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by devinplatt 5y ago
> This product injects source code derived from copyrighted sources into the software of their customers without informing them of the license of the original source code. This significantly eases unauthorized and unlicensed use of a cop
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by devinplatt 5y ago
The article is worth reading, but a good summary is at the bottom: > This investigation demonstrates that GitHub Copilot can quote a body of code verbatim, but that it rarely does so, and when it does, it mostly quotes code that everybod
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by devinplatt 5y ago
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood recommends this book on his Coding Horror blog[0]. I don't have children, but his statement that a
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by devinplatt 5y ago
The Snoop Dogg advertisement rebranding case study was pretty impressive to me, since there were obvious savings from reuse. Neat to see how this technology could be integrated in a subtle way with other editing techniques. It seems to me t
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by devinplatt 6y ago
(Unrelated to pedagogy, but related to when multiplication is not repeated addition.) When I was an early college student I started to become curious about the prime numbers. Why are some numbers in particular prime, and others aren't?
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by devinplatt 6y ago
Naive question: given that there is a sort of pareto distribution in covid vulnerability, and that the vaccine rollout prioritizes vaccinating the most vulnerable first, doesn't it also make some sense to prioritize stronger vaccinatio
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by devinplatt 6y ago
Ugh, I had this problem looking for power strips on Amazon too. I wanted something with lots of reviews (to verify quality), but every product with a high number of reviews had at least one scary customer picture. I ended up relying on bran
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by devinplatt 6y ago
I think actually op is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_bias : "Participation bias or non-response bias is a phenomenon in which the results of elections, studies, polls, etc. become non-rep
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by devinplatt 6y ago
There's a downloadable dataset! Would be fun to train a color-labeling model :)
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by devinplatt 7y ago
Google used to do something called SDCH (Shared Dictionary Compression for HTTP), where a delta compression dictionary was downloaded to Chrome. The dictionary had to be updated from time to time to keep a good compression rate as the Googl
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by devinplatt 7y ago
You can provide feedback on the answer card. I've had a few answer cards fixed after providing feedback. Notably "https port" used to yield the http port. Edit: I think you've actually managed to find a really terrific e
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by devinplatt 7y ago
Google's mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."[1] According to a Wikipedia citation (The Guardian) this was the original mission statement.[2] [1] http
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by devinplatt 7y ago
Cash flow? If it was a one time purchase they'd have to charge more upfront. Also maybe there could be automation with this service that saves time?
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by devinplatt 7y ago
> I am currently in an undergraduate university considered "elite" in US. As someone who went to community college and public university, and has worked at FAANG companies, I think your perspective is heavily influenced by your
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by devinplatt 7y ago
I don't have experience with PyTorch myself, but I know that Andrej Karpathy was famously happy switching to it[1]. [1]: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/868178954032513024?lang=...
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by devinplatt 7y ago
My favorite example is that time Kanye shared a screenshot on Twitter and didn't crop out his Pirate Bay tabs for pirating Deadmau5's music software, Serum. https://twitter.com/deadmau5/status/70487616715
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by devinplatt 7y ago
I'm genuinely curious, why do you believe this? From experience? From hearing mathematicians say so? I'm currently working on my first formal math paper, and I've been spending a lot of time figuring out how to best present
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Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers (2017)(webliteracy.pressbooks.com)
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by devinplatt 7y ago
I did my master's thesis (2017) using this dataset. I trained a neural network to predict musical features from the raw audio of the songs. Unfortunately the 7digital ids were out-of-date, so in order to get access to the audio (30 sec
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by devinplatt 7y ago
At UC Davis the Sheilds library has a 24 hour room, and during finals week at the entire library has extended hours. I loved the 24 hour room back when I was a student. It was super quiet and was so starkly ugly you had no business being th
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by devinplatt 7y ago
> By May 2016, Kay was able to charm Y Combinator’s president and A-type startup whisperer Sam Altman. They created Human Advancement Research Community (HARC) inside of YC Research and absorbed the CDG researchers there. Altman generous
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by devinplatt 7y ago
If this interests you you might want to check out: https://www.prehabexercises.com/compensation-patterns/ That's probably the best single page I've seen on the web for an overview of compensation patterns. Of
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by devinplatt 7y ago
Also: Mike Reinold, Eric Cressey, Tony Gentilcore, and Bret Contreras. R/BodyWeightFitness has taught me a lot too. They have a wiki with great tips on how to regress exercises to your actual level and then progress them as you get str
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by devinplatt 7y ago
Maybe someday instead of seeing models in a catalog I could see renderings of myself in the clothing?
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by devinplatt 7y ago
ELI5 version: https://www.namecheap.com/blog/keep-domain-prices-in-check/ I have a .org domain, but I don't know much about the Domain Name System at all so I did Google search and found that article quite he
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by devinplatt 7y ago
Hey ramraj07, I just wanted to say thanks for submitting this article! A couple weeks ago I read a different article on Nature that claimed that "Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon" ( https:&#x2
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by devinplatt 8y ago
Hi Joel. In case you didn't see my top level comment (it's buried quite low), I'm working on a similar project to document evidence for and against claims: https://www.wikiclaim.org The tech is dumb (just MediaWik
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by devinplatt 8y ago
Thanks Smenis! In time I hope that Google will surface Wikiclaim higher in its search results (whether URL or even answer box), so in my mind the competitor is also the ally :) I don't think the strong suit of Quora (information based
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by devinplatt 8y ago
Hey everybody, I just want to point out that I'm working on a similar project to document evidence for and against claims: https://www.wikiclaim.org The tech is dumb (MediaWiki on Heroku), but it's been sufficient to a
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by devinplatt 8y ago
Hi willj. I just wanted to thank you for making this comment. I found it informative and well written. I'm always looking for sources and topics for my wiki, and I added a page inspired by your comment: https://www.wikiclaim

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