SloopJon

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by SloopJon 9y ago
Given the context, I'd assume that NB is short for "notebook."
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by SloopJon 9y ago
Neither Apple's statement nor Fortune's article about the statement contains the words "ultra-powerful." Here's the entire statement, taken from the end of the iMac Pro press release: "In addition to the new iM
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by SloopJon 9y ago
To be clear, although this is a seven year-old, cheese-grater Mac Pro, the GPU is new, and is clocked higher than the one in the iMac Pro.
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by SloopJon 9y ago
Is there a simpler way than building to find out whether a crate requires nightly, as this one does?
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by SloopJon 9y ago
After the Vox music player changed from freeware to freemium, I searched for something like "best free flac player mac 2017". It took me a moment to realize that the featured result was one vendor's self-serving comparison w
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by SloopJon 9y ago
It's pretty remarkable that they were able to build a system more or less from scratch that "gave us the accuracy, precision, and recall numbers that all met or exceeded the OCR state-of-the-art." There was a recent post on t
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by SloopJon 9y ago
What is the meaning of the asterisk in "3.0*"?
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by SloopJon 9y ago
One thing I notice from this Trail Runner article about her win is that "she wouldn't sleep much during the 57 hours she was on course," to the point of hallucination: http://trailrunnermag.com/people/new
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by SloopJon 9y ago
Popehat has a separate "Lawsplainer" post on that: https://www.popehat.com/2017/10/30/lawsplainer-the-george-pa...
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by SloopJon 9y ago
I can't quite parse this sentence: "The Open Images dataset is comprehensive and large, but many of its classes are unbalanced which effects or precision of underrepresented classes." Do you mean "affects our"?
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by SloopJon 9y ago
This post states, "In order to take full advantage of the NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs and the Tensor cores, you will need to use CUDA 9 and cuDNN7." What version of TensorFlow does it use? From what I can tell, TensorFlow doesn'
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by SloopJon 9y ago
From the download page: > The AVA dataset contains 192 videos split into 154 training and 38 test videos. Each video has 15 minutes annotated in 3 second intervals, resulting in 300 annotated segments. So basically this is a couple of CS
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by SloopJon 9y ago
"It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds." With the weakening of the Google workaround that's baked into the HN header, more and more submissions are going to run afoul of that condition.
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by SloopJon 9y ago
Perhaps a 2015 label would be appropriate?
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by SloopJon 9y ago
I don't know whether these automated news aggregators rely on machine learning per se, but this kind of reminds me of recent ML fails like Microsoft's Tay bot turning into a Nazi, or Google Photos labeling black people as gorillas
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by SloopJon 9y ago
I upgraded one of my systems from El Capitan to Sierra this morning. I had a moment of panic when Sierra didn't show up on the Purchased tab of the Mac App Store, although I did in fact have a working copy of "Install macOS Sierr
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by SloopJon 9y ago
Massachusetts General Law (Part IV, Title I, Chapter 269, Section 10) includes a long paragraph that describes a variety of knives as dangerous weapons. I was on a grand jury that considered a spring-assisted knife charged under this statut
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by SloopJon 9y ago
Intel's ODE solver library appears to be pre-release software, retired in 2011, that was only licensed for "internal testing and development."
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by SloopJon 9y ago
The examples I've tried so far appear to be portable, and run fine with Python 3.6.1.
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by SloopJon 9y ago
In case anyone else runs into this, I was getting this error trying to update from 1.19: $ rustup update stable info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-x86_64-apple-darwin' error: missing key: 'url' Af
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by SloopJon 9y ago
Yes, exactly, I use Sattolo for a random path: labels connected by goto statements, functions connected by calls, etc.
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by SloopJon 9y ago
I've used inside-out Fisher-Yates with and without Sattolo's variation many times in testing, especially for testing various branch instructions in a bytecode interpreter (forward, backward, short, long, etc.). I think I first re
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by SloopJon 9y ago
This is described as a beginner specialization, so you're probably fine if you're comfortable with Python and have a passing familiarity with linear algebra. The older machine learning class alone is eleven weeks, compared to nine
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by SloopJon 9y ago
I'm finally getting around to taking this course. I too find Octave to be a bit weird, so I'm a little behind on the programming assignments. However, I'm looking forward to getting comfortable with a different way of progr
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by SloopJon 9y ago
I see that libexpat adopted SipHash just last month, per issue #35 / pull request #39.
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by SloopJon 9y ago
It looks like RStudio is AGPL v3, which is a free and open source license. Enterprise users only need a different license if they don't want to abide by the AGPL's strong copyleft requirements.
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by SloopJon 9y ago
One of the chapters added in the second edition of Peopleware quotes from a presentation by Steve McMenamin: "People hate change ... and that’s because people hate change ... I want to be sure that you get my point. People really hat
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by SloopJon 9y ago
I was reading through a survey of programming language history the other day in Michael Marcotty's Software Implementation , which includes this quote from Jean Sammet (1969): "COBOL ... encourages a certain amount of verbosity.
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by SloopJon 9y ago
I did twenty or so Euler problems in Python a while back. I just started doing a few in C# to brush up for an interview. Forcing myself to write working programs is a really valuable complement to reading through C# in Depth ; indeed, it
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by SloopJon 9y ago
The fix is described here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/08cb718... It seems very limited in scope, essentially preventing the Unicode display of a domain that only contains the followi

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