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by finebalance 7y ago
Possibly a hangover from when sending data across the wire was expensive and being able to uniquely identify companies with just a few letters was a huge cost-saving innovation.
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by finebalance 7y ago
Finasteride has potential side-effects on the libido. Not the parent, but I stopped using it because it seemed to give me something akin to ED; took my system about a month to recover, and that month was embarrassing, humiliating, and horri
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by finebalance 7y ago
Pandas grouping and slicing is, imo, significantly worse than R. And I so despise those multiindexes.
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by finebalance 7y ago
India has a really high import tax on electronic items. Even if Apple charges a slight premium over its US prices, it's still going to be significantly cheaper than what it currently is. For example: a 64 GB iPhone X is currently selli
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by finebalance 8y ago
>Are you saying that adult content is not legitimate art? No, the commentator seems to imply the exact opposite: that a large amount of 'legitimate' art is also adult in nature, which lead to its illegitimate removal during th
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by finebalance 8y ago
I've just started my career in ML, and I already sort of feel that a majority of the work that people around me are doing can be done by an automated pipeline (like Python's AutoML) and throwing enough compute power at the problem
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by finebalance 8y ago
That's actually a very useful heuristic because, unlike perhaps in the US, in many parts of the world food standards even in higher quality restaurants are rather lax.
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by finebalance 8y ago
There was this story on bitcoin, maybe on Ars, in which they interviewed a cleaning lady who'd put just about her entire life savings into the coin when it was near, what we now realize, its peak. Since then, bitcoin's fallen prec
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by finebalance 8y ago
You don't need to go back to the 19th century for that. Any modern sweatshop, of which there are many, will do.
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by finebalance 8y ago
I don't think it's irrational. As somebody with just a masters in a tangentially related field (economics), I find it surprising how low the barrier to entry is for this job (I got in, after all). Anybody with a decent undergradua
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by finebalance 8y ago
Never understood how as a customer I can 'trust' a niche blockchain deployment considering that a majority of the computing power in that network would likely lie within the organization deploying the niche blockchain in the first
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by finebalance 8y ago
That's not quite relevant. The question always is how much force can you pool together for the duration of whatever you need to do. For Russia and China, that run by the diktats of a central authority, there's little stopping them
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by finebalance 8y ago
"they can’t effectively use past experience either" While I'm unsure whether the on board computer of your autonomous car will be able to leverage past experience, I thought it was a forgone conclusion that the telemetry from
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by finebalance 9y ago
Why is that? Is there something intrinsic in that url that is suspicious?
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by finebalance 9y ago
In the Indian market, Ola does a few things better than Uber. For example, they have an OTP, which is a 4-digit numerical code you need to provide to the driver at the start of every ride. In a low-trust market like India, this is instrumen