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by Cacti 9y ago
It is indeed pretty amazing in CV. In a field nearly as old as CS itself, I'd say at least 75% of the existing techniques were made obsolete in a span of only a few years. You could have started your PhD in 2006, made professor in 2012
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by Cacti 9y ago
I have had a similar experience. People hate change, and will do their best to not change their processes, ever, unless someone makes them (which rarely happens). They'd rather spends hundreds of millions of dollars inventing some new
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by Cacti 9y ago
- corporations - governments
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by Cacti 9y ago
Do you really think there are 120,000 people in that province that are all making bulk purchases of unneeded fertilizer? There is just another form of extrajudicial population control. They are using this as a way to justify arbitrarily rou
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by Cacti 9y ago
There is a massive difference: the NSA/USG isn't using that against it's own citizens.
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by Cacti 9y ago
At this rate, China is 10 years away from being the premiere surveillance state in all history. I mean, think of all the laboratory requirements they meet that no one else does in this grand experiment: - Single party state - President-for-
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by Cacti 9y ago
You're assuming it's being used to "predict terrorist activity" and not for general population control.
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by Cacti 9y ago
Exploring even a tiny, tiny, tiny part of the hyperparam space takes thousands of GPUs. And that is for a single dataset and model---change anything and you have to redo the entire thing. I mean, maybe some day, but right now, we're po
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by Cacti 9y ago
It is not often the case that someone actually knows why a hyperparam or architecture choice works. We pretend, sometimes, but frankly, it's mostly made up junk to cover the fact that most ML research involves a huge amount of intuitiv
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by Cacti 9y ago
It says right there in the article that it used up the fuel while attempting to re-lights the engines (without success).
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by Cacti 9y ago
> However, the percentage of people with $0 in savings has climbed to 39 percent from 34 percent in 2016. When savings accounts are yielding 0.02%, what's the point? Might as well keep it in checking or an actual investment.
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by Cacti 9y ago
I really enjoy this magazine, but them and a couple others seem to have an "earth shattering" theory announcement nearly every week and it is often hard to tell from the articles if these are truly fundamental discoveries or I&#x2
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by Cacti 9y ago
> Sending small to large quantities of wealth worldwide quasi instantly and with small fees does have a tremendous value. Yes, that is one of the primary purposes of the interbank settlement/wiring systems. They've been around
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by Cacti 9y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that "currency is fundamentally based on who accepts it" is a new idea?
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by Cacti 9y ago
Using a blockchain as a ledger device is far, far different from investing in a cryptocurrency.
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by Cacti 9y ago
Your argument is that one of the most successful investors in the history of mankind is physically incapable of understanding Bitcoin investment (or anything, for that matter) just because he's old?
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by Cacti 9y ago
Just 32x32 image space is, like, larger the the atoms in the universe. Even per-tick financial data is quite small in comparison. Or, from another angle, say you've got 10 ticks of a stock per second for 12 hours = 432,000 data points.
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by Cacti 9y ago
Then it needs to be rewritten, because it is impossible to tell what the machine specs are (none of them have GPU specs listed) and there is no documentation on which tests are run under the GPU and which are not. The repos contain vague in
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by Cacti 9y ago
But... that's not using GPUs? What use is a ML benchmark that is only measuring CPU usage?
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by Cacti 9y ago
Will you be supporting other cloud services than Dropbox?
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by Cacti 9y ago
What the hell does any of that have to do with this guy getting kicked out of his RV lot so Zucks wife can build a school near her home?
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by Cacti 9y ago
Your router doesn't show this? It should also have throttling and QoS options. If it doesn't, investigate buying a new router. If it's a few years old, you may want to also verify that it can actually route fast enough for yo
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by Cacti 9y ago
That's not even what that word means.
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by Cacti 9y ago
You sure this wasn't just karma for attempting something as absurd as using Node and HTML5 FileSystem in a native iOS app? BTW, what you're talking about isn't a compiler error.
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by Cacti 9y ago
The pictures here are amazing.
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by Cacti 9y ago
Re: billions of views: "Once again, the view numbers of these videos must be taken under serious advisement. A huge number of these videos are essentially created by bots and viewed by bots, and even commented on by bots. "
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by Cacti 9y ago
Gotta indoctrinate them early to the capitalist way. And the justification is such a load of crap: kids, and adults for that matter, are perfectly capable of "developing their passions" without wrapping it in the cloak of _busines
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by Cacti 9y ago
Let's be clear here, this isn't a change in favor of users. This is a change in favor of Google, to speed up their browser, and in favor of their advertisers, for better overlay control.
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by Cacti 9y ago
It's not the browser developers jobs to police the web.
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by Cacti 9y ago
They're not valuing users, they're valuing advertisers.

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