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bmeaseon Show HN: EchoRecipes – A Virtual Assistant for Cooking

I totally agree with you. Once you're registered and using the site I do provide the entire recipe on a single page. Then when you're ready to cook it goes into the single step by step mode. For the demo page I was trying to show off the step by step mode and didn't even think about how that would come across. I'll have a rethink of how I display the demo. Thanks!

bmeaseon How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

I believe you should have read the article. It discusses $30 million in lost sales due to the packaging redesign. It was not talking about the costs to do the redesign.

bmeaseon An introduction to libuv (2016)

neovim uses libuv.

bmeaseon The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt

The scientists at the IceCube Neutrino Detector are currently doing an AMA on reddit[0] for those interested.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8yajhh/were_scientist...

bmeaseon Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites

I've gotta post the obligatory Ken Thompson hacking the compiler story

http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack

bmeaseon How to Create a Neural Network in JavaScript [video]

Scrimba is a really neat idea. Would you mind going over its architecture and your plan for future language support?

bmeaseon Radio hams do battle with 'Russian Woodpecker' (1982)

It really does sound like a woodpecker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOMVdOc9UbE

bmeaseon California drought, visualized with open data

Interesting that irrigation is the largest use of water at ~60%, but livestock and industrial are only 0.5% and 1.5% respectively. I would have thought livestock and industrial use would be larger. Is this distribution of water common in other states?

bmeaseon Dell Previews 27-inch ‘5K’ UltraSharp Monitor: 5120x2880

Nvidia limits multiple monitors on their consumer cards to 2 monitors and 1 gpu or 2 gpus and 3 monitors in an surround (SLI) setup.

For their professional series of gpus they offer premium mosaic which allows up to 4 monitors on a single card[1].

AMD allows up to 6 monitors on a single consumer card with Eyefinity[2].

Of course through the use of splitters and multiple cards it's possible to attach more monitors. I've personally setup a 12 display system off a single card. There are of course performance limitations when you only have one gpu and a large grouped display.

For what it's worth I've had an easier time setting up multiple monitors in Linux then I have on Windows.

1: http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-k5000.html

2: http://www.amd.com/en-gb/products/graphics/desktop/5000/5870...

bmeaseon A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function

I loved reading that and interacting with the plots. It totally changes the dynamic of learning when you can interact and play with it in real time.

bmeaseon Understanding The Fourier Transform

I really liked where he color coded the equation and the sentence describing how it worked. I've seen tables in the past explaining what each variable represented, but this was much clearer.

http://altdevblogaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Derived...