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by jicks 6y ago
It seems to not be true anymore. I checked last week to rent a car in France for the holidays, and all the cheapest options for small urban cars were EV (mostly Zoe). Note that I only checked for big renting companies (Sixt, Enterprise, ...
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Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics (2017)(seeing-theory.brown.edu)
526 points by jicks 8y ago|18 comments
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by jicks 9y ago
I edited my comment to follow the guidelines.
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by jicks 9y ago
My guess is no, because while they may take 30%+ of the screen initially, they don't represent 30%+ of the full page (see [0] for more details). [0] https://www.betterads.org/mobile-ad-density-higher-than-30/
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by jicks 9y ago
According to the article, the ads deemed "overly annoying or intrusive" are defined by "the standards established by the Coalition for Better Ads, of which it is a member". Since it's not Google actually deciding th
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by jicks 9y ago
It's usually around 20€/month for that kind of plan in France (with unlimited calls and SMS).
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by jicks 9y ago
The criteria is not discretionary. They'll block ads that don't follow the guidelines defined by the Coalition for Better Ads [0] (Google is a member, but there is a lot of other members, like Facebook, ...). So yes, they'll
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by jicks 9y ago
No, they'll only block ads that don't follow the guidelines defined by the Coalition for Better Ads [0] (Google is a member, but there is a lot of other members, like Facebook, ...). Note that this may include ads provided by Goog
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by jicks 9y ago
Apparently, because it's shorter [0]. [0]: See https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/10/348
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by jicks 9y ago
It is actually very different: - AutoML is used to automate the design of the ML model. - Population-based trained is used to automate the choice of the hyperparameters (e.g. the rate of learning). If you wanted to use both, you'd firs
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by jicks 9y ago
Except it's the other way around. Their repo is 6 months older than yours.
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by jicks 9y ago
If I remember correctly, the idea is to block ads that don't conform to the standards set by the Coalition for Better Ads [0]. Google is (as you can expect) a member of this coalition (just like Facebook and many other companies [1]).
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by jicks 9y ago
Less transportation required, which should be cheaper and better for the environment.
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by jicks 9y ago
It doesn't fit. Railway systems in Japan and France (taken as example in the article) are high quality and last long as well. Yet construction railway is way less expensive there.
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by jicks 10y ago
I agree, it doesn't sound "lifelike" at all to me. Compared to WaveNet[1] it's day and night. [1] https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
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by jicks 11y ago
A very interesting project. One remark: although I'm admittedly a poor chess player, I managed easily to get a draw by threefold repetition even though Spawkfish could have avoided that easily (and still destroy me). Am I correct to as