dyoo1979

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by dyoo1979 1y ago
This reminds me a bit of the octree quantization implementation I hacked up to improve speed of generating Racket's animated gifs. * https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/6b2e5f4014ed95c9b883... * ht
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by dyoo1979 3y ago
Thank you for bringing this up. I had not read this before, but it speaks to my deep concerns.
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by dyoo1979 3y ago
Thank you for organizing this. It's been a long time since I've listened to these last, and I remember these were enjoyable for Knuth's gentle humor.
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by dyoo1979 3y ago
I'm sure the folks working on protein folding are losing sleep over role-playing chatbots.
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by dyoo1979 6y ago
You may want to read the history of banana republics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic . Given the wildness of that particular dark corner of our history, I'm looking forward to reading about the hist
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by dyoo1979 7y ago
I misparsed this as Two Years (With Emacs as a CEO and now CTO) as opposed to Two Years (With Emacs) as a CEO and now CTO. and it greatly confused me: how could Emacs act as a CEO? It's not that smart, is it? (Or co
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by dyoo1979 7y ago
There's a very nice article about how single-page web applications work that explain the mechanics of using the location API. https://blog.pshrmn.com/entry/how-single-page-applications-w...
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by dyoo1979 7y ago
He's also a co-author of Lex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software) It's human nature to demonize folks.
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by dyoo1979 7y ago
... and people ask why browsers are so complicated.
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by dyoo1979 8y ago
Example reference: see the "abbreviations and acronyms" section in: https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a Hilariously enough, "Nasa" is specifically called out as an negative exampl
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by dyoo1979 8y ago
Can anyone tell which low calorie sweeteners the study is talking about? Certain artificial sweeteners elicit a large insulin response even if they are "low-calorie". Did they use any of the sweeteners listed in https:/&
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by dyoo1979 8y ago
The Commonwealth Club of California had a pretty good session from the reporter: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2018-06-07/theranos-...
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by dyoo1979 8y ago
If by "laughingstock", you mean of the millions of lives that his foundation has saved from infant mortality, thus giving those folks the opportunity to smile and laugh, then I agree with that sentiment.
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by dyoo1979 8y ago
How many of you have immigrant parents who, where English is a second language, would have great difficulty performing the kind of verbal gymnastics that you take for granted?
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by dyoo1979 9y ago
I'm reminded of: https://qz.com/475975/video-robot-is-bullied-by-children-so-... .
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by dyoo1979 9y ago
Another point: the documentary about FineArt from Tencent makes it very clear that folks there consider the race for AI analogously to the race to the atomic bomb. https://www.reddit.com/r/cbaduk/comments/7ry
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by dyoo1979 9y ago
The bikes literally have an explicit warning sign on them saying not to take them. There's nothing implicit about this. http://www.timboelaars.nl/media/image/resized/7f65959de38848... https:/&#x2F
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by dyoo1979 9y ago
I was really hoping that this article was going to talk about some kind of machine-learned model that had been used to improve holiday parties. My hopes, dashed against the shores of reality.
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by dyoo1979 9y ago
Also in the Korean community. https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-01/biggest-megachurch-ea...
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by dyoo1979 10y ago
His "Word Crimes" is one of the more entertaining videos I've seen, because not only is it a "ha ha just serious" kind of song, but the animations in the video are just spot on.
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Why is algebra so hard? TED talk by Emmanuel Schanzer(youtube.com)
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by dyoo1979 10y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144 , as well as the References section at the bottom of: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...
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by dyoo1979 10y ago
The efforts toward making the protocol robust might be helpful, depending on context. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/protobuf/DwyPEnvFJ-o/discu...
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by dyoo1979 10y ago
https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/src/google/pr...
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by dyoo1979 10y ago
You may be underestimating the overwhelming power of spam. That is, you're attributing a fear of negative attention. That might be true, but I suspect the concern has more to do with abuse. Don't underestimate the power of abusi
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by dyoo1979 11y ago
There's a good interactive tutorial at http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/ The community has also collected a lot of good Go resources at Sensei's Library: http://senseis.xmp.net/ Good luck!
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by dyoo1979 11y ago
Probably relevant: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/05/understan...
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by dyoo1979 11y ago
Hyperlink to the recommendation: https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-techn... It's under the "Develop a strong understanding of algorithms and data structures" part.
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by dyoo1979 11y ago
I'm not sure if I'm in the minority, but I find the ragdolls in Dark Souls to be hilarious and charming. ... uh, if rolling around with corpses could be described as hilarious and charming. Wow. I just realized how very strange
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by dyoo1979 11y ago
This is an unfortunately common phone scam. https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/2952493?hl=en

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