andosa

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MLVC: An open-source real-time neural video codec for consumer NPUs(github.com)
5 points by andosa 2mo ago|0 comments
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by andosa 6y ago
How many people work on Bitcoin (mining, exchanges like Coinbase etc)? What's the number of transactions (money transfers, loans etc) per employee in banking vs Bitcoin ecosystem?
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by andosa 8y ago
Women are twice as likely to get a tenure position in STEM when compared to equally qualified men http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/women-best-men-stem-f...
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by andosa 8y ago
I think in this context it's about businesses built on top of the platform and their direct revenue. A person brushing teeth is not building a business and generating revenue.
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by andosa 8y ago
The thing I don't get about these stories: don't you have a contract specifying working hours? My contract says 8 hours a day, for x$ per month, this is what we agreed to and this is what I deliver. Asking me to do 12h instead of
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by andosa 8y ago
Your argument assumes that computers/AI/robots won't be as good as say a median human at any given job. I think that's quite a strong assumption
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by andosa 9y ago
Way to dodge the question. And how did we get from always knowing when you're failed to "just drive very, very slow when", when dealing with situations that human drivers deal with all the time. Let's not pretend that a
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by andosa 9y ago
> It's not possible to engineer an autonomous system that never fails, but it is possible to engineer one in such a way that it never fails to detect that it has failed. That sounds highly dubious. Here's a hypothetical scena
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by andosa 9y ago
Yes, they are still there, but the protectionism is what allowed the local companies (Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba etc) to compete initially and be better in the end. Whereas in EU, local competition has been crushed and it is now stuck with the
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by andosa 9y ago
How has it not ever happened? China, who essentially blocked Google, Amazon et al, now have Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and other massively successful tech companies, while EU is stuck with aforementioned monopolies with near-zero chance of a l
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by andosa 9y ago
Overrating domestic value creation is how you end up being a third world country. I think you are oversimplifying free market dynamics. Free market doesn't magically create optimal results for consumers (see monopolies and the resultin
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by andosa 9y ago
Noone is restricting trade, they are simply saying that the fact that you are "far away" doesn't give you the right to dodge taxes that local companies have to pay. If anything it levels the playing field.
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by andosa 9y ago
It certainly didn't hinder Baidu, Alibaba et al
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by andosa 9y ago
That's a shortsighted view. As the saying goes, "you can have the free apples, as long as I own the orchard". At some point, there will be no more free apples, and you have no idea how to farm
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Electricity required for a single Bitcoin trade could power a house for a month(uk.businessinsider.com)
5 points by andosa 9y ago|0 comments
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by andosa 9y ago
At some point you have to stop giving the benefit of the doubt. I draw the line where Google is unable to make a search page (that is making them the "x billion dollar" company in the first place) work with Firefox due to "la
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by andosa 9y ago
So a multihundred billion dollar web company doesn't have the dev resources to support Firefox? Even though it already works when you spoof the agent string?
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by andosa 9y ago
That's why I put it in quotes. However, calling it "some demand" severly understates the significance of this fact. It's not just some demand, it means it's absolutely vital for vast majority of people and businesse
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by andosa 9y ago
One thing that makes the dollar more "real" is that you are required to pay taxes in it. This creates an automatic demand for dollars. Even if you make your money in bitcoin in US, you need some dollars to pay your taxes or risk b
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by andosa 10y ago
Because you couldnt just walk into a shop and buy a car. You literally had to have a car buying permit, which might take years to get. Because of this, used cars could cost singificantly more than a brand new one from a shop.
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by andosa 10y ago
You assume that robots/algorithms will never be as good at some jobs as a worker with median abilities. This is a very strong (and likely wrong in the long term) assumption to make.
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by andosa 11y ago
>Think of how limited our tools were just a decade ago. Not sure what you mean here. What were the limits a decade a go? Many top programmers still swear by vi(m)/emacs, both started 40 years ago. C is 40+ years olds, C++ is 30+ yea
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by andosa 11y ago
That doesn't really refute gp's point. In medieval times, there were periods where dynasties didn't last, and every generation had new warlords from new families. That doesn't mean it wasn't a feudal society.
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by andosa 11y ago
Not sure I follow. In what sense are things like Surface Pro, Hololens, Surface book laptop, open source .NET etc. purely marketing moves?
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by andosa 11y ago
It definitely feels like Microsoft is on the right track with Nadella in charge.
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by andosa 11y ago
As you're yourself saying, sages with insights did occur relatively frequently when there were the low hanging fruit in different sciences still available. But there is no reason to believe that there exists just one level of these low
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by andosa 11y ago
Random forests being black boxes is something that is widely touted even among active practitioner, but not really true any more. There are methods available for decomposing random forest predictions into feature contributions, so that each
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by andosa 11y ago
That's definitely a flaw in the study. On the other hand, I doubt using equally experienced males would change the conclusions significantly: majority of the tasks seem to have involved major physical effort, and you don't need a
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by andosa 11y ago
Unions for example.
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by andosa 12y ago
You are either completely ignorant of the situation in Estonia or deliberately spreading misinformation. A simple check on Wikipedia would show you that the majority of people in Tallinn are Estonians (with Russians being 37% of Tallinn&#x

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