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No worries :) the drone basically generates a big dataset of "crashing" and "not crashing" video clips from the camera. It then feeds all that into a convolutional neural net, whic…

That's not exactly what the car in [1] does. They use stochastic optimal control methods, which are more domain specific. They perform forward simulation on a lot of trajectories a…

The bird thing is not as big of a deal as some seem to think. Wind turbines kill a couple hundred thousand birds each year [1]. In contrast, cats kill hundreds of millions of birds…

I watched "The Last Kingdom" from BBC (which I recommend) and it made me want to know more about 9th century England. So far the book "Alfred the Great: the man who made England" b…

True! I just read about the "decimation of Aethelwulf" - the ninth century king of Wessex (current Great Britain) gave away a tenth of his empire in order to secure the kingdom dur…

Reminds me of when a family friend of mine (a professor of civil engineering) built his own barn on his property. He got permits and did everything the ordained way, but still got …

Yeah that was my reasoning. The salted hash would be an easy way to implement single-thread username consistency. Edit: for better readability it could be further mapped into a tab…

Is that so bad? Granted maybe it's annoying looking at old threads, but as a user, the ability to go through and remove old and potentially regrettable posts is quite welcome. Mayb…

I'm not sure, but that will never happen unfortunately. The support infrastructure always comes with cost.

It was GS

I agree. Interns also generally receive no extended benefits like 401(k), stock, medical, and so on, so the comparison isn't very fair in terms of total comp.

I've had several big name tech internships, and I got an internship offer from a bank to do tech work. The bank offered around 2/3rd the comp with significantly worse benefits, whi…

The expected value of both strategies is to have 1 success, but they have different variance. The first strategy has variance of 0.99, and the second strategy has variance 0. The c…

I built a desktop with a quad core i5, 16gb ram, a GTX970, an Intel SSD, and around 2tb of spinning disk storage. The whole build cost around $700 and it's a very fast machine. I a…

Assuming there is a law. I think we can already detect methane well enough to know that cows make a lot of it. You don't want to make the law something they must "escape" from, but…

Maybe it can backfire and you'll subconsciously silence your cell phone during actual calls.

That would be an interesting compiler project.

Unless I'm mistaken, many founders do give up control to their share holders.

And of course after that, Prime Plus which includes a lease on solar panels and home batteries.

Thanks! I had not seen that before but it looks nifty.

It's not totally unique, but I made a simple tool I call "watch" that runs terminal commands on file save. You specify a file glob and a command and it runs the command whenever a …

I believe that photogrammetry can reconstruct 3D geometry, especially with the help of range sensors like the article mentions. The process results in 3D information like triangle …

Nature found a great way to both scrub and sequester CO2, with O2 as a waste product. Unfortunately we haven't exactly been investing in that technology. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia…

In some sense many companies do this via 3 month internships. They're basically just low cost future employee vetting opportunities. Of course, they are generally limited to colleg…