Sohakes

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by Sohakes 5mo ago
> but I think most ML people now think of neural-network architectures as being, essentially, choices of tradeoffs that facilitate learning in one context or another when data and compute are in short supply, but not as being fundamental
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by Sohakes 4y ago
Not what happened though. Orkut actually launched a month before facebook and it was a 20% project, it wasn't a panick move or a big project for them. And it was great, imo google did badly on not maintaining it. You can make this poin
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by Sohakes 5y ago
I watched two episodes of Komi Can't Communicate on Netflix and felt that. I thought it was good though, maybe it would have helped my socially anxious younger self.
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by Sohakes 5y ago
A counterpoint is that at least on reddit the downvote button is rarely well used. It's always a "I disagree" button, so both bad and controversial things are pushed down. It's not the case here in general I think, but I
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by Sohakes 5y ago
It's happening on Brazil I think. It's very hard to hire for brazilian companies since people can earn an extraordinary salary by working remote. Our timezone is also pretty close to the US east coast, and still not that far from
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by Sohakes 5y ago
The input lag is most probably due to page refresh on e-ink, and not hardware power.
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by Sohakes 7y ago
That's the exact opposite of what he said.
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by Sohakes 7y ago
That also looks like a cool project! I've made a bot to play a game called Gems of War. I've used some GUI windows thing to program the AI but it was terribly limiting and slow. I was going to start again using python and opencv f
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by Sohakes 7y ago
It's not bullshit. But at the same time, I wonder why so many people do these majors. They mostly end up working on a unrelated field. If they go to university just because they are passionate about learning the subject and are willing
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by Sohakes 7y ago
> Larger lunch tables were "driving more than a 10% difference in performances". A fact that would probably have gone undetected without such data analysis. Isn't this poor data analysis, though? Correlation doesn't i
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by Sohakes 7y ago
Wow, so cool, but so confusing. I can't figure how that would work. But I also can't figure how people can think of a cube by its properties instead of seeing it. This gives me lots of food for thought. I will probably try shuttin
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by Sohakes 7y ago
When people talk about an "inner voice". Like when you did something bad and you berate yourself mentally for it. Don't you hear a voice? Or when thinking about an imaginary argument with someone? Don't you do that?
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by Sohakes 7y ago
I don't know much about control, but apparently Emanuel Todorov knows about the basics of Boston Dynamics control in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7enj1FGoYwg around 14 minutes. The paper is this one http
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by Sohakes 8y ago
I tried it on Firefox and it works fine! I just needed to change the value of <secret_key> to a key I created on their website (or else it fails silently, it would be cool to have some console message I think).
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by Sohakes 8y ago
Thanks for this comment, it's beautiful. Did your changed perception persisted, at least a little, after your use of MDMA? Do you still have PTSD?
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by Sohakes 8y ago
The first article is really anecdotal and there are a lot of other explanations, which the commenters talk about. Also, the illegality of LSD makes it so regularly people use something else thinking it's LSD. Part of the bad problems (
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by Sohakes 8y ago
MDMA is neurotoxic though. It's strange if only hallucinogens triggered problems in the other poster. LSD is not as far as I read.
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by Sohakes 8y ago
>I think the psychedelics nurture the ability to recognize that feelings and narratives are not representative of reality >The ability to detach from self, to recognize a spectrum of truth, of perception It sounds a lot like meditatio
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by Sohakes 8y ago
Having Alan Turing as a role model helped me immensely with internalized homophobia. When I was younger I honestly thought there weren't many intelligent gay man, and that it was somehow a proof that I was never going to be really good
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by Sohakes 8y ago
I'm not in Toptal, but a friend is and he asks for around $5k a month. Here in Brazil it's insanely good. I don't personally know anyone else who receives more than him here, actually. In software dev or anything else. I don&
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by Sohakes 8y ago
This is one of the most beautiful and hopeful articles I've read in a long time. I was expecting a depressing read but was delightfully surprised.
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by Sohakes 8y ago
To me at least, the lack of meaning comes to what we are. If we are just a really complex phenomenon, then why are we more important then other such things? If our consciousness is just emergent behavior of a lot of brain cells communicatin
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by Sohakes 8y ago
I love this one. Saw it when it launched and it frequently helps me see through some situations. Some models explains why, despite best intentions, things go awry sometimes. Sometimes things are terrible not because people are terrible, but
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by Sohakes 8y ago
He says he didn't, and that the summed price of the three courses are the same as if it were to be a single long course.
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by Sohakes 9y ago
I kind of agree about the light. Everyone I know that needs some light on during the night needs it because of some problem. Either the person is afraid of being in total dark, which is a sign of anxiety and is associated with depression, o
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by Sohakes 10y ago
Exactly. Many intelligent people I know don't even care that much about money, past a certain point.
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by Sohakes 10y ago
Hmm, I was thinking... being ambitious, maybe a little greedy, should be a great factor for "success" in terms of importance and money. I mean, many intelligent people I know don't care much about this kind of success anyway,
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by Sohakes 10y ago
In the first one, you are simply telling it to map and filter every element. Since you can do that to each element in an independent way and the code is more abstract, the map and filter can be done in parallel without you knowing (I'm
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by Sohakes 10y ago
It's because it gets the most plausible answer, even if it's only a small chance of being correct. If there are not that many words, there are only a few objects that could be draw with a L shape like that. I mean, even if you dra
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by Sohakes 10y ago
Apples and oranges I guess. I'm good at my job, but I would rather quit to draw avatars, make games, and doing things that could change something without the prerequisite of making money. "Value" is a deeply personal thing, i

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