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by w1 6y ago
Hasura has been a godsend for me. I'll be using it for all my MVPs for the foreseeable future.
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Show HN: This Conversation Does Not Exist(thisconversationdoesnotexist.com)
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by w1 6y ago
Super cool! Also, a character visualizes data this way in Watts' "Blindsight" novel.
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N-body problem gravity simulator, written in vanilla JavaScript(thorbjorn444.com)
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by w1 6y ago
It goes faster than the speed of light _in water_. While the speed of light in a vacuum is fixed, light will pass slower through different mediums (i.e. it goes slower in water than air, which is how you get refraction).
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by w1 6y ago
It is very extensive. It has a lot of fairly domain-specific work.
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by w1 6y ago
You have to let them come in, but they have to pay you to lease the surface easement they use from you. That lease doesn't begin to approach the value of the minerals though.
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by w1 6y ago
Thank you so much! I'm a ML/scientific computing guy exploring more generic web design, and this was my first crack at it.
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by w1 6y ago
N-body problem gravity simulator, in vanilla js: https://www.thorbjorn444.com
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by w1 6y ago
I did first try to setup email, but I couldn't figure out how to do that without providing a static ip address. This was a "what can I make work in the two hours before we drive across the country" solution lol.
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by w1 6y ago
It looks like they are, thanks! This is just what I could hack together before I went on Christmas break a couple years back lol.
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by w1 6y ago
Lol I may or may not currently be using a Twitter account and cron to broadcast any changes to my (non-static) home ip address, encrypted, so I can ssh into my workstation when I'm on vacation.
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by w1 6y ago
I've been working in this space for a few years, as an engineer and now founder, and I think a lot of savvy investors are beyond this. In my experience, everyone who is informed acknowledges that ML is very powerful, but the algorithms
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by w1 7y ago
As a Python developer moving into web development, I've really enjoyed using Plotly's Dash.
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by w1 7y ago
Usually, one can, with no ill-effects. Many operators run their marginally economic wells for only a few hours per day already.
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by w1 7y ago
A recent(ly featured on the front page) example where synthetic data is helping solve an unsolved problem: https://eng.uber.com/generative-teaching-networks/ I'm being pedantic by posting this though, because the
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by w1 7y ago
The issue isn't that they found a copy of the test data online (The test input data was provided to them as part of the problem.) The issue is that they manually labeled the test data, and then pretended they didn't. The competiti
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by w1 7y ago
The look like a fancy version of a gauging tool [1]. Each hole could have been used to measure the diameter of a different sized rod, sphere, or coin.. [1] https://www.eastwood.com/sheet-metal-gauge.html
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by w1 7y ago
Annulus is the space between the outer and inner pipe. Most new pipelines are inspected currently with "drones", called smart pipeline inspection gauges, or smart PIGs, that use ultrasonic or magnetic flux to measure the wall thic
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by w1 7y ago
They used to do this, before modern coating techniques. The issue is that if any moisture gets inside that annulus (which will happen eventually), you get corrosion. It's also then very hard to inspect the integrity of that inner pipe
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by w1 7y ago
ironically enough, there are more and more electric drilling rigs now, especially when drilling in-fill wells in established fields or near/in cities. they don't use battery power though, just temporary power lines and a mobile tr
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by w1 8y ago
Per DeepMind's blog post[1], an agent was initially trained via supervised learning on pro matches. Then, the agent was forked repeatedly, as the population of agents learned via tournament-style self-play. So, while initial strategies
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by w1 8y ago
This. I pivoted by finding applications of ML in my day-to-day engineering role, until I got enough internal traction to justify a title change from "____ Engineer" to "Data Scientist." About a year later, I jumped ship
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by w1 8y ago
This may sound odd, but my biggest improvement in ability to have casual conversation with anybody came after a few months of beginner improv classes (at Second City). I'm not sure if it was being forced to quickly say _something_, or
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by w1 8y ago
Thank you, being reasonable is really important, and being unreasonable when investing can be very expensive! Producing 55k Model 3's per quarter [1] will definitely help with the cash flow situation. I think the biggest questions that
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by w1 8y ago
Those are really good questions. I don't know what form a transfer of cash from Elon to Tesla like that would take. Tesla issuing new shares for him to buy? Honestly, on paper there isn't any reason why Tesla can't just sell
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by w1 8y ago
Just did some rough math on this. He's reported to have 55% of SpaceX, recently valued at 27.5B [1], and ~19% of Tesla [2], most recently at ~44B, for a combined net worth of ~23B (before any debt). He therefore definitely couldn'
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by w1 8y ago
Not really a book, but... The Berkshire-Hathaway shareholder letters are very entertaining and informative, and reading Warren is probably the best way to deeply understand the last ~40 years of US business climate. http://www.be
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by w1 8y ago
The Order of Time spends some time qualitatively discussing quantum gravity, and the audiobook narration by Benedict Cumberbatch is really excellent.
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by w1 8y ago
One energy storage method that's relatively cheap, efficient, and scalable is pumped-storage hydroelectricity. There's a 3 GW plant in Virginia that's been in operation since the 80s[1]! There is ultimately minimal need for F

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