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datameta··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
This response, while correct technically and in sentiment, is why democracy is more vulnerable to influence from a dictatorship than vice-versa.
datameta··on ChatGPT Pro
Has anyone heard or seen it used anywhere? I was in-house when it launched to big fanfare by upper management and the vast majority of the company was tasked to create team projects utilizing Watsonm
datameta··on Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters
Three dimensional chart, not kidding. We sell outselves short. With good design and color coding those are quite readable.
datameta··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2024)
SEEKING WORK | USA | Remote

  Technologies -
  Programming: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin
  Embedded Systems: PowerPC, ESP32, STM32, Altera MAX10, Lattice iCE40UP5k
  ML: TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch, OpenCV, MATLAB, ONNX
  IoT: BLE, WiFi, MQTT, LoRa
  Digital Logic: VHDL, Verilog

  Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18mjB1tIH5s-ZmiET_smUxbMo3FaiC637aW_us8P0U5I/edit?usp=drivesdk
  Email: dm@datameta.info
Hi, I'm an embedded systems engineer/architect with experience in software, hardware, IoT, and machine learning. Seeking projects from low-power remote applications to mid-range edge compute and HPC.

My latest projects have been in full-stack edge AI R&D, memory controller firmware dev, and chip bringup/testing. I'm passionate about modular synthesis and tinkering with all sorts of circuits and DSP. Currently upskilling in analog PCB design and refining my abilities in FPGA development.

Let's make your idea more concrete.

datameta··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)

  Location: NYC
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No

  Technologies -
  Programming: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin
  Embedded Systems: PowerPC, ESP32, STM32, Altera MAX10, Lattice iCE40UP5k
  ML: TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch, OpenCV, MATLAB, ONNX
  IoT: BLE, WiFi, MQTT, LoRa
  Digital Logic: VHDL, Verilog

  Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18mjB1tIH5s-ZmiET_smUxbMo3FaiC637aW_us8P0U5I/edit?usp=drivesdk
  Email: dm@datameta.info
Hi, I'm an embedded systems engineer with experience in software, hardware, IoT, and machine learning. Seeking innovative roles in low-power remote applications, HPC, robotics, and the like.

My latest roles have been in full-stack edge AI R&D, memory controller firmware dev, and chip bringup/testing. I'm passionate about modular synthesis and tinkering with all sorts of circuits and DSP. Currently upskilling in analog PCB design and refining my abilities in FPGA development.

I'm aiming for a learning-forward environment where I can learn while about a domain while advancing embedded systems integration and leading cross-pollinating efforts within the team.

datameta··on Caving scientists exploring the darkest places on Earth
Caves can have intricate ecosystems. There was an article on here some time ago how a single bag of chips completely altered the balance of a cave's fauna and flora.
datameta··on Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
Dead in 14 days? Was there a miscalculation that lead them to believe they could make one full night?
datameta··on Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean environment and life
We're assuming an even average distribution, and comparing ash to spherules - which would have different patterns of sedimentation depending on how far from epicenter one is. Although, for a large enough impact, the distribution radii overlap around the planet so there may be quite a bit of averaging as the sun+atmosphere provides a mixing medium and the energy to do so.
datameta··on Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean environment and life
Here is the Chixculub impact effect in realtime simulated as happening in today's world: https://youtu.be/ya3w1bvaxaQ?si=S-jmFegMo63HKzID
datameta··on YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design
Change "replace" to "supplement" and I agree. The level of non-determinism is just too great at this stage, imo.
datameta··on No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
Is that their stated goal? Are they not saying they will not use user virbation data?
datameta··on Exposure to phthalate compromises brain function in adult vertebrates
What you're detailing is a growing body of study under the BioPsychoSocial model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model?wprov=sf...

From personal experience I can say a dietary change reduced systemic inflammation for me and had as much of an effect on recovery as medication treatment. The anti-inflammatory diet eliminates foods well-known to cause inflammation in a sizable portion of the population. Out gut micro-biome takes the pharmacokinetics of nutrition even deeper by introducing another layer of breakdown or secretion.

datameta··on The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
Right - there is more inherent non-linearity in the fundamental unit of our architecture which leads to higher possible information complexity.
datameta··on NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a brief pause
Even on-orbit refueling is a huge boon for orbital assist flexibility.
datameta··on Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought
Can you expand on your last sentence? The notion is fascinating to me.
datameta··on Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought
I can remember the sequence of sounds and like a delay line repeat that sequence in my head. This becomes easier the more distinguishable the taps are or the more of a cadence variability there is. But if it is a longer sequence I compress it by remembering an analogue like so: doo doo da doo da doo da da doo (reminiscent of morse code, or a kind of auditory binary). Would we consider this language? I think in the colloquial sense no, but it is essentially a machine language equivalent.

