I walked inside these buses [0, 1] a few days after the accident, as part of a 'dont speed or drive tired' lesson from a relative police officer who attended the scene of the crash (he was never the same after). All I can say after seeing this is that you would want to do your crash test with remote controls from a distance.
Its common to see this hot money concept in a lot of farming. I cant tell you how many farmers I know who have no money in drought seasons, but they bought a Mercedes in the good years.
The level of realism can be gauged from the examples they provide right there on the page. Of course your results may vary basing on the initial bulk of data of realistic source images you use.
You have the code right there on Github, just install it on some PC with powerful GPUs (or rent one), tune some parameters, train the network and you can do the same things.
With edge detection. Normally edge detection means looking for local sharp changes in brightness and marking them with a white spot. The edge detection used in this case looks more sophisticated to me. I don’t know how it works
Yes, also you might want to look up DLSS - they use pretrained upscaling network on GPU to generate 4K from native 1440p picture, instant ~20-50% performance bump with free AA.
of course this being Nvidia they didnt implement it universally, you need to sign up for API access to black box gameworx like scam programs in order to implement it in your game.
That being said, I have a tax theory. Forgetting about the political power required to do such a thing. Would it be possible to do away with all the taxes and replace them with a very low sales tax that gets applied to everything. e.g.
Farmer buys a cow, pay 1% sales tax
Milk wholesaler buys the milk to process, pay 1% sales tax
Shop buys the milk to sell, pay 1% sales tax
Shop buys labour to work in the shop (staff), pay 1% sales tax
I buy milk to consume, pay 1% sales tax
I accept some of this will be hard to police without the incentive for smaller businesses to claim the tax back.
I believe the key to making this work, is having no possible way to get exemptions. Doesn't matter if you don't make a profit, you still pay, doesn't matter if you are a organisation looking to on-sell or a consumer, every transaction pays and no way to offset this.
Finding the magic % would be difficult, but is the key part. Would this be possible? Where could I go on the inter webs to ask if such a scenario would even be possible
That would really strongly encourage vertical integration.
Consider a company that owns oil wells, pipelines, refineries, and gas stations. It never pays sales tax on its petroleum products. Only the final consumer does on the gasoline he buys.
A competitor network made up of independent parts has an oil drilling independent pay sales tax after it sells crude to a trading firm, the pipeline owner pays sales tax on the money it gets from the driller for the use of its pipeline, the trading firm pays sales tax when it sells the crude to a refiner, the refiner pays sales tax when it sells the oil to an independently owned gas station, and finally the end consumer pays the same sales tax as the integrated firm when it sells to the end user.
Countries that raise significant revenue from sales taxes generally use a VAT (value added tax) to avoid this problem.
...and it's worth noting that the VAT is very susceptible to judgement calls and therefore lobbying by special interests and weird edge cases where canned tomatoes get one tax rate and fresh ones another.
Think through the effects a little bit if you do this you'll get big corporations buying their entire supply chain to end up at 1% tax to pay. The more complicated the supply chain the more expensive the products would become.
e.g say for a car you'd have 10 companies chained (mining company, refining company, plastic creation company, ...)
You'd end up with ~10% tax on a car but 2% for milk. Makes it very tricky to do specialized high tech produts
This would strongly encourage vertical integration. If a grocery store owns the dairy and the creamery, they can sell their cheese for significantly less than a grocery store that incurs tax when it buys cheese from the creamery that incurs tax when it buys milk from the dairy.
The HN algorithm changed very recently, which was one of the reasons I had the idea to take a closer look at the Reddit data. HN, within the past few months, will highlight new comments within the first 2 slots even on busy threads.
I would perform the same analysis on HN data to confirm if I could. (HN does not expose comment scores)
I have a team of male devs, and for my last hire really wanted a female for a different perspective and help balance the team, however only received 1 not ideal female application.
At the end of the day, oldgeeks mean you are discriminating (filtering out the young), why should it not work on gender also? Its all just different levels of discrimination.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempsey_bus_crash
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=kempsey+bus+accident