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What are your thoughts on this chart? https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/blog...
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Technical question I haven't dug into: How much of this predictive power has to do with facial recognition, and how much has to do with compression artifacts, pixel value abberations, etc? Edit: the paper addresses this question: >
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Yes, his is how I have mine, roughly (I kept the playback controls for spotify) Prefernces > Keyboard > Customize control strip (bottom of first tab) There's a strange GUI for like dragging stuff in and out... I don't rememb
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I'm very hopeful for Monzo, with some caveats. They have a lot of fascinating and useful DNA having gotten started in the UK before the US. The UK's regulatory environment for digital banking is leagues ahead of America's, w&
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Sketch, from Bohemian, did something that feels like this. They were working on a vector drawing software, targeted at making rich web2.0 type illustrations more easily. For an example, check out the screenshot of the early app for an idea
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"All debates are bravery debates" from SSC is also brilliant. Really anything on there is going to be worth the read. Different vibe, but if you want another highly interesting take on political segregation, this is a favorite of
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White center is gentrifying fast – it's significantly better than it used to be. It's also significantly better, at the sidewalk level, than pioneer square and 3rd/pine. The downtown spots have a high and constant density of
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(2018)
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Presumably because third party insertion doesn't give the app creators sufficient control over what's shown. This happens all the time. Forbes.com starts serving malware and then cry "we didn't know! the third party guy
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> conversational, transactional OS Can you talk more about this? Conversational as in "voice/nonphysical primary input"? or "user offers abstract intent and computer sorts it out" instead of "user negotiates
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I work on cross platform design for a fortune 500. We keep our eye on this kind of thing. In conversation, the consensus among my peers was that the separation between iOS and OSX is destined to be impermanent. Phones are becoming more comp
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I know you're not looking for advice, so I'm not going to preach too hard at you, except to say that I recognize the somber lucidity of your tone, and I've been there. Depression's heaviest weapon is that it feels like t
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> As many people who have gone through fasting-based diets have discovered, there's a difference between "I'm hungry" and "I need calories..." This is so true and it absolutely blew my mind to discover. Like
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See also: ORCA https://github.com/Hundredrabbits/Orca https://twitter.com/nobodycarestrue/status/11307640497868718...
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I can deeply relate to this. There are things that I'll put off for a week, sometimes for a sprint, and finally, in anguish, I'll do them and.... they take like 2 hours and are twice as easy as I anticipated. And you get finished
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This works better the more intimate the setting is. I can totally see it working in a small town. Here's a handful of reasons this could go sideways: Some bars are just slammed. Like, 40 feet of bar, entire front is 5 people deep squir
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I think that is crazy. You can turn laundry folding into a successful company. It's not that the interview question bar is high, it's that the "what can you make a company" bar is effectively on the floor. This is good.
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They have nothing of the sort, as of last year. The ask politely that you not share the specific design prompts or your solutions, so that future candidates can't copy you, but they're all over medium anyway. There are no legal te
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It absolutely means that, and I've seen it play out like that. But "that guy tried to rob me, so I stabbed him" isn't awesome. The goal is harm reduction, not evening of stakes. An eye for an eye isn't helpful when
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The potential for abuse and false positives is just too high, and that class of failure mode is invited by the very mechanism that makes facial recognition effective: broadness of coverage. IMO what SF needs is beat cops. What I want is a c
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How do I find/subscribe to this blog? Definitely interested. Email's in profile.
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I previously worked in the fintech space, on a product that provided remittance services to multiple countries – people in America send money home to India, Mexico, more. The preferences among customers sending to each country were meaning
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This was a really fascinating paper! The first part feels intuitively true – that dreams are instructional surfacings of situational classes that require attention. The bit about PTSD dreams being "mercy of environment" rather tha
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Is that really bootlicking? I struggle to understand how that's the case, and I'd prefer to hear a dispassionate reading of reality that lets me decide how to feel based on my own values, rather than one that's intentionally
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Good idea, bad approach. "Your phone isn't safe at the border" might be a hard fact but it's nonetheless an intentionally divisive expression of that sentiment. It's ambiguous, fearmongering.... facts can be clickba
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Picked this up, thanks. I'll give another recommendation for another commenter's suggestion of "the body keeps the score".
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I'm about to move into a new (to me) house, and typically 3D model my place by hand so I can do stuff like this. Definitely interested in taking this for a spin. Heads up: when I tried to sign up, I got "Uncaught (in promise) null
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The overstock thing doesn't interest me much, for the same reasons as etrade. Has the smell of old guard playing catchup, whether to hedge against unlikely success, or just because that's the kind of thing that inept monoliths are
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My experience day-to-day is that the world is strongly divided between those who care a lot about crypto and those who care effectively none. Barring the brief time around peak prices where it punched through to the zeitgeist (when your ube
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ETrade is presumably very cautious to get started, and very slow to move when they do, by nature of their maturity, scale, and industry context. So they're taking many multiples longer than someone like coinbase, for example, to spin u

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