LuisMondragon

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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
There is something worse than appeal to authority: appeal to non-authority.
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
Activity from Amazon's real-time digital advertising auction may be responsible for much of the traffic overwhelming the firewall, according to internal Slack messages seen by Insider. Even inside AWS, however, information on the out
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Amazon internally blames an 'as of yet unknown source' for AWS outage(businessinsider.com)
7 points by LuisMondragon 5y ago|1 comments
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
In the early days, the distinct feature of the web was bidirectionality. Unlike TV or radio, on the web the communication went both ways. The user could finally give their opinion and comment. We have gone full circle, with YouTube hiding d
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
I use the empty dark new page extension for chrome/brave. The empty new tab was too bright for my dark environment.
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
To attenuate my hand pain issues, I am using a mix of a tenkeyless 60% keyboard, AutoHotkey, espanso and dictation. Also, instead of focusing on using key combinations and typing fast, I am trying to practice 'typing mindfulness';
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
Imagine if this were the case in other field. A "no words" movement for people that want to publish a book but don't want to bother with the writing part.
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
I translate games and use Android emulators on Windows to test games. I think I could use the Android subsystem, I would give it a try.
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
AFAIK the chat backup is optional. I've never stored a backup.
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
I agree. It's a typical error of judgement from people that know things superficially. "All electronic music sounds the same", "all FIFA games are the same", "all soccer matches are the same". We simplify
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
My issue with this kind of reasoning is the comparison and reference to the human brain. The potential and reach of AI transcends the brain. We never had to master the "mystery" of how birds fly to invent aviation. It was never ne
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
New AI fallacy: appeal to size
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
Thank you! This is a very comprehensive tutorial, I'm sending it to my Kindle to study the rest of the day. I only wished the headline was a little bit less generic. There are many tutorials about clustering with scikit-learn, but this
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
I'm in South America and see the same message
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
Is there an objective benchmark to measure the performance of voice assistants? Usually, NLP tasks have ways to measure their performance.
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Logitech G Hub takes almost 890 MB on the hard drive
6 points by LuisMondragon 5y ago|2 comments
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
Facebook employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors. https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/1445099150316503057
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
Some Oculus Quest owners can't use their device https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/q18xwy/faceboo...
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
> Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they'll click on less ads, they'll make less money.
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
> But Facebook’s research tells a clear story, and it’s not a happy one. Its younger users are flocking to Snapchat and TikTok, and its older users are posting anti-vaccine memes and arguing about politics.
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
I'm an editor and proofread texts daily. (In Spanish). The spell check process in Word was always straightforward, without significant delays between each check. But guess what. Now the humble spell checker has evolved and now it'
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
I watched Joe Rogan's interview with defector Yeonmi Park and, if I understood correctly, she said that this is the case in North Korea only, because the government banned the word "I"! You can't say "I like this&qu
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
I remember a discussion on Twitter about abolishing possesive pronouns, because they allegedly express a relation of power and, well, possession. Like, you shouldn't say "my wife" because she doesn't belong to you. The t
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
They turned something beautiful and poetic into a Black Mirror prompt.
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
Not the same. CLIP is trained with pairs of images and texts, whereas VideoCLIP uses pairs of videos and texts.
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VideoCLIP: Contrastive Pre-Training for Zero-Shot Video-Text Understanding(arxiv.org)
1 points by LuisMondragon 5y ago|2 comments
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
> There needs to be a new fallacy or something: "Appeal to AI." I applaud and welcome this idea
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
This tutorial was excellent. I got everything working in a couple of hours. On CPU alone the similarity search is mindbogglingly fast. Thank you!
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
I run a script to autotag my Diigo bookmarks. (Using their API).
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by LuisMondragon 5y ago
Wow, there was a thread today about moderating user generated content, a HN comment told how users try to get away using symbols from other languages that look like English to post offensive content. I was wondering if one could make an ML

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