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by yorak 2y ago
Sorry to dissapoint you and the few other curious ones, this was some 10 years ago and such details such as name of the company have fell of from my overfilled brain long ago. While the person who told me the story is a reputable fellow I m
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by yorak 2y ago
Geoffrey, thanks for sharing your story with us. OR sure is a weird niche. Good enough algorithms for solving these problems have existed for decades1, but we still see low adoption and your 95% estimate of the companies not optimizing thei
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by yorak 3y ago
At least to me the argument does not hold water. My fear is that humans being human, simulation of a coral reef imaginary or future holodeck-like experiences will not save the actual coral reefs. They might even hasten their demise (as less
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by yorak 4y ago
I agree and have been saying for a while that an AI you control and run (be it on your own hardware or on a rented one) will be the Linux of this generation. There is no other way to retain the freedom of information processing.
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by yorak 5y ago
Nice. The resulting graphics style reminds me of a Short Hike, which is a family friendly bite sized 3D adventure and exploration game. I'm not affiliated in any way, just enjoyed the game with my kid. It has a nice balance of story, c
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by yorak 6y ago
I blame being an operations researcher for always (pessimistically) first and foremost seeing how the system can be gamed. You have to think very very carefully what the objective function is and which kind of undesired solutions need to be
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by yorak 6y ago
Yes, rather than exchange rate, I'd be more worried about corvids carrying trash from the landfill to exchange it to food. Or, in case of cigarette stubs, emptying well contained ashtrays to the tables and floors only to get to those v
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by yorak 6y ago
Aka. the Chinese room argument. However, I'm not so sure us people are little more than just pattern matching machines. When I start to talk (or write, as I'm doing now), the words kind of just flow out. I can make the argument, t
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by yorak 6y ago
What is most impressive here, which I think other commentators of the thread have not pointed out, is its ability to have an inner dialogue (monologue?) with itself in this sample. For me, that property of the generated text (or should I wr
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by yorak 7y ago
This is an interesting and promising take on the problem. Despite being introduced already in the 60'ies, the optimization of delivery routes is still not used as widely as it should. I'd argue that this is mostly due to the compl
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by yorak 7y ago
I've personally not seen this happen. Instead, I've seen many oversold ML/AI tools that offer no advantages over using open and freely available tooling that the data scientist (with or without PhD) is already familiar with.
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by yorak 8y ago
Very true, my mind immediately wandered to thinking about Random Forests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest
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by yorak 8y ago
From how I see it the conflict is not technical but ideological. Or, in technical terms, what is the objective?: for Forrester and Collins this seemed to be increasing the economical growth of the city and managing KPI (crime, poverty etc.)
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by yorak 8y ago
In an utopia scenario you own the digital assistant. It is based on open source (even if deployed to cloud ) and you carefully curate the data sources is has access to. In a dystopia version megacorporations own and control the digital assi
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by yorak 8y ago
There is this trick among us operations researchers I'd like to share: even if one is able to perfectly model the peculiarities of a given application and get the optimal solution, it should not be the only output. Instead, one should
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by yorak 8y ago
It is true that such problems /can/ be solved via mathematical linear programming (for those coming outside math circles, please note that the term programming here has nothing to do with coding) and this is how they are usually p
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by yorak 8y ago
Bus routing is just a variant of the vehicle routing problem (VRP), which itself is a generalization of traveling salesman problem (TSP) but with multiple salespersons doing the traveling. There is an Excel sheet for solving such problems,
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by yorak 8y ago
Before the development of Voxel Quest ( https://www.voxelquest.com/ ) was stopped it had shadows and animated agents. However, I'm not knowledgeable enough on game renderers to estimate which kind of technique was used n
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by yorak 9y ago
Ah, perhaps in the other corners of the world, but in Finland we do not play such "games". That is, if you invite someone over by 17 pm, it might mean by 18 pm, or might not. Here, if you invite someone at 17 pm, whatever the caus
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by yorak 10y ago
Like they did it in the 90'ies? Have an actual button on the key that you need to press to open the doors and authenticate. Same goes for starting the car, if you want to offer the "feature" of remote start/stop.
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Finland: “Steve Jobs took our jobs”(bbc.com)
2 points by yorak 11y ago|1 comments
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by yorak 11y ago
Thanks. I already have an use case in mind for this kind of transpiler, therefore I asked. I've toyed with Rapydscript a bit but the things mentioned in this thread and in the documentation, such as relative simpilicity, traspilation (
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by yorak 11y ago
Does anyone have insight on how does this compare to Rapydscript ( http://www.rapydscript.com/ )?
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by yorak 11y ago
There is also superresolution methods that in practice make the "enhance"-feature possible. The information from the same objects in successive frames, eg. from a security camera feed, are composited into a single frame of higher
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by yorak 11y ago
Somebody here at HN suggested using Zim wiki a while ago http://zim-wiki.org/ I've been using it ever since. It stores data in plain text files (dokuwiki markup) and in addition the folder structure is mirrored in the
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by yorak 11y ago
I just purhcased the finnish version of the book and the status says it is shipped. Perhaps I should have waited until it is in my hands? :)
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Hello Ruby – Almost there(blog.helloruby.com)
231 points by yorak 11y ago|122 comments
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by yorak 11y ago
Or then it is like the case with youngsters and mp3s, where the studies have found that they actually prefer the "sound" of compressed music - with compression artifacts and all. If a hifi enthusiast (~tunesmith) would say that un
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by yorak 11y ago
I did, a year and a half ago. I decided upon FX-8320, as for me, more cores was better. In my PhD I'm doing automatic parameter tuning of optimization algorithms, and I thought it would be handy to have as many cores as possible also b
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by yorak 11y ago
Greg Anderson [1] from the Arcticstartup summed it up nicely: "My Summer Car ... is better described as bored Finnish guy in the 90's simulator." [1] http://arcticstartup.com/2015/04/14/my-summe

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