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by bhl 7y ago
Is it me, or have there been an uptick in new writing platforms? Two that I can think of are substack and reading.supply. It'd be interesting to see an open source competitor to Medium; developments in and usage of markdown editors is
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Personal blogging and discover-ability are reconcilable: why doesn't someone build an aggregator where people can submit their essays and write-ups with RSS feeds?
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Not sure if the idea that Bitcoin acts as an hedge has much weight considering it’s never been tested in a first world economic downturn; arguably, it has worked in third world countries which face high inflation and have a lack of public c
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by bhl 7y ago
That’s being over dramatic. DNA tests are only one component in building a case against someone.
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If Libra succeeds as a payments network and platform, then it’s possible that the only fee will be from fluctuations in exchange rates; this is in effect a zero remittance fee. Libra itself can still make money by investing the float (money
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by bhl 7y ago
To compute the text differences, are you using the HTML/DOM and rendered webpage to extract the text? Or are the method for each diff separately determined? I'm curious to what the input and output of the ML model consists of.
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We used a Gaussian process on the outputs from a CNN, not separately. What I meant by locality is the idea that two points which are close to each other should also have predictions close to each other, assuming that there is some underlyin
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by bhl 7y ago
The n parameter there was the number of datapoints, not the size of the inputs (that would've been way worse). For brain imaging, is the 100k parameter also referencing datapoints, or dimensionality of the input? Chapter 8 of the Rasmu
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Compared to training the CNN, running a GP on the outputs seemed like a worthwhile tradeoff of time if it resulted in a discernible difference in validation error; and the original authors of the paper we were following already had an open
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+1 This is how I solved for the optimal parameter: instead of inverting the matrix, which is memory-heavy and computationally expensive, I used the solve function from scipy.linalg. I looked into numpy and scipy methods for symmetry and spa
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That’s the difference between a data structures and algorithms class versus a systems class: in the former the constant in front of the Big O doesn’t matter while in the matter it does. Any good CS curriculum would have both courses.
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by bhl 7y ago
Implementing Gaussian Processes in Python is a fun way to practice your programming and mathematical abilities. I was working on a course project that used GPs for regression, with the inputs taken from the output of a CNN. We were trying t
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by bhl 7y ago
To add on, did anyone else find it strange that the demographics of the interviewees counters the main point of the entire article? Most of them are alumni of elite universities; shouldn’t we be introduced to those who rebelled against the
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by bhl 7y ago
Kids in college are also lonely; I go to a school with a relatively large undergraduate populations. The result is that many people have trouble finding friends given that interactions are less frequent. Dorms and free time do help, but in
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by bhl 7y ago
Was it webrecorder [1]? I found this project a couple weeks back while looking for web archiving tools. [1] https://webrecorder.io/
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by bhl 7y ago
One issue with MHTML is that it does not seem to be currently supported by iframes. The use case I was working on was comparing search results from Google and DuckDuckGo by simply scraping and downloading to later embed. For that, I used a
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by bhl 7y ago
You can either use the flag --save-page-as-mhtml from CLI [1] or a library such as puppeteer. [1] https://techdows.com/2019/06/google-removes-save-page-as-mht... [2] https://github.com/GoogleChrome
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In this case, it makes sense to host the code and data in Google Drive where you can easily access it with a Colab instance.
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Not sure if there's a specific name for the avatars, but there's two near similar resources here: [1] https://undraw.co/illustrations [2] https://www.humaaans.com/
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by bhl 7y ago
Maybe in the United States, but I would still wager there would be interest for a Facebook's digital currency in countries with more volatile, native currencies.
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There's pdf2htmlex, albeit it's an archived project.
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Does anyone know if you can exploit the CodeMirror instance that's installed with every download of the Chrome browser? Fun fact: you can inspect the web inspector if you have it in a separate window to confirm that it does indeed use
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by bhl 7y ago
Default keys won’t prevent the touchbar from freezing or bugging out, which has occurred multiple times for me. It’s odd to make such important keys software based and prone to non mechanical failure.
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by bhl 7y ago
Why does slack and gmail use so much memory? It feels like it shouldn’t be an intensive process to display messages. Sidenote I don’t have much front end development besides basic web pages.
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What’s wrong with the application of MD5 to this process?
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Note that the publishing title of the article is “Tourist Journalism Versus the Working Class”, which should be an indication of the author’s bias. The story initially begins with comparing the personal, working experience of the author wit
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by bhl 7y ago
Is there any work on bringing Python into the browser like with JavaScript? At the beginning of the year, I was looking at the best way of making an interactive textbook either with Python (requiring a backend it seemed), or with JavaScript
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Based on the numbers alone, that's about a 20% return for the MIT group, for an annualized return (not considering compound interest) of less than 3% per year. Does this suggest that those trying to game the lottery should just turn to
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by bhl 7y ago
If we’re talking about finding the steady / convergence state of a matrix, there are better ways than simple repeated matrix multiplication. One would be to solve a linear system of equations. The one PageRank uses if I recall correctl
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by bhl 7y ago
As mentioned, the difficulty with PageRank isn’t the implementation, but scaling it to billions of webpages. Doing so would require either extensive knowledge of systems or approximation methods.

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