kashprime

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by kashprime 4y ago
In behaving this way, he is erasing a tremendous amount of the goodwill he generated from his space and electric car businesses. The world's media, political, business, scientific elite are on Twitter and watching carefully. It's
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by kashprime 5y ago
I share the author's personal investment in this topic. It was my first introduction to the web3 world, and it really showcases the potential of truly decentralized communities. Some of the flaws were visible, but overall how this com
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by kashprime 5y ago
This is a very good point, policy making in Canada has shifted to an enormous degree to the courts. And the Supreme Court has also been very vocal about choosing its own members too [0]. The BBC had a lecture series [1] on something simil
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by kashprime 5y ago
There’s been something wonky about YouTube downvotes for a little while now. If you go any children’s video (I have two toddlers so am accessing them all the time), downvotes often outstrip upvotes. The reasons are unclear, maybe competitiv
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by kashprime 6y ago
ICE’s have over a century of development behind them now. I’m not going to miss them, but I wonder if there’s a way to ‘archive’ this kind of specialist mechanical engineering knowledge. It may come in handy one day. It’s depressing to read
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by kashprime 6y ago
It's fortunate that Pfizer/BioNTech chose the whole spike protein mRNA as their vaccine candidate over the one that focused just on the receptor binding domain -- which the UK mutation changed. Wise choice, and hopefully it will
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by kashprime 6y ago
There's Messenger Lite, I think meant for low internet connection speeds and free of a lot of bloat. Hopefully the antitrust lawsuit will keep Zuck from getting too egregious and getting rid of that too, but who knows.
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by kashprime 6y ago
It's a really good point; what really got me was Facebook being impossible to remove from my Samsung device (S8+) without rooting. Likely due to their tie-up with Oculus. I find the uncannily appropriate ads being served fairly distu
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by kashprime 6y ago
I'm moving away from Android (after 10 years) to iOS for exactly this reason. Not much sympathy for FB on my end.
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by kashprime 6y ago
It's a simple choice really; being infected with Covid means your body creates thousands of antibodies to fight the virus. Some of those will likely go on and attack your own cells and cause post-covid symptoms. The vaccines only pres
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by kashprime 6y ago
I think we have Adobe to thank for stagnation in creator tools. There are smaller, harder to find companies doing pieces of the work (i.e. Photopea for Photoshop) and lots of video editing apps that have grown up around Instagram and TikTo
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by kashprime 6y ago
What competitor is this, if you don't mind me asking? Could use a service like that for my own project.
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by kashprime 7y ago
I think you're right... We blew through the free tier 50k database reads just on testing, and that's just 3 users!
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by kashprime 7y ago
Early stage social media/news feedy startup here, wondering if a strategy of just starting off with Firebase and praying will work. I figure if we did get to a thousand or ten thousand users, we could recruit the DevOps talent to pull
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by kashprime 7y ago
I can't wait for the Netflix series on this. Having lived with many of them over the years, I've always admired the sheer entrepreneurial energy of the Lebanese diaspora. Remember, Carthage was founded by ancient Phoenicians (mo
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by kashprime 7y ago
I wish there was a way to get all of the episodes of Mr. Rogers, especially outside of the US. Current offerings really lack the patient approach he exemplified. There's one DVD set with just 30 episodes, no digital downloads anywher
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by kashprime 7y ago
A few things helped me - part time child care/day care - putting grandparents to work, especially the first few months - wife cut her work hours - lots of YouTube as background distraction. I haven't seen any ill effects from scr
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by kashprime 7y ago
They should use RSS; Youtube, Medium and most blogs already generate RSS feeds for their content.
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by kashprime 7y ago
A Malcolm Gladwell noted in his recent podcast, the entire Ivy league undergrad cohort (17k) would fit into the incoming class at the University of Toronto (ranked ~20 worldwide in most rankings). If Harvard admission is so rigged, and the
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by kashprime 7y ago
A pretty accurate but damning portrayal of the economy in Canada. I wonder how smaller but more successful economies like Sweden or Israel manage to consistently build great companies?
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by kashprime 7y ago
There are many uses for the technology that don't violate civil rights. We can finally catch dangerous or intoxicated drivers on highways who cause accidents. Just because the tech is Chinese doesn't automatically disqualify it
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by kashprime 7y ago
I wonder if the same McDonnell Douglas corporate culture behind the flawed DC 10 is what led to the MAX? It's often said Boeing's acquisition of Douglas was more of a reverse takeover. On a side note, I once met an aircraft inves
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by kashprime 7y ago
Thanks for posting here! Do you see any chance of an open source framework, like Mozilla's tacotron, competing with something like Google WaveNet's quality?
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by kashprime 7y ago
Impressive! I wonder what they're using for video editing and vfx? Blender is great for 3d assets, but what open source software can make this?
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by kashprime 7y ago
NLTK (python) will do it. I'm working on a similar project and the text summaries are great, even for non English articles.
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by kashprime 7y ago
Me too, will email you. I've been collecting as well.
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by kashprime 7y ago
Just a question for a project of mine, but can tabular data be combined with NLP? Or should I train two seperate nets (i.e. with ulmfit) and try to combine the results?
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by kashprime 7y ago
Very true, especially in the emergency medicine and critical care world where entire conferences and movements are organized around hashtags (like #foamed or #medtwitter). It's too bad Twitter doesn't give it's users tools t
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by kashprime 7y ago
The author, Bruno Macaes, is an unusually astute observer with his own book "Dawn of Eurasia" that covers this topic at length. He's from Portugal, a smaller recovering economy with a lot at stake in the health of EU. I find
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by kashprime 8y ago
This is for an electronic travel authorization, which the US, Australia and Canada already require of all visitors. It's simple and takes minutes online, hardly a 'visa.'

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