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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think it's pretty clear that Waymo & maybe Cruise are the leaders in this space. If you take a look at the quota from Waymo "it will be “longer than you think” for self-driving vehicles to be everywhere." - the key par
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Are people becoming more risk averse, or do we have more people in precarious positions where they face more serious down sides if their gamble doesn't pay off?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think the point that most grad programs don't have US students is revealing - for those who have alternative entry into the US economy, most people decide that a PhD program is a poor choice. Most of the things people work on in thei
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Has this happened in Spain? They've already done this experiment on a smaller scale.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think we've known it would be useful for a long time, we have had general editing capabilities for a long time, they have just been less precise/customizable. So I don't think a new one will be easily found.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't know why people are focusing on deanonymization here, once you can run JS, they can just run one of the dozen Firefox 0days they are stockpiling. If your threat profile involves governments targeting you, this bug is critical,
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by Eridrus 8y ago
As a child, I used the library quite often - I had no other choice, but I would often find the books I wanted to read on loan to others, and it was particularly bad if you wanted to read a series of books, inevitably one of them would be on
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Every Google product I've seen has an account switcher, usually in the top right corner, with either your display image or a letter in a circle, this includes Hangouts Chat.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
A super common complaint about Equifax is that everyone's SSNs were stolen, which puts people at risk of identity theft. With a national ID scheme where authentication is not based on knowing what is essentially a primary key, this con
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The question isn't "what splits could you make", but "what concrete benefits and downsides are there from making the splits". Splitting AWS off basically has no impact since they are already run as pretty separate e
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I wonder if there is any good writing on how any potential regulation would play out. Amazon is already a platform, so what about it would actually be changed if it was "treated like infrastructure"? Ok, players like Google who ha
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by Eridrus 8y ago
One option is to do what illicit sites have done forever: require an invite, such that the bad deeds of the invitee reflect on the inviter. Doesn't require real names on the site, but the inviter knows who they are inviting.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I had Sherpaa through a previous employer and I think they were great. They were available when I started getting horrible headaches that wouldn't let me sleep in the middle of the night and told me what medicine I could get urgently a
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by Eridrus 8y ago
At some point it wasn't widely known that you could do NN training with fp16. Now it's common knowledge, but what is the next thing?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think a lot of next generation chips are not just squeezing more compute into hardware, but examining whether we can change the nature of neural net compute ro better fit what we can do in hardware. That's Graphcore's pitch at l
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This is a great point; AMD has had chips for quite a while, but only just announced a TensorFlow release that can use them, and it's a binary release, rather than them successfully upstreaming their changes.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
More companies doing innovative tech work, rather than just deploying known tech. Lots of top tech talent drawn to that work, hiring is not necessarily easier (lots of competition), but as a person moving to SF you get more interaction with
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Why? State population is irrelevant to anyone actually making a decision. It's not "fair", but that doesn't really matter. Though state-level statistics also aren't great for decision making IMO, it should probably
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The threat model for most people in the advanced protection program is "I'm a human rights activist and a government sent me a phishing link that looked like a Google docs login, and I'm not that careful, so I put my password
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Politicians like to feel important. This reminds me of the UK parliament demanding Zuck go to hearing there and not some other executive. Also reminds me of Kanye tweeting "I need to meet with Larry from Google". It's all non
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Twitch is a thing, and has had issues with copyright filtering of live atreams as recently as a few weeks ago.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't live in the EU, so despite how bad I think the outcome of the link tax will be, I want to just egg them on to do it. Either it will be bad for them and I will experience some grade A schadenfreude, or I will be wrong and will h
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It's faster.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
At the time I went to university I was of the opinion that compulsory courses were a terrible idea, and nothing in the intervening 10+ years has convinced me I was wrong, so seeing a program with this many courses laid out for students alre
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by Eridrus 8y ago
On one hand, I fully support efforts to improve access to childcare, but on the other hand, I was left unsupervised from about the age of 7-8 years old and it was fine. I was lucky enough to live walking distance from the primary schools I
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by Eridrus 8y ago
At some point, what are you insuring against, if you know which machines will fail? This reminds me of the pre-existing conditions debate in healthcare - if you only insure healthy machines, then what is the point of buying insurance? Sure,
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think it's disingenuous to say the cost is just hosting a PDF, but even that can be challenging for those without any IT background. I think these science funders should make some grants available to build some high quality digital t
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This isn't really an either or situation, you can do both. Retrieve + Rank is a very flexible paradigm.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Depending on your country, there are usually ways of implementing laws that cannot be overturned with a simple majority. Things like ballot initiatives and constitutional amendments come to mind. Obviously carbon tax bills would be tricky t
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by Eridrus 8y ago
There are all these edit distances that are useful, but when you want to do fuzzy matching, you usually want to do it against a database, and while fuzzy matching is a great place to start, I think the more general way to think about this i

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