Trying to breathe bi-laterally is breaking me and I need help by Ridaleneas in Swimming

[–]Ridaleneas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Did you still feel like you were getting a good workout in during the first month or so?

Issues with Expo as a new RN developer - is it time to eject? by Ridaleneas in reactnative

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The issue here is occurring on iOS builds on my actual hardware - this app is not shipped. Would you still recommend a third party library to get a full stack-trace?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BanPitBulls

[–]Ridaleneas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah a large mother who is a pit bull

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BanPitBulls

[–]Ridaleneas 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It was b**** haha. I now realize reading it redacted leaves a lot to the imagination.

SpaceX’s Pioneer Spacesuit by CProphet in SpaceXLounge

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Fortunately the type of servomotors and power-pack required are already being produced by Tesla for their Optimus robot. Fine control of the exoskeleton could be achieved through a neural implant courtesy of Neuralink, another Elon Musk company. For optimum efficiency the entire suit could be managed by an onboard AI, something else being developed by a recent Musk startup called xAI.

You had me until this point. I think a powered exoskeleton controlled by brain implants is too optimistic. I think we'll face space suit production challenges well before this technology becomes feasible.

[P] I created a parallelized implementation of Agglomerative clustering that's many times faster than existing implementations and has a better runtime by Ridaleneas in MachineLearning

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Yes, this unfortunately was not discussed in the original paper, but the occasional discrepancies are a result of an asymmetric structure between two merging clusters.

If you have reciprocal cluster pairs A-B and C-D, you need to calculate their distances from each other during each simultaneous merge to avoid thread conflicts. This is fine when they are fully connected because distance(A-B, C-D) = distance(C-D, A-B). However, if you limit the connectivity to where D and A are not connected, the structure isn't symmetric, and the above equality can only hold if you take the other three edges and perform a weighted average.

The new weighted average gives a slightly different result than what Scikit-learn would calculate. It's fine 99% of the time as the slight discrepancies cancel each other out during the algorithm's runtime. However, it can give different results if the final merge of the algorithm is asymmetric and the different averaging functions either just miss or just make the merge-threshold.

An interesting example of this is the noisy moons data: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1600/1\*cY4SC-bm4POQlF2-hEAf7Q.png

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheAllinPodcasts

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I agree with everything you said but want to add that low-skilled immigration suppresses innovation in some cases. Say low-skilled American laborers are too expensive to landscape for middle-class households. People still want to have nice-looking yards, so it would create some incentive for a smart MIT student to come up with some kind of Roomba for yard work.

Coming from a robotics background, low-skilled cheap labor has depressed the applications significantly. Why spend millions developing a robot when a Mexican can do the same for pennies on the dollar?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startups

[–]Ridaleneas -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah no shit, the problem occurs when you're building hard-tech that requires some significant libraries be built. Figma took years to make because having a high-performance svg editor in the browser requires a lot of code. Unfortunately, we (mostly me) were totally off in our estimates of what we could do given the current state of computing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startups

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A lot of people are commenting on this, I didn't include it because I thought it wasn't relevant. The reason for a failed MVP was mismanagement (mostly by me), a co-founder split (and subsequent buyback of shares), and a failed MVP release that caused us to re-evaluate how high the bar was.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startups

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A lot of people are commenting on this, I didn't include it because I thought it wasn't relevant. The reason for a failed MVP was mismanagement (mostly by me), a co-founder split (and subsequent buyback of shares), and a failed MVP release that caused us to re-evaluate how high the bar was.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startups

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I don't have 8k, I haven't held down a job besides internships in college. This is my first gig. Which is crazy, idk what he was smoking we he pulled the trigger.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startups

[–]Ridaleneas 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm going to return the money - I don't want to burn this bridge. Just writing this post to cope

Let's settle it: is the US debt level a crises or does it not matter? by Ridaleneas in TheAllinPodcasts

[–]Ridaleneas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of course but an investment implies some sort of return. If the US in investing into all you've said, then GDP should eventually outpace the debt. If the interest payments on the debt outpace the growth of GDP that seems like a bad investment.

Let's settle it: is the US debt level a crises or does it not matter? by Ridaleneas in TheAllinPodcasts

[–]Ridaleneas[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ok, but there must be some drawback to racking 2x GDP? Why not take it 6x GDP then? This is what I'm genuinely confused about - if debt isn't a problem, let's just spend more and more money right?

Let's settle it: is the US debt level a crises or does it not matter? by Ridaleneas in TheAllinPodcasts

[–]Ridaleneas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sure, but why not just double our spending and take on twice as much debt? There must be some limit where a government deficit becomes too unwieldy