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by anchpop 6y ago
I think this is the second time Randall has made that joke: https://xkcd.com/1831/ . I wonder if he has a grudge against data scientists or something
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by anchpop 6y ago
I'm curious if this is just repackaging existing OSS algorithms for isolating foregrounds, or if they have an actually new implementation that outperforms them
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by anchpop 6y ago
I didn't know this was possible! Something to keep in mind if I ever buy a nice car.
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by anchpop 6y ago
I was really hoping that article was going to start talking about effect systems. They're so cool! They make it possible to have many different function colors without it being a huge chore. They can be thought of as a more-ergonomic g
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by anchpop 6y ago
I'm still upset with them for killing Inbox
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by anchpop 6y ago
That's how it's often taught, which is a real shame. Paul Lockhart wrote an elegant piece about this, titled A Mathematician's Lament [0]: > Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as
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by anchpop 6y ago
from edmundhuber: > Airbus's materials (linked) do mention "self-piloting", but I can't imagine that they are thinking of the scale as BusinessInsider is when they write "self-flying". No one's proposin
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by anchpop 6y ago
Doing it on a national scale is tricky because to do it right you need to do it in a majority of states at once
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by anchpop 6y ago
Approval Voting is just Score Voting with only two scores (0 and 1). Turns out you don't lose that much!
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Feature Visualization (2017)(distill.pub)
1 points by anchpop 6y ago|0 comments
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by anchpop 6y ago
Dependent types are cool, but I think the best fix would be refinement types . They are sort of similar, except refinement types use a SAT solver to prove correctness, while dependent types require to prove everything yourself (to the po
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To Build a Better Ballot (2016)(ncase.me)
36 points by anchpop 6y ago|20 comments
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by anchpop 6y ago
Yeah, Cloudflare shouldn't be censoring anyone. I could understand if it were requested by law enforcement but why would we want them trying to police the web?
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by anchpop 6y ago
Since they're on HN they likely use uBlock, which means that they're not profitable for Google regardless of how they search
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by anchpop 6y ago
Clearly the average USian is not the average person, but given that they need to speak English to have a shot (unless gpt-3 works for other languages?) it doesn't seem like a terrible approximation
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by anchpop 6y ago
> And once you start probing the nether regions of transhumanist thought and run into concepts like Roko's Basilisk—by the way, any of you who didn't know about the Basilisk before are now doomed to an eternity in AI hell—you r
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by anchpop 6y ago
This is interesting! I've been looking for a good sequence crdt to implement in my Rust CRDT toolkit [0], which is still very much a work in progress but I want to make it really useful. Do you know how this compares to yjs [1]? [0]:
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by anchpop 6y ago
I don't have any hard stats, but I'm going to try to talk about my experiences. I took a programming class in highschool - it was almost all boys at the time. This resembles my programming classes in college, and the professional
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by anchpop 6y ago
I recently wrote about this problem here [1]. I think "free" software should still be the norm, but companies who use it should have to pay into a fund that distributes the money to where it can be used most productively to make n
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by anchpop 6y ago
HN also has views on privacy that are not shared by most of the non-techie population. Most people like privacy, to be clear, but would not be willing to sacrifice as much for it as many here. I have always found it odd that an interest in
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by anchpop 6y ago
> On-device speech recognition doesn't exist I know this isn't core to your point but you may be interested to know that it does. I just turned on airplane mode on my Pixel and tried it. It's iOS which doesn't (didn&#
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by anchpop 6y ago
Personally I couldn't care less about google seeing whatever junk I sometimes have in my clipboard if it means I can more quickly go to the address I'm looking for
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by anchpop 6y ago
It's possible the price is too high, but the reason it has that price $35/bottle is the minimum required to sustainably produce it. It's well accepted in economics that price of manufacture is not necessarily the societally o
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by anchpop 6y ago
I would like this to be extended to game consoles and any other kind of personal computing device, too! Although phones are clearly the most egregious example, game console manufacturers create a weird two-party market where they subsidize
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by anchpop 6y ago
I'm currently a student of Michigan State. While I don't like Dr. Hsu very much (and I see more merit to the criticisms of him than I suspect many here) I see this as grievous damage to my university. This will be proof that resea
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by anchpop 6y ago
Passing it as a parameter to a function or returning it
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by anchpop 6y ago
Wow! Great writeup. I see some people saying that as an object gets farther away from the gravity well, accumulating more potential energy, the mass of the object increases. Is this true? It seems like it would be very surprising if an obje
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by anchpop 6y ago
I read that document and it seems to me like everything in there applies to Dat also, which isn't really content-addressed. But if IPNS is fast now it seems like it could be a good replacement.
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by anchpop 6y ago
They used to, but they removed support. It makes sense to focus on just one protocol I think since they're such a lean operation. Also the guy running Beaker seems to be sort of anti-blockchain (describing himself as an "Unblockch
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by anchpop 6y ago
Rust-analyzer does this, and I find it much more helpful than I thought I would

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