cityhall

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by cityhall 5mo ago
They're great for doing phone stuff without pulling your phone out of your pocket and unlocking it. I can check if a notification is important, get GPS directions, snooze alarms, get OTP/2FA codes, or check the weather. None of it
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by cityhall 2y ago
I wonder if their real intent is to gather training data on which parts of papers are considered important by readers, and which topics are related to each other.
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by cityhall 3y ago
This is probably an extension of their hostility to mp3s. They wanted to force people away from downloaded or ripped content and toward their own store.
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by cityhall 3y ago
What are the standards for plastic-free? I suspect almost every piece of clothing with zippers is using nylon thread and backing, as well as plastic materials tags.
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by cityhall 3y ago
And the F-15's design slogan was "Not a pound for air to ground". Guess what it's being used for now?
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by cityhall 3y ago
I was stuck behind a big RV recently who was driving part way over the center line most of the time. I eventually realized he was trying to avoid clipping all the low branches along the edge of the road.
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by cityhall 3y ago
Search engines refer people to those old threads. Users who care enough and are tech savvy enough to delete their post histories are more likely to have made higher quality comments in the past answering tech support questions, reviewing pr
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by cityhall 3y ago
One thing it's still useful for is getting user reviews that actually tell you if a product is junk or has recently been replaced with an inferior version. Store sites and review pages make it too easy for companies to get negative rev
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by cityhall 3y ago
The solution to social media companies behaving badly once they have users locked in may not be to lock yourself into another unprofitable company's closed ecosystem that's temporarily free.
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by cityhall 8y ago
I can get a much better idea how my ML models will behave at scale if I prototype on my 16GB MBP than if I only had whatever ram is leftover from 8GB after Chrome and everything use up most of it. It's no match for server GPUs but I ca
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by cityhall 8y ago
The new Macbook keyboards have such low travel that they feel like a step in that direction. I like the laptop overall but I make a lot more typos than I did on my old one.
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by cityhall 8y ago
I've made this same prediction before. In 2001 it was driven by people owing AMT from option exercises in addition to day trading. We got tax paperwork from our brokers though - I'm not sure how many crypto traders will even reali
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by cityhall 9y ago
Go to Burning Man or find the crowd that does.
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by cityhall 9y ago
This is a trend I can get behind, recruiting by advertising that you pay well instead of telling people they should get a sense of pride and accomplishment by working on hard problems after surviving your interview process. Unfortunately I
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by cityhall 9y ago
They still are when you factor in benefits. Family health insurance costs more than single.
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by cityhall 9y ago
That's a different problem. Some things are hard wired by biology, but individual organisms learn during their lives in spite of vague feedback. That's what we're trying to replicate.
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by cityhall 9y ago
MNIST error rates are noise these days, but otherwise agree. These guys have been around for the entire deep learning boom of the last decade, and have never produced results to match their handwaving predictions. They're the Moller Sk
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by cityhall 9y ago
I remember reading about Puerto Rican mafia bosses doing this to show an explanation for how they could afford their lifestyles. It was either known in the community that winners could be sold for cash or they'd have a deal with the st
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by cityhall 9y ago
Your Honor, please consider the thousands of banks I didn't rob.
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by cityhall 9y ago
"Everyone who doesn't agree with me should shut up and go away."
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by cityhall 9y ago
People sober up when there's a defined end date, but it still takes camp leads and the threat of penalties to get everything packed out properly.
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by cityhall 9y ago
I've been trying to do this better recently after having some non-reproducible results. I've settled on taking all hyperparameters (including booleans like whether to use batch norm) from a global dict. Instead of commenting and u
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by cityhall 9y ago
Some ML applications will replicate expert behavior (e.g. document discovery in law) or improve on it (quant trading). A lot of the gains will be at the other end of the skill spectrum though. Universal human abilities like speech and face
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by cityhall 9y ago
Anyone have any insight into what the top ML people are being paid right now?
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by cityhall 9y ago
From the stories I've heard I wouldn't be surprised if some were still on DOS. It's hard to develop in house with a tightly controlled budget and it's hard to outsource when you're dealing with sensitive data.
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by cityhall 9y ago
Russia
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by cityhall 9y ago
If you have to rely on model serialization schemes you have a problem because they express the model in terms of low level operations. You probably want to do experiments with multiple model variants, or teak your model and fine tune from d
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by cityhall 9y ago
Universal approximation just says there exists a solution, not that there's a reasonable way to find it with a bounded amount of training data. The networks used in proofs typically have contrived and impractical architectures.
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by cityhall 9y ago
Did you try the underpriced ones, and were they good? A particular wine can be complex but have some specific quality that makes it unappealing. I'd be surprised if complexity is the main variable between different vintages of the same
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by cityhall 9y ago
It sounds like day trading for script kiddies. There's no way to develop or execute a sound strategy with that level of access. It's like a slot machine tournament. No one has an edge but some percentage of people will do well eno

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