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541.
by ebg13 7y ago
> Making somebody crash in a dumb car is pretty hard That's not true even allowing for your next constraints, one of which I find to be quite absurd. In the advanced technological case, you have https://www.theverge.com
542.
by ebg13 7y ago
I think the submitted headline is wrong. The article says "we found annotation errors on more than 20% of images". Maybe dang could fix it.
543.
by ebg13 7y ago
> The idea that bad people (be it trolls, criminals or spooks) could force deliberate malfunctioning of/misclassifications in AIs and thus cause crashes I wish people would stop trotting this one out. Bad actors can deliberately c
544.
by ebg13 7y ago
PRODUCT(RED) is a charity campaign originally to help fight HIV/AIDS. https://www.red.org
545.
by ebg13 7y ago
TBF, I'm going to do it because I want my phone in red _and_ because it's literally a free gift to a charity at no additional cost to me.
546.
by ebg13 7y ago
> I wouldn't necessarily say if something is popular, it is also good. Black is popular because it is good.
547.
by ebg13 7y ago
The app labeled "noom" looks like Skype, not Zoom.
548.
by ebg13 7y ago
> There are regulatory bodies overseeing generic prescription drugs This is also sadly wrong. There are regulatory bodies overseeing only a very tiny fraction of generic prescription drug production (ask how often they inspect and test
549.
by ebg13 7y ago
How accurate, relevant, and useful today is http://c-faq.com ?
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by ebg13 7y ago
I'd rather not work forever regardless of the location.
551.
by ebg13 7y ago
> I'm a consumer who consumes a basic set of supplements (vitamin d, vitamin k2, magnesium, multivitamin) and I'm very happy with how things are now. Fundamentally, no you aren't. What you are is a consumer who thinks
552.
by ebg13 7y ago
> This completely misses the point of the original. No. You miss the point of the original. That it was a cash grab by the person who made it. In that regard this works just fine.
553.
by ebg13 7y ago
> only So... 200 million americans?
554.
by ebg13 7y ago
The only problem is that it requires everyone to actively participate, which means every participant must be all of: knowledgeable, willing, personally able (authorized to install app), technologically able (app works with their devices), a
555.
by ebg13 7y ago
> it makes it hard hold windows in a specific orientation in space I don't know if you're still watching this thread, but it would be interesting to hear an example of when one might care to lock a window's orientation.
556.
by ebg13 7y ago
> Windows with affine transformations There's no reason you can't make the windows always perpendicular to the line of sight while still fixing their centers in space.
557.
by ebg13 7y ago
> Half-and-half is cream. No, half-and-half is, as the name describes, half cream and half milk.
558.
by ebg13 7y ago
Why half-and-half and not cream or butter?
559.
by ebg13 7y ago
This line got to me. > I blended two fresh eggs with ¼ cup of water and pan-scrambled them. Is adding water to scrambled eggs really a thing that people do? Never in my life have I added water to fresh eggs before scrambling them.
560.
by ebg13 7y ago
Obnoxious entitlement? Social pressure? Historical precedent? Why questions can't really be answered. But if you give someone a well-deserved B they cry in your office and then hammer you in their end-of-semester course review.
561.
by ebg13 7y ago
Harvard College (the university's undergraduate arm) definitely gives As. Law schools are vocational programs. I'm not surprised it works differently there.
562.
by ebg13 7y ago
So how does this compare to Harvard, where students expect an automatic A even without Covid-19?
563.
by ebg13 7y ago
> To be in first normal form you should store a single value per field Where? How? How instead should you store groups of things? Blog doesn't say. > Don't include those fields. You aren't losing data, it's alre
564.
by ebg13 7y ago
> it gives an example and what to change It gives an example of something wrong. Not once does it give an example of something right. It says "change this" but doesn't show what to change it to.
565.
by ebg13 7y ago
Design guidance aside, this is not a good article because it doesn't show how to fix the presented problem scenarios. "This is not first normal form" - OK, how would you fix it? "This is not second normal form" - OK
566.
by ebg13 7y ago
> If I'm allowed to bring along an unlimited amount of background data, then I can compress everything down to zero bits. If by "background data" you mean the decompressor, this is patently false. No matter how much info
567.
by ebg13 7y ago
Now you're chasing your own tail. You've gone from "I can losslessly compress everything" to "I can losslessly compress exactly one thing only".
568.
by ebg13 7y ago
"I will custom write a new program to (somehow) generate each image and then distribute that instead of my image" is not a compression algorithm. But I think you'd do well over at the halfbakery.
569.
by ebg13 7y ago
You're ignoring two things: 1) that the aggregate savings from compressing the images needs to outweigh the initial cost of distributing the decompressor. 2) to be lossless, decompression must be deterministic an unambiguous, so you ca
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by ebg13 7y ago
> People make it sound like they were buying back their stock as they were cutting flights and laying off employees. No. People make it sound like they were buying back their stock as they were not using that money to increase worker s

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