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by epberry 9y ago
Great reference to "Eternal September" - didn't know about that. I can now think of many examples of this happening to online communities.
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by epberry 9y ago
I agree. ffmpeg can be inscrutable sometimes. Understanding the internal concepts is a big boost when using it. For example I've used "-avcodec" hundreds of times in the command line but I just now understood where that fit i
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by epberry 9y ago
At this point it's hard to tell if these posts are auto-generated or not. On this one, I'm leaning towards yes.
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by epberry 9y ago
So this is exactly how I got started on a silly Ethereum side project over the holiday. Truffle, solidity docs, and reading the crypto kiddies code is all you need. I'm mostly interested in how Ethereum and other blockchain technologie
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by epberry 9y ago
I found this book fascinating but after a while it just started to feel like a review of psychology research and a list of example after example and it eventually became boring and I didn’t finish it. I also think more recent research has c
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by epberry 9y ago
I'm not sure it's important to debate whether software itself is _good_ or _bad_. It just is; a means to an end. We should of course debate whether the applications we build are good or bad. Many on this site consider Facebook to
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by epberry 9y ago
The bailout was necessary but a tough pill to swallow. My understanding is that there was really no good way to provide direct relief to citizens. AIG and others failing posed a systematic risk and the most effective way to stabilize the ec
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by epberry 9y ago
Great anecdote. I try to apply this philosophy to endurance training like running (just get to the next mile marker), swimming (just do the next lap) or biking (just do another minute) but it's really hard. I'm awed by the special
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by epberry 9y ago
Thanks for the link. I thought these things involved a lot of markov models and gaussian functions but this is mostly just some pretty slick engineering. The 1000x search speed seems very good.
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by epberry 9y ago
I don’t see why this is such a big deal. It’s like saying Intel spent $3B to make development boards for their next gen chip but instead of replacing the chips on those dev boards they just bought new production boards. I can easily see how
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by epberry 9y ago
Unless it's still coming, I still have expiring and password links on my plus plan.
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by epberry 9y ago
I don't know about the quantums but to detect the waves you basically split a laser beam using mirrors and redirect each split to a detector. When the wave hits it stretches each split in the beam slightly which causes an interference
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by epberry 9y ago
This is so cool because we used our ears (the LIGO detectors) to hear/feel the gravitational wave hit then used our eyes (electromagnetic radiation telescopes) to focus in on where we thought we felt the ripple. And what's more, m
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by epberry 9y ago
Does anyone know anything more about these “capsules”? I’ve seen some nature articles on them but these were from a neuroscience perspective. Has Hinton published anything on them? Also if Hinton is the Einstein of deep learning, then will
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by epberry 9y ago
Perceive | Full Stack Developer | West Lafayette, Indiana | FULL-TIME | www.perceiveinc.com Perceive is a computer vision startup based in West Lafayette, IN working to improve customer service in retail stores. We’ve obtained over a millio
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by epberry 9y ago
Ah, slow startups on unittests is a big headache. This is especially apparent on big projects like Django where you might as well leave your desk and grab coffee when the unittests start, even for small projects. That said, I can't hel
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by epberry 9y ago
Absolutely. This and the suggestion that he phrase his ideas as questions and more openly invite discussion helped me put into words my own discomfort with the memo. Of course the conclusion he draws that because of biological differences w
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by epberry 9y ago
This reminds me of what they supposedly did with Parse which helped them get a better picture of the mobile landscape. It's a very clever strategy - keep buying auxiliary companies who's data can shape strategy. It's yet anot
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by epberry 9y ago
Perceive | Hardware Engineer | West Lafayette, IN | ONSITE | https://www.perceiveinc.com Perceive is a computer vision startup based in West Lafayette, IN working to improve customer service in retail stores. We’ve obtained over
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by epberry 9y ago
Perceive | Software Engineer | West Lafayette, IN | ONSITE | https://www.perceiveinc.com Perceive is a computer vision startup based in West Lafayette, IN working to improve customer service in retail stores. We’ve obtained over
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by epberry 9y ago
Perceive | Full Stack Developer | West Lafayette, Indiana | FULL-TIME | www.perceiveinc.com Perceive is a computer vision startup based in West Lafayette, IN working to improve customer service in retail stores. We’ve obtained over a millio
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by epberry 9y ago
Wow I had never heard this program and the interviewer did a fantastic job. Demis's intellect really shows through. It's really clear how hard he works and how driven he is. This has given me some inspiration on what otherwise mig
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by epberry 9y ago
Well hey, I live here too! Actually I've lived here my whole life, growing up in West Lafayette and attending Purdue, and then working here as a software engineer after graduation. The author is spot on about many of the drawbacks but
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by epberry 10y ago
All I can think about is any life that was (emphasis on past tense) on that "side" of the galaxy when the gravitational wave that dislodged 3C 186 whipped through. It's all gone now right? Seems we are pretty lucky to have th
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by epberry 10y ago
The number of neurons Hopfield networks can use seems like a serious limitation. I think the max number in his graphs was 300? Does anyone know if this is a real problem or not? On another note, what is the state of the art in "'m
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by epberry 10y ago
Keras is fantastic. Not the tightest analogy and probably unoriginal but I think of it as the Python to Tensorflow's C. It's easy to drop into tensorflow flow when needed but you can probably get away with Keras for a long time. A
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by epberry 10y ago
I'm not sure what the point of this piece is. There is fierce competition between these five and consumers are better for it. I think you can look at the cloud war between Google, Amazon, and Microsoft as a great example of competition
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by epberry 10y ago
I'm guessing I read several Medium articles a month. Some of them are really well produced - Transit's engineering post on beautifying their maps, Remix's post about public transportation planning and ILP, and Karpathy's
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by epberry 10y ago
Wow... inspiring. Makes me want to visit Eastern Europe, an urge that has been almost subconsciously repressed through years of Western education and culture (e.g. Ukraine, Georgia, etc. being referred to as "2nd world").
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by epberry 10y ago
Is any of this surprising to anyone? Airbnb is battling laws (often arbitrarily set with a healthy does of lobbying from established industries) that create undue burden on itself and its business. The same way Netflix battles anti net neut

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