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by tnecniv 10y ago
In my other comment I mentioned the CS results I've largely struggled to reproduce is because they include enough detail for you to get the gist of how it works, but not enough to avoid going down some rabbit holes. Also, not all publi
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Heck, I've tried to reproduce CS papers with incomplete methodologies. There's always enough that that I know it will work, but they normally don't include all the tricks you need to get it to work easily or efficiently. Stuf
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Was "force sensitivity" not a concept before Episode I? I'm a Star Trek guy.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Sounds more like Stockholm syndrome than worship.
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> The god-knows-what side projects done with all that capital? They bought like half of CMU's RI to build a self-driving car.
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Assuming people do assign value to these coins, how do you plan to handle inflation?
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by tnecniv 10y ago
> this is novel for America. Traditionally Americans moved all the time. I always thought that moving to the "big city" when you are young was a part of the American tradition while I was growing up (my parents and the parents
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by tnecniv 10y ago
> I'm sorry what year were horses discovered? There was no discovery of horses that caused paradigm shift that led to precipitous large scale unemployment. Please point me to that bit of history. Not horses but https://en
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The university gets some income from graduate labor. Grad students write papers about work their PI gets funding from the NSF/whoever for. PIs then write a new grant awarded based on their proposal and prior work. The university then t
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Do you have a link to the ILP one?
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> People are buying hardware synths (which are just computers running software) only because software on these embedded computers runs reliably, but VSTs crash, freeze every time and require hardware license keys plugged into parallel po
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Everyone I know that enjoys twitter (I never got into it) uses it to interact with an extended group of people that they aren't friends with but have similar interests to -- including minor celebrities in their area.
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I see some notable omissions in my area.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Very cool! This is my favorite toy raytracer example: http://www.kevinbeason.com/smallpt/
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Eddie Van Halen did precisely that to his guitar.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Yeah I've also seen a lot of voodoo talk in that community as well. I'd buy some things, like germanium vs silicon transistors, but most of it I think is cargo cult behavior.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
> Doing that with philosophy is far more difficult because so much of it is subjective and relies on criticism and analysis. Any education in a topic worth it's salt should include that once you get passed the intro courses (because
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Kalman filters (unless you get into really esoteric modifications) are just one tool and are related to stochastic processes. It's more like learning an algorithm than learning a whole field of math.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
For me it was when I took proof-based Linear Algebra and probability. I went from having a decent mathematical intuition but struggling in practice to actually getting how to do it and succeeding with it.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
That, combined with the facts that humans have a poor intuition for probability and statistics and some results in the field seem inherently paradoxical (if you told a lay person that zero probability events happen all the time, they would
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The Kalman filter algorithm is an EM algorithm.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
People are generally happy with the Gaussian noise assumption. In some cases, there are acceptable linearizations of the dynamical model. One example is linearizing the quadrotor dynamics about the hover state (no roll or pitch). This appro
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Yes, they are a staple of modern robotics and other fields. If the Kalman filter assumptions about the system hold (linear model, Gaussian noise), the Kalman filter is an optimal filter and you can't do better. There are also more comp
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by tnecniv 10y ago
My father, who is a lawyer on the brink of retirement with programming experience, mentioned this to me many times throughout his career.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I couldn't remember if Bashir was modified at a planet inside the federation or not so I just kept it to Earth for safety.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
> Either way, it does not do well to look towards pieces of fictions for solutions to our real world problems. Especially when the economic / political systems of the works are not even self-consistent and rely on non-existent techn
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by tnecniv 10y ago
> And, in DS9, back on Earth, Sisko's father makes honest-to-goodness actual food, while Jean-Luc has a vineyard If I recall, it's implied that they work those jobs out of love and don't actually make money, but my questio
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I've only read the first trilogy, but some people maintain that the forth book is the best. I didn't like 2, but realized its necessity for 3.
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> single human religion Dune actually has a number of religions [1], normally based on a fusion of modern-day religions. It's also worth noting that banned technology exists in Star Trek. The Earth government has banned genetic modi
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Well it's implied that holodeck time is inherently limited. Not everyone has one. The Enterprise (D) only had a handful for over 1,000 people. On DS9, you had to rent them at Quarks . This brings up another point that is never addres

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