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by alephxyz 3y ago
And they still have a ton of job openings (in Canada at least)
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Enjoy https://arxiv.org/search/?searchtype=title&query=%22is+all+y...
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by alephxyz 3y ago
It's not just you. Most touch screens will have some sort of feedback (visual, tactile or auditory) to let you know when you've pressed a button. Those touch buttons on screens and monitors don't.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Or perhaps because it was poorly implemented and made it harder for customers to know what their total would be before reaching the cash register.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
You forgot to toss in a few "state-of-the-art"
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Ironically the law pretty much everywhere in north America mandates that bikes have at least a rear brake.
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Maybe they want to stop NSFW content creators using post scheduling apps to post their content on dozens of subreddits at once.
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by alephxyz 4y ago
iOS will display an orange/green indicator in the status bar that you can press on to see which apps are currently using your microphone/camera.
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by alephxyz 4y ago
I'm mostly working on fairly simple image segmentation tasks but in my experience just replacing convolutional layers with attention layers + position embeddings works well. Using convolutional embeddings before the transformer encoder
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by alephxyz 4y ago
That link only has data until 2013. Violent crimes start trending up after 2014: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-005-x/2022001/article...
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Their Vision Fund got 45 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and 15 billion from the Emirati sovereign fund (out of $100 billion raised).
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by alephxyz 4y ago
You're right and OC is wrong. My Nexus 5 from 2013 could take decent single exposure night sky photos (after post processing the RAW images). The Google camera now just automates most of the manual work (adjusting exposure/sensiti
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Hacktoberfest should be interesting this year
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Only if your detection system is "perfect". Personally I'd be fine with something with high precision and low recall, even if it means forcing users to rewrite their content to make it less AI-like (like /r9k/ on st
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by alephxyz 4y ago
FYI the libmamba solver released last year is way faster than the classic one at modifying environments.
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Looks like the cops did the right thing there : >In his testimony, Naccache simply says that the police treated it like a neighbourly dispute and accordingly declined to press the matter further. They were “not keen of processing a haras
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by alephxyz 4y ago
This is the 102 language dataset they used for evaluation: https://huggingface.co/datasets/google/xtreme_s
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Someone also posted a similar project here a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31495049
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Bixi isn't subsidized anymore (and I don't think they have been since they went private in 2014). They even got acquired by Lyft last year. Edit: I was thinking of their international division. Looks like the Montreal network is s
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Can you imagine if Bernie Madoff had told the attorney general that he just needed a few more weeks to find new investors in order to make his customers whole. SBF comes off as an extremely naive and sheltered kid who doesn't understan
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by alephxyz 4y ago
In WWI the UK developed AA rounds to shoot down zeppelins and balloons. They were basically tracer rounds with a bigger incendiary charge that ignited when fired and set the skin and hydrogen of balloons on fire. Modern incendiary and explo
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by alephxyz 4y ago
(spoilers) In the final chapter, the merged AI tells Case it found transmissions from "others" in the Centauri system.
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Satellites have to be placed in orbit by definition. To be in orbit at 20km of altitude you'd need to be flying at over 7km/s, so balloons can't argued to be satellites.
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Try asking @ilyasut directly
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Seems to be an early WIP.
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by alephxyz 4y ago
I've worked with many data scientists whose typical SQL usage was to load entire rows (or with simple 'with' filtering) into Pandas / R dataframes and then do all their work there. I think it's a combination of Pan
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by alephxyz 4y ago
He's pulling a Schmidhuber.
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Lying to your investors is fraud (look up the NY Martin act) and the evidence against the CEO is damning. https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/mashinsky_complaint.pd...
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Make a list of things you miss about your old employer so you know what to ask about in future job interviews.
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by alephxyz 4y ago
Location: Montreal, Canada Remote: Preferably (2 years of remote work experience) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Golang, SQL, JavaScript, Node, Bash, most ML/AI frameworks. Résumé/CV: available on d

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