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by colmvp 6y ago
Aurelien Geron is very good at explaining concepts and I thought it was a lot more approachable than say the canonical Deep Learning book.
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by colmvp 6y ago
In Canada for months we followed WHO's directions to a tee and ended up rapid growth of infections until we did a 180 and implemented nearly every measure that the WHO disagreed with. Taiwan is one of the few countries to have very few
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by colmvp 6y ago
I'm actually slightly worried as Singapore seemed to have handled the crisis quite well with only 1000ish cases for the longest time, but have now had cases balloon from only around 1350 total cases two weeks ago to 6000 today. Certain
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by colmvp 6y ago
Taiwan also has a lot of preventative measures, i.e. mandatory mask usage in mass transit systems, government issued masks and mask rationing system, automated temperature checks at various public spaces, mask usage in schools, plastic divi
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by colmvp 7y ago
And also not a lot of companies want to be associated with Covid-19 content.
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by colmvp 7y ago
I think it's more cost efficient for companies to give the CPUs some absurd advantage (crazy amount of HP, powerful attacks) and call it day. Problem with AI is even if you spend a lot of time trying to get it right, it can make choice
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by colmvp 7y ago
In Canada at least, some Prime shipping estimates are ONE MONTH. At the end of the day, I'm not complaining because prioritizing medical supplies is prudent but I have to imagine that a lot of people are choosing to use alternative sou
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by colmvp 7y ago
> I imagine they might say it is for helping other nations. Given that the administration is halting exports of masks to Canada and Latin America from 3M, I somehow doubt that the reserves are for helping other nations.
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by colmvp 7y ago
As a Canadian, I find it frustrating that for weeks, the Federal government was hesitant to halt air travel, citing the WHO who stated that closing borders showed little evidence on slowing the transmission of influenza ( https://
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by colmvp 7y ago
Is Amazon booming? In Canada, some Amazon shipments for non essential equipment is going to take over a month which is why I'm not bothering to order anything from them during this time and finding other stuff locally.
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by colmvp 7y ago
I can't speak for every city, but where I live, a lot of Airbnber's are hurting for the sudden drop in revenue. Hotels might get bailouts or credits from the government but short term rental companies will get nothing and be hard
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by colmvp 7y ago
There's already a massive shortage of masks so I don't what lying about it and then changing stances during a crisis is supposed to accomplish. But given their failure with Covid testing early on, it doesn't surprise me to se
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by colmvp 7y ago
I almost knew exactly who it was going to be when they mentioned AlphaGo Developer. For those who aren't that well versed in RL, I recommend watching his lectures at UCL ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0 ). R
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by colmvp 7y ago
Meanwhile in Oklahoma: > The coronavirus tests run on the Utah Jazz’s players and team employees came from a good portion of the state of Oklahoma’s supply. > The 50-plus tests that were run on the Jazz’s traveling party after Rudy Go
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by colmvp 7y ago
Toronto is starved for affordable rentals in no small part because of the number of owners who are using their properties as short-term rentals. I've lived in my building for a decade and the police have only been called twice. In both
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by colmvp 7y ago
I have bad eye sight too and I find the high index lenses from WB are still super thick compared to other providers.
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by colmvp 7y ago
I'll try using this for the next weeks but having used it for the last hour, I definitely like the feel of it a lot more than Anki.
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by colmvp 7y ago
OP's headline saves you a click, versus the original title: "We Finally Figured Out Who Makes wikiHow’s Bizarre Art"
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by colmvp 7y ago
> This may rub some folks raw and be pessimistic, but a half a century on this planet has taught me that any solution which relies on "doing the right thing" (ethics) but does not have any rules, laws or other repercussion for
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by colmvp 7y ago
> It's possible, but in my experience, there is someone for everyone. lol citation needed. I've used dating apps for the last four years. I've gotten maybe 3-4 dates per year, and 0 relationships out of it.
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by colmvp 7y ago
Online retail is only around 10-11% of total retail sales in the United States. https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/pdf/ec_current.p... Amazon has a leg up on Walmart for online sales, but W
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by colmvp 7y ago
I'm fine with users not editorializing the headline, instead opting to use the original title. This is so that no one can accuse the poster from editorializing it themself and allow dang or one of the HN mods be the one to change it.
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by colmvp 7y ago
A few months ago, I was looking for a laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed since I was interested in learning ROS but was pretty disappointed that most of the options available were either 13 inches or clunky/ugly laptops. I ended up buyin
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by colmvp 7y ago
FWIW, I tried using Ros on Windows as recently as the summer but IMO the biggest issue is that 3rd party packages like those listed on the Github repo are predominantly coded for Linux. So I'd have issues with builds failing to compile
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by colmvp 7y ago
Isn’t it kind of weird that this isn’t news on the WoW subreddit?
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by colmvp 7y ago
Maybe. Hearthstone has been on a downward trend for the last 1.75 years as evident by their quarterly reports over that time period which state the game has had a decline of active users and revenue. They’ve even started to monetize previou
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by colmvp 7y ago
I'm noticing that even Etsy does this by saying that "n people have this their baskets right now." That might be so, but it's not like most of the items are scarce. For example, I ordered a t-shirt and the seller just u
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by colmvp 7y ago
Plus the journalist from WSJ did more for them in helping them find Billy than the FBI did. And recovering the body was also a huge ordeal that the parents basically did on their own.
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by colmvp 7y ago
A podcast episode with the journalist of this story: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/the-journal/gmh37n
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by colmvp 7y ago
FWIW, I switched from using a Mac for a decade to using Ubuntu on a brand new Dell XPS and it works perfectly. Even though Linux users are a tiny minority of users, I find they are quite helpful at publishing their problems and eventual sol

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