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There are already insurance companies offering coverage for legal expenses. The interesting part here is maybe that by restricting it to patents the insurer has a very clear idea o…

I had (aerospace engineer) two semesters of Numerical Methods. Then we had more specialized things like Finite Elements Methods. I wish we had been taught how to use a Computer Alg…

Nice, but I have moved to https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm and I'm not looking back

>But we can and should do better. Why is DLL-hell still a thing? Imports should specify versions, defaulting to a default if none is specified. Languages barely even consider versi…

I love this book, reading it right now: Power Programming Mathematica: The Kernel. It's (legally) free, you can find PDFs. Bonus: I love weird books covers. This one is charming. A…

> There is even research by now that aims to use ML to find good heuristics for a given family of problems (where the common characteristics of the problems might lend to a dominan…

He got 2/3 of the shares necessary for gaining control. The Bank of Portugal was the only one who could prosecute money forgery and it was being acquired with forged money. This gu…

I'm trying to do a PhD part time while working although I don't plan to go to academia, now or in the future. For me it's a way of focusing on some topic related to my work: I'm a …

Road atlases were the same in Spain. I think the reason is that they are not interactive, that's the all the zoom level you are going to get and so they are extremely dense with in…

I actually have wireless keyboard, mouse and earphones, both for work and for sport. But like other commenter says I need nevertheless an space for a 27" monitor, keyboard/mouse an…

> If you never use your battery, why own a laptop at all? Why not buy a Mac mini or an iMac? Sometimes I need to move, for example while travelling, otherwise I would use a desktop…

I came to exactly post this. I previously had a HP ZBook with Nvidia Quadro inside and although I managed to get it running nicely I recently bought an LG Gram with integrated grap…

This is a usually cited concern for so many people and I'm curious to know why because I rarely unplug my laptop, like most people I know.

Exercising is doing physical exercise for the sake of it (health). Training involves planification to reach an objective: some personal record, a competition or aesthetic.

> and macOS has good MS Office support. This. I get the M1 must be very good but what I really want is something I doubt I'm going to get: native Office support in Linux. I use Off…

I have been recently looking at several "3d scanning" from monocular images/videos solutions and although they make for impressive demos I'm afraid they are a few years away from r…

I recently tried the Quest 2 and was blown away by the level of isolation from the external world it provides. It's pure concentration. I think VR has lot of potential for producti…

I like to explain that AI > ML > NN. Now, NNs are the ones getting results at computer vision and natural language, and more. I think most people would say that other ML approaches…

Not the parent but I would say you just need a little of statistics and a little of calculus and linear algebra. If you are interested in theory then you need more. For statistics …

What is your setup? Because I'm using Fedora and installed Unity because I was curious and deleted it after having problems (I don't remember the error though).

Nice, I didn't know about Jolt. A good book also is "Real Time Collision Detection" (Christer Ericson).

You can use GJK for 2D also. You don't need to compute the bounding boxes as GJK will automatically "convexify" the body although if you "precompute" the bounding boxes it will be …

I should be writing a thesis about AI but got inside the collision rabbit hole so I have this fresh. From the description of the algorithm you are doing I think you are thinking ab…

That's the good part: putting in place a simple system will beat manual recommendations. Sadly even moderately big businesses lack sometimes automated recommendations. There are se…

When in doubt, increase the covariance. Add some terms to the diagonal. It remembers me a little of deep learning: just stack some layers. Except it's not just that easy.