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by Cacti 9y ago
Thank you! This was on my list of things to implement but I hadn't had time yet, nor was I really looking forward to the custom op implementation. :) Great job.
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by Cacti 9y ago
It'd better be.
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by Cacti 9y ago
That's an awfully backhanded and snide way of insulting someone. Counterproductive? Why, because you don't like the point they're trying to make?
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by Cacti 9y ago
It's propaganda, purposeful ignorance cloaked in feigned fright, designed to invent a bogeyman that doesn't exist (presumably to replace Soros), and to diminish/slander McCain's coming activities against Trump. 1615 does
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by Cacti 9y ago
It's dependable.
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by Cacti 9y ago
The proposed blockchain solution also requires users to register.
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by Cacti 9y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean UPC, I meant serial number. You can generate unique, nearly impossible to guess serial numbers using all kinds of methods without any need for a blockchain.
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by Cacti 9y ago
This person's suggestion is to replace serial numbers with a blockchain code? When will the madness end? /edit mistakenly used UPC instead of serial number.
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by Cacti 9y ago
And every physical good you ever purchased would be tracked and accounted for until you die. Don't you think it would be far easier to just enforce the laws we already have?
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by Cacti 9y ago
> 2016 saw average concentrations of CO2 hit 403.3 parts per million, up from 400ppm in 2015... "The largest increase was in the previous El Niño, in 1997-1998 and it was 2.7ppm and now it is 3.3ppm, it is also 50% higher than the a
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by Cacti 9y ago
Are you kidding me? HN is _built_ on startups that specialize in selling ads.
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by Cacti 9y ago
Sure we are sure, we just don't like it. RMS gets a lot of flack, but he's mostly right---this is not a technical problem with a technical solution, it's a political problem with a necessarily political solution. Most of us l
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by Cacti 9y ago
You say people will take a stand, but the vast and overwhelming number of us wont, we will just continue to help build the greatest surveillance system in history. And then tell each other how we’re unicorns that are saving the world, that
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by Cacti 9y ago
Why would they even bother? On the one hand, they don't need to, they already collect an incredible amount of data on everyone. And on the other, if they were to get caught listening, that's a gross violation of so many federal la
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by Cacti 9y ago
The idea that they're listening to your mic is rather ridiculous. I mean, we'd find out eventually, and the consequences of widespread illegal wiretapping would be severe for Facebook, they would really cease to exist. However, as
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by Cacti 9y ago
Yes, I think people really underestimate how much data they leak all day long, and how strong the pattern is. Simply emitting bluetooth and wifi, nevermind cellular, all day long can expose an incredible amount of stuff, provided someone ca
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by Cacti 9y ago
Thanks. Sounds like the law was structured this way to avoid exactly this scenario, that people would purposefully avoid paying off what they could, pay only the interest (or the minimum amount acceptable to the loan company) and then stick
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by Cacti 9y ago
I don't see how that matters. Besides, people have been discussing widespread, domestic electronic surveillance for decades far outside conspiracy fringes. The Clipper chip, as just one example, was a big deal at the time and received
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by Cacti 9y ago
There is a line in here that the $70,000 he's already paid amounts to nothing, but what does that mean? That the $70,000 doesn't count towards his loan forgiveness, of which some amount has to be reached? The article, or at least
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by Cacti 9y ago
You can't imagine a less sinister explanation other than Facebook or some other entity is secretly recording your voice and the voices of millions of people, in violation of numerous state and federal laws, through their smartphone mic
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by Cacti 9y ago
Man, thats like the past decade in a nutshell.
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by Cacti 9y ago
Typically in a neural network, you train a single network against a single loss function that is known in advance. For example, an autoencoder is (usually) a neural network that has a chokepoint somewhere, and is trained to reconstruct the
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by Cacti 9y ago
People have been using fast, cross platform toolkits for decades. There is no excuse for slow UI except “we didn’t want to be bothered,” and that has nothing to do with cross platform support, and more to do with not wanting to touch anythi
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by Cacti 9y ago
UI is incredibly slow just about everywhere. Electron is a good example. The lack of people developing desktop UIs using native toolkits (or libraries with native wrappers) is disturbingly low. It seems everyone is using these cross-platfor
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by Cacti 9y ago
Wow... 16,000 students, 2,100 faculty, and 12,100 admin. If you need evidence that we're in a college/university bubble, that's a pretty good indicator.
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by Cacti 9y ago
That’s a great way to get sued. The point of performance reviews is to standardize rankings so that you can use them later to fire/promote without being sued for discrimination.
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by Cacti 9y ago
Jeff Hawkins gets shit on a lot in ML because his theories haven’t produced models with results as good as the mainstream approach, but I’m glad they keep working at it and keep coming up with interesting ideas. Too much of ML these days is
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by Cacti 9y ago
> but its not something you can buy and use offline. But you will. The entire point is to put this in a phone, so you can distribute a trained neural net in a way that people can actually use without a desktop and $500-$4,000 GPU.
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by Cacti 9y ago
The level of the computation can be achieved just fine with a GPU or some co-processors. What the TPU excels at is performing forward inference very efficiently. So, you can't train on it, or perform arbitrary computation that well, bu
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by Cacti 9y ago
What size tablets are people talking about? I find the iPad size practically ideal for consuming PDF papers.

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