gabipurcaru

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by gabipurcaru 1y ago
multimodality would be very useful, but on the other hand humans can't see infrared, and can't smell ~most things that other animals can
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by gabipurcaru 3y ago
There are multiple parts to it -- "The 2 May 2023, 6 months later, the regulation started applying and the potential gatekeepers had 2 months to report to the commission to be identified as gatekeepers. This process would take up to 45
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by gabipurcaru 3y ago
> people only do it when there's no API Legitimate scrapers, maybe. Everyone else does it to circumvent the API limitations, by posing as real traffic. APIs imply API keys which can be traced and banned.
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by gabipurcaru 3y ago
this is fairly easy to test for yourself. What did you try?
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by gabipurcaru 3y ago
This is super fun! I did the same back in uni, it was an awesome project: https://github.com/bbpcr/Yomato
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by gabipurcaru 3y ago
yep, I think it's quite standard. The BitTorrent protocol also uses it extensively : https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification#Bencoding
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by gabipurcaru 3y ago
this also implies that you can train for more sustained intensity, which I think is absolutely true. You can become a brilliant engineer by finding the right balance of intensity and R&R, assuming this is what you want
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by gabipurcaru 3y ago
As usual, journalists trying to explain what scientists do and misrepresenting the facts. The paper mentions accuracy i.e. (true positives + true negatives) / total examples. And it's actually 100% accurate i.e. there are no false
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by gabipurcaru 3y ago
people buy their stuff.
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by gabipurcaru 3y ago
well, to be fair, the app store has ads in search. When you search for app X, you're likely to see its competitor Y as the first result. (Though this is obviously not Jobs' doing.)
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by gabipurcaru 4y ago
Nice. I'd be super interested in deeper AI integrations for note taking apps, to help you reach certain goals, e.g.: - calorie counting or diets: just write down what you ate, and it should be good enough to compute calories, macros et
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by gabipurcaru 4y ago
I'm pretty sure wget has plenty more users in addition to Stallman
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by gabipurcaru 4y ago
This is what they claim: We did no specific training for these exams. A minority of the problems in the exams were seen by the model during training, but we believe the results to be representative—see our technical report for details.
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by gabipurcaru 5y ago
this looks nice and clean. Generally, the problem with these services is that they can easily be used for malicious purposes -- fronts for data exfiltration, scamming etc., so there will be some cost attached to responding to various querie
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by gabipurcaru 5y ago
Same as the recent FB and Linkedin incidents. It's all scraped data. Doesn't mean that collecting public data at scale is not something bad
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
My one contention with click menus is that clicking on _anything_ has a nonzero chance of accidentally navigating away from the page, depending on the particular website's implementation (and depending on whether the JS assets have fin
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
> The government says the code will initially focus on Google and Facebook, but could be expanded to other tech companies. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56107028
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
> I'm not saying that companies shouldn't be able to suspend accounts temporarily. I'm simply saying that there needs to be a way to get your account unsuspended if you're innocent. The way it "works" now is
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
> How many innocents have to get caught in the crossfire before we start protecting them? > Again, it's not a "request" [..] suspension notifications can also be automated. Can you clarify what you mean by "protec
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
privacy, online safety, no false positives Pick two. Different companies do different trade-offs. The optimal solution depends on how the internet community weighs each individual axis
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
> The "spammer" can only pretend to be 10 million different people because e-mail is free. Paying a tenth of a penny per e-mail has been one of those long-standing impossible anti-spam measures, but walled gardens can implement
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
the legal system deals with a finite number of people; the internet enables that finite number of people to act as a potentially infinite number of entities, without a great way of disaggregating them into people. E.g. if a spammer can pret
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-authorises-pfizer-bion...
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
same. I went through the trouble of implementing my function in Rust (Rocket), and it's actually quite slow because (a) startup is slow and (b) async/await is still pretty painful to use so I'm blocking on IO
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
it's just a bunch of JSON bundled inside the rest of the JS assets with webpack
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
> Ship your users an app including a copy of the data ahead of time I did exactly that with a hobby project ( https://www.acceleratul.ro/ ). The funny thing is that I had to add a short (~50ms) artificial delay with a spin
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
https://transparency.facebook.com/community-standards-enforc... https://www.oversightboard.com/
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by gabipurcaru 6y ago
WHO publishes a list of the vaccine landscape here - https://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/key-action/n... As of April 20 2020, there were 5 in clinical evaluation and 71 in preclinical evaluation.
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by gabipurcaru 7y ago
Can't really comment on that - most of the code I use is built on the awesome Haxl[0] so we never have to worry about those things. I'm curious what other people think though [0] https://github.com/facebook/Ha
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by gabipurcaru 7y ago
I've been using Haskell for quite a bit in production. My personal take, as an engineer who is generally skeptical of fancy language features: Plus: - The type system. It can make your life a huge pain, but in 99% of the cases, if the

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