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by briandw 3y ago
Sounds so much more realistic than putting up new lines. I imagine that replacing the conductors doesn't need environmental review and NIMBYs can't go to court to stop an existing project.
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by briandw 3y ago
The website and manual mention "10 groups of scrambled voice encryption". They don't specify what this is actually doing. I've always wondered what it would take to make a really good encrypted coms system using one of t
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by briandw 3y ago
Worse than the chart crime of truncating the y axis is putting LLaMa2's Human Eval scores on there and not comparing it to Code Llama Instruct 70b. DBRX still beats Code Llama Instruct's 67.8 but not by that much.
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by briandw 3y ago
Who's dreaming now? https://twitter.com/tesla4k/status/1676077165983723520 "SpaceX primarily seems to be selling a dream. $50M launch is a dream. Reusability is a dream. How do you respond to a dream? Yo
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by briandw 3y ago
Pinker’s Stuff of Thought made a good case against this argument. https://stevenpinker.com/publications/stuff-thought-language...
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by briandw 3y ago
I'm always wary of media reporting on Spacex. Reuters headlines on the starship launch was "Elon Musk's Starship explodes minutes after first test flight's liftoff" and "Spacex confirms loss of starship at end
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by briandw 3y ago
Break use on my EV is about once per trip. I have to stop after backing up and that seems to need the breaks. Honestly not sure if that's just a bad habit at this point or of regen doesn't work in reverse.
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by briandw 3y ago
That makes sense and I was wondering if it might be related to the device temp. I should have tried putting a hot pack on the sensor to validate.
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by briandw 3y ago
I did this for fun using the veri.co service. It was interesting how little my diet immediately affected my blood sugar. Non diet things were much bigger. Do hard exercise -> spike. Take a hot shower -> spike. Fast for 48 hours ->
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by briandw 3y ago
Looks like the Notebook request has been open for over a year. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5273 So according to the Lindy effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effec
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by briandw 3y ago
I really love native apps, but I'm stuck using VS code for now. It just kills me to see how much power goes to blinking the cursor in VS code. I tried Zed for a bit but couldn't make it work. I loved that its so light weight and f
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by briandw 3y ago
How would the Minkowski sum be used in the diffusion model? Is the idea to look at the Minkowski sum of the prediction and label?
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by briandw 3y ago
This ruling is consistent IMO with the Monkey Takes a Selfie ruling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
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by briandw 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by briandw 3y ago
Same from Toyota in 2017 https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/07/toyota-wants-to-commerc... Also from 2014 https://www.autonews.com/article/20140127/OEM06/301279980/to...
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by briandw 4y ago
The market decided on this already. There were Samsung phones with replaceable batteries and they stopped making them. Samsung didn't stop selling them because people wanted replaceable batteries more than the phones without.
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by briandw 4y ago
Elon's antics and politics are causing problems. IMHO the politics don't change Tesla huge lead in the EV space. Seems like people are conflating their hatred of Elon with Teslas potential as a company. None of the other car maker
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by briandw 4y ago
I have so much trouble when trying to refactor projects bigger than a few hundred lines in python. If I could integrate this into Jupyter easily I'd be excited to try it out.
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by briandw 5y ago
This is the classic “Prophet vs Wizard” dichotomy as laid out in The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles Mann. I highly recommend the book for getting a thorough background on the thoughts of both camps. I really wish it wasn’t always presen
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by briandw 5y ago
I worked with Kevin at a startup (Otto smart lock). He's a solid developer that I'd be happy to vouch for.
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by briandw 6y ago
Same here. I have vivid memories of the supply chain guy yelling into the phone, and this gem of a quote. "What's my target price? It's zero, now what can you do for me?!"
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by briandw 6y ago
Yes but DocuSign gives you a certificate chain that you can check the digital signature with.
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by briandw 6y ago
I agree completely that real signatures aren’t really useful. What I was trying to say is that they don’t give you a way to verify the digital signature. I believe that DocuSign does provide a certificate chain that you can use the check th
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by briandw 6y ago
Slightly OT but has anyone else gotten equity grants vía Carta? They are “signed” with a unverifiable digital signature. So you just have to trust that the document that they have is signed and that they will keep track of the records corre
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by briandw 6y ago
It’s not the Bitcoin will continue to rise, it’s that the dollar will continue to fall. All currencies eventually become worthless.
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Do androids see electric blue? Visualizing the latent space of color perception(medium.com)
2 points by briandw 8y ago|0 comments
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by briandw 9y ago
Jeremy, Just wanted to say thanks for all your work. I'm taking some time off from my regular job as an iOS developer to pursue an ML project of mine. I wouldn't have had the confidence to do that with out your online course. I wr
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by briandw 9y ago
I just finished the "soft launch" version of this. It's a truly excellent way to get started with deep learning. The course is very hands on and practical. This version has been updated to use pytorch and a bunch of new techn
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by briandw 9y ago
I'll make a shameless plug for my side project, IQ boost. The first Dual N-Back iPhone app. I launched it about 2 weeks after the app store opened. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iq-boost/id286574399?mt=
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by briandw 10y ago
Dual n-back training is the only thing that I've read about that shows transference to unrelated tasks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back There are some good apps out there: Desktop -> http://brai

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