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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:41PM (#31163409)
quite doable, just pick up all the dead posts and comments
Re:YC’s $500k Standard Deal on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:52PM (#29878628)
awesome, we might consider YC after all
Re:Giant, free index to world's research papers released online on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:39AM (#29009603)
see this reddit thread on Scihub rescue mission https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_...

there is a link there to 851 torrents , ~77TB of data (compressed zip files), and also an index (sql db dump)

Re:The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video] on Friday October 22, 2021 @05:48PM (#28963171)
we don't smile because we are banned a lot
wiring and signals that flow through the wires, i.e. the software

while the cells are just switches with memory, i.e. the hardware

Re:Is Mark Zuckerberg a Man Without Principles? on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:21PM (#28939814)
more like his principles don't align well with author's point of view.
Re:Vector-based pedestrian navigation in cities on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @03:13PM (#28922301)
Related:

How the brain navigates cities - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28917033 - Oct 2021 (35 comments)

Re:How the brain navigates cities on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @03:09PM (#28922244)
there are also "vector cells" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-00761-w

Neuronal vector coding in spatial cognition: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-020-0336-9?proof=t

if they cancel Dave Chappelle I cancel my Netflix subscription.
Re:What to Learn on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:46PM (#28909683)
>working on a few things and not being particularly well rounded has worked for me in multiple disparate fields

arguably "well roundedness" is key to major breakthroughs in science & engineering

while most of us work on incremental improvements, the real innovation often happens on intersection of two or more disparate fields that until then were considered weakly related, and it does require knowing a bit of everything

the best scientists and engineers I know are "knowledge omnivores" and will digest anything. It does require well developed "filtering" capacity though, picking up signal from a lot of noise, and a sort of information hoarding mentality

Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:10PM (#28908925)
how does this new GPU and "neural engine" perform comparing to Nvidia GPUs, and do they support Tensorflow and something similar to CUDA SDK