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ampdepolymerase··on Automated Hydroponic System Build (2020)
What you want is a growth chamber.
ampdepolymerase··on AIeyes: Walking simulator where the world is seen through a realtime neural net
And neural rendering to get realistic 3D scenes ;)
ampdepolymerase··on Against SQL
Have you tried Logica?

https://logica.dev/

ampdepolymerase··on Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it: researcher
Anything can cause damage if it is intense enough (intensity is a separate quantity from photon energy). You do not want to put your hand into a microwave oven. But a cellphone's level of radiant intensity is absolutely harmless.
ampdepolymerase··on 15 States Reach a $4.5B Settlement with Oxycontin Maker Purdue Pharma
Not to mention their intense lobbying to restrict residency positions.
ampdepolymerase··on Not school or homeschool, but modular learning
For most universities, their micro-degrees program are considered to be a revenue source. They do not issue those directly under the same brand as their main undergraduate college.
ampdepolymerase··on Not school or homeschool, but modular learning
You are missing the forest for the trees. Quality wise, most American first and second tier universities provide largely similar levels of undergraduate education, with perhaps slightly differing rigor depending on the institution. The top 10 schools are uniquely able to provide strong networks, money, and access to opportunities that are not available to everyone else. That has very little to do with research output or its academic strength. You cannot buy old money. If academic rigor is the sole determinant of institution quality, then continental powerhouses like École Normale Supérieur and Science Po would be ranked on the same level as Stanford and Harvard.
ampdepolymerase··on An Intern’s Guide to Trading
Not sure why this was downvoted. Market and Exchanges is slightly outdated but it is the gold standard.
ampdepolymerase··on We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI
Because ethics in engineering is mostly about codified rule compliance rather than the deep navel gazing taken by actual philosophy students. The latter also rarely yields useful answers. Crack open one of the "professional" engineering ethics guide books and 90% of it is thou shalt not build a bad bridge/engine/circuit because it is very bad and you should report your boss to the authorities if they do. I never understood the moral uppity and delusion those engineers have. If a bridge falls it is bad, unless if it is explicitly designed to kill enemy soldiers, then it is good. You can extend this to drones and enemy schoolbuses and the entire defence industry if you want. The so-called "engineering ethics" field should rebrand and follow the financial industry. You follow guidelines because the compliance department demands it to cover the company's derriere. If you don't, your company will get fined. Skip the self-righteous morality because its only purpose is to reduce the principle agent problem for the managerial and asset owning class.
ampdepolymerase··on We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI
If you do actual ML research, the technologies are two sides of the same coin. Three days ago there was a paper posted here in HN on using the GPT-like transformer architecture for reinforcement learning problems (of which self driving cars is a partial subset of).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27721037

ampdepolymerase··on We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI
> To slim results. Elon Musk explained his new nihilism about the possibility of stopping AI advancement on the Joe Rogan podcast, when he said:

“I tried to convince people to slow down. Slow down AI. To regulate AI. This was futile. I tried for years. Nobody listened. Nobody listened.”

Rather rich coming from one of the self driving car market leaders. It certainly makes business sense to mislead academia and the policy sector into wasting resources on figuring out the best philosophical and ethical regime while large corporations benefit from regulatory capture. If he has his way, ML would become like the pharmaceutical industry, with multiple barriers of entry if you are not well-funded, well-connected, or established.

ampdepolymerase··on The cost of the “new way to message on instagram” (2020)
And if your politics do not agree with Hacker News, then expect pontification about how the first amendment only applies to governments and not large corporations with massive network effects.
ampdepolymerase··on Social Media Platforms as Common Carriers? [pdf]
Simple, outsource the moderation. Provide a common access API for third parties to provide moderation. Whether their home feed content resemble 4chan or the New Yorker is entirely up to the user.
ampdepolymerase··on Ask HN: Why is the byte order little-endian, but the bit order is big-endian?
And also floating point specifications.
ampdepolymerase··on Launch HN: Enso (YC S21) – Visual programming and workflow automation tool
I think you should hire a couple of game developers. With the small scale that Enso is operating at, there should not be having bottlenecks in the graphics layer. A game developer can easily scale the app to support millions of nodes trivially on a 2021 desktop.
ampdepolymerase··on A theory that “elite overproduction” leads to political instability (2020)
You conveniently left out the rise of the industry known as software engineering.
ampdepolymerase··on Student designs device that stops blood loss from stab wounds
There is the option of a chemical gas generator, which i much more compact than any battery. However it too has a limited operation time.
ampdepolymerase··on Can a soundbar rival a surround-sound system in a blind listening test? (2020)
Are modern phased array sound bars capable of bouncing sound off walls to emulate surround sound? I understand that Apple's Homepods for example have quite sophisticated algorithms for sound.
ampdepolymerase··on Terrible programming features from the past
What is the difference between DoEvent and yield in modern async languages?
ampdepolymerase··on Apple expanding outside of SV as it struggles to recruit and retain talent
It is a well known fact that Apple's pay is bad. They are like game studios, they sell a dream and the perception of changing the world to engineers who should be old enough to know better.
ampdepolymerase··on EU antitrust: Apple shouldn't use privacy and security to stave off competition
They pretend to care about consumer privacy by only encrypting on device and at the same time hand data over to governments through unencrypted iCloud backups.
ampdepolymerase··on GPT-J: GPT-3 Democratized
Pretty much, it is like "OpenBionics" where everything is closed sourced.
ampdepolymerase··on Electric vehicles are the future for everyone – except disabled people
Most cars now are partially drive-by-wire. The mechanical interconnect serves as backup.
ampdepolymerase··on Designing a Dataflow Editor with TypeScript and React
Can you elaborate?
ampdepolymerase··on The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan
Mastodon powers Gab. It is as popular a decentralized technology as it can get.
ampdepolymerase··on Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet – here’s why (2017)
You can always use the Turkic script. Turkic languages are almost mutually intelligible.
ampdepolymerase··on Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price
Compromising a user password does not grant access to the web client (where all the important settings are at) if 2fa is enabled. App specific password only allows data exfiltration and most enterprise email servers/authz systems can be configured to automatically block access from VPNs/foreign ips. These days emails are tied into calendar and Oauth and many other things, blocking access to the inbox is just one layer in a very a big picture.
ampdepolymerase··on Designing a Dataflow Editor with TypeScript and React
Also https://rete.js.org/
ampdepolymerase··on Image unshredding using a TSP solver
Current office shredders are almost all capable of double shredding but considering how easy it is to reverse by OP's project, it may be necessary to implement further measures for document destruction.

A laser or enzymic based method could work but neither are particularly office-friendly.

ampdepolymerase··on Two Portland delivery companies revolt against Amazon, shut down
Not using AWS would not make much of a difference. AWS is a money machine, the parts of Amazon that involve logistics and blue collar work is barely profitable.
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