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by tgflynn 11y ago
Einstein was a rebellious student, but he always received exceptional marks in math and physics in school and on entrance exams. Based on what I've read (mainly the Isaacson biography) I don't think this is true. He may have do
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by tgflynn 11y ago
I agree with you on the problem of modern society seeming to be unable to make good collective decisions. I'm not convinced restarting nuclear makes sense today though. Solar seems to be on an economically winning trajectory and build
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by tgflynn 11y ago
Yes, and if we had done that 30 years ago when it made sense there would probably be far less concern about global warming today. Today, with the rapid decline in the cost of solar energy, I'm far less convinced this would be a wise mo
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by tgflynn 11y ago
This is a very strange article. The first set of activities would usually be considered to belong to the fields of cryptography or information security, not data science per se. The author doesn't distinguish between export controls a
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by tgflynn 11y ago
The future of both computer vision and robotics is in machine learning, that is where the state of the art will advance. No autonomous vehicle that isn't integrally dependent on machine learning algorithms will ever hit the market, unl
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by tgflynn 11y ago
I took that class several years ago and it was definitely not about machine learning, mostly mapping/localization and route planning. It was a good class but the claim: "Learn how to program all the major systems of a robotic car
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by tgflynn 11y ago
"Hopefully HoTT, or something very much like it, will narrow the gap between what people know and what machines know." Yeah I was actually thinking along the same lines. There seems to currently be a major disconnect in abstractio
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by tgflynn 11y ago
Interesting, do you think these ideas will have applications in CS ? I mean type theory is obviously useful, both to things like formal proofs and the definition of typed languages but do you think that thinking of types in terms of topolog
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by tgflynn 11y ago
You also need to purchase food, housing and clothes to perform your job but those expenses aren't usually deductible so I would say there's a double standard.
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by tgflynn 11y ago
I agree with your point number 2 (except I think you should say NP hard instead of NP since many NP problems have efficient algorithms), in fact I've made it before. While it may be reeasonable to believe that technology will eventuall
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by tgflynn 11y ago
I think police body cameras are needed but I don't understand the need to retain all of this data for months or years. These body cams are probably going to pick up a lot of people whether they are involved or not with the police acti
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by tgflynn 11y ago
Interesting because there is so much variation in the results and so much of that variation seems counterintuitive. I have a major doubt though that this study may have been severely biased by the manner in which the questions were translat
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by tgflynn 11y ago
Very interesting but it seems that to fully explore this and other similar sites they will need to develop underwater robots that are capable of doing underwater what archeologists do on land.
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by tgflynn 11y ago
I think most people code this themselves because what "data cleaning" means is usually specific to each dataset/problem.
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by tgflynn 11y ago
I don't think a business license frees you from personal liability, I think you're talking about incorporation, which is entirely different.
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by tgflynn 11y ago
Liability is a separate question though, you're allowed to run a business as a sole proprietor without any license if you want to (irrespective of whether or not that's a good idea).
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by tgflynn 11y ago
I've been wondering about that too and I live in the US. I've often seen various places asking for "business licenses" but as far as I know there's no such thing where I live (New York State). There are licenses fo
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by tgflynn 11y ago
Not to mention that many (maybe even most) felony convictions are for victimless "crimes" like drug possession or for property offenses where no one has suffered any kind of irreperable harm.
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by tgflynn 11y ago
There used to be the notion in this country that after a person was released from prison they had "paid there debt to society" and should therefore be able to go on with there life. How did we get to a place where no one seems to
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by tgflynn 11y ago
Aside from exchanges and sites that hold other people's bitcoins that's a good question. It seems like it all depends on how they interpret "for investment purposes". A broad interpretation would seem to cover most uses
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by tgflynn 11y ago
I believe Lawsky made statements to the effect that you do not. However I don't think there's anything in the regulation itself that explicitly addresses mining.
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by tgflynn 11y ago
Very misleading title. Exemption from licensing requirements. The following Persons are exempt from the licensing requirements otherwise applicable under this Part: (1) Persons that are chartered under the New York Banking Law and are ap
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by tgflynn 11y ago
Or why did the Delphi car try to change lanes when another car was approaching ? There really isn't enough information in this article to conclude that anything ontoward or unexpected happened at all. Maybe it did and that just wasn&
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by tgflynn 11y ago
Having to abort a lane change because another car is passing you sounds more like an everyday driving occurrence than a "close call".
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by tgflynn 11y ago
The article says a hobby drown was spotted at 11000 ft. I didn't think such drones typically flew anywhere near that high or were even capable of it. Or is this happening in a high mountain area and the altitude above the local terra
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by tgflynn 11y ago
I have a background in physics and various areas of mathematical software development. I also worked on an Innocentive DNA analysis competition a couple of years ago. I thought I had some interesting ideas but was not able to achieve comp
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by tgflynn 11y ago
Personally I don't necessarily care much about "unspoiled". I just wish there was a place I could legally go without paying tribute to the world machine and be free from outside interference with my mere existence. EDIT: In
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by tgflynn 11y ago
I think I agree with you. The world seems overcrowded to me. I've never been much of an out of doors person but sometimes I'd just like to get away from it all. That seems difficult these days. Anywhere you go in the US it see
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by tgflynn 11y ago
What about large quantities of quartz crystals ? That would seem much more probable than diamond and wouldn't have the sublimation problem of water ice in a vacuum.
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by tgflynn 11y ago
What is your definition of "advanced algebra" ? Group theory ? Galois Theory ? Category Theory ? What ?

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