dakotasmith

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The Jefferson Bible [1] is excellent in this regard. He removes all miracles and most mentions if the supernatural in a cut & paste job of a King James version of the Bible. The result is portraying Jesus as a person, not divine.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible

Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760

Deathmatch was always a blast! I remember playing with headphones on, the sound design was good enough to pinpoint where other players were hiding, and you could even shut off your engine to coast around silently.

I would recommend the story if you have a chance. It's a good revenge story and John de Lancie is a great sounding villain. The presentation is incredibly cinematic, which I feel was enhanced two things:

1) in-game cut scenes within the engine, good dialogue and voice acting, as well as the "car movie" camera angles 2) choosing to have even the pre-rendered cut scenes match the mostly flat polygon style of the engine avoided the gap between gameplay and cutscene. Not exactly the uncanny valley. The "why doesn't it all look like that?" valley perhaps.

Interstate 76 was an amazing game and lead to me having a chance to volunteer with Activision as an external tester. It was high school, and the chance to test games before they came out, even for free, seemed very cool.

I wasn't there in time to test I'76, but was able to work on a few games and see my name in the credits before I moved into a more traditional software QA career and beyond. Truly a life changing game for me!

Thanks for the link

I recently came across Curio (https://github.com/dabeaz/curio) & really appreciated their FAQ section on contributing. I plan to use it in any future open source projects:

Q: Can I contribute?

A: Curio is not a community-based project seeking developers or maintainers. However, having it work reliably is important. If you've found a bug or have an idea for making it better, please file an issue.

I’ve got a second grader and myself & other parents are wondering how useful a public school education will be in 10 years when they are graduating

Just attempting to do this will give them a hand in negotiating with FedEx and UPS.

The words being, "impossible, unless?" when someone says doing _something_ is impossible.

Should be pointed out that IIT != ITT.

The author presumably refers to the Indian Institutes of Technology

No need for arsenic, sugar content in cereal is an unregulated public safety issue http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/06/sugar-rush...

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About us: Howdy.AI is the maker of Botkit, an extensible open-source node module for making bots in Slack & FB, as well as Howdy, a bot for teams to gather information from one another on the fly or on a schedule.

About the position: We're looking for someone with some experience in node.js, Express, and RabbitMQ.

We'd love to see some code samples, or an example of what you can do with botkit! https://github.com/howdyai/botkit If you are interested, get in touch with me, dakota at howdy.ai.

Lead Engineer | Howdy.AI | Austin, TX | Full-Time | ONSITE

http://howdy.ai/jobs/engineer/

Howdy.AI is the maker of Botkit, an open-source node module for making Slack bots, as well as Howdy, a bot for teams to gather information from one another on the fly or on a schedule. We're looking for someone with experience in RabbitMQ, node.js & Express.

If you are interested, get in touch with me, dakota at howdy.ai. Take care!

I find using a photo from a UC Davis Occupy protest to be very misleading

Seems down at the moment. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oivr__r...

I was following usage as it was in the thread, though I agree that amateur is being thrown around this thread where novice is the word implied.

To be fair, working only from book knowledge and no experience is precisely what makes someone an amateur.

How feasible would it be to build a personal ALPR?

Do you have or did you follow a write up for this? I know I would be interested in reading how you set that up!

Hermann Park is within walking distance of my home in Houston. Living by such an amazing space has done wonders for my mood, and my opinion of Houston. The park is wonderfully anachronistic.

It seems plucked straight out of some european city, or at least the east coast of the US. I think that owes a lot to it using the original plans from the 1910s. Growing up in Texas, most of the parks you see are basically undeveloped land, set aside for public use. A playground might be the only feature of some parks. This is completely different.

Where I live in Houston, I can ride light rail to downtown or a baseball game. I can walk to a wonderful park. The museums are stellar (if you haven't heard of the Menil collection, please look it up). I rarely have to even get on a highway, except when I'm heading out of town. The climate is miserable in the summer, thanks largely to the humidity of being a city built on top of what once must have been swamp land. However, the rest of the year is moderate.

I share this because before moving to Houston I would not have assumed any of these things.

Instead of explaining it, there can be steps taken to ensure a transition between prototype and product, such as prototyping in a language or for a stack that your company does not use in production.

Your comment reminded me of Chris Dixon's idea that big things start out looking like a toy. http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...

I think the value of Slack is in how platform agnostic the whole experience is. I have use it on a Nexus 5, iPhone 5c, iPad, in a browser (both IE and Chrome on Windows) and as a native OS X application.

All work exactly the same way, and all have the same feature set.

Push notifications let conversations happen in real-time. You can turn off Jira, Github, Trello notifications and set up integrations in Slack, create #firehose channel, and now you have corralled all those announcements into one spot.

If only I could get the other members of my team to use it, I could maybe talk about its chat features.

If you want to block all ads for any browser on OS X, I have to recommend GlimmerBlocker, the ad blocking proxy.

http://glimmerblocker.org

In addition to blocking ads at the response level, GlimmerBlocker can be used block ads on mobile devices, do string replacement in requests or responses, keyword expansion, even entire page transformations w/ JavaScript.

It's not as idiot proof as ABP's "right-click and block", but nothing more complicated than anything else we see on HN. Also unlike ABP, there is no whitelist advertisers can buy into.

I set it up as a proxy for all known clients on my network, and it really makes the Internet better.

I believe Dell's suppliers also used the demonstrated advantages of Dell's logistics to enter the market as competitors.

Also in the pre-2000s run up, Dell's pricing was premium, and with those margins Dell provided better than average in-house, state-side customer support, most (all?) of which was eventually dismantled as PC prices dropped.

Maybe when they aren't public, Dell will be able to invest heavily in R&D & customer support without worrying about earnings per share for the next quarter.

As a glasses wearer, I feel like replacing my lenses with screens eventually is a forgone conclusion.

Imagine something with LIDAR, scans the engine block to know what model year you are working on and pulls up the Chilton Manual 3D app and suddenly you know exactly where that vacuum hose is that you want to replace.

The packing one is just because I'm moving right now, and again, what I want is, something to scan the boxes and the vehicle and let me know how to fit the most stuff in. It wouldn't have to be glasses, but it wouldn't bother me.

You bring up input devices and such, and I really just think of it as a display, plain and simple. I would much rather manipulate interfaces that I already know or are made for manipulation. But I don't need to carry around a screen all the time, either.

tl;dr I don't want to wave my hands around like an idiot OR hunch over staring at a screen.

Guide someone through repairing a car or some other device.

Assessing volume and packing a truck or car optimally.

Making it look like someone's zipper was down.

Test it somewhere with a private sector need for such a service, like Detroit?

We could also suspect that the giant spying apparatus has compromised our government officials with intelligence gathered on anyone in a position to oppose it.

Additional videos from source:

http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2013/07/10/1301860110.DCSu...