Jack000

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   by Jack000 8y ago

   not op but I don't think it's inconsistent to view the military as a necessary evil while denouncing the use of drones in asymmetric warfare. I'd have no qualms about supporting my own nation in a global conflict, but ethical
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   by Jack000 8y ago

   well you don't need this stuff until you do - some things still need definite, analytical performance guarantees. I'd be pretty nervous riding an airplane that didn't use modern control theory, or going over a bridge that did
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   by Jack000 8y ago

   non-tracking ad networks are pretty niche, you're basically trading revenue for aesthetics. I have carbon on one of my projects and get 100 clicks on 60k views for $0.95CPC - I think adsense could easily double that revenue but at the
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   by Jack000 8y ago

   here's my algorithm for my passive investments: - if rolling average of VIX is below 15, all in on vanguard - if it's above 15, choose from a basket of historically defensive stocks (Mcdonalds, Coke etc). Allocate more toward stoc
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   by Jack000 8y ago

   this happens to me too, thought it was normal... I'll have to avoid using it for now.
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   by Jack000 9y ago

   another thing to note is that being a Google service, Firebase is blocked in China. May or may not matter depending on your audience (in China right now and IH doesn't work without a VPN)
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   by Jack000 9y ago

   > He has a point if just by the math Mathematically the percentage probably falls on a bell curve and is heavily dependent on priors like industry and workplace culture. Given the large number of companies we should expect at least some
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   by Jack000 9y ago

   it is not, afaik. The sweep has greater range in theory but its data is much noisier.
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   by Jack000 9y ago

   how about real time object detection/facial rec/semantic segmentation via webcam
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    maybe eventually, it'll be operating at a loss for a long time I think. The pre-trained fasttext .bin is 8Gb, and the smallest linode that can handle it is $60/month.
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    click on the register link on my site. I get 2 bucks :D
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    yeah the names are still pretty random but occasionally you get some cool ones
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    I was trying to make an RNN-based business name generator for a few weeks, but all the output was pretty random. then I tried just using a markov chain to generate random names and picking the best (most thematically related) names using fa
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    Show HN: Business name generator(namelix.com)

    1 points by Jack000 9y ago|8 comments
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    32% username password 57% google rest facebook/twitter out of 7291 users, via auth0 (for my project brandmark.io)
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    they're slow and if you had even an approximate analytical solution, you'd use that instead. evolutionary algorithms are used in practice when there is no real alternative. eg. bin packing for CNC/laser machines (self-plug sv
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    can this be done with fasttext as well? Word2bits is definitely great for memory-constrained applications but for server use memory isn't as much a constraint (there's a direct word -> vector relationship so you can just put it
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    you already can? our lives depend on all kinds of software every day. In Canada at least you'd need a P.Eng to work on stuff that directly endanger lives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    this is one of my experiments for colorizing graphical images - it uses a concept I call "color graphs", or color palettes in the form of undirected, weighted graphs. The main motivation for this is to abstract away color design f
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    Show HN: Automatic colorization of graphical images(brandmark.io)

    3 points by Jack000 9y ago|1 comments
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    short and long are both "buy low, sell high" with long you buy, then sell. with short you sell, then buy.
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    oh oops I guess mixed up the terms. I hope these apis stick around because they seem kind of niche and under-utilized right now.
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    I use service workers on http://svgnest.com no idea about caching, I mainly use it max out all the cores for the cpu bound algo. its probably good for browser based cryptocurrency mining too.
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    how do you price them? eg. I'm not sure how you would price cookry.com at 7k vs chefgram.com at 3k etc
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    amazing camera. Would have been perfect if it had 10bit log like the GH5 though.
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    I sure hope so, it's literally the front page :] I think you're doing a great job growing the community, it has a different vibe from HN and r/startups and I personally do get a lot of value from it, although I'm still m
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    I think the main benefit for those businesses would be the seo value. Relevant, high PA links are hard to come by these days...
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    I'd like to know as well. In GA 99% of my visitors have the keyword "not provided", and the search console doesn't connect with goal events. other half of conversions are from (direct), which is completely useless..
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    does fremont have a lot of downtime? maybe I should move my servers to one of the more reliable dcs.
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    by Jack000 9y ago

    it's hard to say because GANs are still black boxes. There's a lot of research into explainable ANNs that gives some explanation as to how the NN arrived at a particular conclusion, so I think it should be possible in the future.