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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Same way you scale replication for any server, by sharding and only replicating the shards you care about. The "shard" could just be that users own feed in this case. Then you get offline for free where user adds a tweet and it ap
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Having client state just be a replica of server state solves so many problems I don't understand why the concept never caught on. Pouchdb/couchdb are still the only ones doing it afaik. Instead we have a bajillion layers of CRUD a
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Now that I think about it, languages that aren't subject-verb-object probably find OOP insane. I tried to find an example of this and found a somewhat related article about how Japanese grammar maps nicely onto ruby: https:/&#x2F
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
> Big neural nets trained with SGD are unlikely to memorize something if they only see it once over the course of one million training steps I am not so sure about that. Have you seen this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Twitter summary: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1187161460033458177.html
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Andrew Ng has a great summary on the purpose of human level performance: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/machine-learning-projects/w...
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Possibly dumb question: How do you ensure there's no data leakage when benchmarking transfer learning techniques? Is that even a problem anymore when the whole point is to learn "common sense" knowledge? For example their “Co
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Yea you're right, I guess there is a distinction between reinventing and reimplementing. The authors even mentioned that concurrent mode is inspired by "double buffering" from graphics. I am just trying to support the grandpa
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
> If your app is architected to have any rendering operation take long enough that it's perceptible to the user, STOP DOING THAT THING DURING RENDERING. As is tradition, frontend developers are still slowly reinventing the technique
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
It's easy to gain physical intuition because you can often explain one physical phenomenon in terms of another physical phenomenon that you have much more real life experience with. But with mathematics, "intuitive" analogies
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Throwing promises to emulate algebraic effects seems really hacky. I wonder if React would've needed to go down this path if they were built by a different company. For example Google/Apple/Microsoft all have huge influence o
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
The clearest demo that communicates what this solves was given when it was announced last year. That clock animation is pure genius: https://youtu.be/nLF0n9SACd4?t=473
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I was really hoping this would be about "Philosophy of Science"[0] For example in "The Problem of Induction" you can see a bajillion sunrises but can't infer that there will be another. Likewise you can conduct a ba
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Unfortunately anything screen readers can recognize as invisible, a more sophisticated bot can too.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Pretty impressive. Every anime I torrented off nyaa.si / horriblesubs was listed.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Oh my god this runs in my browser! There goes my week
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Augmented reality is a great example. Everyone knows that it will become a "Big Thing" in the future. Like why would smartphones be the final form factor of personal computing? Of course there will be something that will dethrone
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Yea I probably shouldn't have used a quote there. The number ranges from 20% to 50% depending on which part of vancouver you look at. Point is that they aren't a minority there.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I would probably assume he's just really into Romance of the Three Kingdoms or other historical dramas where the 司馬 surname is common. Or that his real name is Zimmerman.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
> every other byte of data striped across I assume you didn't mean that literally because I can't see how that will ever work out in terms of cpu cost. I think breaking it up into blocks like what RAID4/5/6 would be b
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Vancouver is special since it's popular destination for rich people from hong kong/china to hide their wealth. They buy up a lot of property: > Chinese investors bought about 70% of free-standing houses on the west side of Vanc
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
> If there's a compelling case for doing it differently, someone should do it and see if it works. Cloudflare doesn't charge for bandwidth. I always throw cloudflare on top of anything I do, not because I really need a CDN or a
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
You work there so you probably have a better idea than I do but they have a terrible reputation externally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17062782
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
It seems kind of asshole to say this but Amazon is considered low-tier at CMU so people don't choose it unless they got rejected from everyone else. =/ I am looking at MIT's salary survey and they have similar ratios: https:
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I think it's pretty typical for schools like CMU. Look at their post graduation survey: https://www.cmu.edu/career/documents/2018_one_pagers/scs/1-P... Out of 170 graduates, 27 went to facebook, 21
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I think you're right that you shouldn't learn from the "fundamental" books but there definitely are such a thing as fundamental books. They are usually hugely influential in their times but have been refined or made easi
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
xkcd is always relevant: https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
How does max pool deal with this? It seems similar where you rank all the pixel values and take the max (rather than median). The problem with ties still occurs there, no?
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
To clarify, I am trying to say that the only purpose of metrics is for humans in a social context. If an AI optimizing for a metric ends up with unintended consequences, that's a human problem. A human has to go in and redefine a new
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Always interesting to see the scale you have to hit before rewriting from one language to another saves money (relative to engineering cost). With node.js: 800 containers, with each container processing 250 messages per second With golang:

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