arnioxux

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by arnioxux 9y ago
"Science" is often thrown around to justify things it shouldn't. Sociology hasn't had as much success as "hard" sciences so we should distinguish between the two. (for example with the controversy around major
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For people trying to understand quaternions, the faster way to intuition is understanding axis-angle first. I think axis-angle is totally intuitive. First pick a direction (some 3d unit vector) and then rotate around that direction by some
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by arnioxux 9y ago
To correct your analogy they are probably thinking more along the lines of: "I just custom built a car but bought a knock-off car door that has a fake keyhole and no real locks" "Hey! You've left your car unlocked! I got
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by arnioxux 9y ago
Already happening! This came up a few days ago: Tensorflow implemented with webgl: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14894653
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by arnioxux 9y ago
Wasn't google tango their solution? (but requires custom android hardware for depth sensor) https://get.google.com/tango/ I haven't heard anything about them for a few years now. Visual-inertial SLAM has been
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by arnioxux 9y ago
No opinion on "The Man Who Knew" but kind of bummed that it will now beat "The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan" in autocompletion.
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by arnioxux 9y ago
Taking "technology" to its logical end, you will probably arrive at AGI. And despite being decades off away from it, there are already many people making sure that it will be "safe" since the default otherwise will most
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by arnioxux 9y ago
Which just means "people similar to you who like x also like y". This does make a lot more sense than analyzing the audio of the music IMO. For example youtube does this okay and if you look for a Mazzy Star song after watching Ri
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by arnioxux 9y ago
Is the end goal to allow people to donate computing power for training? (a la Folding@home or SETI@home except just by visiting a webpage) If so that's amazingly clever!
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I would be so paranoid of leaking information if I had to do twitch live coding. For example how do you handle copying and pasting api secrets? Or just pure privacy stuff like not showing other domains you own in namecheap (which he doesn&#
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by arnioxux 9y ago
They also did a very thorough AMA on reddit recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6pa11p/we_spent_5_yea...
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by arnioxux 9y ago
The "JAPANESE ONLY" sign was probably meant for chinese tourists. The kanji below it, "謝绝中国人", translates roughly to "decline chinese people" which is understandable given their notorious behavior abroad: http
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There are plenty of adversarial examples for humans too: http://i.imgur.com/mOTHgnf.jpg
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I didn't look at the code, but canvas only supports 3x3 transforms and you need 4x4 to do perspective: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende... So if those cubes are textured,
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by arnioxux 9y ago
Can someone do a feature comparison between this and three.js?
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The term for this effective altruism strategy is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earning_to_give
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by arnioxux 9y ago
I think this is the correct way to model it. In particular you can model it as a markov chain (commonly studied in queueing theory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth%E2%80%93death_process#/m...
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by arnioxux 9y ago
That's clever! I updated the code and it seems to work for the several times I refreshed now. Thanks! This was the final cost function that worked: let encloseCost = 0; let farthestPointCost = 0; for (let i = 0; i < B.le
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by arnioxux 9y ago
To answer my own question, the problem seems to be that once it finds an enclosing circle it loses gradient on x and y so it doesn't know where to reposition the circle. Not sure how to fix this.
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I wanted to try a more naive/slow/sledge-hammer approach of just setting up the cost function and throwing it at an optimizer. I couldn't get it to converge and I am not sure if it's just the library I am using being bug
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http://projectnaptha.com/ is also a very similar project. I think it uses Ocrad.
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The creator did an AMA on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/4b8s7v/im_co... I thought it was pretty inspirational that he managed to keep at it for 4 years solo even when his grandm
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by arnioxux 9y ago
Exact link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 I guess no one managed to top that comeback in the last decade (thread is 3600 days old!).
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by arnioxux 9y ago
OP's hyperbole took it too far by saying "good programmer". But if you change it just "top one percent programmer", it might not be too much of an exaggeration. Before I also get banned, I want to clarify that there
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by arnioxux 9y ago
I'm not a scala dev but I'm curious, what makes scala a good scripting language? Bash has its faults but it's still great for adhoc stuff and when it stops being great you can just move to a more specialized build config to
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A lot of components library call these steppers: http://www.material-ui.com/#/components/stepper https://react.semantic-ui.com/elements/step https://ant.design/components&#x2F
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In at least two other companies I've worked at we also use query params to enable debug information on live production sites. At one of those companies the only requirement was that you be on a corporate ip address but it actually stil