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by geezerjay 7y ago
> And I will definitely concede that the space of problems in which they excel and are tractable is smaller than the space of problems for something like a neural network, in my experience. The only thing that EAs and neural networks hav
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> Ok, I admit that a lot of papers compare only against other metaheuristics, but only in cases where it is already accepted that those other metaheuristics far out-perform weaker methods. Those methods are invariably other evolutionary
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> Definitely false. The vast majority of OR-type papers in good journals include comparison to weak baselines like those, and wouldn't be published (in those venues) if they didn't win. That statement is not correct. Although i
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> Well one area where genetic algorithms are better than basic gradient descent is, naturally, nondifferentiable functions. But that is facile. That's a poor assertion because even if detivative-free algorithms weren't already
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by geezerjay 7y ago
AWS Lightsail charges $3.50/month for a vm with 512MB RAM. Hetzer charges €3.00/month for avm with 2GB RAM.
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> Is 6K a lot for what they are providing? From other comments, 1k alone is for the display stand. So, yes.
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> Is there any response that would satisfy you? Do you believe that a PR response made in damage control mode that actually changes nothing is something that's satisfactory? I mean, apparently this screwup was so damaging that it ki
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by geezerjay 7y ago
* Photos of a person is personal data, particularly those that are scraped from social networks. This is pretty much the whole point of GDPR. * Screwing up someone's life, as it is extensively desribed in the article, fits well into th
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> Not sure how this relates to GDPR GDPR states that the lawful basis for processing of data depends, among other things, on: * the individual's explicit consent to the processing of his or her personal data. * protecting the vital
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by geezerjay 7y ago
Minikube adopted VirtualBox as its default and recommended VM driver, and personally I never managed to get non-VirtualBox VM drivers to work with minikube, including Docker.
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> I've heard of a startup spending many days of contractor time to optimise their database so they didn't have to go from the 4GB Heroku database to the 8GB one. From Heroku's site, Heroku's 4GB database plan goes for
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> Insert "almost" into parent's sentence and it becomes correct. No, it still remains astonishingly wrong. Even container orchestration platforms are being adapted to provide the same service that Hadoop has been providing
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> Hadoop solved a hard problem that nobody had. This baseless assertion is patently wrong on so many levels. Building computing clusters on COTS hardware is a very mundane problem. Running processing jobs on data shards is a very mundane
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by geezerjay 7y ago
Confusing funding with subsidies is a very disingenuous mistake. Whoever thought of this nonsense was desperate to sell the idea that somehow rideshare services were less efficient than incumbent taxi services, which flies on the face of re
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by geezerjay 7y ago
You have no idea who I am so refrain from making up accusations and personal attacks founded on your personal baseless assertions. If you have nothing of value to add to the discussion, simply don't add noise or drama to the discussio
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by geezerjay 7y ago
If a marketing team wants to edit anything then let them put up their own blog or website instead of abusing other people's service. It's this sort of abuse that brought spam into the world and pretty much destroyed fundamental se
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> This seems to assume that the tests will be higher quality than the problematic code in the first place. If the problem lies with probematic code then tests are not the problem. At most they're just yet another way that problemati
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> Unit tests will actually make bad code even worse because it will be even more difficult to change the underlying logic (because the tests lock all the poor implementation details into place). This statement is patently false, unless f
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> I’m obviously not in line with the tenor of this thread, but I really don’t think it’s a big deal. If this sort of abuse isn't nipped in the bud, it will only get worse and become standard operating procedure for each and every si
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by geezerjay 7y ago
You're presenting a personal pov that's grossly hyperbolic even in its subjectivity and does not reflect reality. With the exception of a hand-full of highly sensible topics that are prone to brigading, such as political issues, m
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by geezerjay 7y ago
Wikipedia is routinely manipulated to promote corporations and individuals. It's no surprise that some of the people engaged in this sort of practice are paid to work exclusively. In fact, I peronally know a case where congress promote
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by geezerjay 7y ago
Google's blanket dismissal of any criticism of Go's GOPATH design screwup pushed people away from adopting Go.
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by geezerjay 7y ago
The expression "ivory tower" has an entirely different meaning. Just because the couple of dominant players chose to ignore a standard, particularly in a time and age where they were outright hostile to interoperability initiative
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by geezerjay 7y ago
I would also add that having third-parties propose specifications to standardization bodies is a widely established practice. In fact, standards are supposes to reflect industry practices and are a way to establish common ground.
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by geezerjay 7y ago
Sounds like the complains are targetted at faulty implementations, not the document standard.
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> And luckily, tables have become redundant as layout technique, since CSS would do that, already then. It took well over a decade to get CSS to play nicely with layouts. It's disingenuous to present CSS as the obvious solution to a
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> "Standard" = consensus definition of desired behaviour. "Living" = open to change. > I don't see what is so oxymoronic about this? A standard is set in stone as a fixed target for implementers. No fixed targ
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> Almost every major significant OSS project has a corporate sponsor (usually in the form of paid employees doing the bulk of contributions). Don't see the problem with that. Your arguments are deeply cargo cult-ish: they lack any r
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> What does it even mean for it to be "supported for years to come"? It's not a web service. I'm pretty sure those writing and building software today would like it to build and run 6 months from now.
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by geezerjay 7y ago
> Machine learning is an area where you need to be able to produce results. Having to produce results is one thing. Mindlessly throwing tensorflow/pytorch at problems is an entirely different problem. It's like those front-end

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