WilliamLP

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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Dog vs cat is the famous one. Nudity is another famous one that is extremely hard. A penis might be more distinctive though, similar to how I understand cameras are now pretty good at detecting faces. Just cutting off most of the trouser sn
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> Google, Mozilla, and Opera have all committed to support WebM, and we have already started making YouTube videos available in the WebM format. Adobe has also committed to support VP8, the video codec for WebM, in an upcoming Flash Pla
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Would AI algorithms to detect and flag a penis in an image be any easier or less error-prone than other similar image recognition problems?
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> Who I am, I tell them that I'm evolution's gift to humanity. Kind of like appendicitis and back pain?
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
People stress out about random number generators too much.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Wait, so now I can't wear functional coats and glasses anymore while making discoveries? I have to care about fashion now? Well damn it.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Give me Z reasons why you don't like "X reasons for Y" posts.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
It's not the main point of his post, but would you really want both founders to be heavily influenced by and involved in the Hacker News echo chamber? I suspect some diversity of thinking might be more valuable.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I thought you could activate an iPad with a 3G plan at an Apple store, and then you wouldn't need a computer from there on out? Or am I wrong here?
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I think looking at something (netbooks), then turning around and selling 3 million units of a vastly more expensive and higher margin product in a few months, shows that he was right to downplay it and that the iPad does actually offer some
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Some people seem to assume that building a profitable app is entirely about luck, and not about having the insight and ability to develop something better than what is in the store currently. Many of these app are developed by beginners and
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I think he's just reframing the levels of causation a bit. You don't say pregnant women gain weight because they eat more than they consume, although from a thermodynamic point of view this is strictly true. Have you ever met skinny unhealt
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I'd never respond for an ad looking for a "Ninja" because I'm a software "Pirate" and we're natural enemies.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
"ch"? "ng"? "g"? "h" (aspirated)? "j"? "o" as in "open"? "q"? "zh" as in "cashmere"? "v"? "w" (as in "wet")? "y" as in "you"?
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Was not having it magnify centered around my mouse position, at the edges of the rectangle, a design decision, or a limitation of the tools?
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I think I can afford to wait until people start proving undeniably (through out-competing rivals) that Scala and Clojure have any pragmatic benefit in real multicore programming tasks. Anything that mentions Fibonacci numbers doesn't count,
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Ok, let's take another one. Consider me to be doing fuzzy experimental math philosophy. I am not a mathematician and never want to be one so the universe won't explode. I'm going to reject the Continuum Hypothesis, ok? (Math tells me I can
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> If you want to talk about "almost all" then you have to go to measure theory. From my understanding, "almost all" is somewhat imprecise and can mean many different things even in math, e.g. all but countably many, all but for a set wi
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> The reals are not Well-Ordered under the usual ordering, and they arenot Well Ordered at all. Certainly if you create a Well Ordering of the reals then it's not the usual ordering. Again, you assume I don't have a basic math education
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
What you're describing is the "slippery" part of my "slippery one more". Yes I know the arguments. What I don't have is trust that intuitive concepts like "almost all" fit! To me the real numbers are something quite alien. The fact that the
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I have a degree in math, I know about Lesbegue measure and probability. My math knowledge is slightly more sophisticated than you give me credit for, if not much more! What you're describing is, to me, the "slippery way" that there is alway
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Where I part ways with mathematicians is the intuition we should ascribe to Cantor's argument. They say that "almost all" real numbers are irrational. What Cantor's argument says is that "at least one" is irrational. I know the arguments ab
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
What I've never understood or appreciated about REST interfaces is that everywhere else in programming, the function / parameter / return paradigm is how we do things. Why do services over the web need to be different? It seems clear to me
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
This article is extremely poor. For one, it doesn't mention net present value, as is pointed out in other comments. Also, the figure they are using for profit is gross profit, which is before payroll and taxation. The actual net profit
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
By "this article", do you mean the article in question, or was that a self-reference to your own comment? Also I ignored what you were saying because your use of a temporary placeholder in your first sentence was a red flag, indicative of p
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Another technophile power-user (somewhere in 1% of the iPad market) finds that it isn't a machine for technophile power users.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> Is there anything to suggest that they'll let the current development hell continue? History, inertia, lack of any demonstrated interest or unified direction, key Java players running away, a change in planned features every month, no
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I think waiting for Oracle to do something with Java 7 at this point is like believing Lucy will let you kick the football this time.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> Facebook does a tiny bit of entertaining and socializing, Many people have had countless friendships reconnected and met other new people as a direct result of Facebook being as linked up as it is. Whether "tangible" or not, this is a
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> Ebola, HIV, the flu de jour all quite terrifying, all 100% natural. If you can't imagine anything more terrifying than those, it is a failure of imagination. See Jared Diamond's point about how when humans and large animals coevolved

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