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by 2sk21 8y ago
ML is a blunt instrument in such situations. I think your example illustrates the point of the original article very nicely.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
This is so true! I am rarely impressed by movie versions of my favorite books. On a related note, I have been reading Judea Pearl's new book, "The book of Why" (truly wonderful book incidentally). I think that stories must, i
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Indeed, trust is precious and its just too easy for malicious actors to acquire trust from vulnerable people.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Sounds like another rediscovery of "Worse is better" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Brought back great memories. In the early 80s, I used this chip to build a small analog synthesizer. My dream was to build an Elektor Formant but had to settle for the 76477. But I learned a lot from that exercise
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by 2sk21 8y ago
I work at IBM and I can get almost all of my development work down without logging into the company network when working remotely - quite similar to Google's approach. This is a relatively new development within the past few months.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
In the first place, the demo would have been much better of it was used in their cylinder rather than to impersonate people.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
The problem with individual access purchase is that (usually) I don't know if an article was worth reading until I have read it. Not every issue of The Atlantic or the New Yorker attracts my attention but enough go them do so so I have
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Related question: can they even pay? The vast majority of the new users of Facebook are from developing countries with low income. There is no way to make them voluntarily pay for access to a social network.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Good point - I hardly ever see anyone talking on their phones
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Philip K. Dick "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale?" Next step will be to implant memories to go along with the pics ...
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by 2sk21 8y ago
I don't know if I am alone in this but I find that listening to audio books puts me right to sleep within a few minutes. There is something soothing about listening to a steady spoken voice on a moderately interesting subject, typicall
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Very well articulated. I wonder if there is a difference between a machine trying to deduce intent vs a human doing the same task. As humans, we may be able to pick up subtle cues that machines simply lack the ability for.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Everytimee I have to wade into Node, I feel like they are reinventing the early days of programming with cooperative multi-tasking.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I've been getting up at 4am since I started high school and am at my peak alertness 5am - 7am. Based on the comments I'm seeing here, would that suggest that I am in a small minority among tech workers?
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Came to say the same - unless you lived in, say rural India, there is just no way you can live off the dividends from a $300k investment.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
If I subscribe to a website with real money, I feel free to block all trackers via Ghostery.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
There’s some truth to this since pretty much all electrics have similar power characteristics. But handling may still be a sufficient distinguishing creature. And then there’s always leather upholstery and the double kidneys :-)
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I confess that I too fell for the 5th gen hype and spent a couple years diving deep into Prolog in the mid 80s. It wasn't a total waste however, I still find my knowledge of Prolog coming in handy. Logic programming is an interesting c
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I do have the Facebook trackers disabled in Ghostery but I wonder if that’s enough
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by 2sk21 9y ago
My small brush with this: back in the summer of 1990, I did a summer internship with Doug Lea who led the JSR 166 group that led to java.util.concurrent. My work was on a concurrency library for a parallel computer called the Encore Multima
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Indeed - the Toyota hybrid synergy drive is a real marvel of engineering. The way in which it uses two separate motor generators to simulate a conventional CVT is just amazing.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Agreed - quite a lot of the power from my solar panels is currently being fed back into the grid but this will change in a few years when I replace my hybrid car with a full electric. Electric transport is definitely the main source of grow
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I've happily been using Eclipse for years for Java development and have never used IntelliJ. I feel very productive in Eclipse and feel no urge to change.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
The other problem is that academics simply may not have the computing resources to replicate anything that Google does anyway even if everything was open.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
This was really fascinating. This game just confirmed the patterns that I have seen in declining Malls
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Absolutely agree. Its been ages since I used by RSS aggregator to read blogs the way I used to.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Considering the rich tradition of Bulgarian vocal music, this is hilarious. I've been fan of Bulgarian choral music since I heard the state choir 25 years ago. In contrast, listen to this version of your famous song Devoyko Mari by an
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Fully agree - the whole AoPS range of books and courses are just amazing. Highly recommended for all kids.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Looks very attractive.

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