how do you search program spaces in a way that gives you smooth gradients to search, or even operators that have nice properties? That's where coding the
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by steve_gh 6y ago
If you want to understand where Homer comes from, the bardic traditions,and his cultural importance, I can highly recommend Adam Nicolson's "The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters". It is both really insightful and a cracking rea
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by steve_gh 6y ago
You can do Chaos Engineering quite easily with Ruby, because you can raise an exception in a thread from another thread. Many years ago I built a simple tool which allowed you to specify a series of exceptions, and their frequency. The libr
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by steve_gh 6y ago
>> Still interesting even if it take a computer the size of the earth. There are some white mice on Magrathea who hold the IP on this.
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by steve_gh 6y ago
That's why the UK has a number of pumped storage schemes such as Dinorwig and Loch Awe. Typically this sort of facility can put 500MW into the grid from cold at about 1 minute's notice. With warning (so the turbines can be spun up
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by steve_gh 6y ago
Interesting. GA's have some interesting use cases. We used a GA to optimize assignment of work crews to areas as part of a scheduling optimization, and achieved significant benefits Steve
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by steve_gh 6y ago
Wow - takes me back to my PhD - I think I must have read everything on that list that was published before 2000. Wonderful stuff! Steve
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by steve_gh 6y ago
"To iterate is human, to recurse is divine" [not sure who I am quoting]
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by steve_gh 6y ago
One of my favourite William Gibson stories. A little gem!
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Provided the testing strategy doesn't change (as the parent poster has stated may be the case), then it is a reasonable assumption that the testing is sampling the population in the same way, day by day. So the important thing to look
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by steve_gh 7y ago
This kind of leads to an interesting question which I have been vaguely pondering for a few months. What happens if you choose an irrational base for your number system, rather than an integer or even a rational base. For example, if you ch
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Hi, I'm Alicia from the Veneto (Venice if you like). I'd like to point out that we have been living in buildings that don't need air conditioning for 800 years, because our venacular architecture is designed to keep us warm i
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Most car makers are global - and sell heavily in European markets, which are covered by the GDPR. So I suspect that for these manufacturers, many brands will be GDPR compliant by default. That said: - Under what principle is data collected
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Finally, someone has built a vehicle that makes a Porsche Cayenne look good!
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by steve_gh 7y ago
So many years ago I was involved in an issue with a BTS (a cellular radio base station) for a telecoms equipment manufacurer. The software was written in C, and had a message parsing architecture between processes, with fixed length queues
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Not all multi-day ultras are stage races. Have a look at the Tor des Geants (tordesgeants.it). Unlikely the Berkeley, you have a good chance of finishing. But it basically involves almost no sleep for a week. I did it a couple of years back
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Yeah - I have come across this on a number of occasions. The CTO of am company I was contracting for once described it to me as "The Technical Ghetto" - he had been pulled in of CTO of the division from CEO of another division. Ba
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by steve_gh 7y ago
> It's unlikely that a company needs to invest in data scientists or even thinking very hard about their data organization until the scale of their data is already pushing the bounds of what most RDMMSs can handle. I work in an engi
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by steve_gh 7y ago
And what happens when a solar farm goes bankrupt? Its major operating overhead is servicing the loans for the initial capital cost. So all that will happen is that the bank will take possession of the solar farm. It will still be producing

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