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by dsacco 9y ago
Why do you believe "Tensorflow sucks", and why do you believe PyTorch or Caffe2 is better, and for what metrics?
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by dsacco 9y ago
The way in which Google released TensorFlow (and the meteoric success it's enjoyed) is an excellent example of a company successfully commoditizing its complements using open source software. TensorFlow (and stacks built over it) has t
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by dsacco 9y ago
Sigh. Exhibit A: Don't roll your own crypto...we don't just say it because it's fun. Kudos to the authors for not weaponizing the vulnerability for profit. There was no sound basis for the developers to design their own has
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by dsacco 9y ago
What do you mean? My 23andme profile shows carrier status and genetic health risk reports. Is there something else that was removed?
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by dsacco 9y ago
Look, I understand this might become like the "hacker" debate, but can we please stop referring to blockchain and digital currencies with the term, "crypto"? We're coming to the point where people refer to these cur
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by dsacco 9y ago
Ah, I understand. I disagree with the analogy then. If the two consenting adults are not harming each other they can still be a liability to other people. Risk can be introduced indirectly even if no individual is directly harmed. How can y
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by dsacco 9y ago
Do you agree that certain activities that don't directly impact specific individuals can introduce risk for other people in general? If so, how do you feel about laws designed to limit your ability to take part in those activities?
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by dsacco 9y ago
To be honest I'm really not following your position here. Who is the victim and who is the attacker, and how does that respond to my point?
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by dsacco 9y ago
No, the commenter used an analogy to demonstrate similarity. No one drew an equivalence, moral or otherwise, between investing and murder.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> People cheering a government's ban on what its citizens can do with their lawfully earned money. Are you okay with laws about how money is earned? Why? If yes, why are you not okay with laws about how money is spent? There are a
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by dsacco 9y ago
I think your position needs to be defended just as much as the position you're arguing against, and right now you're not doing a convincing job of defending it.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Economics is not a science. Yes it is. Economics is a social science, like psychology and archaeology. The empirical precision of physics and chemistry are not required for a discipline to be scientific; standards of rigor and reprod
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by dsacco 9y ago
"Doing good statistics" implies doing mathematics. In my opinion the meme that statistics is not math is perpetuated by people who have experience with statistics and not much exposure to other areas of mathematics. It might not &
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by dsacco 9y ago
I've never seen a mathematician claim that statistics is not a branch of mathematics. Nor would that really make sense. You can certainly practice statistics in a way that mathematicians would take issue with, but it's intrinsic
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by dsacco 9y ago
Agreed. Most people don't see how mathematics is applicable because they think of it as a framework for calculation, when mathematics is really much more about proofs. In addition, most people never learn more than calculus (if that),
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by dsacco 9y ago
Ah, my mistake I suppose. I understood bare knuckle boxing is dangerous for the hands, but I also believed it was dangerous for the other party.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Thanks, this looks like a good start.
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by dsacco 9y ago
I see it repeated a lot that think tanks are really propaganda engines with an intellectual veneer, but can you back that up with specific examples? I subscribe to the Brookings Papers, Cato Journal, Chatham House and Council on Foreign Rel
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by dsacco 9y ago
Can you flesh out your weightclass idea of salary brackets there? I'm curious to understand how you think it would work.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Would you be OK allowing two consenting adults to fight to the death for pay? Given that scenario as stated? Sure, I'm all for it. Take away the gloves in boxing and we're pretty close to that. I'd be concerned about t
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by dsacco 9y ago
Can you provide a few examples of the NFL going after doctors and scientists, and clarify what that means?
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by dsacco 9y ago
Personally, I don't particularly consider schools in the "top 50" to be "top schools." I would consider schools in the top 10, maybe 20 for a particular major to be the colloquial "top schools" in that m
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by dsacco 9y ago
I find it interesting that he ended up at Google Brain working on deep learning research after writing Node. There seems to be a trend in the industry of taking people who are exceptional in one area and putting them on AI problems (e.g. Ch
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by dsacco 9y ago
It might help if you look at a diagram such as this one to understand exactly what the code is doing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feistel_cipher#/media/File%3... So you're basically using what's
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by dsacco 9y ago
Absolutely. One of my recent research interests in cryptography has been identifying ways to make pseudorandom permutations faster and using them outside of typical cryptographic contexts. I'm happy to see that you use them in Rax. The
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is a good post, kudos on writing it up so quickly! In fact, the first thing I thought of when I read this post on HN was, "Well why not use a pseudorandom permutation instead of a pseudorandom function, this way we efficiently fil
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by dsacco 9y ago
I think this is an excellent point, but I'll add that we don't have the economies of scale for it either. If there was enough demand for a tourbillon, an Apple-esque company would emerge (maybe Richemont or Patek) and drive the co
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by dsacco 9y ago
That idea doesn't really seem at all comparable to slavery, and I'm curious which specific psychologist has ever staked a claim like that. It seems utterly inane and insulting.
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by dsacco 9y ago
It's not a secret that the industry uses software for modeling. But it still has skilled staff operating that software. When people emphasize the artistry and craftsmanship of mechanical timepieces at this price point, they're tal
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by dsacco 9y ago
What psychologist said that? That doesn't seem coherent.

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