amiramir

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by amiramir 4y ago
Yes. You can still visit the area, in what is now mostly Chinatown, though one of the main feature of Five Points, The Collect Pond is now gone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan
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by amiramir 4y ago
Canada seem to have imported the tipping culture and default tipping amounts (a la Square Register) from the US. The explanation for tipping in the US has been the lack of national healthcare and a social safety net. I live in the NYC and g
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by amiramir 5y ago
Thanks for links. I had no idea. I tried flying an RC copter some time ago (piston engine) and getting it to hover was a nerve-wracking triumph. These folks and electric motors have taken it into another dimension.
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by amiramir 9y ago
S3X DRIVE could be a cheeky pun along the lines of The Boring Company.
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by amiramir 9y ago
Apparently climate change is hard to reason about due to our cognitive biases. I know that Kaheman has lost a little luster of late I still buy this: "Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel prize in economics for his research on the psychologica
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by amiramir 9y ago
I suspect you are being slightly tongue in cheek about the bandwidth for ads (yay 5G ;-).) With that said, I think a key benefit of on-device learning is the privacy angle. The Pixel 2's always-on song identification is said to be done
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by amiramir 9y ago
>How long until the next big idea? The last "AI winter", after expert systems, was 15 years. Oddly enough neural nets languished in the frozen tundra for 50+ years if you take it back to perceptrons (mid 60's)[1]. Misnky a
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by amiramir 9y ago
This phenomenon is known as Risk Compensation[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
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by amiramir 9y ago
Rugby has also included head injury assessments (HIA) into its laws. They sports governing body introduced HIAs in 2012 and they have been getting more stringent over the years. At he elite level a player who is suspected of having taken a
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by amiramir 9y ago
Morgan Stanley has a history of languages in the vein. MS was a big APL shop in the 80s. Arthur Whitney[1] worked at MS and developed the languages A, and A+. He later wrote J, and K. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
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How the AK-47 and AR-15 Evolved into Rifles of Choice for Mass Killers(nytimes.com)
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by amiramir 10y ago
Blade Runner's production design is beautiful and almost prefectly timeless in its depiction of a future. The only thing that dates the film for me is the cathode ray tubes. They are even in the flying cars I think. Directors and desig
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by amiramir 10y ago
I love the teamwork and mutual understanding. I'd have a hard time making a circular object like that out of clay, yet these guys collaborate to make this massive thing with very little drama (or explicit communication). As a software
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by amiramir 10y ago
I'm guessing it won't be long until someone uses this technique to computer and apply perturbation masks to pornographic imagery and make NN-based porn detectors/filters (like the one Yahoo recently open-sourced) a lot less e
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by amiramir 10y ago
I'm not sure if this is "correct" but "Eats, shoots & leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"[1] is a fun read on an adjacent topic. It too gets berated by some but I enjoyed it and learned a thing o
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by amiramir 11y ago
With respect to Iran it's worth reflecting on the fact that the US engineered a coup in Iran to depose Mosaddegh in 1953[1]. At that time the UK and US did not like the winner of a largely democratic process that installed Mosaddegh as
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by amiramir 11y ago
Reminds me a little of Doug Lenat's Eurisko [1] fleets for Traveler TCS in 1981: lots of cheap, defenseless, and heavily armed boats. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko
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by amiramir 11y ago
I programed in Smalltalk-80 from 1990-1995. I used it at Morgan Stanley to build a derivative trading system that was distributed between London and NYC. It was running on networed Sun Sparcstations. Traders would collaborate on the same tr
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by amiramir 12y ago
I am pleasantly surprised to hear that him speaking in terms of the metric system.
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by amiramir 12y ago
Are there any translations of Borges that our local aficionados would recommend over others?
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by amiramir 12y ago
Lisp was defined in the 50s and implemented in the 60s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)
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by amiramir 12y ago
Another solution to look at: https://guardianproject.info/apps/chatsecure/ Android-only right now but open source.
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by amiramir 12y ago
I'd be interested in a similar chart for rugby union where my guess is that the increase in height and weight has happened more quickly. It's just a hunch but I am guessing that overall size in rugby has increased dramatically sin
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by amiramir 12y ago
Another new player that looks promising is Pelias ( http://mapzen.com/pelias/ ). Early days but it's open source ( https://github.com/mapzen/pelias ) and it seems to be improving at a good clip.
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by amiramir 12y ago
Samsung seems to understand that TVs get upgraded at a slower rate than the TV's smarts evolve and that software updates can only get you so far. They have started to ship something named the Evolution Kit. For around $200 it allows th
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by amiramir 12y ago
As someone who had recently had to switch to an Android phone (Note3) I'd love to know of other apps beyond cover and Link Bubble that you like. Can you please expand on the "etc." in your first paragraph.
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by amiramir 13y ago
"China has rushed ahead in high-speed rail development, at the cost of human life[2] and corruption,[3] but the United States has no need to follow this example." I'm not sure how well the US is doing on those 2 counts. 34,08
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by amiramir 13y ago
For your consideration: http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pro-vs-ant...
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by amiramir 13y ago
It is a drone: "Envisioned as an unmanned aircraft, the SR-72 would fly at speeds up to Mach 6 ..."
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by amiramir 13y ago
Obligatory great SR-71 story: http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912...

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