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by jcs 2mo ago
That 90% only measures images already known to be one of CIFAR-10’s ten classes. There is no “none of the above,” so even a perfect benchmark score would still force a calculator into one of those labels.
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by jcs 2mo ago
In a vacuum, there isn’t a fireball hanging around for the next charge to cross; the plasma is moving outward at thousands of km/s.
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by jcs 2mo ago
The person who decides owns the risk. The cost of waiting is spread across the whole team, so escalating is usually the safer move for the individual.
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by jcs 2mo ago
Most of the gain seems to come from choosing a much smaller program. Frame implements enough X11 for this one desktop and leaves out decades of compatibility work that a compiler would still have to preserve.
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Jidoka for Software: Autonomation in the Age of LLMs(jamessummerfield.com)
3 points by jcs 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jcs 13y ago
Rangespan, London, UK - Lead DevOps Engineer You will be responsible for the availability, performance and delivery of our web services, as well as taking an active role in the development of the platform. Examples of upcoming projects -
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by jcs 13y ago
Rangespan - London, UK - Lead DevOps Engineer Rangespan is looking for a lead DevOps engineer to join our development team in Paddington, West London. You will be responsible for the availability, performance and delivery of our web service
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by jcs 14y ago
Fun to see this pop up again. Original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190974 (almost 3 years ago)
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by jcs 14y ago
London, UK - Rangespan ( https://www.rangespan.com/jobs ) Our technology stack includes Python, Django, Flask, MongoDB, MySQL, Hadoop, Hive and ElasticSearch, running on Amazon AWS (See our Amazon AWS http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-s
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by jcs 15y ago
London, UK - Full time - Rangespan Founded by ex-Amazon executives and engineers, Rangespan is an ambitious e-commerce software company that makes it easy for retailers to offer deep product selection. Our values ( http://www.rangespan.com/
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by jcs 15y ago
London, UK - Rangespan Founded by ex-Amazon executives and engineers, Rangespan is an ambitious e-commerce software company that makes it easy for retailers to offer deep product selection. Our values ( http://www.rangespan.com/about/values
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Experimental Study on Web Asynchronicity(lipsumarium.com)
1 points by jcs 15y ago|0 comments
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by jcs 16y ago
Feedback has been very positive so far - customers are finding it makes the initial screening process much easier. One advantage over Google Docs is the ability to do time-shifted interviews, making it a good first filter for job postings.
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by jcs 16y ago
and watch them code something You may find http://www.interviewzen.com/ useful. It's a hiring tool I'm building around the idea that you can tell a lot about someone's coding ability by seeing them in action.
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Data-mining 10,000 Facebook status updates to graph breakup patterns(geekosystem.com)
40 points by jcs 16y ago|15 comments
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by jcs 17y ago
Inspired by the recent submission from cdixon ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190710 ) regarding developing new startup ideas and being the "opposite of secret", I thought we could put the theory into practice. Feel free to add your
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New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet(spreadsheets.google.com)
130 points by jcs 17y ago|87 comments
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by jcs 17y ago
Well if he isn't going to share his spreadsheet, we can start our own. Feel free to add your idea to http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWb... and we'll see where it goes.
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Ask HN: Growing a consultancy
15 points by jcs 17y ago|0 comments
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by jcs 17y ago
I stopped the video and left the site after I couldn't take anymore of the 70s porn music.
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by jcs 18y ago
I agree that when I am absorbed in a task, time passes quickly. But I'm not sure it's a measure of productivity. An evening can be over too quickly if you fill it with dinner and a good movie. However, waking up always catches me by surpris
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by jcs 18y ago
Fantastic video, thanks very much. There seems to be momentum gathering to improve education. Watching Bill Gate's TED video this morning and now this (albeit perhaps more motivational than educational), I'm aware this is a topic which fund
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by jcs 18y ago
I count 8. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/join_the_team.html
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by jcs 18y ago
Healthy body = healthy mind. For those who aren't sure of how to spend their gym time most efficiently, and get bored of doing the same old bike/treadmill routine, should check out CrossFit. A workout is posted every day which is designed t
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by jcs 18y ago
So once your master password is found (brute force/keylogger/shoulder surfing), the attacker has a handy bookmarklet to log into all of your accounts.
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by jcs 18y ago
HPV is a cancer caused by the presence of a virus. HPV (human papillomavirus) is a virus, not a cancer. Most people carry the virus but are asymptomatic. Of the approx 130 types of HPV, some can lead to cancer, most commonly of the cervix
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by jcs 18y ago
I agree. I remember seeing a site around the US Presidential Election time that used the mass of tweets to form a consensus of opinion on a number of topics. Surely mining this collective intelligence provides invaluable market insight.
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by jcs 18y ago
"I feel like when I talk to my "friends", I either have to talk all about computers, or all about music, or whatever that they're interested in, but never a mixture of everything." Have you actually tried talking about other topics? It so