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sengstrom

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    Comment #40676734

    So many hopeful (?) patents on this stuff - kinda sad to see.

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    Comment #34998226

    I once received a letter (while at Chalmers) from the US - it was addressed to S-41296

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    Comment #29743717

    Let's have google check that: https://www.google.com/search?q=45+TB+%2F+8+billion That comes out to about 3 pages by your measure.

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    Comment #28846750

    also possibly quite hot from recent interactions with the atmosphere

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    Comment #28310377

    the little things matter

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    Comment #26519103

    I think it was more a matter of attitude. Never a great way to actually explain something.

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    Comment #25908973

    I've read this book recently and found it a very useful overview of ML. It is a bit theoretical which is good for somebody that comfortably reads math notation. Also the notation i…

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    Comment #25321629

    The numbers are small but I can see the satisfaction in picking an approach and sticking to it. Thanks for the write-up.

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    Comment #24174311

    Yet these renderings were not made with that choice.

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    Comment #24173782

    These images were rendered with a "white" bias. Facial features is one thing, but skin color is clearly not conveyed by statues, yet a clear choice was made here.

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    Comment #22280834

    points for spelling globbing correctly :)

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    Comment #19759183

    I name the thing with the nose Bruno.

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    Comment #14767305

    My take on the Drake equation is that it gives you a way to play with numbers and break down your guesses in a rational way. The article suggests an estimate of N(Earth) so this is…

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    Comment #14767295

    Stable against what perturbations? What impact would a large body passing through the system have? Stable as in self-correcting (up to a limit)? What is the limit. Even long runnin…

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    Comment #13341385

    d3 comes to mind

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    Comment #12060100

    Have sufficient Hamming distance could be a better maxim!

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    Comment #11163456

    Wondering why the two passive devices have the same mac address...

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    Comment #10347560

    The math for the time to transfer comparison is interesting: "Even with high-speed Internet connections, it can take months to transfer large amounts of data. For example, 100 tera…

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    Comment #10029490

    It would be interesting to hear what some of the sources are in the training set. My first impression was Goldberg variations meets ragtime.

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    Comment #8769399

    A nice hack and a good list of the things you may want to fiddle with if you want to explore phone applications calling home just in general.

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    Comment #8644525

    I was wondering what that means too - maybe the strange unit ($103 kWh per hour ) is a clue to what they are talking about. Remember this is temporary storage for wind or solar ene…