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by strebler 5y ago
This problem is actually pretty obvious to fix and you don't even need a neural net - it can definitely be done "old school" computer vision. Simply detect the presence of "flashing emergency lights" in the oncoming
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by strebler 5y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. It's by definition an insult and I don't believe an academic measurement of stupidity (or intelligence) is a terribly fruitful endeavor. "My math says you're stupid!" is a place some people
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by strebler 7y ago
What, the elongated, shiny, rotating thing that was able to accelerate without any effect on its rate of rotation? Totally a comet, definitely, 100% guaranteed.
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by strebler 7y ago
TF's deprecation velocity was way too high for my taste. Things we wrote would stop working randomly with their updates. I feel very similar to you about the models being "buried too deep" in their (ever-changing) machine.
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by strebler 7y ago
Interesting, however this just reflects an overfitted model. Fundamentally, this photo is not that different from a fashion influencer's posts. We're a fashion engine and our system fully detected both of the people and all of th
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by strebler 9y ago
I didn't quite understand, what is the problem with Instagram? It's too popular? Or just that it's not dropping in popularity vs Facebook (due to their recent adjustments)? I wouldn't consider Instagram to be a messagi
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by strebler 9y ago
That's definitely possible they've already more or less decided. Either way, they're pulling off an impressive optimization to obtain maximum taxpayer funded subsidies.
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by strebler 9y ago
That's incredible. Humalog is a quite similar low price in Canada. It's strange that it'd actually be economical for many American diabetics to just book a (yearly) flight to Canada and buy 12 months worth of insulin.
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by strebler 9y ago
This is a really good article, I'm impressed. If you read only one deep learning article this month, make it this one. I'm going to borrow that analogy of "teenagers perceptions of sex" - it's hilariously accurate
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by strebler 9y ago
Exactly, do it or else he's going to take his ball and go home (or take his fund's money and go to China) But don't tell him what happens if he ever tries to take his money OUT of China, we can let that be a "fun" l
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by strebler 9y ago
I think they wanted to make it free but still deal with the fact that anything that isn't nailed down will get stolen in China. Even toilet paper - you should see the "rations" many hotels there give to guests for a night&#x
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by strebler 9y ago
The internet was actually fine for a long time (just proxy over SSH for everything). But they randomly "turn up the dials" on the firewall to block SSH and so you'll get intermittent outages. It's gotten progressively
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by strebler 9y ago
I've lived and done a fair amount of business there. The car thing is true. I would say people there care a lot more about their immediate network of friends / family and a lot less about anyone else. It's very safe to liv
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by strebler 9y ago
Hey, WoofCoin is going to change the world! Only WoofCoin uses blockchain technology to finally solve the age old question "who's a good boy?"
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by strebler 9y ago
Based on the paper, I think there is sufficient evidence for "mice who have increases in sEH expression in Müller glia cells" to consider they stop taking Omega3. As I understand it, that's some sort of genetic condition? Th
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by strebler 9y ago
I think you're right. It was probably a good bootstrapping strategy at the start to get good designs into the system and also some marketing benefits from promoting top designs from contests. The more I think about it, contest-driven
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by strebler 9y ago
Yes, having a store with selection is good for shopping. The contest is part merchandising and part marketing to show the "top hot new" SKU. For any contest to work, you need good entries. The prize is the payout that motivates
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by strebler 9y ago
Why is it so surprising? From both the designer and shopper perspectives, the Old Way does seem better. With the Old Way: Designer: does N work to create a design and has X% chance of winning $2500. They focus on what they love (i.e. desi
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by strebler 9y ago
Oh absolutely, I thought that type of active investor was so contrived that this was just an article written more or less for entertainment (to point out how hard it is to be an active investor).
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by strebler 9y ago
Given the hyperbole and deity references, I thought the article was more for amusement than anything else.
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by strebler 9y ago
I think he's just pointing out how hard it is to be a good active investor, basically exactly what Warren Buffet thinks (and won that bet over).
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by strebler 9y ago
Does this mean I'm going to have to charge my clothing now too?
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by strebler 9y ago
It's certainly possible that they stole the bitcoins and paid for a few days (a week?) worth of goods. But 1) the article does not provide any real evidence to support for this theory, 2) it's not a sufficient amount to be a viabl
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by strebler 9y ago
I'm sorry, but a country of 25 million people is "dodging sanctions" with tens of millions of dollars in bitcoins? That's not really an amount of money to dodge much of anything at all.
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by strebler 9y ago
I completely agree. My company does image recognition in fashion and this dataset is both way too easy and not useful. I'd love to see a client with such an easy problem (telling between shoes and bags in inventory images). We regula
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by strebler 9y ago
Tesla took the opposite approach of what I described (the Subaru approach). Tesla took the approach that the machine is in control and the human has to detect and take over when the machine makes a mistake. That is known to be a very probl
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by strebler 9y ago
This has already started - look up the discount some insurers give to owners of Subarus that are equipped with EyeSight. The numbers show their collision avoidance is making roads safer. Also, interesting fact: Subaru is achieving these im
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by strebler 9y ago
You've hit the nail on the head - audio recognition is quite poor after (a lot of) concerted effort over decades. Driving a car safely is significantly more difficult (and dangerous). That being said, Toyota's (and Subaru's)
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by strebler 9y ago
If the theory were true, then why were the two largest fires in recorded North American history in 1919 and 1950 (which MacDonald, a wildfire expert, missed)? 5 and 4 million acres respectively, significantly larger than 2011 or 2016 Alber
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by strebler 9y ago
Sure, sure, let the fires burn. It's an easy argument to make when it's not your property. What about when the fire does over $3 billion dollars in direct damages, burns 1.5 million acres and forces the evacuation of over 80K pe

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