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by drzoltar 5y ago
A better example is aviation, especially commercial. Planes come with Pilot Operating Handbooks (POHs) that contain checklists specific to the aircraft for preflight, inspection and failure scenarios (eg loss of engine power). Manufacturers
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by drzoltar 5y ago
There doesn’t seem to be much evidence that members of congress outperform the market [0], let alone the sector that investments are made in. Aside from a few suspiciously timed trades (eg short sells just before the Pandemic), is there any
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by drzoltar 5y ago
Surely there must also be Math Gremlins, who are chipping away at its foundations. CF Gödel and Chaitin’s Incompleteness Theorems.
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by drzoltar 5y ago
Didn’t know this happens outdoors. Does the CO2 rise well above the surface though? I’ve heard there are “Dog Caves” [1] around the world where CO2 is low in the cave and will kill short animals but spare adults. [1] https://www.
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by drzoltar 5y ago
The other issue with these hashes is non-robustness to adversarial attacks. Simply rotating the image by a few degrees, or slightly translating/shearing it will move the hash well outside the threshold. The only way to combat this woul
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by drzoltar 5y ago
Dumb question: why can’t crypto currencies and exchanges place the ransom tokens on some kind of blocklist, thereby forever tainting those coins? As I understand, the rise of “privacy wallets” has greatly increased the anonymity of such tra
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by drzoltar 6y ago
The time has finally come to invest in RNA malware detection. In all seriousness though, would it be easy to check these vaccines for authenticity via some simple PCR test?
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by drzoltar 6y ago
Which organizations changed their guidelines?
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by drzoltar 6y ago
Which other paid news publications do you prefer over the NYT?
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by drzoltar 6y ago
In California, the main issue seems to be that there’s no money in these charging networks. Most non car company chargers I’ve seen are laughably expensive (sometimes exceeding the price of gas per mile) and slow. Despite being so expensive
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by drzoltar 6y ago
I’m worried what will happen down the road. Robinhood is likely getting super valuable data on this. Combine that with correlating post activity on Reddit and you have a recipe for obliterating the arbitrage of retail investors. These hedge
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by drzoltar 6y ago
FWIW, general profanity detection is a highly nontrivial problem. It’s true that such subword profanity filters aren’t that great, but slightly more sophisticated ones (eg whole word matching or n-grams) tend to have relatively good precisi
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by drzoltar 6y ago
It seems like the quantity of the dose, location of exposure and duration of exposure can drastically change the outcome [1]. The woman who sprayed Novichok-laced perfume on herself died, but the man got it on his palms and immediately wipe
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by drzoltar 6y ago
There’s a lot of false equivalence in this post. The message seems to be “if you want to build amazing new things, don’t A/B test.” This is vacuously true. You certainly won’t discover fusion, or make the next iCar through rote testing
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by drzoltar 6y ago
In my workflow, one reason I prefer VSCode over Sublime is for dealing with large (10mb+) files. Sublime takes upwards of a minute to open such files but VSCode is nearly instant. For smaller files, Sublime is great.
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by drzoltar 6y ago
SNPedia has a paid service that can do it for you: https://promethease.com/ I personally didn’t trust them with my data so instead you can just search for specific SNPs from your DNA file. For example, the coffee one is thi
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by drzoltar 6y ago
I recently downloaded my Ancestry.com DNA data, and started looking at it with the help of SNPedia: https://www.SNPedia.com One of the neat things I found is that I have genetic markers for increased coffee consumption: https:&
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by drzoltar 6y ago
My understanding is that high SWE salaries require the confluence of two factors: - Competition for talent. - (Potential) Output value. I think a very rough rule is that at a FAANG-like company, a really good engineer can be delivering at l
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by drzoltar 6y ago
I think you’re referring to https://acloudguru.com/ If yes, they’re quite good!
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by drzoltar 6y ago
Are there any other shows that are on par with The Wire in terms of complexity, realism and visual story telling? I haven’t seen anything else that even comes close.
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by drzoltar 6y ago
For a stark reminder of the inequalities in Covid impact, there’s a nice map here detailing Los Angeles rates by subregion: https://products.xtown.la/coronavirus For non-LA natives, the west side (near the coast) is conside
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by drzoltar 6y ago
Try posting it on Crossvalidated: https://stats.stackexchange.com/ Or on Math Stackexchange: https://math.stackexchange.com/
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by drzoltar 6y ago
Could it be a misunderstanding of the outcome, or perhaps bias in Facebooks algorithms? The best predictor of your target is: your target. In this case it’s predicting who will buy your product. Using a proxy such as income and education is
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by drzoltar 6y ago
I’m a bit confused why we are assuming the low performance is the fault ML. I would think instead that this low performance is deliberate because it locally optimizes Facebooks KPIs. My understanding is that Facebook has a lot of data on
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by drzoltar 6y ago
Could you elaborate on the suite of tools you used to do this kind of network traffic analysis?
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by drzoltar 6y ago
I have a different theory. I’ve noticed such (and similar) ads appearing a lot on some news sites. I think these sites use sexy ads to drive future traffic. In other words, these ads lead to higher future retention by subliminally pulling u
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by drzoltar 6y ago
My impression is that places like DeepMind are more of a social good than a profit seeker. Most universities simply cannot afford such big and expensive AI. So I suspect that DeepMind is Google’s way of expanding the frontier of AI knowledg
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by drzoltar 6y ago
Machine Learning in Clojure reminds me of Yann LeCun’s ML course from 2010, where we used an adorable language called Lush: http://lush.sourceforge.net/ which I suppose can best be described as Lisp and Python having a baby