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Re:Open Soil Spectral Library on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @09:32PM (#32326613)
This is from the docs, not me. I was providing the details to quickly get others connected. I could have made that more clear.
Re:Open Soil Spectral Library on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @09:31PM (#32326601)
Have you gone out and done some experiments for yourself? or is this from reading about it?
Re:Open Soil Spectral Library on Monday August 01, 2022 @07:19PM (#32313367)
Soil needs microbiology, gas exchange and hydrology this is what makes elements available. Nothing needs to be added and all the elements are plentiful. We killed the microbiology, the research is already done. Keep many kinds of plants in the soil year round, stop adding chems, this increases yield 3x and water retention enough to reduce irrigation demand up to 70%. Strange thing is, this is free and removes a bunch of business models + gov subsidies from industrial ag and the universities that support them through "research". Just finished a year talking to farmers and growers of all kinds across the US.
Re:Open Soil Spectral Library on Monday August 01, 2022 @07:06PM (#32313268)
From the docs, Database: read only details on this page https://soilspectroscopy.github.io/ossl-manual/index.html#os...

1.4 OSSL mongoDB MongoDB is an Open Source noSQL DB hence fast and fully scalable and extendable (affordable costs for cloud solutions such as MongoDB Atlas and similar). TensorFlow and other cutting-edge ML algorithms can be easily integrated and served through a GUI.

To access OSSL DB best use the mongoDB either through a graphical user interface using Robo 3T, or by using the mongodb via R. The following parameters (database credentials) allow ready only access to DB:

Funding from: NIFA Invests Over $7 Million in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Other Cyberinformatics Research

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022) on Monday August 01, 2022 @11:34AM (#32307520)
Location: Chicago Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: AWS GCP Node.js Javascript React GraphDBs ElasticSearch Redis SQL Résumé/CV: https://github.com/timcash Email: [email protected]

Projects run the range. Examples: SaaS on AWS and GCP, reverse engineering, streaming video, counter-intelligence, network analysis, geospatial tools, and data pipelines. Now I focus on leadership, machine learning assistants, automated testing and peer-to-peer networks.

