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by hacker_9 9y ago
The video looks really cool, even if it just shows how fast the bloodflow in the brain moves about. I didn't realise it was that quick before, so that was interesting. But their technology paragraph makes no sense: "Unity takes a
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Same with the Android store, just a few categories and a search box to lookup by name. I don't even look at the categories as again it's just trash, for example based off my recent activity I'm recommended 'Bethesdas Pin
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Is the Rosetta project not open source? Would be interesting to see how the protein folding simulation is done.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Thanks for the links, hadn't even heard of distilling but the papers on that site are a lot more approachable for sure. Thanks for the other insights too, I will keep them in mind for the next paper I read.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Super stuff. Can anyone here who reads these research papers tell me their process to understanding them? Does anyone try to recreate the models using the math from the papers? I'm interested in this stuff at a hobby level, but find my
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Wow those text to speech examples are amazing. The use in videogames could be huge. Exciting stuff.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
You would think OP would know that, but the original comment basically tells us all to measure our weight simply to check for CHF. If it were that simple we'd all do it I presume, but of course weight change can be a range of things. M
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by hacker_9 9y ago
What an ironic comment - I tell a software developer that medical science isn't as easy as measuring weight changes, supporting the point that doctors need to do a lot more than that to come to a diagnosis, and then a doctor (I assume)
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by hacker_9 9y ago
They can tell you something is different, or out of the normal range, they don't give you the real cause of the problem though. This is left to the doctor who will take into account age, gender, medical history, as well as the fuzzy de
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by hacker_9 9y ago
The monitoring devices are the real problem, not the people. Do you think all weight spikes simply equate to having CHF? You can't just rely on such a basic measurement when dealing with an incredibly complex system such as the human b
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by hacker_9 9y ago
This article is pretty devoid of content, and really only mentions that the Apple watch can be used as a constant heart monitor. Big deal, you aren't going to get much information from measuring just your heart beat and knowing next to
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by hacker_9 9y ago
.Net, C# and a version of Visual Studio have always been free since their release 17 years ago...
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Always confused that people talk about .Net as if it's failed on here, any time I look for employment in the UK there is a seemingly unlimited amount of high paying C# jobs available and it doesn't take long to get hired. Even my
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by hacker_9 9y ago
The evolution is fairly simple: python is very easy to setup, especially with django for working on the web, and for writing scripts quickly it work really well when everything is just an 'import' away. Then as the product gets bi
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by hacker_9 9y ago
"At Instagram we have hundreds of engineers working on well over a million lines of Python 3." It always amazes me that some of the most popular products around are built with the worst technology choices. And now they had to bu
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by hacker_9 9y ago
The link to Snorkel [1] is really interesting, labeling data in a low quality programmatic way, which is then fed through a neural network to produce high quality labels is really smart. [1] https://github.com/HazyResearch&#
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by hacker_9 9y ago
You type faster than you think? Then who is doing the typing...
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Whist I agree with this approach, sometimes it just isn't possible if the code was written in a non-testable way to begin with. Such as code that hits the database a lot or relies on network data. In this case, weighing up the ROI is a
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by hacker_9 9y ago
What? They do explain their results, and as you can see from the references section of any paper, other researchers read the published research and then build their new models using that information and continually refining the process.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I'd say this is more a problem with human nature, that social media is just exposing at a whole new level. It's basic biology to want to be the best, in order to attract the best mate etc. Social media has blown open a world where
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by hacker_9 9y ago
As someone outside of the US, I expect there would be such an uproar over here if we had to start waiting longer and longer for fb/twitter/youtube/etc pages to load, that people will just switch to a European business instead
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by hacker_9 9y ago
C# is being used more and more for high performance applications. This feature will allow developers working in gamedev/finance/server networking to get even closer to the metal without sacrificing safety.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
This is unfair, finance is basically an abstraction over our resource constrained world. We didn't get to choose not to live in a world with limited supplies of everything, and removing money from the equation doesn't change that
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by hacker_9 9y ago
"The Visa card, which will be issued by Gibraltar-based pre-paid card provider Wavecrest, will be linked to an app that allows users to buy and hold cryptocurrencies through the LBX exchange. Customers will also be able to withdraw mo
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by hacker_9 9y ago
“We found that in a magnetic alloy made up of gadolinium and iron, these fast electrical pulses can switch the direction of the magnetism in less than 10 picoseconds. That is orders of magnitude faster than any other MRAM technology.” Wou
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by hacker_9 9y ago
"We redesigned the search space so that AutoML could find the best layer which can then be stacked many times in a flexible manner to create a final network." I was literally thinking the other day how one could train a neural n
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by hacker_9 9y ago
The Black-Scholes algorithm in effect.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
So how bad is this exactly? I'm all for equality, but the world is built on the game known as capitalism, and this stuff exists because people optimise their playing strategy. I know the starting conditions can be unfair, but we kinda
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Yes but your face is your own.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Yes they can obviously look at their reflection, I meant direct eye contact.

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