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by avip 7y ago
You're being overly harsh. Sometimes there's also an else.
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by avip 7y ago
It's disrespectful towards the art of Voodoo to call it "RF".
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by avip 7y ago
Disclaimer: Neither I nor my colleagues or anyone I'm aware of are, were, or ever will, use said service. Did you divide (time that took you to complete this trivial task + time to document it, version it, explain it to coworkers, main
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by avip 7y ago
It is strictly impossible to "block mining data" on the public web. Double that if the miner has free access to a pool of residential IPs. [source: experience]
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by avip 7y ago
an expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until finally he knows everything about nothing . But more seriously from Suzuki: the beginner's mind has many possibilities, the expert's mind has few . From the
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by avip 7y ago
That was MTurk's slogan on launch.
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by avip 7y ago
My company is sourcing AI from MTurk. It's actually cheaper than running fat GPU model training instances. The network learns fast and adapts well to changes in inputs. I envision the sticker "human inside" strapped on our al
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by avip 7y ago
Wait but the Wizard of Oz actually helped the other characters, and he so did even after they had learned he has no magic powers. I have no idea what's the moral here, if any.
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by avip 7y ago
Defining recall as TP / (TP + FN) is a great way to confuse people and prevent them from understanding the term. Recall should be explained exactly as in wiki - how many of the relevant items are correctly identified .
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by avip 7y ago
Is it even possible for a statistically significant predictor of stock market to be both known to the public and not garbage?
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by avip 7y ago
I'd (conservatively) speculate most of us here are in the global 1% in terms of "ability to understand math". Have tried multiple times to follow his work (from the blog). But I'm not math-fluent enough to understand or
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by avip 7y ago
Sure. But I see some trend in comments where people assume you can't be locked out of resources in traditional banking. And that is patently false. It's extremely easy to have a bank account you cannot access. But at least you get
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by avip 7y ago
It happens all the time and bank will tell you you have to physically step in a branch with the ID used to open the account. Source: happened to me.
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by avip 7y ago
>branded goods that aren’t easy to convincingly fake s.a Apple power adapters?
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by avip 7y ago
Agreed. For a ~2.5 billion years project, the deliverable is not that impressive.
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by avip 7y ago
In the grand scheme of things, things that work (s.a life) are an unexplainable outlier.
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by avip 7y ago
I have personally encountered a system that used name + birthdate to uniquely identify its "users" (large % of citizens of a country of non negligible size). That was absolutely insane. Try applying such logic in China or a big Ar
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by avip 7y ago
Different name, Amir starts with an Allif
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by avip 7y ago
Quite unusual spelling. Most Amars would be Amar or Amer (or Umar/Omar).
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by avip 7y ago
There are more companies doing that than you think.
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by avip 7y ago
- windows 10 has no built-in media player that can handle a DVD. - Android Studio... don't get me started.
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by avip 7y ago
You make it sound as if advertisers do not A/B test. My experience says they do. But YMMV I guess. It's obviously hard to convince an advertiser that her work is meaningless.
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by avip 7y ago
I don't know this specific site, but it's fairly common to put basic (or less basic) measures against such curl-ing.
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by avip 7y ago
Something marginally less seamless: try to sign-in to google play console with a user that is not the one currently "syncing" in chrome.
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by avip 7y ago
* her
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by avip 7y ago
Smart pointers make it exponentially easier to write memory-safe code in C++ than in C.
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by avip 7y ago
Coming next on HN: A model for ladders strength (stanleytools.com)
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by avip 7y ago
Yes. In fact The word Whiskey comes from the Gaelic usquebaugh, which means "Water of life" . ... and I know this priceless piece of trivia because the Clancy brothers mention it in the intro to Finnegans Wake .
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by avip 7y ago
I know but though I have pretty big hands I can't do fn + F11 with one hand, so it's a no-go.
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by avip 7y ago
This is a great opportunity to bash Spotify. For their abuse of credentials is abysmal. Not only there's no 2FA, but there's no email confirmation for password reset. Yes, I've said it - if you leave an open Spotify running s

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