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by Wehrdo 8y ago
If you like looking at the night sky, you should add the New York Times' astronomical calendar to your Google calendar (link at the bottom of the article). They have all these astronomical events, so I don't miss out on them even
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by Wehrdo 8y ago
Can you explain what you see as the benefit here? It looks like the tokens basically give some level of editorial control; therefore, wealthy individuals/organizations would be able to assert control over what gets published. And becau
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by Wehrdo 8y ago
Looks like the perfect solution to my resume. The latest iteration is in HTML/CSS, because it allowed me to easily get the exact layout I wanted (so painful in LaTeX...), but getting a consistent PDF was a challenge.
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by Wehrdo 8y ago
I'm surprised that "JavaScript" has not become a generic trademark [0]. Examples from the Wikipedia article include Thermos, Chapstick, and Dumpster. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
Could anyone who's used HIP comment on how it compares to programming in raw CUDA? I considered using it for a project recently, but ultimately decided against it because I didn't need to be able to run on AMD systems.
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
This is interesting, because at every step along the way, each actor took the locally optimal step -- webmasters wanted to serve up working pages to their users, and new browser vendors wanted their users to get pages with all the supported
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
This isn't meant to be snarky, but maybe this post just isn't for you, in the same way that posts about Ruby on Rails simply aren't for me. On the other hand, if you use Python, you should definitely check out Jupyter noteboo
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
It seems like this guy is trying to advocate for conversational interfaces (what a surprise, given his company). They were all the rage 1-2 years ago, and I think right now we're probably in the "Trough of disillusionment" in
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
What makes you think they turned out fine? Considering all the high-profile sexual harassment issues over the past few weeks, I get the feeling that many of them did not "grow out of it".
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
I've always wondered how much a typical internet user generates in ad revenue. Basically, if I wanted to buy out my ads for a year, how much would it cost me? I've never seen this number, and it seems highly relevant in the the de
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
I found that an odd choice of examples, too. I at least have some sense of the relative sizes of the U.S. and Australia, but without specific knowledge, have no idea about which president died in office first. It's likely I would be mo
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
Who am I to argue with your experience? I can only offer the current literature on the topic [0]. (They report a 5.1% error) > These systems typically use deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures ... driving the word error
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
There is a pretty big difference between the level of speech recognition that is offered by these smart devices, and what was being done 10-20 years ago. We're talking 80% accuracy (missing every fifth word), to now 95% accuracy (the e
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
If you could somehow manage to make the proof of work tied to discovering copyright infringements (from crawling the web), and have the rewards come from lawsuits/settlements, then maybe it could work? It seems like a stretch for that
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
That would be interesting to look into of one had the data. I would bet insurance companies have investigated it. The only evidence I could find was this study: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1087
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
I think the troubling aspect here is that these are actually statistically sound decisions. The company does not need to have a strong implication that Hotmail -> bad driver. They only need to know that P(bad driver | Hotmail) > P(bad
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
Despite all the problems with AMP that have been discussed elsewhere, the real zdnet page hijacked my browser, redirecting me to an ad page with no way to get back. In cases like this, I think AMP would be preferable.
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
Good hint. I will say, that the "art" is not worth the effort to find the page, but the intrinsic reward of successful sleuthing may be worthwhile.
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
What makes you say that? In JavaScript, all numbers are floats, so overflows won't happen.
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
I'll bite. std::vector<std::pair<float, std::string>> in_order; std::transform(data.begin(), data.end(), std::back_inserter(in_order), [](auto& item) {return std::make_pair(item.weight, item.name)
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
Really, that would just be a Home Mini with audio output, and I suspect the Home and Home Mini don't have a separate audio output in an effort to make you upgrade to the "Max". Because frankly, you would be so much better off
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
One thing that ARKit is able to do is utilize information about the device motion from the accelerometer and gyroscope. Also, I believe it is a slightly different technique than what is described in this post. I think they do more of a 3D r
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
16:10 is probably the second-most common aspect ratio after 16:9, so not really what I'd consider "custom".
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like LaTeX is not an efficient way to create a resume, unless you are very skilled with LaTeX macros and can essentially create your own "template", or modify someone else's. If yo
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
The core of Android Studio is IntelliJ.
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
This kind of thinking is why most of my "side" projects aren't on Github. Sometimes a new algorithm or technology I hear about peaks my interest, and I spend a few hours playing with it. But in the end, I don't have some
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
The article mentions preventing ISPs from knowing which websites you visit, but won't they still know the IP address of the server you access? Given that websites have relatively static IPs, doesn't that make it trivial to map bac
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by Wehrdo 9y ago
I have been super impressed with WSL after using it for close to a year now. The Creators Update fixed some issues like file watching and symbolic links which had been preventing certain programs from begin usable. I now do all my C++ and n