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by warner25 2y ago
I've found a few references around the web to an effort by Google Maps, about five years ago, to remove non-static objects likes cars and pedestrians from the satellite views. The algorithm is cool, but I guess there's nothing mor
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by warner25 2y ago
I see the same suspicious lack of aircraft on the ground. It's really interesting. I see one Qantas aircraft taxiing onto runway 09R, and a Saudi aircraft taxiing into parking from 09R, and that's it. Also interesting is that I se
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by warner25 2y ago
I think he means the "satellite" layer, not the "terrain" layer.
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by warner25 2y ago
Yeah, at the peak of Vietnam we had more troops on the ground than the Army has on active duty today (about 450k). The Army's size declined by half after Vietnam, and then declined by half again in the 1990s. This is a nice figure il
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by warner25 2y ago
Today's US Army is dwarfed by the size of the Vietnam-era Army. I love putting this into perspective for people who don't know the history. Those 5,500+ losses would be more than the Army's entire helicopter fleet today; acti
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by warner25 2y ago
I'm a former Army helicopter pilot (but Black Hawks, not Apaches) and I think this is an interesting observation. By 2011, when I went to war, the main thing we'd learned was to fly high up above small arms range: above 1,000 feet
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by warner25 2y ago
Regarding AI and distributed systems, this might not be what you have in mind, but take a look at federated learning. I'm currently a computer science PhD candidate at a small school, and a couple of our graduates in the past year work
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by warner25 2y ago
It's old enough to be found on archive.org. And it's not interesting: They want to make a lot of money, so upwards of 60% of graduates now go into high finance, management consulting, or Big Tech jobs.
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by warner25 2y ago
This line captures a lot more than just the situation with Instagram... > ...watching the app contort itself into a TikTok copycat that prioritized video and recommended posts over photos from friends... That seems to describe, like, the
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by warner25 3y ago
Who do you think writes most of the papers in the academic world? And what do you think PhD students spend most of their time doing?
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by warner25 3y ago
I agree on the first point. On the second point, no. I think we have a preponderance of evidence for Len Sassaman. He also explains why those bitcoin haven't moved, as well as many other peculiar things. This appears to be the most a
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by warner25 3y ago
> ...he never responded. Eventually I tracked down his desk in the vast corporate complex and paid him a visit. He was pleasant but told me that he wasn't even on the access control project and he thought it had probably been cancel
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by warner25 3y ago
I'm on Android. The Android app has never been very snappy nor bug-free for me (I've also used older, low-end phones, for what that's worth), but I think it has generally gotten better over time.
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by warner25 3y ago
This is largely how I've operated for years with Google Voice: doing all of my SMS/MMS messaging and outbound calls (inbound, not so much) from the voice.google.com web app in my desktop browser. If my life circumstances were a bi
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by warner25 3y ago
Yeah, I like this bit: "The bibliography of the whitepaper discloses a stunning paucity of knowledge about historic precursors... at the time of writing the Bitcoin whitepaper; this may either indicate a lack of interest in compliance
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by warner25 3y ago
The biggest thing that bugs me about the Len Sassaman theory is that the original bitcoin paper, while amazing, doesn't seem like it was written by a PhD candidate. It cites just eight related works, and the W. Dai citation was famou
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by warner25 3y ago
Oh, I'm excited to read this! Once or twice a year I take a trip down the rabbit hole on Satoshi, and my personal conclusion after the last couple of trips has been Len Sassaman. The one thing that bugs me is that the original bitcoin
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by warner25 3y ago
So if only 10 students are on this committee[1], that makes more sense. Either this has changed since the time of the author's story, or he misremembered, or exaggerated (re: saying that all 25 students, the whole student body at the t
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by warner25 3y ago
Fascinating. As I read this, I was mostly wondering about how much time the students were spending on the admissions process for new students. This guy was just one applicant, and he spent a whole week there by himself, and all of the stu
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by warner25 3y ago
> AD&D... most commonly offered by workplaces Like the employer offers coverage that extends to a non-employee spouse, like family health insurance? I remember finding one product sold to individuals including stay-at-home parents
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by warner25 3y ago
> Always buy the underinsured/uninsured motorist coverage. Agreed. I'm a personal finance nerd, and it felt like an epiphany when I discovered this a few years ago, because it's rarely discussed but seems so important. I m
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by warner25 3y ago
This is a good explanation. I think the word "abundance" is more fitting than "growth." I also like how you frame it as someone with an "abundance mindset" possibly being wrong, foolish, etc. to think that they
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by warner25 3y ago
I see where you're coming from regarding "[settling] into that job & [accepting] that life path" as a government employee. I thought about that after I wrote it myself. The alternative, however, strikes me as taking impru
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by warner25 3y ago
I agree with you. I've seen other people write about this before and it seems that the people talking about it are people who happen to make a lot more money than the average person. Good for them, but that doesn't mean that peo
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by warner25 3y ago
> Win what? That's the root of it, of course. Everybody who went to Afghanistan or Iraq, after the first wave, knew that they weren't coming home until either (A) their timer ticked down to zero from 3-6-9-12-15 months, or (B)
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by warner25 3y ago
> ...talk about it like a sporting event ('win' and 'lose' (my bad) should be banned from the discussion of warfare)... To be fair, the Army's own foundational doctrinal publication - ADP 1 - uses the word "
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by warner25 3y ago
You're right, this is always the tension because we're assuming risks either way. My half-serious CH-47 proposal, in particular, is probably the extreme version of "fighting the last war." I think the consensus within th
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by warner25 3y ago
There's some interesting recent history involving the C-27 Spartan. The Army saw a capability gap between its CH-47 and the Air Force C-130 for intra-theater, tactical lift in Iraq and Afghanistan, so it pursued the acquisition of this
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by warner25 3y ago
I've been trying to find where I read this, and I can't, so I think you're correct. Maybe I was confused by some stuff that was just Bell and Sikorsky marketing material about their attack / recon variants. I'm thin
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by warner25 3y ago
This has been a mildy controversial decision, and I was initially concerned that the Valor was the wrong choice, but I've convinced myself over the past year that it wasn't. In the mid-2000s, the Army decided to cancel the technol

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