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by freyr 10y ago
> It's a really bad, tasteless language. It's really not that bad. It's actually a good language, and getting better all the time. See? We can go back and forth, without any substance. But seriously, modern JS is not t
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by freyr 10y ago
Yes, Wi-Fi uses the FFT. In wireless systems, the method is known as OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing).
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by freyr 10y ago
Yes. Web programming is a mess. It's layers and layers of half-baked solutions, each patching deficiencies in the previous layer while introducing new deficiencies. It's a convoluted Rune Goldbergian contraption, attempting to mak
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by freyr 10y ago
He might have made some money picking stocks, but he got rich by selling an overvalued company at the peak of the dotcom bubble. I suppose this is an example of a market inefficiency as well.
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by freyr 10y ago
Yeah, I know it's adjusted for inflation. I guess they explain it? I can't imagine a paperboy earning nearly $60k (adjusted) in a couple years, so his investment returns must have been phenomenal right off the bat. A high school s
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by freyr 10y ago
They can create things only in the sense that they receive a set of inputs and produce deterministic outputs according to a process explicitly specified by an prespecified algorithm. It's not "creative" in the conventional se
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by freyr 10y ago
How do you accumulate $67k by age 14? I'm doing something wrong.
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by freyr 10y ago
In the last five years, AI/ML has gotten better at some things it was previously mediocre/good at, but what progress towards creativity or singularity has there been? None. DL is not an enabling technology for creativity.
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by freyr 10y ago
I'm sure the Apple iCar will support simultaneous audio and charging via the lightning interface.
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by freyr 10y ago
I can see how you'd feel that way if 50% of your code is print statements. As a counterpoint, I write Matlab and Python code day in and day out, and print statements are relatively rare in my code. Same for most of my peers. I'm g
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by freyr 10y ago
> Or is it just some sense of self righteousness you feel by being a good employee who wouldn't ever choose to work from home like those other lazy bums. Wow, I must have touched a nerve. Actually, I semi-regularly work from home.
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by freyr 10y ago
My point was that a crash would be a big enough event that the latest batch of YC startups wouldn't stop it, and one data point doesn't invalidate the broader criticism of SV over the last five years or so. Of course, there may be
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by freyr 10y ago
> Like much of the deep learning community, we use Python 2.7 It's unfortunate that so much effort has been spent on bringing tools up to speed with Python 3, but some groups still insist on dragging their feet. I understand the m
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by freyr 10y ago
> "Tipping isn't obligatory" -- yes, it kind of is. No, it really isn't. I've never been asked by an Uber driver for a tip, nor would I give a tip if asked. In fact, I'd probably dock a point from their ra
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by freyr 10y ago
That's great to hear, but a crash would be due to typical Silicon Valkey, and the latest HN batch can't prevent it.
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by freyr 10y ago
Yes, but eventually the VC needs to hit that 100x result. GoogleX has not. Heck, nothing's even really made it out the gate. The self-driving car is the project that seems to have the biggest potential impact, but the string of high-pr
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by freyr 10y ago
Once you've famiarized yourself with the notation, which is standard, it's easy to understand and very efficient. The set script-X, the random variable X, and the value x refer to three different but interrelated concepts. Using
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by freyr 10y ago
> Fridays a lot of people work from home. A lot of my coworkers work from home on Fridays too. Which means a three-day weekend / nothing to show for their time on Monday.
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by freyr 10y ago
The lectures are well-regarded by many, but it's been argued that they're ineffective for teaching undergraduate students the process of solving physics problems. Feynman himself was an exceptional mathematician, and used a very m
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by freyr 10y ago
Please read again. There aren't really any facts on this page that demonstrate whether or not LoP is an effective undergraduate physics textbook. The page addresses two points: Feynman's fluctuating opinion of his own work, and
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by freyr 10y ago
> And the Apple Watch is by far the best selling smartwatch. The market just isn't that big. Right. The fact that the smartwatch market is currently small doesn't exclude the possibility that it will grow huge, as happened
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by freyr 10y ago
To some extent, this reminds me of Feynman's Lectures on Physics. The lectures were originally given to undergraduates at Caltech (so not "advanced theoretical physics"), but they rely more heavily on intuitive explanations t
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by freyr 10y ago
> iPhone didn't become this massive product til 2010 when the 4 was released If we ignore the iPhone 3G, which was the top-selling mobile phone of 2008. Revisionist history indeed. The original 2007 iPhone was hugely successful ou
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by freyr 10y ago
He's the Michael Jordan of machine learning, after all.
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by freyr 10y ago
At least a couple of the companies I clicked on started as side projects.
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by freyr 10y ago
> Why doesn't our research focus on understanding and copying biological brains? There's lots of basic research being done to better understand the biological brain. Progress is slow and steady, but the brain remains poorly u
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by freyr 10y ago
The article isn't about classifying addiction as disease or "choice." The debate is between disease and "not disease."
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by freyr 10y ago
I like that idea too, but my point's that this isn't a technical problem. It's a social problem. It's the problem of convincing a critical mass of influential people to simultaneously put their reputation on the line for
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by freyr 10y ago
> You'll do massive economic damage that harms the poor if you price control or subsidise any commodity Source? Is it possible the unfathomably complex economic machine will simply adapt to the subsidy? If the subsidy was limited
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by freyr 10y ago
He mentions that the editorial board of Topology resigned to found Journal of Topology . This is counted as a success story, but when I try to read a paper there I get this message: "You may access this article for 1 day for US$40.0

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