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by ameasure 4y ago
You lost me at `With terraform, my HCL modules worked no matter what language the service is written in`. With terraform your HCL modules only work if they are written in an obscure language called HCL.
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by ameasure 4y ago
Norvig addresses this at the end of f http://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html . Basically these old AI techniques are now considered regular programming and modern AI is focused on ML. Both are useful but for different tasks.
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by ameasure 4y ago
I don't think it's always true, but in my case because the open source versions have more and better functionality, more flexible design, better documentation, are already known and used by thousands of people (easier on boarding)
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Ask HN: How do you stop bad design decisions?
1 points by ameasure 4y ago|3 comments
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by ameasure 5y ago
What is the rationale in making something like a hearing aid require a prescription? I can understand addictive drugs, you don't want them misused. What about the million other things that require a prescription?
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by ameasure 5y ago
Ok, that's pretty wild. Can it work on earth too? That seems like a good starting point.
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by ameasure 5y ago
Imagine if we invented a device that gave people access to all the information in the world and then made fun of them for using it.
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by ameasure 12y ago
Fascinating paper but the benchmarks seem incredibly weak. 5000 features for a bag of words model is nothing,these models normally have tens or hundreds of thousands of features.
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by ameasure 12y ago
Privacy, as it exists today, is entirely a modern invention. For most of human history people lived in small groups where everyone knew everyone else very well. It was not until industrialisation that we had mega cities where no one knows a
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by ameasure 14y ago
You're right, Japan has a long and very interesting obsession with poop, primarily due to their geography. Japan is a series of volcanic islands with, historically, a very limited indigenous supply of large poop producing creatures like lik
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by ameasure 14y ago
You'll have to wait until those lectures are made available, but you don't have to complete the previous work to see the lectures.
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by ameasure 14y ago
It just started on Monday, there's plenty of time to join in. There have been some huge developments in neural networks in the last few years, particularly with respect to deep learning. If you missed out on that you might want to try this
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by ameasure 14y ago
Hinton is a huge figure in the neural network literature and an important researcher in deep learning. After going through the first week of lectures, I can say he's also an excellent teacher. The syllabus, draft though it is, indicates the
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Neural Networks for Machine Learning(coursera.org)
121 points by ameasure 14y ago|56 comments
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by ameasure 14y ago
Hynix (2nd largest memory chip maker after Samsung) and friends were fined just a couple years ago for price fixing memory, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10126755 . If competition isn't a problem, why waste money on costly innovation? Reminds
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by ameasure 14y ago
His point is that certain changes to the Google Market are making it harder for indies to get noticed. That is a legitimate concern that should be of interest to HN app makers. Whether or not you like his apps is irrelevant.
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by ameasure 14y ago
I went to a solidly 4th tier university (out of 4 tiers, as I recall). I now work and regularly interact with people from the best universities, Harvard, Princeton, etc, and I can tell you that as far as knowledge and ability are concerned,
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by ameasure 14y ago
And you automatically grant Craigslist your first born child and all future earnings and your left index finger. Laywers love to fill these things with unenforceable outlandish crap. The courts are more discerning.
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by ameasure 14y ago
If you're interested in comparing the various market shares, a simple bar chart is much easier to understand, just look at which one is taller. With these rectangle/tree map things, I never know what to think: well this one is wider, but th
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by ameasure 14y ago
I have 2 theories for why this happens: 1) The people drawing up these contracts know nothing about software. They are often non-technical, elderly, upper-management types that have never written a line of code in their life. For all they k
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by ameasure 14y ago
Another basic tenet of democracy is that its citizens must be informed. I think it's fair to assume that those who lack access to written knowledge are at a disadvantage in this respect. For what it's worth, I upvoted the comment. Downvotin
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by ameasure 14y ago
Unfortunately, this is not just an Indian trait, but a human one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error . Kudos to those who can look in the mirror and see their faults. It is a rare and valuable skill.
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by ameasure 14y ago
I'm glad the world's scientists are working on the most pressing troubles of our times.
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by ameasure 14y ago
Forgive me for kicking the hornet's nest, but is all this outrage about privacy or about the abuse of government power? The focus of the article and most of the comments here suggests it's government power. There's hardly a peep about the f
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by ameasure 14y ago
Patent law is nice when it ensures that innovators are compensated for their work, but Apple has clearly been compensated. Perhaps it could benefit from an addendum -- not enforceable when you're already making a ton of money off your innov
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by ameasure 14y ago
Apple isn't getting 50-70% profit margins on its iphones without market power.
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by ameasure 14y ago
Dan Ariely is one of my favorite authors. He is both incredibly insightful about human nature and very funny, his first book is one of my favorites. Wikipedia has a great overview here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational .
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by ameasure 14y ago
No SAS users/haters out there? Lots of government systems are written almost entirely in SAS, despite little or no support for such basics as user defined functions and objects.
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by ameasure 15y ago
LOL, that was my first reaction too. What if people did have write access though? I guess it would just become another Wikipedia.
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by ameasure 15y ago
I am not claiming that anonymity is the source of all crime. Perhaps some of the misunderstanding is due to the broad definition of anonymity I'm using. Anonymity as I use it is the inability to link a person's actions to their identity. Th

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