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by comstock 9y ago
I wish people would wake up and realize this. My hope is that all the hype around self driving cars will result in some momentum around more limited applications. But it might be another of those the perfect is the enemy of the good type si
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by comstock 9y ago
Well, he uses the word patents in a context which suggests he doesn’t care much about patents... The examples cited in the article are mostly websites. And I think (given the title of the article) he would describe himself as a tech investo
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by comstock 9y ago
Tech, as used by investors no longer really means technology. It means a website essentially. It would rarely (in my experience) even encompass hardware. Certainly nothing requiring novel basic technology (science based startups). I don’t k
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by comstock 9y ago
If that’s the case then those women are part of the problem. Some people act like the social dynamic where men are sexually agressive is solely the responsibility of men. Most surveys I’ve seen suggest that the majority of women expect men
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by comstock 9y ago
It’s pretty clear that open access is the way things should be. Particularly as now publication and reproduction costs are essentially zero. It’s interesting to note how we got here, and how we remain here. Academics mostly universally comp
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by comstock 9y ago
To be honest it sounds like they’re describing the plot of the next mission impossible film rather than anything that exists in our reality.
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by comstock 9y ago
The article doesn’t make that statement. The article doesn’t provide data to support any statements (it’s a pop science piece). The original blog: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for... Is
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by comstock 9y ago
Well, I’m interested in understanding how valuable deep learning is and if lives up to the hype. Better translation of European languages (which wasn’t a totally unsolved problem anyway) doesn’t seem to be something that really lives up to
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by comstock 9y ago
Looks like great incremental progess. Have you seen the state of Japanese<->English translation? It’s almost completely useless. I really don’t see this as a huge win for deep learning, anything else?
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by comstock 9y ago
AlphaGo is interesting. But what big new problems have been solved? (rather than incrementally improved).
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by comstock 9y ago
I find it somewhat understandable from non-tech people. I’m more surprised at now much people within the tech world but the hype.
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by comstock 9y ago
Any bets on when the current deep learning bubble is going to burst? It’s shocking to me how much technical people buy into this, how “this time it’s different” and AI isn’t “over-promising and substantially under-delivering” this time. Rea
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by comstock 9y ago
I think it’s much easier if you use someone like leapin to manage the company formation process. I’ve not had any of the issues you’ve mentioned (maybe about 3 spam emails).
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by comstock 9y ago
It takes time, I think from initial application to having the company set up, it was about 2 months. One month waiting for authorization, another month for the card to arrive. Setting up the company is then easy. To set up a full bank accou
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by comstock 9y ago
Yea, that’s not going to work with all children. Mine would just get more agitated from this. For me calm down time comes later and starts with “hug?” and they come to you for resolution.
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by comstock 9y ago
That sounds really tough. Yep, children like all people are all a bit different. I wish you luck and hope you find what works for you.
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by comstock 9y ago
You’re getting upvotes most likely because most of the people on HN are either childless (and don’t fully understand what parenting involves) or don’t take an active role in parenting (this is unfortunately true of the people I know in real
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by comstock 9y ago
You sound very judgmental. Bring up kids is hard, what those “mothers” are doing is hard, physically exhausting work which often takes 18 hours a day. You know nothing of their personal circumstances but decide to judge them anyway. For me,
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by comstock 9y ago
Kids are not entertained by cartoons because they are forced upon them. Kids are often attracted to, and entertained by cartoons and other stories. Why exactly I don’t know, but they also make up their own imaginary characters sometimes. In
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by comstock 9y ago
I agree. What’s been interesting is getting to know other families with kids. It’s obviously not always the case, but the fathers often have these elaborate theories. They also look really good in public. I know their wives too. The reality
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by comstock 9y ago
I agree, but parenting is a hard job which society often doesn’t seem to value very highly. In this community I’ve literary heard someone say “Machine learning is very important for the future of humanity, so I can’t spend time looking afte
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by comstock 9y ago
Interesting, I didn’t realize cold welding was a problem in space. I assume it can be solved by applying a coating to surfaces that might come in contact with each other.
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by comstock 9y ago
Article just says they used cookies for tracking. Does anyone have a better article, indicating why this work a workaround, and they it affected iPhones in particular?
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by comstock 9y ago
I assume you can spin up new instances easily, and they’ll have per-hour billing. You don’t usually get that with dedicated servers. It sounds a bit like MAAS [1], which allows you to throw images onto, and manage real servers easily, very
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by comstock 9y ago
The Kansai one was really good, felt more tech focused and had great talks when I went. The Tokyo meetup was more of a mixer last time I attended. Personally didn’t enjoy it as much.
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by comstock 9y ago
In order to support the second point, more data would be required. Essentially all you’ve provided is anecdotal evidence, which isn’t very convincing. How would you support the claim that people in the “HN demographic” voted in significant
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by comstock 9y ago
That’s a really interesting link, thanks. The number 2 reason was immigration. I can see that it might be possible that immigration is a subset of “decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK”. I.e. the immigration policy shouldn’t be
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by comstock 9y ago
Your claim here seems to be that there are >1 people who voted for Brexit for reasons other than immigration. That is reasonably obvious, and not useful basis for a discussion on Brexit. If you want to gain a better understanding of why
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by comstock 9y ago
Oh ok, so just anti-immigration? Not anti-immigration and working class? Your anecdotal evidence is not very useful in a reasonable discussion, and it might be more interesting to have a data based discussion (if you have some data).
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by comstock 9y ago
I think surveys have shown the leave vote was mostly about immigration: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-latest... But perhaps you have other data that supports your case?

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