Leszek

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   by Leszek 10y ago

   We had a student once who used a face detector to first find the face area, and then extracted the skin colour from that region for the subsequent hand tracking.
2. 182.▲
   by Leszek 10y ago

   100% confidence in any estimate is impossible, that's what makes it an estimate.
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   by Leszek 10y ago

   Because they still wanted to support some EBCDIC code pages which don't include { or }. See also: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2009/n291...
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   by Leszek 10y ago

   I think removing the word "deprecated" would go a long way towards making the title less misleading.
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   by Leszek 10y ago

   I'd enjoy an interactive version that could e.g. define variables when the mouse hovers above them. It's a shame that we're still bound so much by the rules of print.
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   by Leszek 10y ago

   > I don't think it's the year of the linux desktop anymore than Android is the year of the linux phone. Sure, there's a kernel somewhere deep, but the userspace is locked-down, weak and anti-consumer. Perhaps Stallman has
7. 187.▲
   by Leszek 10y ago

   I don't disagree with the general message of your comment, however: > There is a palpable sense of fear and unease on people's faces, not a smile to be seen. I'm not sure that if you took a picture on the London Tube or th
8. 188.▲
   by Leszek 11y ago

   Sure, but transforming a feed-forward neural net into an RNN is also not just a fine-tuning.
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   by Leszek 11y ago

   Well, we do know why gradient descent works (for smooth data), at least for finding a local minimum, because finding the minimum is basically what it does by construction. Similarly, we certainly know how back-propagation works, because
10. 190.▲
    by Leszek 11y ago

    I agree with you, but I should point out that adding recursion is hardly "fine-tuning", it's changing the network into something entirely different.
11. 191.▲
    by Leszek 11y ago

    For those who have as much difficulty googling this as I did: https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology
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    by Leszek 11y ago

    I don't really understand authy: does it not keep your 2FA tokens in "the cloud" behind a password? Therefore, does this not make them equivalent to a password, and negate the whole point of 2FA?
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    by Leszek 11y ago

    That's a very interesting approach, the packing in particular is much better than the usual transparency hack used for GIF animation compression. Using overlayed divs for faux-blitting where canvas is unavailable is also cool, though p
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    by Leszek 11y ago

    I'm curious, since perception is an interesting thing when you can no longer trust your sense: are you certain that you actually heard a fully functioning, never before heard, tunable symphony, or did you simply believe that you were
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    by Leszek 11y ago

    Interesting that the ~1812 map of Europe is at least 40 years out of date, as Poland appears to have the borders it had before the 1772 partition.
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    by Leszek 11y ago

    And similarly, torture can be stopped. The time and experience of imprisonment cannot be returned.
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    by Leszek 11y ago

    This is close enough, it's not quite as clear as the demonstration I saw but it shows the same effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiOEYNGV5P8
18. 198.▲
    by Leszek 11y ago

    I once saw a particularly interesting physical manifestation of this paradox (performed I believe by Chris Bishop), where a weight was suspended from two partially elastic ropes, both attached to the ceiling. These two suspending ropes were
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    by Leszek 11y ago

    It's more likely to be cranked down though, because that's more efficient and people might be less frustrated with slow driving if they can kill time on their phones during the drive.
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    by Leszek 11y ago

    Also see: Amazon Prime Video.
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    by Leszek 11y ago

    Also known as Planck units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units
22. 202.▲
    by Leszek 11y ago

    I made the mistake of reading this book once: the rest of it is similarly awful.
23. 203.▲
    by Leszek 11y ago

    I tried napping in one of these once: it was pretty uncomfortable, since you're still sitting fairly upright (imagine an airplane seat tilted backwards), and I find the pod to do little for me in terms of blocking the surroundings, es
24. 204.▲
    by Leszek 11y ago

    I stand corrected on that one, I'd personally only ever heard of her referred to by her full name, but that's just my own ignorance.
25. 205.▲
    by Leszek 11y ago

    To be fair, there was another famous Clinton that could make this confusing. I've never heard of Condoleezza Rice, Sarah Palin or Angela Merkel being called by just their first name, although I admit that I don't often hear them b
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    by Leszek 11y ago

    It's very interesting hearing a story from the VC's side. One always reads about the trials and tribulations of startups trying to raise capital, but I've never considered that there might be similar issues and competition on
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    by Leszek 11y ago

    I agree with Linus Torvalds about Moore's law: "It's like Moore's law - yeah, it's very impressive when something can (almost) be plotted on an exponential curve for a long time. Very impressive indeed when it'
28. 208.▲
    by Leszek 11y ago

    This is the thread that the article mentions.
29. 209.▲
    by Leszek 11y ago

    So... what does it look like? The font on that page is Myriad, and I can't see link to a preview of the font itself.
30. 210.▲
    by Leszek 11y ago

    Fair point, but in that case free/open source is irrelevant: one could equally well build a closed-source app without a ToS, or an open source app with one.