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CrazyCatDog
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About CrazyCatDog
Can be contacted via 90024ch at big G’s email service
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Comment #45592654
Question: can it discern (and label) different speakers? If so, could you kindly share the limit on speakers per video?
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Comment #42182424
Right, if it’s a case interview, then higher accuracy ought to prompt the interviewee to ask: (1) Do the 200 cuts typically occur in clusters? (2) What’s the typical density, eg ar…
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Comment #42179837
“Knowing that 200 undersea cables break every year globally, estimate the probability that 3 cables break in the baltic sea on the same day.” I’m stealing this to use for grad-stud…
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Comment #40755607
The 3 min documentary listed in wiki is excellent…1500 mph and 57k ft capable is mind-blowing in and of itself—not to mention flying sans pilot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nor…
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Comment #40193413
They did, the translator communicates to the prisoners in English, and they pass along in Japanese to the guards. The article says they asked the translator.
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Comment #40028928
How competative was the isp market in Utah before Google fiber subsidized the massive build-out? Google threw in the towel on wiring more new cities about mid-way through the SLC b…
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Comment #40028851
Deepest condolences on your loss, and thank you for your candor—I can only speak for myself, but I’m definitely turning up my driving conservatism after reading your post.
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Comment #38672885
The rc gliders are loaded chock-full with weight (tungsten or lead), we literally seek cover behind cars and boulders, and the bravest among us holds the radar speed gun—-if you wa…
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Comment #38564788
1) Clear your evening. 2) Do not Google, but rather jump straight to your favorite media platform, and locate a 2012 film named: “searching for sugar man.” 3) Watch alone because i…
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Comment #36831307
Who was calling customer service to begin with? I’m not a user, but I suspect there’s more margin with customers who are large enough to have a firm or internal team handle Shopify…
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Comment #35218718
Ha! I started on flight sim, made it to rc planes, and the first day of flight instruction, I told the instructor and he said: “if you can fly rc, you can fly full scale.” All I ha…
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Comment #31761487
It’s usually a limited number of passes, so when customer k+1 requests access, customer 1 gets dropped. I don’t tell anyone about my library’s resources—they’re great, and so are t…
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Comment #31303826
The rate at which your project becomes NPV positive. If it takes $100 one year to return $110, then the irr is 10%, because a 10% interest rate would cause you to owe $10 at the en…
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Comment #31303792
Right. IRR has a number of problems, though many stem from the fact that it reports a percentage. Npv/economic value added/etc. will yield one level per investment. And while you c…
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Comment #30410887
Even were this not the case—short of an arrest, there is no way for the federal government to “serve you” in a contactable manner—whereas my sense is that this is not the case in E…
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Comment #30309401
What kind of kick backs do you offer doctors? My partner’s obg will gladly market the highest bidder’s box until this space gets regulated.
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Comment #30308879
I used to! Two things that have made a big difference: 1) Pay for a real spam filter from your telecom (usually free in highest tier plan). It’s remarkable hope much it catches, an…
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Comment #30143104
It’s often useful to have the obvious or insignificant already established in the literature allowing one to focus on more elusive and revolutionary research!
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Comment #30109976
With all due respect—I have something which will blow your mind! The city of Santa Monica broadcasts city council meetings. And both the items being adjudicated and the members fro…
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Comment #30084480
I think you mean Nature is capturing some of the rents bestowed upon authors for publishing in Nature. Honestly, I wish more journals mandated open for a fee—I want my work open, b…
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Comment #30084419
Whoa! Best advice I ever received: accept everything. Here’s why: (1) Editors will not send you garbage, but they will try at first (2) You, in turn, torture yourself to find a pat…
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Comment #30047212
The NYT article suggests that one person validated the list—however that one person is an avid word game player, and is in fact the developer’s partner, for whom the game was creat…
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Comment #29770987
I found the bit about whether the samples may have been altered in final transit interesting as well as the artificial crater created by landing—the rest, per my layman eye, is eff…
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Comment #29669910
But does this really matter? When I pull-up google.com on mobile the search bar is instantaneous; what isn’t instantaneous, is all the superfluous junk that nobody visits google.co…
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Comment #29669864
Agreed, and SO thrilled that Yahoo hasn’t changed one iota since her departure—imagine what’s the world would be like today has she been at lycos or alta vista!