Matumio

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by Matumio 5y ago
For Python there is Dask: https://docs.dask.org/en/stable/dataframe.html
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by Matumio 5y ago
Or maybe if you have to painstakingly copy those finance numbers and hour reports, you will be thinking about them more. You look busy enough to qualify as working, giving you time to actually think. All the time tracking tools I've ev
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by Matumio 5y ago
It seems the tide is turning for sim2real. This article "Robots Must Be Ephemeralized" goes into some details, recently posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28605633
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by Matumio 5y ago
A week? Well, how much time do you expect to spend typing over the next 10 years...? It took about a month or two to adapt IIRC. I would suggest to remap and reconfigure some keys/layout after observing your actual usage. Also change a
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by Matumio 5y ago
The original code was attempting to set a single form field named "text", while actually allowing that text to control the whole form being submitted. This is a security risk, because form requests can mix trusted with untrusted i
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by Matumio 5y ago
> Anything exiting the user's agent must be cleaned. We all agree on that part. What's worrying here is the mentality that, once the server-side has been secured, the client can do whatever. It can be manipulated anyway, so it
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by Matumio 5y ago
Executing an action against the user's will is a security issue, even if that action is allowed according to the user's credentials.
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by Matumio 5y ago
The user agent is... well, the user's agent. It runs code fetched from a trustworthy origin (your server), so it is not enemy territory. It holds the session keys. It decides what can or cannot happen after the user clicks on a link wi
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by Matumio 5y ago
I heard a similar story at a university I once worked. They did some kind of one-off portscan in the early internet days (with blessing of the local providers whose range was scanned). Some local companies got really angry because they spen
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by Matumio 5y ago
You seem to be misunderstanding what UBI is. This sounds more like a job guarantee, which is the opposite of UBI. The main point of UBI is to make sure nobody can ever be pressured into accepting such a job. Those jobs hardly add any value
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by Matumio 5y ago
RL theory is cool and all, but a large part of the trick seems to be the neural network architecture itself (that is, having a good parametrized model for the policy) and millions of evaluations. For some Atari games it turned out to be alm
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by Matumio 5y ago
On a similar note: "How do I draw a sharp, single-pixel-wide line?", from the Cairo FAQ: https://www.cairographics.org/FAQ/#sharp_lines TL;DR: always think of the upper left pixel's position as (0.5, 0.5
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by Matumio 5y ago
This isn't just a statistical problem, it's also a classical exploration/exploitation trade-off. You want users to notice and vote on new answers (exploration), but users only want to see the best answers (exploitation). The
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by Matumio 5y ago
As an European tech-sphere data point: it seems somewhat normal to travel the world for half a year before your first job. Gap time later on is not so common. Still, I can easily name five colleagues who took one to six months off, some as
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by Matumio 5y ago
If the universe will never leak any information about its origins, then those origins cannot affect us in any way, ever. This doesn't make any such hypothesis less likely, but it makes them irrelevant to us.
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by Matumio 5y ago
There is a 2018 paper called "The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution" which is a collection of similar anecdotes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453
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by Matumio 5y ago
Best thing I've ever read. Based on the title, "Assassin's Apprentice", I would never have picked it up. It's on the "realism" side of fantasy. The protagonist is not having a good time, at all. Hobb excel
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by Matumio 5y ago
This sounds like doubling down on the approach was causing the problems. The desire to control and incentivize researchers to compete against each other in order to justify their salary is understandable, but it looks like it has been blown
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by Matumio 5y ago
On AWS you can rent ".metal" instances which are probably more stable for benchmarking. I tried this once for fun on a1.metal because I wanted access to all hardware performance counters. For that it worked. My computation was als
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by Matumio 5y ago
People touch their faces all the time, mask or not. And some non-physical effects of masks may be useful. If nothing else, fumbling around with masks is repeated reminder for all other measures. It may feel silly to wear a mask if you belie
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by Matumio 5y ago
You seem to throw all food processing into the same pot, so to speak. Humans have an under-developed digestion system. Why? Because they can pre-process their foods to compensate. They know that some plants are poisonous unless cooked, for
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by Matumio 5y ago
And this person that was you, a decade ago. Does it still fully exist? Should it?
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by Matumio 5y ago
A major distinction of humans is that we are a cultural species. We have evolved to pass down large amounts of knowledge to the next generation. Being good at communication (and motivated to use it for teaching) kind of follows from this. W
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by Matumio 5y ago
One issue with "self-care" is that it reinforces the idea that those problems are just individual problems. And to some extent, they are. But to let an employee go and send them on a quest to fix their personal issue is such a ver
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by Matumio 5y ago
The technical term is "explaining away". If a burglar alarm goes off, you can be pretty sure someone triggered it. If there also was an earthquake at the same moment, you can be pretty sure of the opposite. Even though both events
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by Matumio 6y ago
I never managed to read this article past its title. I always get distracted by the fact that, after one second, the text gets obscured behind a pop-up.
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by Matumio 6y ago
If you want to go into the "pure black" discussion, I liked that article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24303042
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by Matumio 6y ago
I'm doing that with a cronjob calling mbsync. This gives me offline mail access with mutt or even grep.
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by Matumio 6y ago
It's trivial to fix if you catch it early, and perfectly fine for a tool you run yourself. However if the problem is discovered two years later in production, there will be a forth-and-back until you get at the correct error message, p
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by Matumio 6y ago
I guess next year's taxes will have to be paid in NewGovCoin, which nobody has yet. Then hand out NewGovCoin to those who need help.

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