bmcooley | 8 years ago | on: Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things
An RPi 3B running headless with wifi enabled consumes around 1.2 to 1.5 Watts.
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bmcooley | 8 years ago | on: Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
Could you possibly dive into this? The electron slit experiment shows that superposition exists in a fundamental way in our universe. You can even measure quantum effects with objects as large as buckyballs. Isn't it sort of obvious that a precise mathematical description of a macroscale, emergent system based on objects with quantum and probabilistic effects is always going to be an inaccurate abstraction?
bmcooley | 8 years ago | on: Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?
Just because the presented solution serves facebook positively doesn't mean it's bad in some way. It's good to be wary of the bias, but don't dismiss the claim because of it.
bmcooley | 8 years ago | on: “this code very fast” pull request to remove whitespace from linux kernel
A few years ago I was playing around with arduino, and adding comments increased the executable file size.
bmcooley | 8 years ago | on: Why Does the Neocortex Have Layers and Columns, Learning the World's 3D Structure
Question from someone who is not knowledgeable in ML or AI: Do current implementations of ANNs allow trying out these different types of organizations/structures? Is the structure and workings of neurons sufficiently similar to ANNs that the architecture transfers, or are there huge differences that make understanding and development orthogonal?
bmcooley | 8 years ago | on: 100-year-old physics problem has been solved
Ho. Lee. Shit. I'm in the satellite telecoms domain - this is incredible and will have far reaching consequences after a decade. Unfortunate that R&D and hardware lead times are so long in this industry.
bmcooley | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/industry?
SMAD - "Space Mission Analysis and Design". The latest edition is "Space Mission Engineering - The New SMAD".
bmcooley | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Bitesnap – Deep Learning Meets Food Logging
Great start for a product. I would imagine everything that's currently in your food database had to be manually chosen due to the availability of training data. It doesn't handle very many branded products, but that could be really valuable in keeping users engaged and using your application daily, so I would suggest adding barcode scanning (currently building an application with the Nutritionix API, its got a great dataset). You could even ask your users to take a picture of their barcode entered food so you can start learning on a much wider variety of products. My two cents.
bmcooley | 10 years ago | on: Mysterious Martian “Cauliflower” May Be the Latest Hint of Alien Life
I'm taking a class with Jack Farmer right now on Astrobiology. I can't wait to talk with him about this!
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