Eridrus

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by Eridrus 7y ago
I think cost is what people are missing: Stadia hardware is much cheaper than consoles now, and when the next generation of consoles come out, they will be even more expensive, but Stadia will be the same cheap price. "Gamers" mig
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by Eridrus 7y ago
Even if TI cannot be displaced, the amount of money they're extracting could be drastically reduced. The only time these calculators are actually needed is in exams - it should be pretty straightforward to let students use a TI clone a
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by Eridrus 7y ago
> Meanwhile, podcasts, a much freer medium, is both more profitable and quality oriented because of the platform openness. I don't think this is true. Podcasts are more profitable since their production costs are lower, their audien
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by Eridrus 7y ago
I recently started playing some games on my phone that require 3d rendering. Pretty sure it would struggle on an older phone. The 4GB of RAM I have feels slightly insufficient since the game gets closed by the OS if I switch to another reso
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by Eridrus 7y ago
I'm probably not going to use this extension, I largely watch YouTube on my Chromecast, but I pay for YouTube Premium already so that I don't get ads, so it's a little annoying that the creators are getting paid from my subsc
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by Eridrus 7y ago
As a user though, Caviar is the worst delivery service I have ever used though. Food is often cold & sometimes wrong across 3 cities. I have stopped using it, even when it is the only option for a restaurant I like.
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by Eridrus 7y ago
The main breakthrough in the last 2 years is increasing success in unsupervised/self-supervised pre-training on very large datasets transfering to other tasks, e.g. ELMo, BERT, XLNet. Have a look at the BERT & XLNet papers, they ha
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by Eridrus 7y ago
I think this is way too broad an interpretation to draw from a paper that shows that a single dataset was bad. NLP datasets have had a good chunk of these issues, but people have been aware of this issue for a few years and newer datasets,
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by Eridrus 7y ago
This paper says more about that specific dataset/task than about neural models for NLP.
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by Eridrus 7y ago
Sure, it costs $50 to grep it, but how much does it cost to host an in-memory index with all the data? This is not a proposal to just share the crawl data, but the actual searchable index, presumably at arms length cost both internally &amp
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by Eridrus 7y ago
Is Firefox on Android ever going to build a sandbox architecture, or are the hard won lessons from the Desktop world going to be ignored?
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by Eridrus 7y ago
I signed up for Blendle, and even went there when I hit a paywall a few times. The problem is that news organizations value their content too highly, probably because they are very concerned about cannibalizing their subscription revenue, a
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by Eridrus 7y ago
To continue with the theme of people paying for things in this area: My wife still buys travel books for cities. Books are definitely not my favourite medium and I would definitely consider paying for the information online.
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by Eridrus 7y ago
There are multiple ways to get this started, and not all of them have to be direct to consumer. There are companies who specialize in organising travel, which could be aided by better software. Personally, I would pay for a travel planning
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by Eridrus 7y ago
As others have mentioned: testing configuration changes is very hard. Why is it very hard? Because when you are the size of Google, there is no second version of prod to test things in, so the usual software engineering solution of trying t
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by Eridrus 7y ago
Another take is that a lot of our productivity gains are being eaten by out of control healthcare costs: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-14/u-s-ec... I couldn't find any good data in m
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by Eridrus 7y ago
The Pixel 2+ have an equivalent to the iPhone's Secure Enclave: https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/titan-m-makes-pixel-3... But honestly, the government will either shoulder-surf your PIN code or make you
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by Eridrus 7y ago
I mean this is kind of my point, you weren't willing to take the small step of signing a petition because you thought it could endanger your promotion. Most people are the same way, they have beliefs, but they don't believe them i
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by Eridrus 7y ago
Because it's easier politically to implement regressive taxes. Property owners in particular are politically powerful and sympathetic. They're also very motivated because the tax increases would be large and these folks are highly
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by Eridrus 7y ago
Like every issue, there are those who are obsessed with it, for whom it takes over their lives, and then there is a large swath of people who either agree or not, but do so without much intensity. Since the intensity of most people's b
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by Eridrus 7y ago
The gains will also go to those making the robots and those buying from Amazon.
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by Eridrus 7y ago
But I feel like this doesn't make them any money. If Slack started charging money, people would jump to something else pretty quick.
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by Eridrus 7y ago
Slack is a really interesting company IMO. They were very late to the space - I was using Flowdock when they became a thing, and felt like Slack's lack of threads was a deal breaker. But Slack raised a boat load more money than their c
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Improving general knowledge and ability is an admirable goal. But education is pretty bad at it.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> But Ms McRae is also concerned that programmes like Lambda School, though well-meaning, risk undermining existing educational institutions by offering a quicker route to work. If only. We all know the majority of what we learned in sch
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Land taxes are a great idea, but they are even less popular than zoning changes. Almost every housing law has carveouts for small buildings/landlords with few apartments since they are politically powerful and relatively sympathetic. A
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The primary good universities provide to most people is not education, but signaling. It basically doesn't matter what most students are taught since they will never have an opportunity to use it, and even if they did, they would not r
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by Eridrus 8y ago
To play devil's advocate for a moment: most wait staff are paid primarily with tips, unless they don't meet minimum wage, in which case the employer makes up the difference. This is functionally equivalent to the situation at Inst
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by Eridrus 8y ago
FWIW, I asked this since I've built client-side ads/analytics code before and I very much prefer JS-based solutions, since you can sort out the difficulties of dealing with interfering scripts once, put it in a library and still h
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Does anyone want the ping attribute? It seems like JS-based trackers using sendBeacon are the better option for analytics.

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