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IBM 402 from 1948 still in use at Texas firm(kottke.org)
2 points by fchollet 13y ago|0 comments
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by fchollet 13y ago
Speculators. Slowing down exchanges drives the price of BTC down. So the plan is to start a massive DDoS, stop it, buy BTC at a lower price, and sell it again when the prices went back to their previous levels.
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by fchollet 13y ago
I'm building this actually (been at it for a couple years :-/). But you know what, deviantArt got a lot better at browsing pictures a few months ago, with their 'more like this' feature. You should check it out.
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by fchollet 14y ago
The point of cryptocurrencies is not to "back" the currency with cryptography (or energy) as an intrinsic value, it is to prevent double-spending for a decentralized currency. Cryptocomputations and the energy they consume have nothing to d
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by fchollet 14y ago
A GAE app without a credit card attached + debug = True in the settings ^^
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by fchollet 14y ago
It's not about easiness --learning to code is probably simpler than learning to play such a game. It's a about motivation.
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by fchollet 14y ago
It would seem intuitive that the search process would be greatly speeded up by using a genetic search of the solution space rather than brute force search, it's a bit odd that genetic algorithms aren't mentioned.
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by fchollet 14y ago
Indeed. One reason why ML is quite powerless when looking at the stockmarket (from the point of view of past stock values) is that, even if you assume there is a latent model to be learned, it would seem reasonable that this model evolves
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by fchollet 14y ago
The stockmarket is primarily driven by the news, both on the ultra-short term (minute scale) and at the scale of a few days. So, scraping the web and performing semantic analysis of investor sentiment can be a good way to get an edge in the
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by fchollet 14y ago
You can do it; you just need to only evaluate your algorithm on data it hasn't been trained on. The same as with any machine learning problem really. Though it is indeed dismaying how many programmers dabbling into ML tend to do so without
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Draft House Judiciary cybersecurity bill would stiffen anti-hacking law(thehill.com)
1 points by fchollet 14y ago|0 comments
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by fchollet 14y ago
I hate you, because how am I going to find a name for my project now, after you set the bar so high. Argh... All jokes aside, this sounds promising. Will your framework be flexible enough to allow for composing and running any ML/statistica
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by fchollet 14y ago
I've built plenty of very real Django apps without any of these (except ssh). Heroku's not the only platofrm, Ubuntu's not the only OS. Neither are even significantly mainstream in the industry. This tutorial is so myopic. It reads more lik
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by fchollet 14y ago
The comments are quite amusing. The "church" is apparently sending its minions en masse to post mindless applaud.
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by fchollet 14y ago
It's nice to see the mainstream media taking less of a conservative 'anti-hacker, pro-government' stance on that tragedy. Hopefully this is just the beginning.
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by fchollet 14y ago
Over a dozen experiments, the recognition rate for faces seems to be about 70%. Example of failure: only 2 faces detected here (in particular NOT the one in focus) http://iamdaveknockles.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/meeting_j... This is wo
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by fchollet 14y ago
It's important to note that none of these achievements are AI-related (apart from character recognition, but that's a terribly shallow form of AI). What's more, none of these are particularly impressive from a technology point of view, what
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"Code is Law"(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by fchollet 14y ago|0 comments
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Software patent booster to step down as head of patent office(arstechnica.com)
3 points by fchollet 14y ago|0 comments
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by fchollet 14y ago
It's a question I've been faced with in the past, and just now I was expecting the smart crowd at HN to reach a consensus on why. It's interesting to see the sheer diversity of opinions. I guess it's not an easy question after all.
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by fchollet 14y ago
Here's a video posted by one the script kiddies responsible for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoM_sOC7jMA&feature=playe... Nothing too impressive to this "hack"...
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by fchollet 14y ago
Not a serious attempt at implementing the concept. They only seem to have a few different questions in total. About 6. Also even with a serious question DB, it would be extremely easy to crack, because of the small pool of answer words and
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by fchollet 14y ago
Congrats to the awesome folks at ISI for scoring 1st at task 3 and 2nd at task 1! Keep rocking my world.
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by fchollet 14y ago
Great concept. But very difficult and frustrating in its current version. I think a good improvement would be for the player to be controlling speed rather than acceleration.
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by fchollet 14y ago
The title statement is meaningless. "Imaginary numbers" are not "multiply" by "90°". What does it even mean to "multiply" by an angle? Correct statement: "*i is equivalent to a 90° rotation in some contexts." Which is kind of obvious to any
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by fchollet 14y ago
My personal opinion is that it might be too early for this kind of product to find a real market. The value proposition will seem unclear to almost every potential user. They're not the only players in the field, by the way: https://www.nu
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by fchollet 14y ago
Thank you for your insight! A new landing page is in preparation : )
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by fchollet 14y ago
Email sent : )
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by fchollet 14y ago
The value added compared to a list of pictures is: - spaced repetition engine: the pictures that are served to you are customized depending on how you did on previous sessions, so as to lead to an optimal learning rate - timer: motivates th
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by fchollet 14y ago
Thank you for your great feedback! I particularly like the idea of showing the progress of an artist on the landing page, that would be quite powerful. Thanks!

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