Re:Keet – P2P Video and Text on Monday July 25, 2022 @10:30AM (#32224808)
Check out the dev team and join the community. Great group of people who care about building quality software.
Turns out privacy is important.
Re:Polluted air cuts global life expectancy by two years on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @09:33AM (#31739203)
Ever think about day to day health? It is not just a life span of 78 vs 80 years. Living in pollution has many other negative effects including biology other than humans.
Re:Most Contacted HBGary Emails and Domains on Saturday February 19, 2011 @01:49PM (#2239588)
I am curious if any of the communication show discussion about the ethical repercussions of this kind of work? I would like to believe a company like Palantir (in those 1000 emails) at least mention some kind of concern on the part of their engineers. Any thoughts?
Re:OSX Dock in CSS3 on Thursday November 04, 2010 @01:55AM (#1867863)
Very nice, I wonder if there is a way to keep the base plate the icons sit on a consistent size? It appears to grow and shrink as I mouse over them...
Re:SproutCore (Web App Framework) 1.0 is Done on Saturday March 20, 2010 @03:07AM (#1206130)
Do you mean that reading in html (data with formatting mixed in) is preferable to reading JSON or XML? AJAX / AJAJ? What I am trying to say is I think eval(JSON) or parsing XML is > scraping HTML.
Re:Why PuSH (or PubSubHubbub) Could Threaten Twitter on Monday March 08, 2010 @12:26AM (#1174723)
PuSH is for Server to Server and does not address NAT issues. Until this problem is solved I dont see how it can replace something like Twitter which is becoming a protocol of its own. If you also consider the ability to search and filter twitter (even by location) it is a ways ahead of RSS and ATOM
Re:To all the startups who just applied to Y Combinator on Thursday March 04, 2010 @03:14PM (#1167901)
I have not seen this information before so it is useful to me.
Re:Life-like evolution in a test tube on Sunday February 21, 2010 @01:00AM (#1140221)
Not 10 minutes ago I just finished reading "The Blind Watchmaker" and then you posted this article and the people who did this research are not one mile from where I live. What are the chances of that happening?
Re:On $400 Hammers, $100 Bolts, and Cost-Plus Contracting on Monday February 15, 2010 @02:21AM (#1126074)
Can you provide the analysis? It seems like you are doing some hand waving and have resolved that fact that this solution was the only solution which I am skeptical of. Perhaps you can provide the RFP?
Re:On $400 Hammers, $100 Bolts, and Cost-Plus Contracting on Monday February 15, 2010 @12:45AM (#1125969)
Why not put out a contract that says. We need to get this information (I) to these people (P) at below this cost (C). If a company designs a system that can do that same thing in a completely new way at 1/100th the cost who cares how they did it.
Re:On $400 Hammers, $100 Bolts, and Cost-Plus Contracting on Monday February 15, 2010 @12:40AM (#1125965)
Right so the people creating the contracts are not doing their research. We need to spend more time thinking about how we do things so we dont pay for the same thing over and over. We need a way to make the fact that this bolt has been built public and accessible so if someone needs something similar they can contact the right folks and ask. Why would they say how many t1 lines are need and how many servers? That is silly. What if someone could get the same effect with less power and bandwidth? why wouldn't we use the superior solution. Again to make your point we would need to know what the ultimate goal of the system is and determine if indeed that was the only way to solve the problem. That is the whole point of having competition after all.
Re:On $400 Hammers, $100 Bolts, and Cost-Plus Contracting on Monday February 15, 2010 @12:17AM (#1125942)
Please provide some more background on why the project was created and the ultimate goal. Without that I do not really buy your argument as I have also worked with government contracts (including cost plus) and spent six year in the US Air Force. The problems are these. (1) Did they really need this system in the first place? Example: The F22 Raptor a fifth generation multipurpose fighter. I would argue that we do not really need this system but, sadly the people I worked for (Air Force Generals) the guys who create the ideas and sign the contracts did not even think to ask that question. Building another fighter was a forgone conclusion to them. It was purely about building something and not about defending against a real threat or even a perceived future threat. To the guys who run the Air Force (former fighter pilots primarily) of coarse you need a new plane. (2) Are you building yet another proprietary system on top of other proprietary systems. Example: JSTARS or the E8-C built by Northrop. This system collects a bunch of data about movement on the ground. The problem is Northrop created a proprietary mechanism for getting the data off of the plane. So now the government has to buy the plane and the system to get the data. (3) Was there another way to solve the problem? Example: Microsoft Sharepoint. There are so many sharepoint sites setup in the DOD it is complete waste. Every single unit thinks they need a sharepoint site because other units have sharepoint sites. No one is bothering to ask; hey instead of all setting up our own site why dont we just create a big repository where everyone can drop there (docs, ppts, xls, pdfs, etc...) and tag them with the unit they are from. So I would ask did you need this emails system? Are you perpetuating the problem of continuing to build proprietary systems? Is there another way to accomplish this task outside of an email system? Why did you need t1 lines by the way? Now to the Hammer and the bolt example you give. Instead of building a new bolt for every project and then having to test it and build spares etc... build a bolt that can be used on many projects. I have been in these contract meetings. The private companies intentionally build as many one off solution as possible so we have no choice but, to keep coming back to them. You say build a company and bid on contracts. If you work in contracts you know it is not that simple. I would love to if I had some help navigating the bureaucracy... Again give some more background on that project if you can.
Re:A Modest Proposal to Save Journalism and the CIA on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @04:44PM (#1116109)
As someone who has worked in the Intel Community for 10 years now I can tell you it is much worse then it seems. So much could be done to improve it but, large companies control the bidding processes and it is very hard to bring in a new idea even if you offer to do it for a fraction of the price. I think the best approach could be to start a small company that focuses on gathering intelligence and reporting it to the main stream media. Could be some big money in that and at the same time prove that you dont need to spend (as an example) three million bucks to set up a database to keep track of plain text reports.
Re:San Diego tech startup mixer (Tech Cocktail) next week on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @05:20PM (#1113520)
Im going from La Jolla... I am new here so does that count as North County?
Your point seems to pass the test for me. Is there a place for people to group up and make these types of investments? Say 10 people each want to make a $2000 investment. Seems like a good idea to me...
Re:San Diego tech startup mixer (Tech Cocktail) next week on Friday February 05, 2010 @02:16PM (#1104499)
thanks for the tip. Ill be there
Re:Thesixtyone (YC W09) launches version 2.0 on Thursday January 21, 2010 @04:37AM (#1066957)
Add a BIG button that gives a fun tutorial on how to use it. Otherwise love it. It took me a bit of tinkering to figure things out but, that kind of makes it fun!
Re:Tumblr sends passwords in the clear. on Friday January 15, 2010 @04:28AM (#1054560)
Wait a second... you cannot "sniff" other peoples connections on the same wireless unless you also use some kind of ARP poisoning... something like ettercap will do the trick. Did I misunderstand what you are trying to say?