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by irq11 9y ago
RCA jacks are also widely used, when size and weight aren't a factor.
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by irq11 9y ago
Are we to overlook all criminal behavior because enforcement might make people less employable, or just selectively ignore some laws that you don't agree with? Perspective! If someone is shooting up in the library, their future employa
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by irq11 9y ago
They have these rules, but they are rarely actually enforced. Point someone to a homeless person shooting up in public or bathing in the bathroom, and see what happens. If anything, there's a shrug and a sigh and some rent-a-cop is sen
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by irq11 9y ago
Rules. No sleeping. No drug use. No bathing in the restrooms. No shitting on anything. No violent or threatening behavior. Period. Then enforce those rules. One violation, and you're out. Two, and you're out for good. Librarians
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by irq11 9y ago
Yes, I see this value. But again, that's something that could rather easily exist as an open-source, self-hosted tool, and I kind of wonder why the middleman hasn't been optimized away. We're in a world where people would rat
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by irq11 9y ago
I'm open to the argument that most development teams are utterly incompetent. I'm just somewhat skeptical of that argument.
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by irq11 9y ago
I've personally built all of the things you're talking about, on real products, with lots of traffic, and it just isn't that hard. Annoying, yes, but arguably a core competency of any data team, and something you want to thin
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by irq11 9y ago
I keep going back and forth between understanding the value of this product (dashboard for marketing to add integrations w/o dev time; better integration of analytics), to wondering why technical people pay for this. It doesn't se
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by irq11 9y ago
Because there are no homeless people in SOMA, right?
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by irq11 9y ago
"it does meaningfully better at all sample sizes" maybe you aren't familiar with reading graphs, but no, it really doesn't. one graph with mostly overlapping error bars does not inspire great confidence. also, it isn&#
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by irq11 9y ago
but they didn't. the writer makes an unconvincing claim that the original post was wrong. the data presented shows only that if you try really hard and get lucky enough, you can probably do as well as a simple regression in this case.
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by irq11 9y ago
I contend that all real work should be done this way. And don't forget things like bayes' nets and random forests, which get no love. in other words, KISS.
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by irq11 9y ago
oops, typo.
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by irq11 9y ago
Yes, sure. Playing with something is a good way to learn that thing. But if you find yourself saying "I really like using this backhoe, but I'm finding that most of my hole-digging problems are too small for a backhoe. Is there a
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by irq11 9y ago
support vector machines. a non-linear classifier that was the hot thing in the AI world before neural networks became practical.
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by irq11 9y ago
Obviously, you do whatever you like when you're playing around, but when you find yourself in that situation (i.e. "I want to learn tool X, but all of my problems are inappropriate for X"), it's an indication that you&#x
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by irq11 9y ago
...but why would you? The fact that there are people "getting their jimmies up" on questions of training massively paramterized statistical models on tiny amounts of data should tell you exactly where we are on the deep-learning h
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by irq11 9y ago
why would you make assumptions like that?
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by irq11 9y ago
If you think humans are "two stereoscopic cameras and a limited sonar", you need to learn more about humans. Not only are our eyes far more versatile than the most sophisticated camera equipment, we constantly maintain a mental mo
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by irq11 9y ago
being open source and freely self-hostable give GitLab an edge over GitHub in two respects that are very important to some users. users who don't pay for things.
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by irq11 9y ago
Yes, agreed. Your use case was interesting to me in the way that you bootstrapped the problem. If only more domains were like that!
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by irq11 9y ago
Yes, but that's true of any ML approach. Deep learning is great if you're dealing with a hugely dimensional problem, and you have the data to train the model. If one of those things is not true (and usually , one of those things
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America’s ‘Miracle Machine’ is in desperate need of a miracle(washingtonpost.com)
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by irq11 9y ago
You're seeing hate for deep learning on HN!?! I'd love to see something approaching critical thought! Most of the comments I see are silly fluff about the singularity and/or AGI and killer robots. But seriously: I think you&#
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by irq11 9y ago
I'm saying that nobody I know cares about the weight of a plastic bag unless they're trying to win a pedantic internet debate. If everyone you know is different, congratulations. Enjoy your nutrient goo.
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by irq11 9y ago
Last time I checked, Soylent comes in packages, and requires water to eat. So sure, you can combine your nutrient goo powder into a single sack, and thereby save a tiny fraction of the weight of the food (and water) itself. But you're
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by irq11 9y ago
The things i'm talking about are a single pouch per meal. There's no more or less waste than mixing up a sack of goo. Many can be eaten dry in a pinch. Have fun eating dry soylent. I can't really speak to the exact sodium con
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by irq11 9y ago
Uh, you know that every REI has a wide selection of freeze-dried camping foods, right? They're a lot better than the idea of slurping down bland nutrient goo (but more power to you, if nutrient spooge is your preference, I suppose). As
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by irq11 10y ago
This guy is an executive. He isn't "shipping" anything, and it isn't cynical to say that. Engineers tend to think about these things as if the world is a meritocracy based on your individual contributions. But for a lot
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by irq11 10y ago
...and all that (excluding the professor part) since 2011! Boy, talk about working fast! In case you can't tell, there's a great big sarcasm tag there. There is absolutely no way that the guy has contributed substantially to all o

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