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by trimbo 6y ago
How do you know there aren't humans on the other side of the cameras doing the item-customer matching? Go has relatively few stores. Seems like the sort of thing you can still do manually, especially if the model expresses doubt.
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by trimbo 6y ago
I probably shouldn't have even included that note. I'm not current on the state of the art but I can't imagine there's any scenario where an effect like that would be cheaper to do practically than in CGI/models.
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by trimbo 6y ago
I guess Cinemablend isn't going to fact check this claim? It's typically much cheaper to do anything like a plane crash in a computer (or models + computer). Even 20 years ago, when I was bidding visual effects, I bet it would hav
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by trimbo 6y ago
How are we going to ramp up infrastructure projects with zero notice, while people are supposed to be social distancing?
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by trimbo 6y ago
I think the deal has changed quite a bit in terms of how long it takes to figure that out. It used to be that a company's fate was pretty clear within a few years. You joined a startup and it either IPOed in a few years or you guessed
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by trimbo 6y ago
> it’d still take 25 to 30 years for them to reach a vantage point .... > mission designers would have to pick carefully because they could observe only a single target It will take 30 years to get in position but then we can only loo
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by trimbo 6y ago
I just recently watched this video/tour of MIT's reactor, pretty interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcN3KDexcU
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by trimbo 6y ago
Does it count that a Navy man was killed at SL-1? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67718734/richard-carlton...
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by trimbo 6y ago
> Many investors don't have such a need; especially in the commercial space. According to [1], as of 2015, 77% of commercial real estate is owned by private equity and REITs. Those types of investments primarily generate returns via
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by trimbo 6y ago
Raymond Damadian. The Nobel for inventing MRI went to Lauterbur and Mansfield, even though Damadian played a major role and is recognized by many as "an inventor of MRI". Full page ads ran in newspapers at the height of the contro
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by trimbo 6y ago
> because an Uber actually shows up when you want one. When Uber starts to face its economic reality, I predict the first thing to go will be service in my neighborhood. Uber has been subsidizing rides everywhere in the city. Which means
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by trimbo 6y ago
If it was 50% higher when they were hired, they still probably made less. All FAANG stocks climbed 100+% over the same timeframe. Amazon, 500%. [Edit] But... I think you might have missed the point. The reason to join a pre-IPO company is t
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by trimbo 6y ago
Uber employees who joined in 2015 actually saw their RSUs decrease in value by the time the lockup ended in 2019. 4 years of working at a pre-IPO unicorn for negative growth. Heard this from multiple people but here's an article: ht
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by trimbo 6y ago
> HN is so SF Bay centric sometimes Given that 21% of global VC money is pumped into the Bay Area[1], that seems like a pretty natural thing. [1] - (Through 2017 though): https://hbr.org/2018/11/how-the-geograph
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by trimbo 6y ago
I consistently recommend Hennessy and Patterson's Turing Award Talk[1] as a good overview of the past, present and future of chip performance. [1] - This will take you directly to the meat of the discussion: https://www.yout
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by trimbo 6y ago
It's been talked about for so long now, often proposed by the wealthiest, most powerful people and corporations in the world. So it seems like it won't happen? Ex: EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) was originall
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by trimbo 6y ago
How do you hire an architect to design your house? Pick a doctor? Pick a lawyer?
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by trimbo 6y ago
I was hoping for an upgrade video, like people have done for Windows Here's one that goes from Windows 1.0 -> Windows 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WP7AkJo3OE
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by trimbo 6y ago
What's wrong with them?
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Mulan is heading to Disney Plus on September 4th for $30(theverge.com)
2 points by trimbo 6y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 6y ago
In the United States, we generally consider minors who commit crimes to be a different class of criminal than people above 18. We do this because (AFAICT), there's a sort of societal agreement that wisdom/maturity is a logarithmic
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by trimbo 6y ago
Intel has something like 60% of the PC GPU market because of their built-in graphics.
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by trimbo 6y ago
Trivia: On the "Construction of the Bay Bridge" one, pan down to the Southeast a little to the Alameda Naval Air Station. In 2001 you can see the construction of the freeway set[1] used for The Matrix Reloaded. Direct link to view
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by trimbo 6y ago
It boggles my mind that "Smells like Teen Spirit" is missing here.
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by trimbo 6y ago
> Einstein (the real one) was concerned that the Germans might develop nuclear weapons first and advised the US to do it. Leo Szilard had this realization, wrote the letter, and got Einstein to sign it. https://en.wikipedia.or
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Blank-Check Boom Gets Boost from Coronavirus(wsj.com)
4 points by trimbo 6y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 6y ago
No, but in an industry as technical as semiconductors, I'd like to see the evidence that default-hire-MBA is ever better than default-hire-PhD. AMD and TSMC both have always had technical leaders. Intel had a series of legendary tech
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by trimbo 6y ago
> allow Guido to do his thing Guido van Rossum? He retired. https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you--guido
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by trimbo 6y ago
It's a unix system, demoed in Jurassic Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxIPcbmo1_U
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by trimbo 6y ago
> Among its founders are Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Talk about co-founder infighting!

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