tomkat0789

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by tomkat0789 6y ago
If it isn't clear from the title: this is direct air capture of CO2. This is begging for some number play! I'm imaging the production of bricks of dry ice and comparing it to regular clay bricks since I'm in a hurry. Is dry i
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
> the air speed story Found it! There's surely a better site out there, but this was the first I bumped into on Google. https://247sports.com/college/north-carolina/Board/102717/Co...
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
I'm just reading this before work, but it must warrant more follow up. Wales doesn't want to step down until Wikipedia is safe from "outside interests who do not understand our values". It's easy to imagine the sort
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
It's nice that this is getting some attention, but I hope it results in good policy! Other stories I've bumped into: Trump's executive order - I guess this is now defunct: https://www.theregister.com/2020&#x2F
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
Interesting data! The "current employment situation (if previously employed)" (hovering around 97%) plots don't seem to agree with the "percent of individuals who currently have a job" which is slowly crawling up th
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
These are neat, but is there an explanation for how/why these actually work? (Joke alert!) What sort of n00b just copies and runs random shell commands from the internet without understanding them? (End 'joke)
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
Harder still is getting it past the spouse regulatory approval process.
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
Nobody's yet mentioned that there's another of these 26 second pulses with a source near Australia and New Zealand [1]. Pretty mysterious! http://ciei.colorado.edu/pubs/2006/3.pdf
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Agrivoltaics: Save solar plant land costs with sheep and agriculture(utilitydive.com)
53 points by tomkat0789 6y ago|16 comments
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
I've never used sympy, but perhaps I should! Is this a tool meant to save people pages of math derivations, sort of like Maple? Is that how it's generally used?
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Utilities propose West Coast charging stations for electric trucks(utilitydive.com)
1 points by tomkat0789 6y ago|0 comments
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
This was an awesome read! Free enterprise at its best. Another happy message in these times of corporate dominance of everything: “Small town grocery stores are having kind of a renaissance because of COVID-19,” he says. “Everyone is stuck
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
This was my experience bringing my own Linksys separate modem and router. A couple of months ago my Internet randomly went out. The issue was something with the line. I just had to tell the lady on the phone which lights were blinking. A te
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Drill down to the Earth's magma to create land from lava(quora.com)
1 points by tomkat0789 7y ago|0 comments
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
Later it was moved to the forests south of Chicago, where it remains buried today: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Gate_Woods I knew there was some ulterior motive to those forest preserves! Otherwise they'd b
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As health insurance costs rise, some turn to faith-based plans(nola.com)
2 points by tomkat0789 7y ago|1 comments
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Naked kids, drunken frat parties, porno stars, and more found in ImageNet(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by tomkat0789 7y ago|0 comments
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
For generally improving writing, I'm a big fan of "The Art of Scientific Storytelling" by Rafael Luna. It's a short, focused book that walks you through writing an easy (well... easier) to read scientific manuscript.
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
Isn't the whole Wikipedia domain already blocked in China? I thought Baidu already had a Wikipedia equivalent.
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
Has this intensified recently? I thought this was already going on to a degree. I remember reading a story on HN awhile ago about a lawyer for hire who could get any change he wanted through Wikipedia's system. It'd be a disaster
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
PCA is great. I like this paper where it holds its own against all the fancy nonlinear techniques: https://lvdmaaten.github.io/publications/papers/TR_Dimension... When have you needed something stronger than PCA?
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
Shooting from the hip here, but I think ICA was originally designed for the blind source separation problem. PCA is over 100 years old and the original dimensionality reduction algorithm.
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
For those who missed the Wikipedia link, the US troops were commanded by one George Pickett, the Confederate officer of the ill-fated Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. Small world!
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
What will the books of the future be made from? Will people living on Mars or in space stations pay dearly to ship books made from dead trees all the way from Earth?
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
It shouldn't be hard to manually add some object permanence. Looks like that'd fix a lot of the nonsensical issues it has. Is it worthwhile to train a neutral net to realize, "no, you don't have a large bowl, butter, or
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
This was a fun read (until the grim conclusion I guess), but what is the word for this phenomena? Tribalism? Religion? Be sure to stop and consider: would YOU give up all your friends in search of the truth?
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
I dealt with this issue in my PhD research on data mining, and it motivated me to search for a new line of work. The benefits of data based products never justify the customers changing everything just to make life easier for the data nerd
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
What's stopping people from forking the language at python 2.7? Let the pythonistas add whatever feature they feel like while people who need stability use "Fortran python" or whatever.
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
What surprised me about LinkedIn is after I had a job for a year (first job out of school), my views went up by a factor of 10 (well, from 3 to 30 per week or whatever) and I at last started getting messages from recruiters. I felt pretty u
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New Ebola outbreak in DRC is 'truly frightening', says Wellcome Trust director(bbc.com)
35 points by tomkat0789 7y ago|10 comments

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