andrewparker

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by andrewparker 3mo ago
OP point out that OpenAI used the "too dangerous to release" marketing ploy with GPT-2... Positioning this as "both sides" have played this card. But at this time Dario was at OpenAI and was a co-author on the GPT-2 rese
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by andrewparker 1y ago
If this is your cup of tea, it's worth reading about the Astor Place riots over Shakespeare performances in NYC
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by andrewparker 1y ago
You are literally correct, but not engaging in the point. Meta shares in Scale are explicitly non-voting shares. Influence/control post minority investment matters as to whether the deal can be reviewed via Clayton Act. Meta did everyt
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by andrewparker 1y ago
This post doesn't quite comprehend why Meta made a 49% investment instead of an acquisition. The path Meta chose avoided global regulatory review. FTC, DOJ, etc and their international counterparts could have chosen to review and block
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by andrewparker 3y ago
iPhone 1 launched without cut/copy/paste
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by andrewparker 3y ago
Socratic by Google still exists today and is a widely beloved app based on reviews. They had to rewrite the code and infrastructure, but "killing off the app" implies that they just shut things down. That never happened. As for &q
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by andrewparker 4y ago
The deck plus the OEM dock with mouse, keyboard and monitor makes for a nice, cheap Linux desktop that you can grab-and-go to play games. The dock is really seamless, always works right away. If you're programming, I wouldn't reco
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by andrewparker 4y ago
echoes of United States v. Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... . would be ironic if Mozilla played the next Netscape
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by andrewparker 5y ago
Creation layer of the stack: Unity or Unreal.
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by andrewparker 6y ago
This is a clever twist on unbundling. Well done. Craigslist is misspelled (there is an "s" in it). Giving me a photo credit would be courteous as the author of that image. https://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/3
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by andrewparker 11y ago
You're talking about Presense, which is the point at which your brain flips and is convinced what its seeing is real. Michael Abrash has a wonderful deck he wrote while at Valve about what it will take for VR to create Presense in the
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by andrewparker 12y ago
Stephenson considers much of his position in "In The Beginning..." to be out of date at this point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Com...
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by andrewparker 12y ago
CSS (like all written works) is copyrightable, so if there is clear evidence that the CSS was copy/pasted, CB Insights would have a case on that basis. Damages would be negligible, so it would not be a case worth pursuing.
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by andrewparker 12y ago
Does this BS marketing PR stunt qualify Nature-published research papers for Gates Foundation-backed research now? Meaning: does this announcement qualify Nature as "open" enough for the Gates Foundation?
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by andrewparker 12y ago
Neal Stephenson identified this same issue, and created Project Hieroglyph as his solution. They're about to release their first anthology of optimistic, progressive sci-fi short stories this fall. http://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by andrewparker 12y ago
A good complement to this set of challenges is Dan Boneh's Crypto class on Coursera. The coursera class is more theory-driven, whereas these challenges are more practical... they mix well. https://www.coursera.org/cour
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Ian Hogarth's Talk from Startup School(soundboy.tumblr.com)
2 points by andrewparker 12y ago|0 comments
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by andrewparker 12y ago
I don't think the author jumps to conclusion prematurely. He hates all this factory, provider, blah, blah nonsense, and I can identify with the feeling. He is however guilty of lacking originality in his post because Joel Spolsky made
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by andrewparker 12y ago
I received a phishing email from the author. I guess he must have scraped my email address from a blog post I wrote about bitcoin and coinbase. While I am glad he has made attempts to contact Coinbase, I felt like live execution of the atta
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by andrewparker 12y ago
You need to read to the end of the post to understand PG's analogy. There is software that controls the charging rate of the battery that (if the claims are correct) could be fundamentally disruptive to batteries going forward, so the
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What It Means to Offer Internet Connectivity to an End-Consumer(thegongshow.tumblr.com)
2 points by andrewparker 13y ago|0 comments
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by andrewparker 13y ago
Good summary of human being's advantage in the war. But don't forget bacteria's key advantage: iteration speed. Bacteria may be blind and and random in their micro-level behavior. But the speed at which they replicate is mult
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UberX Drivers are Self-Organizing(thegongshow.tumblr.com)
2 points by andrewparker 13y ago|0 comments
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by andrewparker 13y ago
Implementing the Trie (on paper, in C) was about 50% of my final exam on my intro to CS undergrad class at Stanford. We had never seen Tries befor that point, but we had done a variety of trees, so we had the necessary prior experience. It
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by andrewparker 13y ago
>> A doctor trained in India is no less qualified than a doctor trained in the US. This might be objectively true (which you could reasonably determine through some combination of standardize testing and surgery complications/out
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The Anatomy of the Occupy Wall Street Movement on Twitter(technologyreview.com)
2 points by andrewparker 13y ago|0 comments
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by andrewparker 13y ago
Was thinking of getting one for the purpose of building a MAME cabinet. Does it run MAME out of the box?
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Tesla's ~$1.8BN on Product VS Ford's $16BN on Marketing(thegongshow.tumblr.com)
2 points by andrewparker 13y ago|0 comments
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by andrewparker 13y ago
This is a great page, but it assumes that I (the reader) am already certain I want to invest time learning Erlang. I think it would be valuable if the author would open the page with a brief paragraph on why it's worth investing the time t
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by andrewparker 13y ago
The use of a phonebook analogy is clever, but I think the answerer should modify his answer to cover the O() running time of a trie data structure. A phonebook is essentially a trie. He talks about the "divide and conquor" approach to navi

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