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by tba 3y ago
Sounds great! My Telegram is ttf92.
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by tba 13y ago
This is a cool exercise! After completing it, I wanted to find out exactly what each NN hidden node represented. I trained a tiny (10 hidden node) NN on an OCR dataset and created a visualization here: https://rawgithub.com/
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by tba 13y ago
Cool project! Anyone trying to run it on *nix will need to open Main.java and replace all instances of the windows-specific file separator "\\" with "/".
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by tba 14y ago
> Social Security is not in trouble This is a fringe viewpoint at best. With our current policies, the Congressional Budget Office predicts SS will become completely insolvent between 2036 and 2038 (p. 54 of http://cbo.gov/sites/defaul
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by tba 15y ago
Doesn't work as advertised -- try searching for [["everything wrong" crossfade]] in verbatim mode.
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by tba 15y ago
I'm confused. What is the "defect" in K&R's "copy(char to[], char from[])" function? The author notes that "the second this function is called...without a trailing '\0' character, then you'll hit difficult to debug errors", but no funct
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by tba 15y ago
No? It ensures that malloc didn't return a NULL pointer and the '&& "memory error"' is a common pattern to add a comment describing why an assert() statement failed.
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by tba 15y ago
Looks fake to me: http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=0.0.0.0 http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=255.255.255.255 http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=192.168.1.1 http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=192.168.2.1 http://www.youhavedow
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by tba 15y ago
"I'd round up rather than down...The end result was a grade distribution that was just slightly more generous than the last time. And hence I perpetuated the cycle." Next time, why not begin with a slightly harsher grade distribution? Then
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by tba 15y ago
It's not hard to believe that the average teacher is paid about what they're worth. The more important question is whether the pay is competitive to attract teachers of sufficient quality.
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by tba 15y ago
Is your claim that mortality is indistinguishable from immortality? Here is a simple counterexample: An immortal can count (by ones, out loud) from 1 to a googol. A mortal cannot.
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by tba 15y ago
"think of the bounties on someone like Kim Jong-Il" Did you ever think of the bounties on anyone inconvenient to governments or big businesses? The founders of The Pirate Bay, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, BP whistleblowers, environme
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by tba 15y ago
Potential issues with anonymous currency include money laundering and assassination markets.
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by tba 15y ago
Great article. Is this the same person that Palantir mentioned as a potential source of Facebook information for social engineering attacks? From the leaked HBGary emails: "The Palantir employee noted that a researcher had used similar tool