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by jfz 7y ago
How do you know that they won't get to the point if you don't read/watch them?
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by jfz 7y ago
Why must the abstractions be tokenized? I can notice myself feeling things, and surely that counts as awareness of the self. If you notice that you are full of anger or joy, you notice that _you_ exist.
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by jfz 7y ago
We're two Northeastern University students (jfz and drassaby on HN), and one professor (not on HN), who started this project because there were no frameworks that allowed people to productionize evolutionary algorithms by running them
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Show HN: Evvo – an open source framework for distributed evolutionary algorithms(github.com)
3 points by jfz 7y ago|1 comments
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by jfz 7y ago
Sounds like Pivotal, which literally has "Be Kind" as one of the three core values.
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by jfz 7y ago
I've been working on a Genetic Algorithm/Evolutionary Computing framework in Scala, using network-parallelism to solve optimization problems fast. If you're interested, check it out at https://github.com/evvo-
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Ask HN: What does it mean to be a good software developer?
1 points by jfz 8y ago|0 comments
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by jfz 8y ago
I suspect that the bikes and scooters will appear less dorky over time, as they get normalized. Some people say the bikes "look pretty cool"[1]. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/23/17882996/t
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by jfz 8y ago
This is critical - even if no individual study has positive results, the data from each study can be aggregated and that meta-analysis can find results much more easily. I remember reading (but can't find the link to) an article about
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by jfz 8y ago
There is a massive difference between doing something that will clearly hurt someone and choosing to do only work that benefits you. Researchers are currently under no obligation to write up their null findings, and it would be hard to get
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by jfz 8y ago
I have seen companies saying they have a thousand microservices to mean that they have a thousand microservice servers running, but they might have hundreds of application servers in each service pulling from the same queue.
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by jfz 8y ago
Can you post a link to the implicit bias study you're talking about and a refutation?
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by jfz 8y ago
As long as the central bank is full of thoughtful economists, I trust them to print money when they "feel like it" will be good for the economy.
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by jfz 8y ago
The author probably meant that they don't believe that full-stack engineering is beneficial compared to hiring primarily specialists.
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by jfz 8y ago
Most people will say that the motivation to work on a problem should come from you being really excited about the problem domain. Play around with someone else's code, trying to do something interesting to you that's just barely o
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by jfz 8y ago
The benefits of cycling outweigh the harms of the pollution, almost everywhere. The pollution is still harmful, though, and lowers your lifespan compared to not having as much pollution.
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by jfz 8y ago
How do you know? Massive productivity increases over the last 40 years have not reduced labor participation in the slightest.
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by jfz 8y ago
Just don't try to build corporate housing in Brazil... https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fordlandia/
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by jfz 8y ago
Would you still apply the term "gossip" to talking about celebrities or politicians? When you are talking about people in their professional capacities (talking about the politics of the politicians, and talking about the pastimes
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by jfz 8y ago
Because IQ is a measure of abstract analytical and pattern-matching intelligence, our economic shift towards more analytical/intelligence-driven work causes us to practice those skills more. I could say that FQ (factory-production quot
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by jfz 8y ago
It would actually be surprising to find them doing it. Even from a business perspective, their other breaches of ethics (and privacy) all made them money. Large-scale eugenics wouldn't make money for FB, at least not in the next 18 yea
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by jfz 8y ago
Using i and j in loops makes code much less self-explanatory, especially when you could use "page_index" and "image_index" instead.
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by jfz 8y ago
That's not the best analogy - it's more like someone has two chairs in their waiting room and they note which chair is more popular among people waiting, so they can replace the worse chair with a copy of the better one.
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Evolutionary Computing with Push(faculty.hampshire.edu)
2 points by jfz 8y ago|0 comments
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by jfz 8y ago
I'll admit that finding the right fitness function is hard, but I find that multi-dimensional fitness functions are well-suited to finding a set of solutions that a human can choose from. If you are finding paths for a fleet of deliver