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by GuiA 7y ago
> Should Japan bring in millions of Europeans, which will change the culture and demographics, just to keep the arbitrary GDP number up? Yes, that’s what they’ve been doing and seem to keep wanting to do. Albeit with Chinese/SEA i
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Thank god nude photos where male nipples cover female nipples are still fine.
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If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work. It's perfectly obvious. Great scientists have thought through, in a careful way, a number of important problems in their field, and they kee
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https://reddit.com/r/BoneAppleTea
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With the recent customer desire of devices that are better at not sucking up our time & attention, eInk becomes an interesting technology. A few product attempts: Light Phone: "dumb" phone ( https://www.thelightphone
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What determines whether a particular “sensor-to-image algorithm” qualifies as “computational photography” or not? (keeping in mind that we are really talking about many different algorithms running at across the hardware stack, ie likely d
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“Revealed” implies that there is some sort of single source of truth for the image (as in your book example, where the source of truth is the original book, to which transcriptions could be compared for accuracy). That is not the case for p
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by GuiA 7y ago
No photo is a “straight out of camera shot”. When dealing with film, you make decisions about how to develop the film, print it, etc. You can make dramatically different results from the same latent image.
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A big problem with these new AI techniques as applied to photography is that the algorithms tend to be very opaque, and typically gives very little control to the user. You can get better over time at using the dodge/burn tools, or sel
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Any digital photography is by definition computational. You can make an argument that using deep learning to affect the sky is “more computational” in a way than a “basic” CCD to JPEG pipeline, but the boundaries become fuzzy and arbitrary.
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It’s kind of sad to see the meal culture eroding in other parts of the world. The “quickly ingest some food at your desk so you can keep working” mentality has taken hold. I’m French, and at my first office job - almost 15 years ago - the e
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This goes against what neuroscience is telling us is good for cognitive development. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-han...
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I don’t like voice assistants and would never wear this, but I know I’m a minority as I’ve met many people who love their Echo speaker/dot/etc. This lets you use Alexa without taking your phone out or wearing ear buds. If I liked
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I really liked this essay: http://paulkingsnorth.net/2013/01/17/dark-ecology/ And the author gets to a similar point: ” And so I come to this point, and I ask myself: what, at this moment in history, wo
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There’s a very active association of French people with US nationality - because they were born on US soil, but moved back to France soon after, in some cases because their parents were briefly working there, or on vacation and thought it’d
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Yes, curricula tend to focus on writing code over reading code, which is a shame. Looking at existing code, extending it, refactoring it, etc would ideally be something that students do as much as writing things from scratch.
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They will abuse it, and then when it doesn’t perform the way they want it to they will email you demanding support.
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Yes, that’s a good addendum. Like any other craft, even the masters have always more to learn. As they say, it is only when you get your black belt that you are really ready to start learning karate.
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Well yes. It all sounds all so easy when you put it like that. The problem is that, in my experience at least, you can’t just teach junior engineers how to go straight to phase 3. You have to go through phase 1 and 2 to really develop a sen
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Screen time might encompass video chatting with a relative, reading a book on the Kindle app, watching a 2 hour long documentary, watching a 10 minute long tutorial on YouTube, writing an email, editing pictures of one’s vacation, managing
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by GuiA 7y ago
Recommended reading: “Everything is correlated” https://www.gwern.net/Everything
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The US has been very hands on with South American politics (and not only those), so pretending now like their current state is solely the consequence of their own poor choices is ignorant at best.
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The nerds have taken over the world, and turns out that liking fantasy doesn’t correlate to being less evil than other people who rule the world.
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Man, it’s pretty crazy that it passed in the solar system, but its peak apparent magnitude was 11. Space is weird.
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Could it be generated with a GPT-2 style model?
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Galactic-Scale Energy (2011)(dothemath.ucsd.edu)
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Sure, there’s a long cultural history of drinking a glass of wine with a meal. What’s your broader point?
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One of my first senior engineering roles was making what was at first a CRUD app to support user studies and data collection. At some point the project blew up, and requirements grew many fold in complexity. My CS background let me view the
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> we know it's harmful when parents try to teach children to drink responsibly and "let them try in controlled conditions". It works much better to not let children drink at all. Do we? In French culture it’s not uncommo
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> Nearly every stylistic decision you see about the channel — the length of the clips, the number of examples, which studios’ films we chose, the way narration and clip audio weave together, the reordering and flipping of shots, the rem

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