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by hackpert 6y ago
I have always suspected that this "whimsical" attitude stems from technical inability on the ISP's end in India. Most ISPs seem to run off the shelf equipment and few people have an adequate understanding of networking beyond
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by hackpert 6y ago
I am generally inclined to regard IF arguments for disregarding research as rather disingenuous. Yes, there are predatory journals which will publish anything if paid, but IF as a metric to judge a journal which doesn't seem to be obvi
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by hackpert 6y ago
That concern immediately screams for an "in perpetuity" agreement that can perhaps only be amended (like a constitution or other open source licenses; amended for updating technology etc.) within certain pre-established limits tha
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by hackpert 7y ago
A use case where I see this issue very often and would love to see pure text based interfaces is healthcare. Half of providers’ and nurses’ time is spent clicking on tiny things in drop down boxes before scanning a barcode, which to me is p
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by hackpert 7y ago
You might want to try out some stacking based resolution improvement methods, like the ones used in astronomy. They take data from multiple "sources" and combine them to produce a high resolution picture. For example, check out h
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by hackpert 8y ago
Loved your firm take on hate speech and the anti harassment mechanisms! Is the entire project open source? I would love to contribute
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by hackpert 8y ago
I open sourced an old version of this for reddit a few years ago here, if it helps: https://github.com/hackpert/dooly . The one I use currently picks things from my org-mode agenda and inserts them across various places
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by hackpert 8y ago
I too had this issue of spending too much time on HN till I built a Chrome extension that inserts random items from my todo list at the bottom of each page, and by the time I click on "More," the incomplete todo starts bugging me.
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by hackpert 8y ago
That makes a lot of sense, thanks!
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by hackpert 8y ago
Thanks so much for writing this memoir! It is absolutely brilliant. Considering you had a somewhat unconventional PhD with your independent projects, what was the main role of your advisor? How do you make the most of such a situation to ex
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by hackpert 8y ago
I think you may be referring to “The Emperor’s New Mind” [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind
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by hackpert 8y ago
Alright sure, let's assume for a second that you are correct about the relative lack of interest that you claim is rooted in truth. Even then, the statement in the article does not refer to interest at all, but rather it puts a constra
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by hackpert 8y ago
Other than the obvious and horrifying casual sexism that others have highlighted, the most interesting part to me is the diagram at the bottom. The system was mechanically simple enough to be largely explained in one small diagram that a ne
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by hackpert 8y ago
I think a major point that isn't being talked enough about in public (although I'm sure people in SpaceX have considered it before coming up with numbers) with the "point-to-point" transport system is simple demand-suppl
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by hackpert 9y ago
While incredibly sad, this incident is not terribly surprising because the technology is nowhere near safe enough. Unfortunately, this will inevitably set the field back by at least 10 years with stricter regulations. We've seen the sa
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by hackpert 9y ago
Sure, this question definitely deserves further probing for other causative factors. But about discrimination, what stage are we talking about? During early childhood when males tend to be pushed towards mechanical toys and construction set
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by hackpert 9y ago
Oh no I'm sorry for the lack of clarity, that was certainly not what I'm implying. They do, and it's an extremely unfortunate problem that we ought to do something about. I was merely suggesting that these differences we tend
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by hackpert 9y ago
Sure, you may be right about a percentage disparity, but how do we know that the factors that caused this disparity were not cultural in the first place, instilled by society as they were growing up? I also think that blanket questions such
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by hackpert 9y ago
Whenever such studies or analyses come up in the media, I find that people are often eager to jump to causative conclusions on the lines of "oh females must have a natural inclination towards 'softer' fields" or (as in c
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by hackpert 9y ago
I am constantly surprised by how robust and versatile Mel spectrograms (and Mel frequency cepstrum) are, despite the filterbanks and the transformations being relatively arbitrarily engineered and performed on evenly spaced frames. These re
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by hackpert 9y ago
Thanks so much for sharing this! What a remarkable refresher about a remarkable person among an endless cycle of depressing news. Definitely cheered me up!
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by hackpert 9y ago
Indeed, of all the tech company swag I've seen and collected, from a pure nerdiness metric, I'd wager Wolfram's remains one of the coolest by far.
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by hackpert 9y ago
Couldn't agree more. The data structures class I'm taking currently (which is unfortunately a prerequisite for most other CS classes) is simply a bunch of trivial programming exercises that take almost no effort to do. While I und
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by hackpert 9y ago
That looks so incredibly wrong.
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by hackpert 9y ago
The question in this particular case is, what exactly the benefits? The costs are quite clear. An entire generation or more of about half the population feeling demolarized and incapable of doing certain tasks as well as their peers is a pr
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by hackpert 9y ago
This seems like a really bad move to me, unless of course, there were other issues with the said employee's work. Instead of removing all proponents of a different (and most probably incorrect but let's leave that aside) ideology,
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by hackpert 9y ago
There is this brilliant card game Set ( https://www.setgame.com/set ), which is a load of fun and also teaches visual reasoning skills.
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by hackpert 9y ago
Inference speed looks brilliant. Eager to read the source! (Also, somehow I had a feeling before even reading that this project was by the people who made Project Naptha etc. Have you written/talked about this anywhere earlier?)
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by hackpert 9y ago
> Anyone else going to the DeepRL Bootcamp at Berkeley in August ? I was really looking forward to it, especially because among other things, I wanted to discuss the very arguments of the absence of true randomness in simulations that yo
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by hackpert 9y ago
Symbian was one really good OS for the pre-iOS world. A basic S60 button-phone was capable of multitasking, copy-paste, profiles (which Android and iOS still lack) and could even pull off some decent graphics in games that weren't se

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