SophosQ

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by SophosQ 8y ago
I'd like to know how heavy your browsing is in terms of the number of tabs and windows that are open. In my experience chrome blazes it's competition when it doesn't have as many tabs open since it inhales the RAM unlike Fire
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by SophosQ 8y ago
One satisfactory solution that had existed in the early days of Firefox was the use of group tabs that you could access at a click of a button. They were an excellent solution that I wish could be reimplemented.
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by SophosQ 9y ago
Perhaps it's more to do with the stock of people who learnt CS. In the older generation, CS was a relatively obscure and difficult skill with little to no easy-guides that it filtered the set of students to only those who were insatiab
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by SophosQ 9y ago
Thanks for the link
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by SophosQ 9y ago
Interestingly, When you think about it, the filters in a Convolutional neural net aren't too different from your setup and they provide similar, if not better, performance.
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by SophosQ 9y ago
The only thing is that, when this presentation was given, it seems they hadn't worked much more than MNIST (so the new thing now would be the toys-recognition net). The paper however details their experiments on Cifar-10 and other da
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by SophosQ 9y ago
If you roll your own VPN on AWS or the like, don't you lose the benefit of sharing the VPN with thousands of users I believe there is the alternate option of setting up your own VPN . Instead of using AWS, you could set it up on an a
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by SophosQ 9y ago
As a layman, I'd be grateful if you could enumerate on this line: It is still just exiting the "computer scientist" stage, not at that "Crappy AI College" level yet
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by SophosQ 9y ago
The question is where must the solution be applied ? Is it at the companies where they taken in under-representes groups ? Or Is it at the grassroots level such as by teaching parenting to students in college to be more aware of the bias th
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by SophosQ 9y ago
Agreed, bias would and does plague us in every field. We can however strive to reduce its influence by being conscious of the bias in our decisions specific to the task. However to completely give up the evaluation on the candidate's
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by SophosQ 9y ago
Albeit I can't disagree with your point. There seems to be significant evidence to support the hypothesis that a minimal degree of socialising helps prevent mental decline. For instance consider the different things you need to conside
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by SophosQ 9y ago
Yes, thanks to shorter distances and the horse-cart. I assure you it's more expensive to own a horse in an urban environment.
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by SophosQ 9y ago
As for what might explain the near-extinction humanity apparently once experienced, perhaps another kind of catastrophe, such as disease, hit the species. It may also be possible that such a disaster never happened in the first place — gen
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by SophosQ 9y ago
Our genetic homogeneity implies that anatomically modern humans arose relatively recently (perhaps 200,000 years ago) and that our population size was quite small at one time (perhaps 10,000 breeding individuals). -Another strongly suppor
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by SophosQ 9y ago
I came across this CMU presentation on why the purported ubiquity of power laws must be taken with a grain of salt: https://goo.gl/23PP7v Check from slide 32. As someone who doesn't have significant experience in stati
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by SophosQ 9y ago
I cannot disagree with you but the fact is and remains that the field is a budding one and this is but a building block towards better understanding the nature of using sets of geometric transformations for pattern recognition in A.I. If th
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by SophosQ 9y ago
I believe carbon capture is a newer innovation whose development had been stalled due to its prohibitive costs. The first carbon capture experiments were scheduled to be conducted in 2016. Albeit I'm not aware of their results.
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by SophosQ 9y ago
Given the level of economic and educational disparity that persists in the population it's an obvious consequence that you'd have a country that can send an unmanned mission to Mars while still suffering from illiteracy. It'd
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by SophosQ 9y ago
Such individuals are often chosen to be on the board for their experience and networking prowess. It's quite true that testing their mental faculty would be a challenge. Therefore the decision could simply lie with other board members
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by SophosQ 9y ago
We could try and replicate the degradation processs or find a similar one in the lab. Nature has often been an inspiration for new inventions such as burrs for Velcro.
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by SophosQ 9y ago
Could you state reasons to support your assertion that a nonagenarian shouldn't be on the board of an innovative tech. Company ?
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by SophosQ 9y ago
Silicon is a close contender to Carbon as evidenced by the creation of a bacterial enzyme that efficiently incorporates silicon into simple hydrocarbons[1]. [1] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/researche
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by SophosQ 9y ago
I believe the definition of Streisand effect requires an addendum stating that it applies only when a large audience is involved. Customers or clients are individuals who're bereft of the social connections that'd provide solidar
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by SophosQ 10y ago
If such a model is to be protected from the dynamics of a free market economy (Higher demand driving prices higher) it requires significant government intervention, at the very least, analogous to the metro system in certain cities, to ensu
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by SophosQ 10y ago
I don't think anyone here has such intentions. I'd refrain from using excluded-middle fallacies at HN.