Development doesn't require any more CPU than word processing. You're type stuff up, and there is a pretty strict grammar check. I don't get why people why people want to run huge things on a laptop. It is way more economical to shell into a beefy server when you need big iron instead of carrying it with you.
> not possible to make today with with unlimited budgets
The Lofstrom Loop is possible today for a few billion dollars. Though "catching" an incoming capsule with a Loop is going to take a while to human-certify.
Ignoring the BS about coriolis, I think there is something legit here.
Of course there isn't any power to be gained from the vortex. What you would gain is a lot of RPMs from very little head. It makes the system be high speed and low torque. The dynamos would be higher voltage (lower amperage), the wiring and inverters are cheaper with lower amperage, and the structure doesn't have to be as strong since the torques are lower. It might even automatically safe during floods, since too much water entering it would distrupt the vortex and halt the wheel.
It is more like a clever hydraulic gearbox that potentially makes all the other components less expensive. Or am I completely off base? The water is spinning around faster than it would be flowing out, correct?
Areas of low contrast become whiter and areas of high contrast become more saturated.
It is also more robust than k-means. The author's algo will only work on scanned images. Photographed pages from a book will often have a slight shadow on half the page from the curvature. Blur-divide will clean this up. K-means will think you've used a lot of gray and not figure out that there are multiple background colors.
It was faster to do this than reading the content the way it was intended. Because they were using random selection you'd have to click 370 times to have a 90% chance of seeing all 59. It is nearly impossible (like 7 nines impossible) to see all of them in under 120 clicks.
This is absolutely infuriating to read because they've made it so that items are chosen randomly. Instead they should be using a shuffle. That way you don't have any repeats until you've seen everything, at which point the deck should be reshuffled. As it stands you're basically playing cookie clicker trying to find that last one. So here's the lot of them:
* Create a Crunchbase page
* Share your website on Startupli.st or Erlibird.com
* Share your pre-launched website on Betalist.com
* Respond to unanswered questions in your niche on Quora. Look for questions with a lot of people waiting for an answer.
* Submit a free press release using a service like PRlog
* Message meetup coordinators and ask for speaking gigs at local events
* Film your speaking gigs and share videos of your talks on your blog
* Send personalized E-mails to your existing users, ask for referrals or their help promoting your company
* Create an infographic, share on free distribution sites like Visual.ly and Pinterest.
* Write a post called "Our competitor vs Our Company" - This will attract search engine traffic looking for reviews of your competitor
* Submit a presentation or slidedeck to Slideshare
* Giveaway a free ebook, and let users download it in exchange for their email address
* Write a "how-to" guide on Medium for something that is difficult in your industry
* Promote your product in your email signature
* Sponsor a newsletter on Upstart.me & promote your product to other people's lists
* Submit your product to Producthunt.com
* Create a free online course on a topic related to your product
* Reach out to relevant bloggers and ask to write a guest post on their blog (don't forget to include a link to your project)
* Update your Linkedin status and link back to your website
* Grow your social media follower base by following the followers of your competitors
* Create relevant Youtube videos and add relevant keywords in the title and description
* Run Facebook Ads
* Run Google Ads
* Run Twitter Ads
* Run Linkedin Ads
* Subscribe to Helpareporter.com and provide quotes to journalists
* Reach out to podcasts to get interviewed
* Start your own podcast
* Let your first 100 users pay with a tweet, to sign up in exchange for a share
* Create a Facebook page
* Make your UI remarkable and shareworthy
* Run Stumbleupon ads
* Get an Instagram influencer in your niche to promote your product
* Get a Youtube influencer in your niche to promote your product
* Get a popular Facebook page in your niche to promote your product
* Add screenshots of your product to a Pinterest board
* Create a profile on Angel.co
* Ask your friends to share it with their friends
* Sponsor a hackathon
* Sponsor an event by offering a service (instead of money) in exchange for promoting your product
* Go live on Periscope and talk about your product
* Engage in online forums where your target audience is hanging out
* Write on-topic comments on Reddit.com where your product seems to be a solution to the discussion
* Start a Facebook group
* Post articles to Reddit.com in relevant subreddits
* Submit your project to ShowHN on Hackernews
* Comment on industry blogs
* Host giveaway contests on social media
* Offer discounts in exchange for sharing your website
* Create a free Slack community for your target audience
* Host a webinar
* Start a daily email newsletter where you link to relevant news that your audience might be interested in
* Giveaway t-shirts with your logo & website on them
* Create different landing pages with different messages, that all link to your main website
* Attend conferences and talk to as many people as you can
* Be the bonus in someone else's product. Let a different company promote you to their audience in exchange for a commission
* Got a beautifully designed product? Apply for design awards.
I'm willing to pay $5/month for one blog: my own. That is what a basic VPS with plenty of bandwidth costs.
edit: Interesting, this is fast approaching my most downvoted comment ever. Wonder why that is. I didn't even bother to link my own blog in case that came off as overly self-promotional.
If you think that content should be free, what is wrong with putting your money where your mouth is and giving your own away?
It can still be rational, but you need to look at shopping as an aggregate of probabilities.
Let's make it more extreme. A $50 item for free or $50 off a $5000 purchase. Discounts as big as 100% off don't come every day. Maybe you'll never see that deal again in your life. You should jump on it. Where as a 1% discount is something you see every day at dozens of stores. There will probably be a bigger discount next week, so don't bother going out of your way.
If you have to make a choice between the two, you choose the item with the less-common discount.
Eh, I'll stick with the PocketBeagle board. It is half the price, very easy to source, doesn't require any special connectors and has those extremely useful PRUs.
Slightly larger, slower and no wireless connectivity but that is a worthwhile tradeoff.