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by freyr 6y ago
And that is what, exactly? From the abstract: "Our system can generate novel points between professional tennis players that resemble Wimbledon broadcasts, enabling new experiences such as the creation of matchups between players that
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by freyr 6y ago
No, use Python. Python is a good choice for web development, and will remain the de-facto choice for ML for the foreseeable future. If you plan on learning both web development and ML, that will be quite enough work without throwing a secon
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by freyr 6y ago
Has "pop music" ever been anything other than this? Since the beginning, it has typically been manufactured by producers and songwriters for mass appeal.
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by freyr 6y ago
Synthesis of tennis player sprites.
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by freyr 6y ago
There was a criminal justice system before fingerprint and DNA analysis too. It was just a worse, less reliable system.
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by freyr 6y ago
This is one of those technologies where I struggle to think of beneficial use cases, but my mind fills with ways this could abused. That's not to say it shouldn't be researched, or people more creative than me won't think of
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by freyr 6y ago
Sparsely inhabited compared to what? 100 years ago? Australia? China? Sweden? Rwanda? You say that as if it's a bad thing, but perhaps it's the goal? Some of the least densely populated countries are the happiest and healthiest. S
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by freyr 6y ago
Except for my childhood birthday parties, I can't think of a time when I thought, "God, I wish this was three times as crowded."
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by freyr 6y ago
Makes sense, thanks.
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by freyr 6y ago
I'd like to give the engineers and designers the benefit of the doubt, but there are better ways to do what they tried to do. Somewhere in the engineering hierarchy, some very poor decisions were made.
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by freyr 6y ago
It’s 1, but is it a mantissa? The linked Wikipedia article just says that the mantissa is “the fractional part.”
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by freyr 6y ago
Lots of justified criticism here about the mobile web Reddit, which is horrible. But the desktop web Reddit has become unusable for me as well. My laptop heats up, the fans go into overdrive, and my browser slows to a crawl. It’s the anti-H
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by freyr 6y ago
Can we just represent 1 here as 0.999...?
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by freyr 6y ago
Microsoft is known for paying lower than FAANG, and most employees are in a significantly lower cost-of-living area (specifically, much lower cost of home ownership) than Facebook/Google/Apple/Netflix/etc. employees. Als
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by freyr 6y ago
Are any of the recent NLP advancements due to improvements beyond throwing more data and horsepower at “dumb” models? Will GPT-4 be any different? It seems like the current approaches will always fall short of our loftier AI aspirations, bu
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by freyr 6y ago
I think many companies have real problems, but find that DL ends up being a poor solution in practice for various reasons. You need not only real use cases, but use cases that happens to well with DL’s trade offs and limitations. I think ma
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by freyr 6y ago
The demands China makes of foreign companies are obscene. While any company's welfare can suffer when diplomatic relations between nations sour, as evidenced by TikTok, there really is no comparison between operating a business in Chin
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by freyr 6y ago
That's when it became boring.
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by freyr 6y ago
Do you not realize how much AMZN appreciated over the last 5 or 10 years compared to FB or GOOG? Many Amazon engineers came out way ahead financially compared to their FANG peers.
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by freyr 6y ago
> nobody would've been the wiser. Except they would have footage of two people going into the apartment (one person apparently wearing a ninja outfit), and only one person leaving. That could have been a tipoff that something was
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by freyr 6y ago
Neither -- I'm not comparing citizens and corporations. I'm simply saying that it's naive to expect a company to voluntarily pay more taxes than is required. They will not pay more taxes than required until the laws are chang
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by freyr 6y ago
It seems like the point is that we’d be naive to expect a corporation, presumably governed by rational actors working to maximize profits, to pay more taxes than the minimum.
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by freyr 6y ago
> The Swedes are betting that nobody in the world will be spared from COVID It's also a bet that medical treatments won't improve and a vaccine won't be developed.
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by freyr 6y ago
Why guess about the content here? It’s freely available to watch, so we don’t need to speculate. He briefly explains his reasoning for each answer.
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by freyr 6y ago
I frequently interview candidates who are 3-4 years out of undergrad for mid-level engineer positions (between junior and senior level). A typical stock package at this level is about $350k/4, give or take. If candidates have multiple
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by freyr 6y ago
Didn’t forget, I just remember how Zuckerberg regarded Facebook users back in the day (and those were Harvard students).
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by freyr 6y ago
With the rise of TikTok, I wonder if Instagram is past its prime as well? Most of my friends have stopped posting photos to Instagram, and just occasionally share stories now. But for short-form video content, TikTok seems to be growing muc
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by freyr 6y ago
Only in the very early days of the web, were links standardized around blue/purple text, and even linked images had blue/purple borders. But quickly web designers decided that the conventions were boring or ugly, and changed the d
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by freyr 6y ago
Yeah, Amazon's compensation structure is really bad compared to other FAANG companies. Perks are worse (pre-Covid-19, at least). And most people seem to think work-life balance and company culture is worse. On the other hand, AMZN stoc
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by freyr 6y ago
You're arguing to prop up overinflated diamond prices to protect an industry complicit in widespread corruption, human suffering, and political strife across the African continent [1]? You might want to re-think this one. [1] https:&#

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