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by drats 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3349429 If you search for my username in that thread I asked for someone to run the code from the story on a similar dataset with PyPy. Twice as fast but x10 memory usage. But as I said elsewhere a bit
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by drats 15y ago
I find it puzzling as well. Google heavily uses python, as do a number of other web companies. Further, Ubuntu and Redhat have it as a system administration language. It's almost the default language for O'Reilly books that aren't language
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by drats 15y ago
PyPy will likely be complete enough to use by the end of 2012, if not sooner. By that I mean most of the major libraries will work with it and people will ask themselves "why wouldn't I want a massive speedup?". The one reason why they migh
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by drats 15y ago
Nobody in the world of art, architecture or fashion thinks one company has a monopoly on good things. It's only a function of Apple being the only alternative to Microsoft's monopoly for a short time (which included MS propping them up) tha
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by drats 15y ago
Apple is also a bad example of luxury and/or simplicity. They are nothing like a Gucci bag or an exotic car. At best they are an automatic transmission vs. a manual one (following his "simplicity" argument) but there are automatic transmiss
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by drats 15y ago
Are you seriously proposing that this will have more impact on the human race than the latest opinionated (read: arrogant) blog from 37 signals or drama from Zed Shaw? There are webapps man, a mission to Mars could set back NoSQL developmen
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by drats 15y ago
As evidenced by the patent claims already fought and lost, they might prevail on a little but not I don't think it will be much in the end. It's not really some tiny android using brands they need to sink but rather Samsung, HTC and other g
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by drats 15y ago
Also consider this, use SIFT on video stills and collect all the handheld video of a particular concert. Use machine learning to combine all the audio tracks and clean them up into high quality audio. Stitch the video together, using textur
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by drats 15y ago
Well if the accuracy is 95% why not turn all Facebook users into one huge mechanical turk batch process to get to 99.9%? And it's just convenient for people not to have to tag. Then you have the data sitting around for mapping the insides o
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by drats 15y ago
Indeed, with all the Facebook sharing buttons around the web they have more than your bookmarks too, they have the equivalent of uploading your browser history each day to them. With current machine learning technology, let alone improvemen
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by drats 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transfo... Facebook almost certainly has more photo information than TinEye or Flickr, and of indoor environments probably more than Google (which has reverse image search too). Across
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by drats 15y ago
I fairly certain Google can leapfrog Apple here, it's a machine learning company with big data built into its DNA vs. a computer company with Siri grafted on. Google simply has more training data and more expertise to build this on top of t
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by drats 15y ago
Thanks, the future looks bright. Although RAM usage would be higher for pypy the improvement is massive.
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by drats 15y ago
I love this pdf. The one thing I've been wanting is for the original author, or someone else with another ~1gig dataset, to do the test again with pypy and give us the speed figures.
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by drats 15y ago
Install a different desktop environment on Ubuntu, or use Mint or Debian. Apt-get and compatibility with all the repositories isn't "hand-holdy".
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by drats 15y ago
I don't know why you were being downvoted or why it's hard for people to see 'cartel' and 'delicious' in that. Some of these po-faced downvoters are in dire need a humour transplant. It's one thing to not find one of a few examples funny,
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by drats 15y ago
I think you raising "hackers" with this is the perfect way to describe the situation. Goldman are hackers in the same sense the main stream media refers to crackers as hackers, not hackers in the creative sense used by this community. Futur
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by drats 15y ago
Silverlight? Are these people serious? Whether you are an educational institution or a for-profit media company, you are trying to get to the largest number of people and cause them the fewest problems. Silverlight fails spectacularly at bo
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by drats 15y ago
http://mobile.twitter.com/ saved me from having to quit using Twitter. The main UI can't even scroll smoothly on my i5 cpu with gigs of free RAM running Chrome.
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by drats 15y ago
As another answer says, global carrying capacity depends on people's living standards. Wars normally start when there is a regression in standards. I am sympathetic to the idea that in the West this might not apply as much, i.e. regressing
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by drats 15y ago
I'd presume that Apple will integrate a Siri-like interface to the next OSX, in say the 2012/2013 region, so that you can do basic things like say "subscribe to the NPR politics podcast" and "play the NPR politics podcast". This could also
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by drats 15y ago
It says that in the main article.
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by drats 15y ago
Ok having the whole HN front-page covered with stories about Jobs' death on the day wasn't something I would have done, he's massively overrated in my opinion, but I can understand it. For many people on HN he's a huge influence, inspiratio
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by drats 15y ago
I don't know why this is being downvoted. Silverlight, at least for video, is a complete farce.
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by drats 15y ago
Your boss has called his users "dumb fucks", doesn't delete data about them that he says he does and is tracking all their website visits and more. Can you perhaps see past your big salary to how people are, in general, worried? Given the n
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by drats 15y ago
I know it's not popular on Hacker News, but actually AI research has little to do with Lisp/the language of the moment or the Q&A website of the moment. It's to do with algorithms and core datasets. Watson being one example that's not j
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by drats 15y ago
Just watch this video[1] of Siri asking for the user to choose Home or Work and then after the user, who has a heavily accented English, says "work" twice it offers up "walk" and "wall". There are only two possible answers, both his replies
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by drats 15y ago
Very nice, I like the clean design. One suggestion: auto-loading when you hit the bottom of the page.
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by drats 15y ago
This happened to me in another European country, I lucked out though and solved it myself. I would ask your employer for help if you haven't already. Even in a small company an email to all employees will tap you into their social networks
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by drats 15y ago
Policy conducted more or less between industry groups and the csar to the exclusion of everyone else. That this person is called a czar - from Tsar, and ultimately Caesar - tells you all you need to know. A life-long bureaucrat and academic

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