DevX101

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by DevX101 4y ago
Short, recommended read on how Shazam works
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by DevX101 4y ago
I appreciate you updating your comment with an informed update that contradicted your initial argument. When a consumer chemical is discovered to be harmful, there's a tendency from companies to ask their research chemists to come up
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by DevX101 4y ago
Do you have published research demonstrating that the sample collection process (and the 80uL specifically) is sufficiently precise to detect and quantify these metabolites into clinically meaningful ranges? This was the core problem with
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by DevX101 4y ago
I've long suspected many large production recommendation algorithms suffer from a positive feedback loop problem. In the example you point out, there probably is some real behavioral bias to focus attention on highly expressive faces.
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by DevX101 4y ago
They compare the predicted structure (computed) to a known structure (physical x-ray crystallography). There's an annual competition CASP (Crtical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction) that does X-Ray crystallography on a protei
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by DevX101 4y ago
This is just proof of principle of weaponized AI, but this is absolutely revolutionary. All the pieces are already here now for a Raytheon or some other company to manufacture robots that can conduct offense/defense. Put this in an u
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by DevX101 4y ago
Text to speech models are pretty good. This is absolutely going to be all over youtube.
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by DevX101 4y ago
Linking Your Thinking was overly complicated system that introduced levels of abstractions in order to have a catchy framework the author can explain for a 6-week $1200 course: A.C.C.E.S.S. Despite the this post's claims, it's ba
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by DevX101 4y ago
Police have been doing this since the days of typewriters. If you're a whistleblower with sensitive information, assume your printing device has a unique identifier. This is how Reality Winner was caught, when she leaked info about R
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by DevX101 4y ago
I'm assuming the police is primarily using GPS to prove guilt, but are there any recorded cases of someone using GPS to "prove" their innocence, as an alibi?
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by DevX101 5y ago
I was in a Uniqlo in Manhattan a few months ago and my guess is that they've deployed some kind of computer vision tool for identifying purchases. I went to the checkout kiosk and my purchases were already on screen, no need to scan b
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by DevX101 5y ago
It's well designed and convenient but I threw mine in the trash last week. Putting hot liquids in plastics is a bad idea for reproductive health.
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by DevX101 5y ago
> According to Müller, LPRG incorporates four entropy sources that operate completely independent of each other including execution timing jitter and the timing of the arrival of interrupts. Can you 'lie' to the operating syste
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by DevX101 5y ago
Kopia supports compression: https://kopia.io/
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by DevX101 5y ago
What's the unofficial requirements to become a default search engine in the major browsers?
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Congressional hearings?
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by DevX101 5y ago
“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”– Otto von Bismarck (1888)
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by DevX101 5y ago
In the context of previous allegations about Kaspersky and Russian intelligence, there's some chance these errors were intentionally introduced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations...
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by DevX101 5y ago
Did a quick cross ref for the non-signatories ranked by GDP: https://pastebin.com/YyYTV65i I'd predict corporations to move to countries on this list that are non-sanctioned, high rule of law index, and easy to do bus
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by DevX101 5y ago
Put passwords on your production databases. Even if it's behind a firewall.
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by DevX101 5y ago
Check out the Youtube channel My Deep Guide for an in-depth comparison of e-ink writing devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH1pWqY0lPs
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by DevX101 5y ago
Expert athletes are able to offload much of the mental processing of their game to the subconscious. We all do this to some degree (most of us aren't solving differential equations in real time to catch a ball), but great athletes are
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by DevX101 5y ago
I think these ransoms are net good. I'd rather greedy hackers shake them down for money then having the country get crippled by political terrorists or enemy nation states that can't be negotiated or reasoned with. There are lots
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by DevX101 6y ago
That's pretty amazing by itself. But it was doing it without access to the source code that blew me away.
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by DevX101 6y ago
Hosting the Olympics costs somewhere between US$15-20 billion. If the goal is really to put a city 'on the map' you could spend less than 5% of that money on an extensive cultural/tourism marketing campaign and have more of a
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by DevX101 6y ago
There's a good argument that these are still system failures. If a single individual can intentionally blow up a nuclear reactor, that's a massive point of failure. Humans are often irrational and prone to anger, depression, mal
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by DevX101 6y ago
Congrats OP, you've got your first "I could build this trivial project myself" comment. If history is any guide here, you'll have a $200M valuation in a few months.
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by DevX101 6y ago
I'm increasingly finding that I have to actively struggle to take ownership of my time and attention. Without an active, conscious, effort to reclaim your mental resources you WILL be caught up in the never-ending cycle of dopamine-de
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by DevX101 6y ago
Rule of thumb: Assume any SAAS company with a "Contact us for pricing" will cost at least $20k per year. If your price point is much less than this you should probably just have users self-service with a credit card.
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by DevX101 6y ago
Nutrition is hard. From another HN discussion on a study published last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26029557 "Conclusion: Our analysis suggests that higher consumption of eggs (more than 1 egg/day)

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