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by gambler 7y ago
>Is this really generating anything new or is it essentially just morphing between existing photos that it's been trained on? To answer this one would need to invest time into researching something that might potentially deflate t
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by gambler 7y ago
This is a cheap hit piece and part of the ongoing NYTs campaign against social media. I am saying this as someone who hates Twitter and thinks Dosey is either a mega-hypocrite or a victim of his own brainwashing. (Talking about his views on
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by gambler 7y ago
Judging by HN comments, engineers in Silicon Valley seem to be the kind of people who need infinite amount of proof that meditation works, but readily believe in the Singularity. This is skepticism-as-a-brand, where your vocabulary and the
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by gambler 7y ago
Yes. Everyone should check it out: https://pharo.org/ They have a pretty friendly community too.
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by gambler 7y ago
>Running a small to medium site isn’t too hard. It's hard enough that most people don't do it and a lot of them can't do it without expending unreasonable amount of time on learning how to jump through hoops. If you don&
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by gambler 7y ago
The true cost of resources to host a small forum are so low they're negligible. It's an obvious fact. Facebook doesn't pay $5/month for every discussion group they run. If they did, they would go bankrupt in an instant
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by gambler 7y ago
Why don't you try to make one? No, I'm not being sarcastic. The reasons you don't want to try are most likely the same reasons why some non-techie people will not be able to . It's not just about phpbb. My guess is th
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by gambler 7y ago
>I get that FB is convenient >We surely don’t need a multi-billion company to host events and groups for us This is the crazy part about most "cloud" and "social" things today. Instead of spending money on maki
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by gambler 7y ago
>Amazon, is to book publishing what Facebook and Google are to magazines Unfortunately, this is a very accurate analogy. I like listening to audio books and Audible is definitely very convenient, but I am 100% sure that in the not so d
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by gambler 8y ago
Making everything a file is one way to give all components a universal interface . It's not the only possible or even the best way. The problem is that today there are no universal interfaces at all, so even a file-based one seems imm
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by gambler 8y ago
Be sure to check out Cuis and Pharo as well.
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by gambler 8y ago
And with all this corporate shills chant that "Hosting your own things is easier than ever before".
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by gambler 8y ago
With hundreds of thousands of semi-professional and amateur musicians competing on the Internet for their 15 minutes of fame, getting film or computer game score just isn't a real problem. Besides, this is already doable, without neura
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by gambler 8y ago
>Which problem? The general statement of this problem is "models, trained on [somehow] misrepresentative data [or even technically representative data] can draw unintended conclusions that lead to harm". Throwing AI at answer
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by gambler 8y ago
>Why? Pointing out a specific and concrete harm badly designed ML models cause is irresponsible? In my opinion, yes, if it leads most readers to misjudge some fundamental properties of the problem as a whole. Again, I'm not saying
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by gambler 8y ago
>did you compare the non-hire (full time) rates of interns vs fire rates of non-interns? Not sure I understand the question. IIRC, the way data was setup there was no way to tell why an intern stopped working for the company, because
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by gambler 8y ago
>I get the point, but why didn't you just exclude intern resumes from the training data? That was the logical next step and we started on that, but it required exporting more historic data out of the HR system and filtering out an
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by gambler 8y ago
>The most obvious and immediately concerning place that this issue can be manifested is in human diversity. I swear, when someone starts building autonomous killer robots, the first set of concerned articles will probably be asking whe
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by gambler 8y ago
>So if I’m “naively” assuming that you should be able to cite a real world case where a company needed more resources than AWS or Azure is willing to provide. https://firstround.com/review/the-three-infrastructure-
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by gambler 8y ago
>So what are the chances that your business is going to grow large enough that AWS or Azure can handle the requirements? You naively assume that hosting something at AWS or Azure means all of their resources are at your disposal and su
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by gambler 8y ago
>Vendor lock-in can make or break startups if you're not careful enough. And it's often worse for bigger companies. Startups can often just rewrite their crap. You can't do that overnight with several years worth of le
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by gambler 8y ago
>Vendor lock-in is something that engineers care about because they like playing with tech. Bad engineers care about vendor lock-in, because they want to pad their resumes with abstraction tools. Good engineers care about vendor lock-
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by gambler 8y ago
>Unless of course you don't care about the variables created inside. In majority of cases I really don't care about the variables created inside. If I can't handle an error just by looking at the exception and method arg
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by gambler 8y ago
This: public void DoThing(){ //code } catch (Exception x){ } finally { } would simply be syntactic sugar for this: public void DoThing(){ try { //code } catch (Exception x){ } fina
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by gambler 8y ago
Doesn't look that much cleaner than try/catch, to be honest. What I would really like to see in C#: public int DoThing(int y) { //logic } catch (SomeException e) { //handle things re
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by gambler 8y ago
So what do you do when you want centralized error handling, which is the whole point of try-catch idiom? >he second side effect is that it forces you to think about how to handle possible errors. Java does this with throws E and (at le
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by gambler 8y ago
>I could be wrong, but I assume that Google mostly does this because of the huge amount of malicious garbage bot traffic on the web. Once you go fully anonymous and private, there's no way to distinguish you between the hordes of m
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by gambler 8y ago
>We're all angry at the broken promise of what the web could be Most users enjoyed the web in 200X. It wasn't a broken promise. It worked. Then there was a concerted Web 2.0 campaign[1] that pushed in the direction of "h
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by gambler 8y ago
>"You can cloak this basic economic trade-off in fifty layers of bullshit—say you believe in freedom of speech, or that the antidote to bad speech is more speech—but the fact is, hate speech is profitable." May I point out th
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by gambler 8y ago
I wish someone built something like this for generic classification. You give the system a bunch of folders. Each folder is a label containing corresponding samples. The system then creates a replica of the folder structure with no content.

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