For context I have both abstract "multimedia" thought processes and hypervisor-like internal narrative depending on the nature of the experience or task.

datameta··on Archaeologists found an ancient Egyptian observatory
The book A Beautiful Question explores this topic quite well.
datameta··on Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can't
Computer vision totally qualifies as AI as it can grant an agent artificially intelligent behavior.
datameta··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)

  Location: NYC/Remote
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No

  Technologies -
  Programming: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin
  Embedded Systems: PowerPC, ESP32, STM32, Altera MAX10, Lattice iCE40UP5k
  ML/AI: TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch, OpenCV, MATLAB, ONNX
  IoT: BLE, WiFi, MQTT
  Digital Logic: VHDL, Verilog
  Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13u2baioJF47z-YmFJSY2QR6JkZ9vesnUJfzNVEFrjjY/edit?usp=drivesdk
  Email: dm@datameta.info
Hi, I'm Daniel - a software and embedded systems engineer with experience in firmware, hardware, IoT, and machine learning. Seeking innovative roles in low-power remote applications, HPC, robotics, and the like. Recent experience in full-stack edge AI solutions, memory controller firmware, and VLSI testing. I'm passionate about modular analog synthesis and tinkering with all sorts of hardware. Currently upskilling in analog PCB design and refining my abilities in FPGA development. I'm aiming for a learning-forward environment where I can advance embedded systems and AI integration.
datameta··on The human heart shows signs of ageing after just a month in space
I'll have to disagree based on my reading of Endurance by Scott Kelly. It is more the profound isolation away from everyone on earth, not the lack of communication. He struggled with saying goodbye to everyone who came up to the station with him, as he watched the missions rotate. It becomes different when you're doing a whole year vs 3-6 months.
datameta··on The human heart shows signs of ageing after just a month in space
I need to look through the study more, but what was done to control for the isolation that a year on the ISS brings?
datameta··on Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience
In physics the model we choose is based on the scale - as in the macro sense all quantum effects average out over the several sextillion atoms in, say, a wood screw.
datameta··on Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience
That would be a median in your example no? A spurious average might be us thinking that the statistical mean word contains all vowels except for 'e', and that 'm' is twice as likely as the other most likely consonants.
datameta··on Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction
We would see the heavy intermixture in one of the groups in that case. In addition, if one group was in homo sapiens captivity, then it is overwhelmingly likely that the other group would be found during those 50 thousand years (considering our propensity for migration).
datameta··on The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age
This definitely touches on one important aspect of difficulty in enduring an addiction one is trying to cease. A promise broken thousands of times, and yet still made again.

However if it is the very cycle itself that increases the effort necessary for breaking out of it, how tied to self-worth is it for different people? When one is the subject and the researcher or the judge, defendant, and prosecutor simultaneously - it can be much more challenging to locate the anchor to which self-worth is tied.

datameta··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
What a Ukrainian settlement looks like when taken by Russia is predominantly on the scale of heavily damaged to totally leveled. Whereas Ukraine has taken localities without huge artillery and bombing preparation and have supplied locals hiding in the largely intact settlements with food and water, about whom Russia had forgotten - furthermore they shell and bomb towns with both Ukrainian soldiers and Russian civilians in them.

Ukraine targets exclusively war-fueling infrastructure including refineries, ammo/petroleum depots, military airfields and yes, key logistics routes like said bridge that was built by an invading country spanning over to occupied territory.

Israel has set off explosives with the knowledge that statistically many hundreds of bystanders will be in the blast casualty radius in public and private spaces. That is magnitudes more negligent and accepting of civilian casualties in comparison.

datameta··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
Whether terror is an intended effect or not, Israel is engaging in it.

Perhaps in the scheme of things as far as military operations are concerned this is "low" collateral damage. But if 3000+ people were wounded that means potentially tens of thousands experienced the traumatic event of explosives going off in a public space. And hundreds more are mourning family.

datameta··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
My implication is that Israel is using tactics falling under the same umbrella as those used by terrorist organizations.
datameta··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
Since we're bringing other conflicts into this... How come Ukraine is able to put in every effort to avoid civilian death when their opponent deliberately uses cruise and ballistic missiles on residential areas?
datameta··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
That last paragraph is disingenuous at best because there is a miles-wide valley of options between setting off explosives in peoples' pockets and surrender.
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