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Ryobi make mostly good tools though. The results produced by most Ryobi users, myself included, are limited by user skill not tool quality.

As someone in an adjacent field who tried to keep up with the state of the art until the late 2010s, I really relate to this article. I'm reminded of another interesting personal s…

Squatters rights for IP

I live on a medium-sized lot within the limits of a city, so bow hunting is not allowed in my yard.

I completely agree with most of your points. I have a spot in my garden where I want to plant a large native tree, probably an oak. I would love to plant all natives, except that t…

> I could imagine the radiation being able to affect some of the weaker bonds in certain chemicals What you are describing is ionizing radiation, which RF and microwave is not.

CSET has lots of great analysis of China's AI policy, including references to official documents. https://cset.georgetown.edu/publications/

It was a real shock when I moved to the U.S. and the posted price on items didn't match with what I actually had to pay. In Australia, the posted price is the price, and must "incl…

Property tax is bundled into our mortgage payment, so even after considering the 1 % maintenance, our large house and yard worked out cheaper per month than our small rental condo …

Yeah, sorry. That was just my hyperbolic term for "monthly reduction in net worth in exchange for shelter".

Exactly. We just bought in the greater DC area and our mortgage payment is is only $500 more than our previous rent for a house that is much bigger/better. Given that $900 of our m…

Exactly. Researchers have been doing tomography with energy-dispersive detectors for decades, especially at synchrotrons. They often represent that data in 3D with false color indi…

I found it enjoyable and understandable, but I guess I was already slightly familiar with matrix factorization for recommendation/characterization problems.