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by firasd 9y ago
I don't understand the paper fully but the general idea seems to be, if an item like an anime don't have enough ratings from users for standard techniques to apply in analyzing it for recommendations, using metadata derived from i
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You may have a point. I checked randomly and it seems like elevr doesn't have its own Twitter profile apart from the team members' personal profiles.
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Turing didn't care about Java-style OOP though :)
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Yes it seems the DNC didn't expect the 'Blue Wall' of the Mid-West to crumble. But (while I'm not generally on board with a lot of identity politics as seen on social media) I don't really understand comments saying
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by firasd 9y ago
True. But the problem is that Democratic voters are overly focused on the Presidency and don't turn out in large enough numbers in off-year elections. The reason the GOP has a stranglehold on government (including being able to gerryma
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In terms of anti-Trump Resistance, I was skeptical in the beginning, but the Women's March did show that getting together in big numbers gets people's attention. If nothing else it manages to rattle a President who is addicted to
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Well as for obesity rates (besides other factors) my understanding is that around the 70s governments decided that dietary fat and cholesterol was the primary cause of heart attacks and the side effect is that people significantly increased
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I see this weird pattern on Shark Tank (which to be fair is definitely not generally representative of tech startup culture) where the 'Sharks' turn down founders by glibly saying, "Oh you've been working on this for X y
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Even aside from complicated questions like the Newsfeed algorithm, when a friend started hitting Like on nearly every post of mine I appreciated their caring but mentally discounted the meaning of their Like in terms of being a reaction to
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Related: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45530.html (Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12426064 )
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The vast majority of the negativity I saw online wasn't from people who liked the original though, it was backlash to the casting. And the over-the-top hate for this movie is a genuine phenomenon; it's been months since the movie
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In Defense of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ (2017)(medium.com)
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In Defense of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ (2017)(medium.com)
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Love this bit: “Sometimes you’re stuck on a problem, and there just don’t seem to be any great solutions: maybe it’s related to a piece of code you’re writing, or decisions around how you’re going to market your app. Then, you start thinkin
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Interesting related court case from a couple years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity_Staffing_Solutions,_... : "a unanimous decision by the United States Supreme Court, ruling that time spent by workers
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Images: 30 shots Ghost in the Shell recreated from the anime(medium.com)
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As a note, while the dabbawalas are successful, there was a comically excessive food-delivery startup bubble in India around 2015 full of companies that failed similarly. It comes down to the basic issue, I think, that Uber made everyone wo
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by firasd 9y ago
Well, you also can't have those lengthy expositions from the 95 anime. I think in a good film you would show the outlines to philosophical angles about consciousness without filling them in with so much prose. Of course GITS '17 w
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by firasd 9y ago
I know there is a lot of negativity about this movie from various quarters but I do think it's a love letter to the anime. I had the idea for the phrase when I saw that even the glitching motifs from the title credits were recreated in
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by firasd 9y ago
That's interesting. I recently learned about a philosophical thought experiment that may apply here, it's called "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_it_Like_to_Be_a_B
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We're in an interesting cultural moment for narratives like this, between Her, Ex Machina, GITS, Alien: Covenant, the upcoming Blade Runner 2049, and the great TV show Westworld. This is my favorite essay on these themes, tying togethe
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Images: 30 shots Ghost in the Shell 2017 recreated from the anime(medium.com)
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30 shots in Ghost in the Shell 2017 recreated from the anime(medium.com)
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IndiaStack proponents organized a trolling campaign against biometric ID critics(medium.com)
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Well the politician was suggesting that if you lose health insurance in America you won't die because you can show up to the emergency room in hospitals. The statement was widely panned, and I especially find it absurd given the fact t
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After I read in 2011 that funk musician Bootsy Collins' nephew died because he couldn't afford antibiotics for a tooth infection the fact really stuck with me. It really puts in perspective statements like “Nobody dies because the
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I agree, I was actually hoping the montage where she walks around the city with no dialog would be in the movie. Even without that, it felt like they rushed the tempo and deleted scenes. But: I also saw casual viewers say the movie was bori
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Agreed. The only way to save this app is a mercy kill: sunset iTunes, and separate it into different parts. But I suspect Apple has a business reason to keep the monolith: iPhone syncing and iTunes store are bundled together.
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Absolutely, I understand. I didn't mean to be dismissive about the casting issue.
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This is about the original score, not songs in the movie. If it's such an embarrassment to the studio why would they not just ignore the score, and let it be uploaded to iTunes as scheduled (including pre-orders and cover art)--instead

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