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by deeviant 6y ago
Investing is buying things that gain value over time. Bitcoin was originally worthless, now it's ~19k a coin. Anybody that bought or mined a large amount of coins back in the day and held on to them, is now rich, so a pretty good inves
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by deeviant 6y ago
This sounds like a Matthew McConaughey AWS commercial rather than a thought-out technical argument.
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by deeviant 6y ago
I feel that the "produced excellent results" has a lot of unpack there. It obviously wasn't scoring 90+ in CASP. Actually, after reading your linked blog post, it's pretty obvious why they weren't exactly chomping o
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by deeviant 6y ago
> We appear to be at the tail end of the maximum hype part of the boom-bust cycle. Thinking that the rapid gains being made by the current deep learning approaches will soon hit a wall is a reasonable outside-view prediction to make: nea
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by deeviant 6y ago
> Nothing about this changes the fact that protein crystallography is a gold-standard method for determining a protein structure. Yes it does. Protein crystallography is/was the gold-standard. Once this result is verified and acce
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by deeviant 6y ago
Good grief, give it up already.
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by deeviant 6y ago
> While we get the insight of being able to predict some structures we don't get the insight of why things are happening the way they are. This isn't something specific to AI, but science itself. We know the value of C, but now
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by deeviant 6y ago
> I wonder if we can determine if this extends to proteins that aren't as keen to determining their 3D structure? This is already happened. "An AlphaFold prediction helped to determine the structure of a bacterial protein that
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by deeviant 6y ago
The "science" of protein folding has a primary goal: to predict the structure of a protein given it's constituent parts. This is what alphaFold does, and it's been verified to produce results at an apparent accuracy at o
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by deeviant 6y ago
You don't generally look at neural network output like that. There is generally a threshold, less than X, not the class, equal or more, is the class. Then you run the network with the same threshold on a known data set and compute a co
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by deeviant 6y ago
If there was a headline, "Company X with Product Y cured cancer" and it turns out that product Y actually only cured 90% of cancer, I'm pretty sure most people would be happy the headline. Oh, and to be a true parallel exampl
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by deeviant 6y ago
> this isn't the typical HN pedantry. Then launches into what can only be recognized as an exercise in pedantry.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Are people, in general, supposed to know Growl is? The link provided certainly provides no context nor got me curious enough to google it.
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by deeviant 6y ago
I'm guessing the most effective anti-drone weapons are more akin to narrow beam EMP than thermal lasers. Less because of any sort of reflective countermeasure and more because it takes way less power and precision to attack the delicat
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by deeviant 6y ago
Very, very much depends on the model.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Take this from an extremely liberal and war-abhorring person: If your argument is that a country should not take steps to secure it's supply chains in the event of a war because <morals or something>, then you are the naive one.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Entire generations? No. Some amount of each generation? Yes. In general I agree with your sentiment. War = bad. Being a pacific that eschews all ability to make war is not the pinnacle of evolution. At least not in my view of things. A trul
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by deeviant 6y ago
A world without ad-tech or JavaScript, tell me more of this Utopia.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Anybody else find the teal font color nigh unreadable?
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by deeviant 6y ago
Why does every gravity storage startup claim they invented gravity storage? It's not just not true, it's like, obviously not true. Anybody that took high-school level physics understands gravitation potential energy and it'
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by deeviant 6y ago
This pretty much. There are so many great places to live, cheap places to live, that have no local economy. Once the average person is truly a member of the "global economy" and can participate it in from whatever they are, overhe
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by deeviant 6y ago
Also, since we have no good permanent waste storage facility, with a great deal of waste generated being stored in the generation sites themselves, we'd be absolutely glowing with nuclear waste.
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by deeviant 6y ago
I think saying something that is not essential to you cannot be essential to somebody else is absurd.
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by deeviant 6y ago
I have serious doubts as the viability of Quibi, mainly from my experience with sci-fi short-story compilations. Sure there have been some great short story compilations, but paradoxically, the better they are the worse they feel. As you ju
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by deeviant 6y ago
Tests decrease development time! Results may vary.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Yeah, it's output looks like a 1995 era website.
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by deeviant 7y ago
> jeopardizing reliability... Like being without power for a week and half, like my elderly mother was, because pg&e can't upkeep their transmission lines? Pretty sure microgrids would make this problem better not worse. And sh
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by deeviant 7y ago
This just in, the cost of new green energy is more expensive than mostly amortized, entrenched nuclear power that has yet to enter it's least profitable period.
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by deeviant 7y ago
> I think the the author is doing what TDD (or BDD) is fundamentally trying to get people to do, by writing such detailed requirements and specs: think about shit before they write the code. I hear this a lot, but I wonder if the people
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by deeviant 7y ago
Well, do you know how we "see" black holes? The "body" of a black hole is nothing but darkness, but we see the radiation given off by the mass accelerating toward the black hole event horizon that can often reach signifi

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