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by blululu 6y ago
I recall once having a conversation with someone working on computer vision at Facebook, and they mentioned that the company had spent a considerable amount of talent & resources trying to get this feature to work cleanly and they did n
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by blululu 6y ago
Well that sample size would give an 95% confidence interval of ~ 2.8%. I don't think '68% of Americans' changes the story here. The main methodological problem is that only sampled employed Americans (Labor Force participatio
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by blululu 6y ago
Note that this is a survey of Americans who are currently employed. It should be '70% of all currently employed Americans require home internet'. This statistic is likely inflated by the currently high unemployment numbers in sect
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by blululu 6y ago
This is a very optimistic presentation of design docs. The flip side is that these documents can become a touchstone for bike shedding or and excuse to make slideware in lieu of software. A lot of administrative bloat can creep in through d
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by blululu 6y ago
It can be complicated. When you are sourcing parts in bulk for manufacturing the price needs to be negotiated through a personal relationship. It could be the case that the vendors making parts for Cisco do not want to endanger their existi
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by blululu 6y ago
I think this study needs more information to be really helpful. The bandwidth is really important to understand what you are paying for. 1GB of data is not worth much if it takes 5 minutes to load a webpage. In my experience this is a serio
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by blululu 6y ago
>>Don't worry, Twitter isn't real life. For the most part yes, but President Trump's behavior on Twitter can have serious consequences in the real world. I think that the behavioral norms of social media are penetrating
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by blululu 6y ago
Online reviews are not inherently more trustworthy than the marketing copy on the dust jacket. Online reviews can be bought (for very little money). A publisher can easily astroturf the reviews on their books, making it very difficult to es
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by blululu 6y ago
This is cool, and a little bit bizarre. I feel like it would be a fun experience to be able to view these photos in Three.js
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by blululu 6y ago
Well done. Thank you for making and sharing this publicly.
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by blululu 6y ago
This was worth the rather long read. Thank you for sharing.
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by blululu 6y ago
That's somewhere on the border. But really, this is more a matter of blaming the youngest generation for every problem that besets the older ones. Gen X are a bunch of nihilistic latch key kids, Millennials destroyed every industry but
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by blululu 6y ago
These are beautiful - well done. Ridgeline plots are very common in EEG and ECoG (electrophysiology). The lead singer of joy division had epilepsy - the band's logo is a plot of a siezure. If you are interested, this work might be very
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by blululu 6y ago
Figma is a solid design tool for basic web/mobile apps, however I think that this post reads like a sales pitch more than an honest assessment of the product. The market for design tools is highly competitive, and the 'wins/w
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by blululu 6y ago
It's always fascinating to see historical data visualizations. History is a great antidote against the bias toward the current era. I feel like Ed Tufte would tear some of these graphics to shreds, but collectively the presentation man
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by blululu 6y ago
Well I'm not really advocating for choosing people based on skin color or gender per se. Rather that in a cases where there is an surplus of talent for the role we should consider making a choice based upon serving the interests of soc
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by blululu 6y ago
>>What person from an underrepresented group wants to be chosen just because of their group status? Isn't that highly patronizing for someone who likely had worked hard to get to where they got? Do you want to be "pretty gre
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by blululu 6y ago
John Carmack recently commented on the ubiquity of FFMPEG: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258531455220609025 FFMPEG is amazing. I don't think that it's the only game in town, but there it&#x27
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by blululu 6y ago
That's awesome. Every section on the command is simple, but taken as a whole, it is pretty thorny. I find that MoviePy ( https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/ ) is a great tool for more complex operations like the aboce.
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by blululu 6y ago
I have experimented with Chronological order in the past, and it almost invariably provides a worse feed. It's like email with no spam filters. The grim reality is that most of the content that is uploaded to Facebook is repetitive and
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by blululu 6y ago
I really love this idea. The fact that the output is vector based means that you could actually simply have it slowly and continuously draw outwards in an infinite panorama. Would make a great screen saver.
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by blululu 6y ago
I'm honestly glad to hear that. The main point of the Visual Editor was to make editing Wikipedia easier and more inclusive. The research suggests that it did not really succeed in achieving these goals. This result is a little surpris
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by blululu 6y ago
Not to justify wasting money, but the questionable UX features are a relatively small part of the massive cash fire that is the WMF. Also, while there have been some large and costly failures (Visual Editor), UX features are one of the few
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by blululu 6y ago
In general shortages are less common than cheapskates. Helium is strange though. It is generally produced as a byproduct of natural gas. This means that its availability is largely driven by an unrelated market that is much larger and more
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by blululu 6y ago
It already exists and it's fabulous: https://pippinbarr.github.io/itisasifyouweredoingwork/
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by blululu 6y ago
For large data yes. For small data sets feature engineering is often more important than the machine learning model used. (Kaggle contests are frequently are won by Random Forrests + Feature Engineering) Another important thing to consider
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Show HN: Open GIF Search(opengif.net)
60 points by blululu 6y ago|12 comments
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Proof of concept on an open sourced Gif Search Engine.
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by blululu 6y ago
I don't think that 'Tennessee' is the correct spelling for Shenzhen. The low cost of living states in the US are still expensive compared to low cost of living countries. There is engineering talent around the world, and I d
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by blululu 6y ago
2% of CO2 emissions is a lot when you consider the number of people who produce it. For anyone who flies regularly it will typically make up the lion's share of their carbon footprint.

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