Gh0stRAT

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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
My employer's Outlook does have a button for a competing meeting service. (WebEx) Some people are starting to use Teams for their meetings now because some of them like it better than WebEx, but it is exactly the same amount of effort
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
From what I understand though, generators always have an advantage because the generator is allowed to "see" the discriminator's gradients during training. [0] >The model for the discriminator is usually more complex than
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
I'm not so sure about that being an acceptable solution for civilian transportation… Even assuming automation can eliminate the risks and training overhead associated with in-flight refueling, there are still be some major hurdles that
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
A lot of infrastructure is funded via bonds already, but the interest rate is fixed instead of tied to a percentage of property tax revenue. This idea would have more uncertainty for the investors, so they'd want a higher return than f
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
You're probably talking about MessageEase. I've been using it for about 7 months now and it's been great. I especially like being able to type complex passwords without looking at my phone's keyboard. (like when joining
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
>While the analyses above suggest that SARS-CoV-2 may bind human ACE2 with high affinity, computational analyses predict that the interaction is not ideal and that the RBD sequence is different from those shown in SARS-CoV to be optimal
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by Gh0stRAT 7y ago
Medical insurance is more like $1,600+/month for a married couple, even more if you have kids. That's ~$20k/year which brings you down to $85k after tax. And did you factor-in having to pay both halves of Social Security and
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by Gh0stRAT 7y ago
People who reach out to them are probably cheaper than people that Google has to reach out to.
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by Gh0stRAT 7y ago
We will spend $479 Billion in interest on the national debt in 2020. That's >22 NASAs-worth of money, if you care about space exploration. It could be roads or high speed trains or education or healthcare or whatever you care most a
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by Gh0stRAT 7y ago
The Internet of the early 2000s was consumed by greed. What changes would you make to its replacement to prevent the exact same pattern from repeating?
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by Gh0stRAT 7y ago
The example I heard that really drove this point home for me is that humans almost all have 10 fingers, and the ones who don't are almost entirely due to the environment (frostbite, table saw accidents, etc) so the number of fingers on
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by Gh0stRAT 7y ago
>What about the free forms is painful? The first time I used FreeFillableForms, it was also my first time doing taxes manually. Reading all the instructions and then going off and computing whether or not the AMT applies to me, researchi
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by Gh0stRAT 7y ago
Sounds like some kind of Witness Protection program.
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by Gh0stRAT 7y ago
>So those places seem to breed conversations where people take the time to hear one another and avoid breaking down into pure tribalism. Another way of looking at it is that in that context, they are interacting as fellow members of thei
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by Gh0stRAT 7y ago
Not the OP, and I disagree with their assertion that chickens and bugs are of similar intelligence, but there ARE some very intelligent spiders. (which I know aren't technically "bugs") >Besides having the capacity to make
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by Gh0stRAT 7y ago
Correct. The city council is elected by residents of the city, and land owners have a strong financial incentive to elect representatives who will limit housing. (The shortage drives-up their property values) You might think that renters li
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by Gh0stRAT 8y ago
No, but it will unlock from just (apparent) proximity which allows the thief enter the vehicle where they are then able to push the "Start" button. Again, the car will think the key is present and will start. At that point, the th
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by Gh0stRAT 8y ago
Bettridge's Law of Headlines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
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by Gh0stRAT 8y ago
As much as I hate all the block chain hype, I could see smart contacts facilitating this kind of coordination. I guess there would still be a discoverability problem, not to mention the very significant risk of putting your money into a sca
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by Gh0stRAT 8y ago
Actually, it's ever so slightly higher than 1/2 because there is a non-zero chance of them being identical twins. If we assume an identical twin incidence rate of 0.4%, then the actual probability would be 63/125 that the sec
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by Gh0stRAT 9y ago
I imagine the little guy is going to have a hard time beibg price-competitive with companies that can buy HDDs by the truckload.
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by Gh0stRAT 9y ago
It wouldn't make it to production. Multiple design agencies send multiple mockups each to Netflix. Someone at Netflix picks a few that they like and then the original design agency has another set of artists ("Finishers") who
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by Gh0stRAT 10y ago
I've seen some work on using GANs to generate 3D models from single images, but the results aren't particularly high-quality yet.[0] [0] http://3dgan.csail.mit.edu/
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by Gh0stRAT 10y ago
SPAM = the meat product Spam or spam = unsolicited emails
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by Gh0stRAT 11y ago
Game Master
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by Gh0stRAT 11y ago
Rudolph's "red nose" actually refers to his uncanny ability to sniff-out communist sympathizers. As you might imagine, Santa simply can't afford delays like labor strikes or communist revolutions.