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The fact that this article exists, and needs to exist, worries me more than any virus or lockdown.

What, if anything, is more necessary to a free society than the free expression and debate of ideas?

This of course requires a literate and critical interpretation of the facts and data by all, but I digress. This is science.

Dr. Craig Smith's daily letters are a fantastic source of non-politicized information on the outbreak.

A related and well worth-reading analysis: https://www.zerohedge.com/health/covid-19-evidence-over-hyst... which makes the point that none of these numbers are adjusted for country population (or pop density)

Also, why the article is not on medium, where it was originally: https://www.wsj.com/articles/controlling-the-virus-narrative...

Dead link?

I love the irony of this: I open the article and start reading. I am told that Google lured us in w/ free storage, but now I'm going have to pay since I've used so much storage. Then, a popup is overlaid on the article and the text is hidden. The popup says this article isn't actually free. I've read too many free articles on Bloomberg and now I'm going to have to pay for a subscription to keep reading.

I don't know what to take away from this other than the reminder that every public company has a duty to shareholders to take people's money! That's the function of a company: profit. What do we really expect here?

our lab uses Dynamixles in the widow x (https://www.trossenrobotics.com/widowxrobotarm) and the servos alone are 70% of the total cost.

is anyone aware of an open-source alternative to these servos? this would be a great contribution to the community, if not available already

Feeling the competition from Robinhood app?

The linked video is just an advertisement. The interesting work is: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp...

Ok, but 2 or 4 spaces?!

Or Brave browser?

I also designed and built a reflow oven! My goal was to make it simpler / smaller: https://nathan.vertile.com/blog/2019/04/24/fluxlamp-the-sold...

Email me if anyone wants control boards and I can try to make some more.

Thx for the feedback and the heads up. What browser are you using?

Good question, we use the same method as coco, described in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.0312.pdf and implemented in the coco evaluation scripts here: https://github.com/cocodataset/cocoapi/blob/master/PythonAPI... -- basically the best matching proposal, ground truth pair

Thx, I'll check that

Interesting this is trending now. We have actually just recently released an improved version of YoloV3 (called G-Darknet) https://github.com/generalized-iou/g-darknet, using GIoU as a loss, which is described here: https://giou.stanford.edu

Also notable in G-Darknet are some tools useful for training (called darkboard), see https://github.com/generalized-iou/g-darknet/tree/master/dar...

Should be re-titled to say just the website is shutting down.

Background: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/132-negative-mount-ple...

Anyone know someone at Intel or how to actually buy the Myriad X to use in other hardware designs? I have reached out to Intel multiple times with no response.

Is this not just https://github.com/ARM-software/ML-KWS-for-MCU trained on new keywords? Maybe I'm missing what is so special here?

After bad experiences with hardware reliably and support on the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6p, I will not be buying another piece of Google hardware.

Although, I must say, the vanilla Android software experience is top notch. I'd just rather install / customize it on more reliable hardware with better support (my op5t has been amazing!)

So, as long as I'm in my drone, it's fine. If I fly FPV, though, woah hold on, too dangerous!

Be nice. Work hard.

Wow. No love. Isn't lack of root like buying a house but the builder refusing to give you a master key or permission to change the locks?

Or lack of real software ownership e.g. no root allowed!)

It's hard for me to believe that all the smart, capable company executives involved in planning and execution of operations in and around China are oblivious to IP risks.

There is an obvious upside of operating in Asia, both cheap labor (though now decreasing) and strong work ethic coupled with access to a huge market.

It seems to me that execs understand and take a calculated risk when they choose to do business in various parts of the world. If they cannot make this calculation, they should not be running a company.

More than anything else, the attitude displayed in this article appears to me as an attempt to defer (or pass to the public) the consequences of the above calculated choices. If not directly, through a trade war that will hurt all Americans. All the while, these companies keep their financial gain private, in the pockets of execs and shareholders.

There is something to be said for protecting IP in the interest of a country's defense, but the technology that qualifies for this type of protection should be the subject of public debate, not a president's whim. Furthermore, unless the companies that own this IP are taken over by the state, company execs will always be free to make the decision re. operating in Asia and between the associated IP risks and capital gain.

Um... Why the down vote? "Terrell used a sensitive air-quality meter to demonstrate that one high-end HEPA system brought the particulate count in a dusty room down to virtually zero. His homemade system brought the count down to about 10 percent of its former level."

Am I reading this right, 10% air quality improvement for the diy version vs 100% for a retail device?

Ok, maybe this is a silly question, but I am a millennial.... Question: what is a mainframe and why would I want one? In my mind I think of it as a big, but inelastic, compute resource. If that's true, why wouldn't I want to use something horizontally scalable instead?

Also, for folks interested in general "drone" (aka research/commercialized/militarized robotics) news, the http://dronecenter.bard.edu/ newsletter provides fantastic weekly coverage.

If you want a mavic, just buy a mavic, building something with this level quality / reliability is not worth the effort.

The advantage to building your own is that you get a different type of quad -- a racing quad which feels more like flying a porsche (feels like a race car) than an mini-van (e.g. mavic, reliable but super fun to fly).

If you want to build a racer, rctimer has some of the best kits (high quality parts, well thought out design). Here's an old build guide from my blog, you would want to get a newer kit with an omnibus-based flight controller, but the idea is the same: https://nathan.vertile.com/blog/2016/04/24/rctimer-u210-mini...

Also, if you're just learning to fly, you probably want to learn acro/rate mode (which is full manual mode) on something smaller first, like this maybe: https://nathan.vertile.com/blog/2017/03/31/betaflight-micro-...