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student at university of toronto. curious soul. daydreamer of pantographs.

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@Grant2k25 @NotaliaMateo Why not? The nuke in New Brunswick does, so does all the coal around Nova Scotia. I presume wherever there’s sea water it’s used to cool thermal plants

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@ZyMazza @ItzSuds Why not sterile males? Or do ticks not breed like screw worms

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@timsoret Simpler, board normally and then launch 1-2 sections right before the train passes and unhook the back cars at each stop. Whole train is a FIFO queue, people have time to board slowly and slowly walk backward to their stop

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@cpgrabow I’ve always wondered if autonomous boats would count?

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@charliewu Controlled atmosphere storage breaks time as a measure

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@roman_koshchei @chris_dalke visual is geogessr, photo -> location, often “photo taken looking down from a drone to hashed satellite photos”. inertial is things like accelerometers and gyroscopes -> location, often “gyroscopes into kalman filter”

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@EricDLombardi the art deco water treatment plant, or even derelict structures just upstream of niagra falls, are glorious. Meanwhile uoft is unironically referring to an underground parking garage with sod on top as a once-in-a-generation “landmark” project

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@Anthony_Bonato 𝕁 is the identity matrix for electrical engineers

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@FlavioVolpe1 @APMACanada @hannover_messe @Bundeskanzler does APMA have a directory of who makes all the parts? I’m looking for automotive radars

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@kareem_carr this a bad visualization though. It should be a % of census numbers or some other expectation. At least log it or label the last three or sth? The noise among the 40m cols is not interesting. The last three bins are the most interesting, this rounds them to zero px. unhelpful

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@cgarciae88 my grandmother. it’s the new tab screen as the result of some weird virus, she types in “google”, then from google types in one of “gmail” or “facebook”.

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@surelyagerbil @littmath Wait quant funds? I agree, but that's a perfect example of universities out-researching a whole industry. The last big innovation was a math dept spinout that dunked on everybody so hard they're all RenTech knockoffs now. The innovation that obsoletes RenTech won't be from a fund

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@aidangomez The military just closed an 'ITQ' for a 500,000,000 CAD health record system. They required an insane "integrator with a half dozen subcontractors who 5 years ago billed 20M+ at least twice". Their plan (before 'managed expectations') is to have a web portal in 6 years. Wild.

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“no no no, if the box can’t close I don’t want the fish to get the smell of the durian” - 20hr roadtrip prep

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the 4th most painful bit of trying to use Julia are the amount of abandonware. somebody has forked convex.jl and just pasted the entire CVX documentation into a README in a "CVX.jl" github and then abandoned it a decade ago

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world expert on cities “For example in Canada in Edmonton close to Toronto”… Ah yes, while not as close as Toronto exurbs like Denver and Miami, but certainly closer than say, Paris or the moon

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@JustinTrudeau @cohere Love that we’re taking swings, but what about supporting startups as well? They just raised 750m in a series D, dumping 200m into that pot won’t change much. I feel like one hundred $2m bets on founders may result in a couple coheres. let’s do both

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@CharlotteDuLan The CDO is an RA. You sit (sleep) in the dorm closest to the meal hall, people bang on the door if toilets are backing up, you jot down ambulance rides in a book, in the morning you go wake up whoever is supposed to have reported to put up the flags.

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@CharlotteDuLan each sqn has 3 flights, each flight has 3 sections. In practice only the 1st year flight during FYOP is special/has much 'command', afterward most everything happens at the SQN level. CSLs and CSCs are not strongly linked to year other than the 1st year flight.

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@joshgans This is satellite vs satellite though, in this case “closer satellites are closer” isn’t particularly surprising