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by ec664 3y ago
See his response on twitter. https://twitter.com/geoffreyhinton/status/165299357072121037...
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by ec664 6y ago
Mac OSX is equally terrible as is windows by clustering window controls all in one section.
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by ec664 6y ago
Your first mistake was to use Azure
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by ec664 6y ago
IMO their terrible performance is the #1 reason not to use their cloud services, and there's usually nothing you can do about it. The less resources they use for each customers the higher their margins.
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by ec664 6y ago
No thanks. I'm steering clear of their increasingly closed ecosystem
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by ec664 6y ago
Except it's notoriously flaky. I've lost several save games and support has said everything from I'm lying, it's my router, and ghosting me. Can't use a provider that doesn't take data protection seriously.
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by ec664 6y ago
While the evidence is light. Is anyone surprised if this is true? My experience is that most cybersecurity firms are only slightly better than other enterprises. They often have lofty standards that they themselves don't follow. They a
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by ec664 6y ago
Stalling tactic? I don't recall anyone ever being fined over a breach. Sounds like a tactic to escape whatever is left of the news cycle on this.
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by ec664 6y ago
Exactly. Not to mention they've been found guilty of corruption and bribery in the past. Naturally allowed to continue to operate devices critical to democracy.
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by ec664 8y ago
[no paywall] Link to full paper: https://sites01.lsu.edu/faculty/zhanglab/wp-content/uploads/...
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by ec664 12y ago
This is blown out of proportion... actually increase is probably a factor 10-20X, not 100s. The fact that EMR is used is a problem, provisioning, bootstrapping the cluster alone accounts for probably half the time. The fact that shell comma