denimalpaca

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by denimalpaca 8y ago
The author makes a decent point about what drove membership to Facebook in the first place - the "cool" aspect via exclusivity and cool kids leading the charge to make the switch. But he completely misses why having a personal web
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by denimalpaca 8y ago
I haven't seen anyone post this here: Consider seeing a therapist. If you think you might be on the spectrum, having a professional diagnose you can go a long way towards understanding how you specifically are having a hard time with s
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by denimalpaca 8y ago
Ask someone to repeat back what you said so you know they actually understood what you were saying.
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by denimalpaca 8y ago
> "A natural answer might suggest itself: “I must have been unconsciously working away on these images—and solved or partially solved the mystery without even knowing it. Then the answer ‘broke through’ into consciousness, when I sa
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by denimalpaca 8y ago
A good way to fight this is to cryptographically sign videos/audio. Might be a bit computationally expensive compared to a text message, but for very high-profile people, having a copy of the video/audio and it's cryptographi
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by denimalpaca 8y ago
Pro-tip if you use your phone too much: Carry a book or Kindle around, and when you look idly at your phone, put it in your pocket and read instead.
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by denimalpaca 8y ago
I chose this example because, in practice, sometimes changing a single feature does ruin the prediction, especially in computer vision. Often, the systems are somewhat resilient to these kinds of errors, but often not also. The fact that
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by denimalpaca 8y ago
I would say it's making a prediction because to me the phrase "drawing conclusions" implies a conscious mental model of information from which a result is established. Making a prediction is not necessarily reliant on these m
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by denimalpaca 8y ago
I took a grad-level quantum computing class which I didn't quite have the physics background for, and the lecture that lost me, about 3 weeks in, was on the different kinds of physical gates quantum computers use. My recollection is th