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Honestly, I don't know why this is such a big deal for people. There is no right for anonymous free speech, just free speech. The idea that you should be able to do everything anon…

Does this model include things like how slippery the road is, or head wind/ cross wind. Or is it only visual / depth model?

Very cool - definitely an important missing feature in SQlite.

Synology NAS - works great, scalable.

This whole blog is just a regurgitation of surface-level wikipedia knowledge. All of these issues are very well known in the industry. Asking to solve all of them, perfectly, at on…

Gigapixel AI works fantastic ( https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai ) and has a perpetual license.

A lot of these large companies spend millions of dollars recruiting participants from various demographics to test prototypes and fine-tune technologies like this. It's a tremendou…

100$ /month is nothing for someone who makes a living doing this. And tbh, the value-add is arguably a lot more than that.

I had similar thoughts for a while. What helped me was instead of aiming to make all of the time outside work productive (3-4 hours) just aim for under an hour. For me, 40 min of p…

What's interesting is that the trend in "Average Weighted Accuracy" seems to increase linearly in the past three years whereas the number of model parameters and required compute i…

By that logic, the lego sets we buy for our kids should also be the cost of plastic ;)

Same is unfortunately true for a lot of Eastern European music. There are thousands of great soviet recordings of various classical and folk pieces that have never been digitized. …

Fatherhood is upon me...

A large reason why these are aimed for scientific missions is because the single photon detectors utilized for receiving these transmissions are still incredibly expensive. They ar…

For most companies, you can tell them what your expected salary range is during the first round of phone screens or meetings - no need to wait till the end. The HR represenative sh…

For those of you who already have a favorite pair of nice earbuds, I suggest checking out ADV ( https://www.adv-sound.com/pages/ciem ). They are able to manufacture a custom-fit sl…

I think another thing that is often overlooked is that a project like this requires a ton of very diverse hardware in the form of hundreds or maybe thousands of sensors, valves, PL…

Here's a great report from the National Academy on progress in quantum computing https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25196/quantum-computing-progress...