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by davidkuhta 9y ago
PSA: The article is about the "Hey Siri" functionality and not anything relate to Core ML. The underlying technical content can be found in Apple's Machine Learning Journal article: Hey Siri: An On-device DNN-powered Voice T
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
I feel like Marathon Cheating would make a great segment on LastWeekTonight's "How Is This Still A Thing?" I was flabbergasted to read about "Patty" who got caught cheating at a Disneyland 5K. Have to agree with the
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
PSA for others potentially looking for an off-the-rack solution, here were some of the companies mentioned: Netlify - See CTO comment above/below https://www.netlify.com/open-source/ [Kubernetes, Docker, React]
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
Wow, that was a really deep and enjoyable Wikipedia rabbit hole journey. I hadn't heard of Temporal Difference before (though I was familiar with Q-learning). It was interesting to note that TD-Gammon improved with expert designed fe
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
I meant that tongue-in-cheek based on the "by playing games against itself" during training. Nonetheless, thanks for clarifying that in case it's unclear for others (and for the SGFs).
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
Thanks!
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
> Previous versions of AlphaGo initially trained on thousands of human amateur and professional games to learn how to play Go. AlphaGo Zero skips this step and learns to play simply by playing games against itself, starting from complete
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
Agree with this being a bizarre post. On an unrelated note, be sure to check out the unique and awesome captcha they use at the bottom of the page!
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
Agreed, I was thinking it was a riding helmet, then I saw the mention of pollution and thought it was maybe just for walking around, but then there's the Armor dropdown which seems to hark back to being riding related. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
This is pretty awesome. I wonder how much would need to be adjusted to provide a scaling factor to the first metaball such that the area was constant (Thus ending up with two equally sized metaballs) or even utilizing the speed of the pull
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
Also worth mentioning: - Fast: Needed a one-second average processing time (product-code iamge -> OCR pipeline) - Accurate: Goal was to achieve 95% string recognition accuracy (with improvement via active learning)
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
> Representation of the 4-way handshake from the paper by He et al. Yes, I know you’re like “what?“. But that’s why people who do formal verification of protocols don’t have many friends. +1 for a good read, really enjoyed his writing st
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
I appreciated the humanity of it. In particularly, Robinson reflecting on his past decisions: > "I don’t know where she [Robinson's wife] got that disease, but my guess is that if we’d stayed in La Jolla, she’d still be alive.
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
Haha Sept 15, I should go comment on that. starts typing thinks about how many other people enjoy Star Wars Ctrl+F 'Boba Fett' D'oh.
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
> wealthier and stronger than ever Whoever said money doesn't grow on trees? lol
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
I wish there was a tech/engineering equivalent to "That's the joke" for circumstances like these.
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
Well on that subject, what would be the ideal plant playlist? "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Marvin Gaye
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
In fairness, the author does make note of that: Note - In a real-world application, validating an email address using a regular expression is not enough for many situations, such as when a user signs up. Once you have confirmed that the in
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
My personal favorite: Richard: (referring to the McLaren) You got this for me? Russ: What? No, I It's for me. I bought this for myself to celebrate you guys helping me get back to a billion. That's why I came here, to show it to y
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I was just reading about something similar in the "Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?" post Joel Spolsky's point: They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software com
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by davidkuhta 9y ago
Yeah had the same thought, I was thinking "Cowboy, Cowboy, why does that sound familiar..." Then the purple Elixir related light-bulb kicked on.
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It could also be intended to conjuring up imagery of yourself relaxing on an island in the Caribbean drinking a margarita, eating chips and Guacamole. A gateway to a clientless, remote, desktop getaway.