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by icc97 9y ago
The Guardian is 'centre-left' and the most left wing (it's the only one that is left of centre) broadsheet newspaper in the UK [0]. I don't think your comment about hating Corbyn is that correct either. There clearly wer
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by icc97 9y ago
Indeed, here's the relevant CEO quote in the article: > "We recognize we have to get more direct-to-consumer revenue over time, and the way we will do that is through membership-type propositions, but it’s going to be much more
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by icc97 9y ago
I think the point was that Deep Blue was using brute force, where as Alpha Go had taught itself and Alpha Go Zero has gone the full distance to require zero outside help. So Deep Blue wasn't such a big step in terms of General Artifici
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by icc97 9y ago
If you use keepass the you can export your passwords from Chrome in there and then use that for both Firefox and Chrome
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by icc97 9y ago
Seeing as the author is using vim he could just have a command within vim. :exec ':e ~/logbook/' . strftime("%Y-%m-%d.md")
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Or the onion website: http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/
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> By what criteria is the USA "most successful country on earth"? Given we're talking about the Internet. How about ARPANET?
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The speech recognition of Cortana was pretty excellent - which is what the guys at Microsoft Research care about. The rest just seems to have got messed up in politics.
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I just installed Greenshot [0] and never really thought about about the internal one. It comes with it's own mini image editor to quickly add annotations and a very nice zoom feature to catch the screenshot correctly first time without
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Portugal Shows the Internet Why Net Neutrality Is Important(techdirt.com)
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Techdirt combines this thread in one article [0] [0]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171030/12364538513/portu...
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The BBC also had an documentary claiming that it was environmental collapse back in 2012 which is mentioned in the aeon article. They have now produced another with a separate view point. Irrespective of the BBC bias I still think that dise
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The recent Easter Island BBC film [0] was pretty good on this. Jared Diamond did consider all the European destruction in his book 'Collapse' but still believed that there had been a large amount of deforestation well before the f
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I'm guessing these are just the ones that got caught. I would be surprised if the London Universities e.g. Imperial, LSE would miss out on doing similar things with their funds.
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The UK's offenders: * Oxford * Cambridge * The University of Law Employee Benefit Trust
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I got Haskell + Emacs + Intero working on Windows [0] [0]: https://ianchanning.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/installing-hask...
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Looks like it's opt-in [0] [0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/sqlopsstudio/blob/6e05dd7fa13d2...
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> If you check out the reveal, you'll see that it doesn't have those rediculous covers In the reveal the first truck does have the covers over the wheels, the second one doesn't. Check the livestream at about 3:00 [0] [0]:
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Doesn't really matter, it is just marketing. I guess somewhere through the design phase they did some calculations on how much force it can take and checked it against silly things for Musk to say. The only point is that it's stro
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From Wikipedia's F1 page [0]: > The 2016 F1 cars have a power-to-weight ratio of 1,400 hp/t (1.05 kW/kg). Theoretically this would allow the car to reach 100 km/h (62 mph) in less than 1 second. However the massive po
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by icc97 9y ago
Elon Musk said it himself with the Model 3: > Assume the worst [0] So sure we should be skeptical about the actual deadlines. But they're trying to compete against BMW & Mercedes (plus numerous other brands, but it seems like th
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I remember Linus mentioning [0] about the major benefits of tuning Linux for super computers that came to be really useful for when trying to get performance out of a mobile phones decades later. [0]: https://m.youtube.com/w
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The study clearly takes an extreme view point. I agree with your criticisms, and mostly it seems fairly poor science. I can see some benefit of looking for the extreme though, it's looking for a theoretical optimum. I'd have thoug
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by icc97 9y ago
For many for who it is just a diet, often it's just a fad. But for those who stick to it, it is very important to them and it most certainly isn't a fad. So veganism is certainly not a fad, but that doesn't stop some people t
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Could everyone working at a company with more that 30,000 where there's clear measurable and transparent progression expectations and no-one has ever grumbled about not getting promoted please stand up.
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IRC then via Chris Messina [0] edit: although disappointingly he seems to use this fact as quite a personal branding tool now [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Messina_(open-source_adv...
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* Augmenting Human Intellect (Engelbart, 1962) [0] * Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (aka REST from ch. 5) (Fielding, 2000) [1] [0]: http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-
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Yeah, I think this is where things start to get fairly pointless with avoiding being tracked. I'm imagining that even at a basic level they can match up any Google searches / GMail you use to your IP address and then follow that v
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their 'deep learning in excel' [0] is a great simplification of the fundamentals. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnoLMkosHuE [1]: http://www.fast.ai/2016/10/08/teaching-philoso
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From my experience Andrew Ng wiped the floor with every other lecturer I've had. Both the ML and his new Deep Learning course. If the lecturers aren't very interesting Coursera can be as hard as any other lectures. I gave up on th

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