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by QML 8y ago
An alternative like you said is with payment apps. One example I have seen in public is with Venmo, although there are drawbacks like no fraud protection and delay in bank transfer. Latter is solved if you solely use your bank as a settleme
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by QML 8y ago
I disagree: the issue isn’t with the expressivity of the model, but with the objective problem and constraints set by the author. You can quickly adjust the algorithm to product floor plans resembling modern buildings by penalizing construc
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by QML 8y ago
I will have to disagree with the author’s characterization of these floor plans as irrational. As pointed out by commentator from the r/ML subreddit, the plans resemble biological arteries — which intuitively make sense given that the
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by QML 8y ago
This idea naturally lends itself to a clustering problem such as k-means! We can imagine a geographical density as a cluster and that semi centralized pickup point as a centroid. As for deciding k, the number of cluster-centroid pairs, we c
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by QML 8y ago
I don’t see how caring for a Waymo or a Cruise fleet would be different from that of a city fleet. A city fleet is basically the set of vehicles owned and operated by a city government, mostly for use by its employees but could also be inte
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by QML 8y ago
I wonder how low these self driving cars have to go price per mile to compete with fully mature public transportation systems. For example, since I live in the Bay Area, the cost of going from Berkeley to Walnut Creek via Bart is around $4
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by QML 8y ago
Perhaps they meant it in the sense that the Higgs Boson particle is sometimes referenced as the “god” particle. It works in the comparison that quantum computing often sensationalized by media.
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by QML 8y ago
(Before beginning, I want to note that these are solely my opinions, and therefore are probably wrong.) In the space of possible problems solvable by computers, there are those of which are "easy" and those of which are "hard
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by QML 8y ago
> gravity is taught as an apple falls from a tree. Is this more advocating for a theory of neural networks rather than empirical evidence?
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by QML 8y ago
It’d be naive to assume that agencies don’t know about Venmo considering its data has been used previously to prosecute drug dealers [1]. [1] https://qz.com/376634/the-euphemisms-people-use-to-pay-their...
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by QML 8y ago
Why not make pro football players wear standardized shoes during a game? The issue with customized shoes I see is wealthier teams will have better equipment.
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by QML 8y ago
What is the purpose of having deep learning run on games like AlphaGo and DOTA2, instead of having them train on more general or real world tasks? Is it a constraint on the amount of data, since in video games you can easily generate more?
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by QML 8y ago
As mentioned below, primality test was something primarily done probabilistically (BPP) until a deterministic algorithm (P) was recently found. The question now is, if we can find a deterministic, polynomial time algorithm for that, why can
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by QML 8y ago
In the image comparing logistic regression and decision trees, it seems to suggest they only used linear features for logistic regression (?). Otherwise, shouldn’t there be a non linear classification boundary?
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by QML 8y ago
Why not use another, more liquid cryptocurrency like BTC or ETH then?
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by QML 8y ago
Pretend you only had 3 coins. The idea is -- when you use the scale to measure 2 coins against each other -- you actually gain "information" about all three coins. This is because there are 3 possible scenarios: 1. the biased coin
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by QML 8y ago
We already have polynomial-time algorithm for primality testing [1]; not sure if a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis will affect cryptography by that much. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test
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by QML 8y ago
The thickness of the keyboard isn't the issue -- the issue is its fixability. I've heard various accounts of when a key gets stuck, Apple has to replace the whole bottom half of the laptop.
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by QML 8y ago
So this is what Bezos means when he talks about a "regret minimization framework" \s.
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by QML 8y ago
Is this even viable? Due to the non-linearity of block rewards -- reward as a function of time spent working on a block is not constant -- an individual miner is always incentivized to pool hop after a certain point [1]. [1] http:/&#x
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by QML 8y ago
In theory, if all members of the cartel were to follow the rules, then yes. However, Bitcoin mining suffers from the same problem that Californian farmers face when there's a drought -- the tragedy of the commons [1]. In both scenarios
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by QML 8y ago
> As soon as one is shown, the network's value will be destroyed. I don't believe this to be accurate statement. Looking at two other cryptocurrencies -- Verge and Bitcoin Gold -- which have undergone 51% attacks, neither of th
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by QML 8y ago
It’s due to laziness. Most of the times when I looked up how to implement a feature via Firebase — such as public profiles — there were instructions on implementation and on what new rules to add. It’s either that or the developer simply do
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by QML 8y ago
I’m guessing because most developers have no training in web security. Using Firebase as an authentication tool, you’re not supposed to have access to users passwords — unless you are specifically parsing for it and storing them into the da
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by QML 8y ago
Should we allow for algorithms to be patented though? To reserve something so abstract would be near equal to claiming a mathematical formula for oneself. If IBM had patented the fast Fourier transform, where would signal processing be?
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by QML 8y ago
Doesn't Toshi have a reputation system already (I presume that's the tool you're referencing)?
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by QML 8y ago
Not only of the Bitcoin boom — Bitmain is developing ASICs for other, smaller crypto currencies (e.g. Sia).
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by QML 8y ago
blood-testing on a blockchain /s
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by QML 8y ago
Another one would be to add support for LaTeX rendering :)
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by QML 8y ago
As is said, "all politics is local" -- and I am sure if a plan for new housing was made, the first people to complain will be the tax-paying, voting residents nearby.

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