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by higginsc 3y ago
same! I was excited to see something so esoteric from my grad school days come up
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by higginsc 4y ago
Check out SSCD from Meta https://github.com/facebookresearch/sscd-copy-detection (full disclosure: I am an employee who has worked with this team before internally, but I was not associated with this paper)
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by higginsc 5y ago
Number of times I've had a true positive alert from Apple's new device tracking notifications: 0 Number of times I've had false positives due to intermittent connectivity issues with my airpods or from my partner using mine:
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by higginsc 5y ago
Ha! A friend sent me this comment when he recognized this project. Unless there happens to be another firm who did the exact same thing we did, I was a part of this project (see this blog post https://www.svds.com/introducti
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by higginsc 6y ago
Instagram doesn't do facial recognition though, so this seems pretty baseless.
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by higginsc 6y ago
I'm surprised and skeptical about some of this. In particular: We also measured networks across more than 90,000 Microsoft employees in the United States. Frankly, we expected to see them shrink significantly, given the rapid shift
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by higginsc 6y ago
[source: PhD in drug design specializing in G-protein coupled receptor pharmacology] Drugs like LSD form non-covalent bonds with receptors. In a macro-world analogy, think of your hand sticking to a syrup-covered fork vs. a covalent bond be
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by higginsc 6y ago
> Personally, I think that the effective ban on psychedelic research is a crime against science and mental healthcare - given its immense potential...I am happy to we are slowly starting research into that. Have you thought about support
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by higginsc 7y ago
BJ's models are breathtakingly simple and universally applicable. Highly recommended reading
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by higginsc 7y ago
This whole thing seems overblown. The conditions required to induce NDMA accumulation are so far outside the normal bounds as to be farcical. Every drug I’ve ever seen advises you to keep it in a controlled temperature environment.
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by higginsc 7y ago
Incredible. I wish people would take themselves less seriously like this. I would never have read that paper and learned a bit about that space if it hadn't been such an engaging read.
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by higginsc 7y ago
They top out at 15 mph in SF. I wish they went faster. I am a cyclist and usually maintain close to 20 mph (not counting lights). It's kind of maddening not to be able to go 20 or 25 on them.
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by higginsc 7y ago
At a sufficiently large scale, even rare events happen constantly.
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by higginsc 7y ago
Can confirm
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by higginsc 7y ago
No. Did you read the OP's article? I'll excerpt a relevant section for you: Although the current focus on isolation is often described in the media as “the loneliness epidemic,” Robin Hewings, Director of Campaigns, Policy and Re
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by higginsc 7y ago
5:33 no
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by higginsc 7y ago
>“Because Facebook is already in the hands of over a quarter of the world’s population, it is imperative that Facebook and its partners immediately cease implementation plans until regulators and Congress have an opportunity to examine t
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by higginsc 7y ago
Yep. I recently spent a day driving an S5 and S6, and the non-touchscreen carplay was terrible. I have a touchscreen version in my 2017 CR-V, and it is a joy to use. I read the comments in this thread, and it makes me laugh. So much "T
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by higginsc 7y ago
haters gonna hate
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by higginsc 7y ago
Hoping for you too. It's in my mom's side of my family. I'm fortunate that my mom didn't inherit, but it's a large family so many loved ones weren't so lucky. That's why I studied biochemistry and neurosci
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by higginsc 8y ago
It's a fucking desert.
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by higginsc 8y ago
That is pretty funny. The more you know. I was just a grad student and met Shoichet at conferences.
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by higginsc 8y ago
I have been out of this space for a few years (transitioned to data science from drug discovery), but from my time doing in silico and in vitro work, a major issue with docking was rank ordering. His comments are right on the mark IMO. Espe
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by higginsc 8y ago
Yeah, that's a pretty strong signal that your account got used for some nefarious shit.
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by higginsc 8y ago
I've heard this about Instagram, too, which makes sense I guess since they have the same ad infrastructure. One woman I was talking to the other week said her favorite thing about Instagram was the ads. I was like.. "huh."
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by higginsc 8y ago
But the point of this was market research. I highly doubt anybody gives a shit, even the uptight brigade here on hackernews, about whether company X knows I'm using company Y's app. It's not like FB wants to read your private
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by higginsc 8y ago
Yep, they do. I know several and have been through part of the interview process (I withdrew because Google takes too long, and I went to FB instead of dealing with their bullshit).
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by higginsc 8y ago
I've been an iPhone user for a decade and am a huge Apple fanboy, but even with that bias, I have to say this is a load of crap. Apple has been adding loads of undeletable bloat since forever. they only really let you start deleting th
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by higginsc 8y ago
"Yeah, but what really gets under my skin is that every other company out there is okay with producing garbage. Meanwhile, Apple produces things that work comparatively well, doing what you expect and then, claims that reasonable funct
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by higginsc 8y ago
I've been waiting for a graph view for Jupyter since it was called IPython. This is great!

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