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by ghj 6y ago
We tend to overestimate how often a document will be modified. For example wikipedia seems to keep "a history of every change ever made to the document" and they seem to be managing fine. If there are bad actors, what you need is
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by ghj 6y ago
The empty loop in python was surprisingly slow (68,000,000 iterations per second). What is it actually doing here? A 3ghz cpu has 3 billion cycles per second. So it's spending an average of 44 cycles to increment an integer and compare
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by ghj 6y ago
I think those were synchronous requests one after another. 250ms per page load sounds about right.
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by ghj 6y ago
As a layman, is causality worth studying? For example, can I answer questions like what are the main causes that are moving corona stats? With intervention I suppose you can conduct an experiment where you (randomly) pick cities and make ha
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by ghj 6y ago
It's really hard to write correct code. Sorting was broken in java and nobody noticed for a long time: http://envisage-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sortin... The same was true for java&#x27
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by ghj 6y ago
OMG there are multiline lambdas!!! https://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/DOCS.html#statement... But trying it out, it doesn't even look like python anymore. Especially if you want to nest them a lot like i
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by ghj 6y ago
I don't know anything about this field. Are these distributed systems? A billion 1024 dimensional vectors sounds like a whole lot of memory (8 TB if each dimension is a double?).
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by ghj 6y ago
Reading through some of these talk titles feels like reading https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies
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by ghj 6y ago
I remember first reading this book around the same time I read "How to Solve It". They were both popular within highschool-level math competition circles. If you have a college math degree, you should be fine!
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by ghj 6y ago
Why are some empty ocean squares colored dark blue and some light blue? Does light blue mean there is some land mass there but it's uninhabited?
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by ghj 6y ago
Am I the only one who is reading this as Scott flexing on NYT and that there's nothing to be sad about? > After considering my options, I decided on the one you see now. If there’s no blog, there’s no story. Or at least the story wi
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by ghj 6y ago
Can someone point me to resources on how to re-implement the "vs" feature? I feel like this can be done with just GPT-2 instead of using the google search api. For example if you type something like "Instead of using Tensorfl
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by ghj 6y ago
Some of the arrows are so randomly placed it reminds me of: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kjh2110/the-10-most-biz...
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by ghj 6y ago
I guess we're past the point where codewords like "winnie the pooh" work but is NLP so advanced it can parse all the other ways human hint and indirectly communicate with each other? Like can't I just send something like
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by ghj 6y ago
Random question: what's the word for propaganda in chinese? I am also chinese but can only speak with poor vocab. Google translating it yields 宣传, which is a word that I do know but it means something more like "publicity" wh
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by ghj 6y ago
It requires a google account to download the archive. Can someone summarize or cherry pick some examples? Just wondering what counts as manipulation and whether I would be able to tell.
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by ghj 6y ago
Would that be classified as a denial of service attack? (which is apparently a federal crime)
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by ghj 6y ago
Any example of this being used in the wild? I feel like it could save with backend costs (especially for hobby projects) but the bandwidth/loading time might make it infeasible? Also if you have any novel model it will be trivial to re
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by ghj 6y ago
I stole the link from this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23451288 I have no idea where this is from!
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Interactive Map of Linux Kernel(makelinux.github.io)
407 points by ghj 6y ago|17 comments
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by ghj 6y ago
I think a better way to sell a language is to name a few concrete niches that they are amazing at. For example: C for low level systems, javascript for browser apps, bash for shell scripts, java/swift for mobile, erlang for actor model