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by codelord 5y ago
I personally follow the CDC guidelines. I think if everyone equally trusted CDC we wouldn't have the kind of outbreaks that we have seen in the past year. So raising doubts in CDC's credibility overall is hurtful IMO. That doesn&#
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by codelord 5y ago
It's funny that if you look at the background of the image Signal posted you see pretty clearly their account was disabled due to some unusual account activity not ad violation. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0lx59fW
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by codelord 5y ago
After refreshing Amazon's Ryzen page for a month to get a 5950x, I finally bit the bullet and paid 200$ extra to buy it from a scalper. Even though I paid more than the list price I think the value of this CPU is insane compared to the
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by codelord 6y ago
Not really an alternative, but another way of making animations on the web, this one with tf.js backend and a graphical user interface: https://www.subgraphs.com/#/editor/game_of_life https://www.subgra
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by codelord 6y ago
"He's done worse before, why now?" is not a very strong argument IMO. Are we better off without him on twitter? IMO, yes. Then this is a positive move. I also think Twitter/Facebook should have clear guidelines for intol
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by codelord 6y ago
I have mixed feelings about this subject. On the one hand I would like Google/FB to remove antivax content on all of their platforms as it's immediately dangerous to people and unanimously debunked by scientists. On the other hand
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by codelord 6y ago
The chip seems to be A14 + 2 extra high performance cpu cores + 4 gpu cores. That's cool, but that's not a great leap for Apple. The real news here is that macOS now runs on ARM processors. Keep your old tablets around, you may so
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by codelord 6y ago
The title is click-bait. This has been known for several years[1], the technique has little practical value, and the assertion that you can learn from no data is completely false and misleading. The training data was compressed to a few exa
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by codelord 6y ago
I believe the vast majority of the content you see on Twitter and pretty much everything you see on Facebook is from people you follow (ads excluded). Twitter/FB though use an algorithmic feed mechanism to reorder the posts which makes
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by codelord 6y ago
From the article: > "Ms. Callimachi’s approach to storytelling aligned with a more profound shift underway at The Times .... to turn distant conflicts in Africa and the Middle East into irresistibly accessible stories." > &q
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by codelord 6y ago
It's hard to pinpoint a few topics. I'd just suggest to go through an introductory course like Gilbert Strang's intro to linear algebra to get a general understanding and build on your knowledge as needed.
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by codelord 6y ago
I got my BSc in computer science and PhD in machine learning, and ended up working in a top FAANG AI research lab. In the hindsight both when doing research for my PhD and also when working as an engineer I felt the most useful courses from
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by codelord 6y ago
Firstly: If you don't direct or mention about the external payment system in the app it doesn't break any of Apple rules. They can charge 1000$ on their own website and not pay a penny to Apple if they just don't link to thei
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by codelord 6y ago
I did explain it. Was there a part of it that was ambiguous? Apple didn't ask them to monetize, article says it did.
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by codelord 6y ago
"ProtonMail says that Apple forced it to monetize its app". I stopped there. I have seen a lot of articles like this misleading the public about the issue. Apple didn't force them to monetize anything. It was monetized. Apple
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by codelord 6y ago
I grew up in a developing country. In some ways (e.g. quality of roads or number of homeless per mile) my home country is even better than California. Have you lived in a developing country? (Hint: It's not as bad as you think) The fac
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by codelord 6y ago
As far as I know I'm not from India.
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by codelord 6y ago
I left my country to escape a totalitarian regime. I think just because you are born in a place doesn't mean you have the responsibility to completely sacrifice your life. Humans collectively have an obligation to help lift poor countr
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by codelord 6y ago
Disclaimer: I'm an immigrant. There are companies like Cognizant/InfoSys/Tata/... whose business model is based on abusing the H1B system, and that's obviously wrong and I'm quite surprised they get away with i
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by codelord 6y ago
No causation without intervention.
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by codelord 7y ago
In my home country Iran we had the equivalent of SAT general and subject tests. I did pretty poorly in general tests, but the subject tests saved me (near perfect scores in physics and math) and opened the door for me to go to a good univer
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by codelord 7y ago
Why does Netflix publish articles on paywalled websites? Are they aware that users need to pay Medium to read their articles? I get this error: "You’ve reached the end of your free member preview for this month. Become a member now for
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by codelord 7y ago
I think Sweden is very romanticized in American media and amongst the elites. Having lived there for 6 years before moving to US, I think it's an ok country but nowhere near the paradise that is promised by the American media. They say
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by codelord 7y ago
Depth estimation is not a solved problem. Why do you think SDC companies pay so much to buy Lidar if depth estimation was solved?
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by codelord 8y ago
It's hard to argue when all of your arguments are based on Elon Musk's assertions. I remember watching Elon Musk in one of his product announcement events promising that development of full self-driving mode will be finished by th
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by codelord 8y ago
Previously I worked at Waymo for a year on the perception module of the self driving car. Based on what I know about the state of the art of computer vision, I can pretty much guarantee that current Tesla cars will never be autonomous. This
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by codelord 8y ago
I lived in Sweden for a while, Swedes are very proficient in English. Yet, they almost always pronounce ch as sh. They even have TV ads that make fun of this.
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by codelord 8y ago
I always wondered why Germans in the 2nd world war didn't do anything to stop Hitler from committing genocide against the jews and others. But now I understand. Perhaps the biggest genocide of this century is happening now in Yemen. No
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by codelord 8y ago
Oops. You are right, my bad.
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by codelord 8y ago
The middleman always wants to maximize profit. Nothing is stopping them from raising prices at anytime. However, unless you have a monopoly on the food market, competition will force the prices down.

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