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by alok-g 5y ago
Note: I'm from India. Indeed, a lot of Indian people do not know the punctuation rules. I frequently educate them about it. Some however refuse to correct themselves. It is not taught that way in India. However, I am seeing even En
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by alok-g 5y ago
Nice! You may checkout my this work: :-) https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22357374
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I believe yes, irrespective of whether these are true holograms or using lenticular screens. I could not find more details on the technology (beyond the basics that I already know). Using a very large number of pixels is required to make go
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This person was several levels above me in the hierarchy, and famously known to be short-tempered. Before my first meeting itself, I was given generic tips on how to handle, none of which however seemed effective. I realized that the perso
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by alok-g 5y ago
I too still have the computer and it powers up. 90% of the keys have stopped working though.
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A patent is required to explain the invention to a level of detail such that those aware of the prior art can implement the same. So the _how_ portion can only be skipped if prior art already describes that. So while there may be a differe
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by alok-g 5y ago
The actual numbers in India are alleged to be an order of magnitude higher than the official numbers. There have been articles like [1] trying to estimate the actual numbers. The OP is likewise citing an article that's saying actual
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by alok-g 5y ago
Thanks for a detailed response. I'll add the book to my reading list.
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by alok-g 5y ago
The very first review I see at Amazon (Kimberly) is saying "Book's main premise is an erratic, non-peer reviewed assertion". The said review is detailed and has cited multiple references. I don't know what to conclude.
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I note that it was published in 1993. Do you think it remains largely relevant given further research since then? https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Judgment-Decision-Making-M...
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I feel exactly the same for many books. If a book summary on Wikipedia, etc., neither surprises me nor teaches me anything new, I have little motivation to read the book. There's an 'Ask HN' thread on "high signal to no
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by alok-g 5y ago
Note: I have neither read the book, nor knew about this issue before. The following articles look relevant: https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-... https://retractionwatch.
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This video discusses the Physics behind it. https://youtu.be/yCsgoLc_fzI
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A motorless vehicle driven solely by wind, goes faster than the wind itself(youtube.com)
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I see the point (though it is not answering my original questions or at least I have not yet understood it to that level yet). Just to make your point complete, how do you separate out performances? Is that just the presence of a large num
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by alok-g 5y ago
Yes, the math is already understood. :-) Your proposal does seem to carry some weight. While I see some non-idealities in it, but then I don't have a better solution that's practical. I'll think some more about your idea; I
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by alok-g 5y ago
Makes sense. Sorry for my miss the first time. :-) So what this means is that the small players would give up before the big players even though the invention otherwise took the same amount of investments or has the same potential for rew
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I am not very clear on your arguments. Would help if you could explain more. >> Code being used to do things is not an expression like poetry. Agreed. When "being used to do things" is not an expression. Writing code is t
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by alok-g 5y ago
I would like to brainstorm more on this. Perhaps offline would make more sense. I agree that for code, the function is more important than form. The "ideas" behind the function are protected by patents, not copyrights as you rec
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That 97% of the patents don't go recoup the cost is a statistic known to companies and patent lawyers. This should only serve to make them more careful about filing patents. In other words, inventions less likely to be effective woul
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by alok-g 5y ago
As a commentor noted, there are already fees to maintain a patent. The problem with the approach is that the fees are often trivial for big companies, who may not think twice about maintaining a patent "just in case" even when the
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by alok-g 5y ago
>> Patents clearly kill innovation. Like, that shouldn't even be a question. Surely there are examples where patents have stifled innovation. I am unclear how this would apply in general. The idea of patents is to encourage inve
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by alok-g 5y ago
From the OP: >> The study particularly wants to find examples of where a patent has been denied in the US but accepted in other jurisdictions, which will be a key area for European electronics companies. The question at hand does not
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by alok-g 5y ago
Yes, you are right from semantic standpoint. I already fully agree. >> This problem could be worked around if you complied with the license such it gave you permission, however the point remains, if you revoke all of the licenses the
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by alok-g 5y ago
You are right in asking that question. What just happens that when there are thousands of small violators, it's not easy for lawsuits to proceed. When there's a central entity involved, Github in this case, there is someone disc
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by alok-g 5y ago
First off, "open source" does not typically mean free of any kind of restrictions, and that is the entire point of this debate. So "source available" becomes equivalent to "open source" would only mean some op
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by alok-g 5y ago
That is just picking on semantics. License is indeed granting some rights that would not have been under copyrights, however, the license is placing some limitations still, which are being placed to protect "something" -- This so
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by alok-g 5y ago
Your arguments may be valid from a common sense standpoint. However, they may not exactly be valid from a legal standpoint as explained below: >> First of all, it's not as if CoPilot spits out verbatim replica of training data o
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by alok-g 5y ago
Copyrights protect expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. The ideas themselves could be a subject matter of patents. This addresses a few of your comments. >> It would be nearly impossible to trace the original code or make
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by alok-g 5y ago
See my comment here (on the same thread): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736089

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