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The story of why it is called dynamic programming is pretty great: https://conversableeconomist.com/2022/08/24/why-is-it-called...

Fei Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy's Stanford CS231N course is also a great intro to the basic of the math from an engineering forward perspective. I'm pretty sure all the materials ar…

Depends a little on if you're going to a website to use an app, or running something on a always on PC on say a production floor where the app never gets exited, I'd think.

It seems pretty possible to me that the reason Nvidia pulled off this bet is that Jensen still basically unilaterally controls what NV is working on, and Jensen is still fundamenta…

Rough consensus, running chargers at work. [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_consensus

VASAviation has a video on this incident with commentary from a NorCal controller, showing the (large amount of) inbound traffic. [1] [1] https://youtu.be/4zHxdn8oz20?si=6ENIvIot7Q…

If I remember correctly, this Lufthansa flight usually arrives during the day, when the company permits visual approaches, but had a delayed departure, which is what let to their p…

In some places it's also illegal to have that many LI batteries in your house (looking at you, SF).

Might be a reference to ISO-5 mixed up with BSL (biosafety levels)

And potentially, despite Quora's dark-patterned and degenerating platform, some kind of value in the Quora dataset or the experience of building it?

Fish tape and a cheap endoscope are the tools you want.

Not quite the same thing but Barrier and Synergy can make two computers share a mouse and keyboard multi monitor style over a network (ie, you they switch when you mouse over the e…

From what I understand as an observer the FAA rules make it basically impossible for a working pilot to seek mental health care (even for an acute issue like a death in the family)…

It also allowed a lot of young people (ie me) to learn to make legitimate looking GUI programs without a difficult barrier to entry, on whatever windows machines our schools/houses…

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.[1] [1] https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026

Darknet guerilla marketing. Definitely seems to have worked. Now we need the SEO content side: "How we hit Google with 398M RPS". "... you can do this manually, but our product mak…

Also most receivers for super economically important things like a avionics or marine navigation, but shutting off WAAS specifically (augmented accuracy data for GPS broadcasted us…

As someone shopping for physical 2FA tokens right now, do you have any recommendations?

Thanks so much for building it! My non gaming use case is scientific research, processing massive images and 3D renders coming off microscopes. You need high image quality, low lat…

Makes me wonder if there would be a way to pollute imagenet so a particular image would always match for something like a facial recognition access control system or the like. Mayb…

I'm assuming it's a typo but "collage degree" is great as either a baseline inapplicable bachelor's for a tech job or a cynical view of the value a high school diploma. Thinking ab…

Kind of feels like this is the Boeing--McDonnell Douglas of game engine acquisitions.

If the price is under $70 for 25G, I'd imagine most people pay half that for less bandwidth, but the 25G works for a number of people who need or want it, plus is great marketing. …

Also much easier to ski or hike on the weekend if it's right next door rather than a four hour drive (looking at you I80). Add in potentially having kids growing up around nature a…

I grew up in a mountain town, and the mountain started doing 8 am openings for season pass holders. Some colleagues and I would hit the slopes, ski for an hour, and be in the offic…