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Microsoft has a blog with more details [0] but the Axios article does a good job of summarizing the main points. The full report is also available to read [1]. [0] https://www.micr…

I found this presentation helpful for an intro to H3's design/motivation: "Engineering Sub-City Geos for a Hyper-Local Marketplace with Uber": https://youtu.be/wDuKeUkNLkQ?si=-9Jmx…

> Geothermal energy source found in Presidio County, Texas Contrary to the clickbait title, the article included the key point in the first bullet point.

For folks that don't recognize the author (Ian Stapleton Cordasco), he's one of the core maintainers for python-requests (sigmavirus24 on github).

If it uses a hash of an image, does that mean an edited image (eg cropped or resized) wouldn't be detected? Or is there a way to extend a single hash to multiple image variants? I …

Quite an interesting review, with lots of useful learnings for practitioners (in my opinion). I also liked the use of the term "graphical literacy" in the abstract, which is someth…

In case it's helpful, here's the first paragraph from the post: "The original KiCad domain name (kicad-pcb.org) was recently sold to an unnamed third party that is not affiliated w…

I wish the subtitle could have been included in the HN posting: "Scientists scramble to harvest ice cores as glaciers melt" The next paragraph provides more context: "Ice provides …

Tweet with other links: https://twitter.com/mmbronstein/status/1404380398856060932 Paper (PDF): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13478.pdf Blog post: https://towardsdatascience.com/geome…

This Twitter thread [1] points to research on the subject of reducing police violence, which I found fairly informative. [1] https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655701271732224?…

Since the article didn't link to the paper: - "The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks" - https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635

Additional context from Ali Rahimi and Ben Recht: http://www.argmin.net/2017/12/11/alchemy-addendum/

For numerical optimization, a couple good textbooks are: - "Practical Optimization" by P. E. Gill, W. Murray and M. H. Wright: a little old (1982), but provides a solid foundation …

This is great to hear! Also, the video linked in the article [1] provided a nice overview of the work that will be supported by the grant. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fowHw…

The topics covered are fairly broad and overall it seems like a nice collection of notebooks for teaching. Also, I agree with the choice to use Anaconda to install the dependencies…

Thanks for the info and context!

I'm having trouble finding the source of the figure shown, but I did find a page with similar information ("Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index"): https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-ene…

This paper appears to be from 1998 [0]. No judgment on its quality; I'm just trying to provide a reference for other readers of the post. [0]: A.C.C. Coolen, in ‘Concepts for Neura…

I found the Github page to be a better source in this case: https://imatge-upc.github.io/detection-2016-nipsws/

They have a datasheet [0] for an "Environmental Monitoring Sensor" which lists a line-of-sight range of 50 miles and 1–3 miles in urban settings. For comparison, Digi's XBee PRO Zi…