davmar

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by davmar 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY-pUxKQMUE
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by davmar 7y ago
only about half of the species of spiders spin webs. the others are hunters.
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by davmar 7y ago
i mean you're probably right, it's a wild theory. but, maybe their leadership is made up of hard right conservatives that are willing to do what it takes to keep power (political, not electrical power...ha)
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by davmar 7y ago
those are some interesting theories. the big secret gov't project is probably like stranger things then. they need the power to drill a hole into the upside down!
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by davmar 7y ago
well, it's a conspiracy theory so it's half-baked by definition. the point would be voter suppression to affect the outcome of the election, of course.
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by davmar 7y ago
i have this conspiracy theory: PG&E is normalizing power shutdowns around this time of year and on Nov 3, 2020 they'll shut off power to specific areas while people are voting for the next president.
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by davmar 7y ago
if you think that people fighting to preserve organized society on earth from the reality of climate apocalypse is "the latest moral crusade" or a "political crusade"... you're wrong.
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by davmar 7y ago
i've been to india twice to study yoga for months at a time, and i've done all kinds in the US. ok there are my creds. yoga asana - the moving aspect - is only 1 of 8 branches of yoga and it has evolved significantly over time. Ev
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by davmar 7y ago
came here wondering the same thing. those cold start times aren't acceptable for user-facing apps and i had to switch a serverless project from RDS in a VPC to dynamodb. even worse is that these cold start times are for each lambda,
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by davmar 8y ago
happy to hear comcast support was able to help out on mars. just unplug it and plug it back in.
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by davmar 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by this comment. How does it relate to the discussion on racial equity?
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by davmar 8y ago
Our industry is behind when it comes to understanding race and racism. Proof: Slack's mistake this last week. In 2019, learn about institutional racism and why we have to undo it. Take a course from the People's Institute. If you
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by davmar 8y ago
i gave you my email address. what have i done? haha
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by davmar 8y ago
I disagree. I believe the most difficult engineering problem in the world is changing human behavior and decision making at scale. Not behavior in terms of "tap the screen more often", but actually changing how we treat each other
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by davmar 8y ago
(1-p)^n is one my favorite things. happy to see it get some attention.
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by davmar 8y ago
Hello. Third idiot checking in.
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by davmar 8y ago
as if it wasn't already confusing enough. should i use tensorflow hub? TF slim? keras applications that import tensorflow? should i still use those outdates TF slim models that are for some reason kept in models/inception? please,
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by davmar 8y ago
caveat: i haven't finished reading the entire FB announcement yet. google announced something along these lines at their AI conference last september and released the video today on youtube. here's the link to the segment where th
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by davmar 8y ago
i disagree in that i do see a future for macOS. steve jobs said it best - sometimes you drive a convertible, sometimes a pickup truck. macOS may be the pickup truck. but it isn't going to go away without a fight. not unless you can mak
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by davmar 8y ago
yes, factor in human nature but first understand what it is. there are 360 million vegetarians in India, for example. eating meat isn't coded in our DNA.
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by davmar 9y ago
your assertions about fees is exactly backwards. if there are fewer transactions, the fees go down. each block has a finite number of transactions it can include, so to get yours included you attach a fee. therefore, increased demand increa
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by davmar 9y ago
monero is where it's at imho
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by davmar 9y ago
i take courses on udemy and coursera.
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by davmar 9y ago
pls respond. also interested.
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by davmar 9y ago
The author has the audacity to lay 100% of the blame at the feet of his "genius". Sadly, the author will run continually into new sets of problems again and again at his company and each time find a new scapegoat. This is because
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by davmar 10y ago
airbnb is a much, much more economical option while traveling over hotels when booking in advance for a couple. it was even cheaper than a private room in a hostels in berlin. source: traveling for 1.5 years using airbnb, hotels, hostels.
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by davmar 10y ago
ok.
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by davmar 10y ago
He sounds like a grumpy old man mixed with a bit of hipster. If you can dismiss the mobile revolution as selling "sugar water to children" you're wearing blindfolds. Look at adoption rates of these devices all around the worl
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by davmar 10y ago
Depends on your definition of "significant breakthrough". Technical breakthroughs are what Kay values, and that's OK. But to suggest they're the only kind of breakthroughs is myopic. Startups can, in their best incarnati
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by davmar 10y ago
He also said: > Value judgements require a value system. When he talks about research, he's valuing a certain kind of research: laboratory, explorative research that may or may not reach a market. Startups are, from a certain point

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