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2,722karma·406submissions·September 19, 2022
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Adafruit has loads of projects and kits like TV-Be-Gone, Circuit Playground, EdgeBadge and others. They're suitable for a range of ages and experience levels, usually come with lesson materials a…
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Plus phenomenal pandoc support enables conversion from many formats to DokuWiki
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The article mentions Support Vector Machines being the hot topic in 2008. Is anyone still using/researching these? I often wonder how many useful technologies could exist if trends went a differe…
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This reminds me of how the Cuban people get a weekly distillation of the internet from an external hard drive that gets passed around. https://www.wired.com/2017/07/inside-cu…
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It's like their training set was made up entirely of awkward podcaster banter.
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I would be interested in helping with this. I have an undergrad degree in microbiology and I work as a developer of scientific software for a university lab. I'm interested in game development an…
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What are you looking for in a collaborator?
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I was interested in recreating the NPC generation system used in the Watchdogs games so I coded up my own in Python. It procedurally generated first and last name, birthdate, city of residence, phone …
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Only on HN could you find a gem like this. This is a bit of internet history.
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Input (copied from eigenvalues and eigenvectors Wikipedia entry): In linear algebra, an eigenvector (/ˈaɪɡən-/ EYE-gən-) or characteristic vector is a vector that has its direction unchanged…
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They look like something from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
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https://actu.epfl.ch/news/harnessing-the-moire-effect-to-mak... …
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Currently working on a new way to enable low/no-vision people to hear what's on their screen in real time. As far as I can tell from my research my method is novel. Once I can clear the deck…
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It seems to me there is a real application for wide area persistent surveillance (WAPS). This is a significant concern for civil liberties and WAPS is a largely controversial technology. To whom will …
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Not Dune as in Arrakis, DUNE as in Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
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The author's code is available in an archived repo so it should be possible to experiment with different colormaps. https://github.com/vankessel/sandbox/tree/master…
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This was also posted previously in 2019. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19423278
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If there's current running through them then yes. There needs to be a EM field for the device's inductor to detect.
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For anyone trying to find and map electrical wires in their walls I recommend an inductive electromagnetic listening device like the FarField on Tindie. Plug a device into an outlet and you'll be…
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Tangled is pretty cool looking. I'm really curious how it works.
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