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by Lxr 10y ago
Next we need to do it in reverse - given a sound, generate a video to match. I wonder how well that would work?
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by Lxr 10y ago
> Algolia is great at known-item searches I have not used Algolia much but that's not a particularly compelling selling point, most search engines tend to get it right if you know exactly what to query. The problem is this is, like,
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by Lxr 10y ago
I was more referring to the fact that any given form of advertising basically fails by default after a certain time when people adapt to ignore it. The business therefore relies on continuously coming up with new ways to sneak content in to
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by Lxr 10y ago
Sadly this is likely the truth. Advertising is a unique business model that relies on thinking up increasingly creative ways of tricking users. When linkbait no longer works, lie about the source.
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by Lxr 10y ago
Facebook is already getting their own data from clicks, why support competitors' data-gathering services?
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by Lxr 10y ago
Why is there even a separate field for "Display Link", is there a reason this can't be parsed from the actual URL (like HN)?
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by Lxr 10y ago
Maybe for minor ailments but absolutely no way for real hardcore autoimmune disease. Usually there are several objective abnormalities in blood results, on x-rays, colonoscopy, MRI etc. Have a look at some images of the hands of someone wit
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by Lxr 10y ago
> you have to bother to think up a good message to send them Soon you may not have to! https://googleblog.blogspot.sg/2016/05/allo-duo-apps-messagi...
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by Lxr 10y ago
I promise there are plenty of patients with autoimmune disease who had childhoods just like yours. I don’t want to sound hostile but “I am not sick, because I do/did X” is a) not scientifically useful and b) somewhat insulting to patie
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by Lxr 10y ago
It's usually "obvious" to people who are not affected by autoimmune disease, but diet control is generally disappointingly ineffective in reality for most patients. The truth is autoimmune disease is incredibly complex and we
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by Lxr 10y ago
> But grocery stores want to maximize how much people buy, so they put the pharmacy and the milk at the back of the store. Early competitors of Google thought that accurate search results only served to drive users away from their site a
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by Lxr 10y ago
Wow, DDG has come a long way since I was last there a few years ago. It's great to have a serious player in the search space dedicated to privacy. After spending some time using it just now their ranking algorithm still feels somewhat
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by Lxr 10y ago
Palantir tshirts are very popular on Australian university campuses too in my experience, from recruiting events they run.
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by Lxr 10y ago
> “One of the things we did well early on was to recognize and invest in the unique talents of each Palantirian” I find it a bit weird how tech companies make up names for their employees now. Googler, Palantirian... does this make peopl
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by Lxr 10y ago
They seem to be putting quite a lot of effort into producing actual journalism lately, and I agree it's good (I also enjoyed the tennis piece mentioned).
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by Lxr 10y ago
There seems to be a misconception here that this has something to do with best/average/worst case input. "f(x) is O(g(x))" is a purely mathematical statement about two functions, and means that f(x) is smaller than or eq
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by Lxr 10y ago
No, I mean O(2^n). O(2^n) includes everything that grows slower than 2^n as well. It is no relation to the worst case performance of merge sort, just a clarification on the definition of Big O.
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by Lxr 10y ago
> O(N) describes an algorithm whose performance will grow linearly and in direct proportion to the size of the input data set Nitpick, but this is technically wrong. There needs to be a "no faster than" somewhere in there. Merg
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by Lxr 10y ago
Sometime between this being posted and now he has changed the homepage from an image to HTML, so I'm betting he's alive.
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by Lxr 10y ago
This is funny and all but I fear their accepting articles like this damages the cause for PLoS long term. OA journals already have enough trouble with reputation and prestige, which is the main reason Elsevier et al are still in business, a
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by Lxr 10y ago
> I discovered that the vote totals were being inadvertently leaked earlier today How were the totals being leaked?
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by Lxr 10y ago
> How does a brain built on statistics decide that this is the most rational course of action? The article suggests that humans have an innate means of determining confidence in a particular hypothesis based on evidence. Why does this im
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by Lxr 10y ago
I think the crowd that maintains statistical machine learning is not 'real' AI should read this study.
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by Lxr 10y ago
This is really cool. I wonder if this would hold up in court in copyright or patent related disputes.
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by Lxr 10y ago
They have a fairly obvious "SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!" above it though.
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by Lxr 10y ago
The guy is clearly an attention seeker, he has provided literally zero proof he’s anyone noteworthy so let’s move on. He will likely continue to trickle these convoluted and increasingly desperate blog posts as people gradually forget about
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by Lxr 10y ago
do I have an account on this site? What email address did I use to sign up? Fair point but often there are not too many possibilities. What is my username Your email address, in most cases. My password is too long. My password is too s
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by Lxr 10y ago
Here is a fairly simple alternative to this or using a password manager: 1. Remember a high-entropy “base” password that is likely to pass complexity and length requirements 2. Invent a weird way to incorporate the name or domain name of th
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by Lxr 10y ago
I recently moved to Singapore and assumed cold showers were pretty much the norm here. Can confirm it's not comparable to having a cold shower elsewhere though, in terms of willpower :)
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by Lxr 10y ago
Shouldn't that be impossible by definition?

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