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by bcheung 9y ago
What is wrong with people if they need to make a law for this? Seriously, just because a kid is playing outside instead of being confined indoors playing video games is no reason to call the cops.
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by bcheung 9y ago
Just change the price of electricity or make it tiered. Problem solved. Making a law seems overkill and a bit draconian. What business is it of the government what you do with your computer if you aren't doing anything malicious or
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by bcheung 9y ago
Yes, this could use some clarification. Aggregation is fine, by discrimination I meant censoring and blocking certain individuals because you don't like them. Unless it is something illegal tech companies should respect freedom of sp
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by bcheung 9y ago
Censorship and bias of information seem to be the major concerns I have with tech companies. Treating them as common carriers so they are not allowed to discriminate seems like something that is needed. Outside of that, I think they are d
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by bcheung 9y ago
A returned 1080TI was the only option for me. Everything else was taken. So far so good. I was the ONLY one at Fry's NOT buying a graphics card for mining (deep learning for me). 4 other people were there to get cards for mining.
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by bcheung 9y ago
I was shocked how difficult it was to get a 1080TI at the local store. Pardon my ignorance but with all the demand for graphics cards for cryptocurrency mining, why has a viable ASIC not become commonplace so miners aren't grabbing up
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by bcheung 9y ago
This seems a bit pricey compared to other offerings. Wouldn't an ASIC make things more economical? Seems like in terms of cost per performance, both AWS P3 spot instances and Paperspace v100 offerings are more economical. Are these pr
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by bcheung 9y ago
For me, as a tech worker, I've found recruiters to be extremely convenient. They have found me opportunities I have not otherwise come across and have helped me negotiate for the highest pay. They also can get your foot in the door m
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by bcheung 9y ago
There is a similar attack against image classifiers. So is this just a proof of concept or can this be exploited in the wild? Based on my understanding you need to have access to network itself (weights, baisses, activation function, archit
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by bcheung 9y ago
Optical illusions have a similar effect. Also images that people can see in 2 different ways like the famous old/young woman example.
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by bcheung 9y ago
I noticed that as well. It seems strange to me considering computers are a lot more accessible now. Back then there was no Internet, YouTube, blogs, etc, to learn. Just the occasional reference manual.
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by bcheung 9y ago
Did I miss something? I thought from the title of the article mentioning WHERE the campus would be built would be a fairly important detail to include.
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by bcheung 9y ago
I think it also serves to illustrate that there are things that can be paid for that don't increase quality of life. Likewise, if person A and B buy from each other at the same monetary value, but the subjective value of what they &quo
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by bcheung 9y ago
You bring up a good point. That being, wealth can't be measured in monetary value only. Yet another case where GDP isn't tied to wealth.
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by bcheung 9y ago
The GDP is only an approximate measure and is only roughly correlated with wealth. There are many things that contribute to GDP but do absolutely nothing to increase wealth, prosperity, or productivity. This funny video reminds me of that:
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by bcheung 9y ago
This seems like a rather naive approach to understanding the top one percent. Interviewing them and actually talking to them about their financial strategies seems like a much better idea. Many people have done this and there are books wr
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by bcheung 9y ago
That font is ridiculously huge. It's painful to read. Looks like the browser's font resize functionality is blocked but you can change the size by resizing your browser width. I really don't like that UI pattern.
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by bcheung 9y ago
It's funny, and a bit unfair, how they can get away with having adult content and not being labeled `high-risk`. Most adult credit card processing takes 10-15% before the business even sees anything, and they are only taking 5% total a
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by bcheung 9y ago
100% agree with this. I relax a lot of the rules for my personal projects. I want linting to tell me when there is a potential problem. Other than that it just slows me down. If a computer can lint it, it can also beautify it. Leave me
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by bcheung 9y ago
So of the top 50% of income earners, half of them have their houses paid off completely? That doesn't seem right.
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by bcheung 9y ago
What's the reason DRM can't be implemented as an open-source solution? Is the closed source just to prevent people from easily accessing the secret key or are there other reasons it needs to be closed source?
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by bcheung 9y ago
I'm surprised he doesn't have bigger / more monitors in his studio. Working on a laptop screen as your main display seems lacking—especially compared to everything else.
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by bcheung 9y ago
One of the other things that will start entering the social consciousness is that a lot of the information (lectures, books) is available online for free. This is especially true for computer science / programming. Unless you need hand
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by bcheung 9y ago
True, but not having the student loan debt means you have more disposable income and that can be invested starting straight after high school.
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by bcheung 9y ago
Telecommuting is a lot cheaper and easier. Also, what is the point of those rails? Seems like self-driving cars would be much easier and require a lot less. I think the robotic conveyer belt style design like seen in movies like iRobot wou
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by bcheung 9y ago
Not everyone wants that lifestyle. Being a photographer and also someone who tends to do a lot of Maker and gardening projects I find SF near impossible to live for my lifestyle. It's really hard to load and unload photo gear when you
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by bcheung 10y ago
I assume they mean in the general artificial intelligence sense? Most people don't really think of it in these terms, but aren't functions and macros just automation for programming? You define it once and then it handles it from
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by bcheung 10y ago
Most people who adopt a ketogenic diet that is lower calorie do not report hunger. In fact, many report less hunger despite consuming significantly less calories. The reason being is that the body becomes more efficient at burning fat so
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by bcheung 10y ago
The method for reducing calories can have dramatic differences in results. One of the flaws with the above cited study from what I remember was that it simply reduced calories but they still ate several times a day. The methods that are mo
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by bcheung 10y ago
I would prefer to see the money spent on improving Caltrain. It really is not a viable option for a lot of people. South of SJ Diridon, the trains only run 3x in the morning and 3x in the evening and they require you to basically wake up

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