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by gambler 9y ago
> They aren't real problems because nobody smart is trying to directly hook up a road sign classifier to a steering wheel. They are trying to build complex systems where this is just one signal. What are the guarantees that those
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by gambler 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if some smart folks in China launched a covert social media campaign to sell this stuff. You don't need much (aside from money and some dedication) to create a fad these days, as long as it's something
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by gambler 9y ago
Interview with the MMA guy. Quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQxxt0H8DJM
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by gambler 9y ago
Contrary to what they say, Gracies did not invent or patent sparring.
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by gambler 9y ago
In the video I see some old guy pushing people. Nothing to do with what I asked. Where are the claims of superiority to other martial arts?
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by gambler 9y ago
Pretty horrible response if true. I understand why some disciplines prefer not to respond to such challenges, but persecuting the challenger is absolutely the wrong thing to do.
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by gambler 9y ago
Sparring has nothing to do with claiming that everyone outside of BJJ/MMA circle is delusional. You response only highlights the problem with your attitude.
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by gambler 9y ago
Where exactly was this claimed?
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by gambler 9y ago
The arrogance of BJJ practitioners truly knows no limits.
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by gambler 10y ago
It's easy to counter criticism if your product has no canonical ways of doing anything. Just say the critics should use some other component or approach for every single thing they try to do. Of course, those other components/vers
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by gambler 10y ago
> Companies never think of the old guys as the ones to implement the new system - that's a job for the "enterprise experts" So true, even for more recent stuff. It's so absurd I always wanted to make a web comic abo
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by gambler 10y ago
This seemed surprising to me on the first read, but it makes sense. An average senior software engineer probably makes ~$120K in US. They often work on systems that aren't in any way critical and are more or less replaceable. Anything
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by gambler 10y ago
I'm willing to bet no one* does their own search crawling aside from companies the size of Yandex and larger. Google carefully manipulated web standards to make sure you can't do that effectively without tons of upfront investment
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by gambler 10y ago
Edit 2: I meant, of course, Xerox PARC.
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by gambler 10y ago
>He thinks that you can just design something nice from whole cloth and people will use it. Because that's exactly what they did in Xerox Park, many times over. >That's why his designs aren't deployed. No comment.
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by gambler 10y ago
>For example, Google and other search engines would not work without the principle of least power [1], which a lot of people, including Alan Kay [2], somehow don't understand. That is, if the web language was a VM rather than HTML,
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by gambler 10y ago
>I would argue that, despite its obvious biases, the mainstream media still reports more fact more often than do alternative sources. Which alternative sources? NewsMax? Reason.org? The Intercept? Or some crank youtube channel run by a
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by gambler 10y ago
The right has religion. The left has post-modernism. One says science is false, the other says science does not matter. The end result is roughly the same. >Sure, but the left treats its science deniers with equal levels of disdain and
799.
by gambler 10y ago
>1. OP article has nothing to do with JavaScript. JSON is a format directly derived from JavaScript. The affinity for using JSON for things that have nothing to do with object serialization or simple data structures is characteristic o
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by gambler 10y ago
Is this made clear in their UI? Do they have something saying "this setting will screw over many VPN users" and "this setting will screw over with all Tor users"? If not, it's in large part their problem as well.
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by gambler 10y ago
>I'm not ready to throw out the baby with the bathwater because of one issue. Extreme centralization of the Internet is not a "baby", except maybe in the sense of a cuckoo's egg. But I'm willing to bet the ment
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by gambler 10y ago
What I'm wondering: how many fuckups like this need to happen for website owners to realize that uber-centralization of vital online infrastructure is a bad idea? But I guess there is really no incentive for anyone in particular to do
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by gambler 10y ago
It's not ironic at all. Many websites listed on project's showcase page are screwed up if you open them without JavaScript. From mangled layouts to complete failures of rendering. This project pushes complexity where no complexity
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by gambler 10y ago
I'm annoyed but not surprised. This is how a lot of HTML was developed. First, you have a need. Then you get a crippled native "solution", that emerges from some committee and therefore doesn't really solve anything. In
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by gambler 10y ago
Nobody is forcing you to like it or use it. SPAs definitely try to force me to use JavaScript when browsing.
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by gambler 10y ago
JSON is the new XML. Except XML was actually designed to have semantics, while similar attempts in JSON are just hacks. In general, JavaScript is becoming the new J2EE. Ambitious ideas, clueless implementations, insane complexity.
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by gambler 10y ago
The only good thing about post-modernism is the fact that it illustrates the vacuous nature of academic philosophy. If the field had anything worthwhile in it, it would have built up some kind of institutional immune response to that kind o
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by gambler 10y ago
This is just rhetoric. The notion of separation between information, presentation and behavior couldn't be any more fundamental. But instead of developing this idea any further most web developers had traditionally settled for somethin
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by gambler 10y ago
Good to see someone testing the limits of neural nets, rather just squeezing a few percent of performance on an artificial benchmark. That said, is this result really all that surprising? Especially given the results demonstrated in that pa
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by gambler 10y ago
A cynic in me says this is one of the reasons large companies like deep learning so much. Unlike some other branches of AI, deep learning is not something that can be easily used by individuals or smaller companies. It does not scale down v

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