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Detention, aka the only true elective class in high school
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If this wasn’t a funny variation on immanetizing the eschaton..
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I still have to read the best biographies of Wiener, but I've read some of his books, and the sense I get is that he was doing all of this for the sake of humanity. "The Human Use of Human Beings" wasn't written for the
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by bpiche 4y ago
Spiral out
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by bpiche 4y ago
Didn’t they acquire Yammer a few years ago? That was a prototype for surveillance social media, if you ask me.
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by bpiche 4y ago
He's carrying the torch of Ivan Illich, basically. It's a reference to 'Tools for Conviviality'. Illich himself was a minor celebrity in the 70s/80s/90s and appeared on the front cover of The Whole Earth Quart
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by bpiche 4y ago
VQGAN-CLIP is fun. Got it working on my GPU a couple weeks ago. You reminded me of this post from the other day, a link to the paper "Prompt Engineering for Text-based Generative Art". Thank you to whoever posted this :) https:&
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kk isn't really just some random old person, he was Wired for all intents and purposes for a long time, he is an astounding and empathetic travel photographer and is one of Stewart Brand's best friends. I realize you were spea
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by bpiche 4y ago
Chevette Washington's cardboard bike with an integrated loudspeaker deterrent from Virtual Light is almost here :D
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by bpiche 4y ago
What if you're expecting a third of that?
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by bpiche 4y ago
This role pays around 170-190k
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by bpiche 4y ago
Spent a lot of time trying to get PyTorch and CUDA to play with my 3070ti yesterday and finally gave up and made a CoLab notebook. Got a pipeline working and trained a multiclass classifier, but the f1 is in the toilet. Might try a differen
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by bpiche 5y ago
It really is that simple, but I didn't think we were there yet!
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by bpiche 5y ago
Your first suggestion seems like the way to go, I read a couple of papers this morning which seemed to confirm that it is a solid strategy. The first one claims that the Longformer architecture is tenable for truly long documents with some
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by bpiche 5y ago
From the mouths of babes. You get so used to grinding LeetCode and doing take homes weekend after weekend, you stop questioning reality. Maybe it takes someone from an outside field looking in to see it. Thank you for the refreshing perspec
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Ask HN: Is this normal? Long-form transformer take home
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by bpiche 5y ago
I guess you could calculate the interannotator agreement of several machine annotators. But I'm not sure how meaningful that would be.
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by bpiche 5y ago
Memory bit rot, I'll have to re read the trilogy now.. Chombo says "Somebody told me that cyberspace was 'everting'. That was how she put it." (Spook Country, pp. 64). Feel like the girl he is referring to may be th
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by bpiche 5y ago
Have you seen Elysium? It's basically Neuromancer: The Movie, starring Matt Damon.
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by bpiche 5y ago
I'm not using this reply to agree or disagree, I just want to share this piece of internet archeology with you. If you're interested in comparing and contrasting great cyberpunk authors, the esteemed Rudy Rucker himself did this i
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I feel like it's just a very self aware parody of the genre at the end of its natural life, looking back at the previous 10 years of peak cultural cyberpunk
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Personally I feel like the series only goes downhill with Count Zero and worse with Mona Lisa Overdrive, but they're both fine books. Count Zero does world building well, it's cool to see the BAMA eastern seaboard, but Bobby is no
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by bpiche 5y ago
Cayce's black bomber jacket and Fruit of the Loom shirts and black Levis make a terrific outfit. The mil spec sneakers in that same series are described with similar care. But beyond mil spec, the whole Blue Ant series is just a beauti
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by bpiche 5y ago
Maybe it was Action Button who put it best when he said Cyberpunk 2077 is the gamer chair of cyberpunk, and I'm paraphrasing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnBKX_vdYQI
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by bpiche 5y ago
Go get it signed at one of his talks..
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username checks out
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gh0st, if you're watching this, I'm still looking for the rabbit hole.
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The Bridge trilogy is fantastic but as a fun counterpoint I respectfully refer to you the two deuteragonists of the _first book_, Berry Rydell is a huge meathead and Chevette Washington has less depth than Snow Crash's Y.T., to me, whi
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Wasn't it Gibson himself who wrote this, right in the beginning of Zero History if I'm not mistaken, when Cayce is meeting with some French artist in a warehouse in the outskirts of Oakland? The artist is making an augmented reali

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