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by jey 9y ago
Wait, so FB Login won't even give us public profile data anymore? Then that reduces FB Login to nearly just a competitor surveillance tool for Facebook.
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by jey 9y ago
Sweet, great to hear. Any particular papers you'd recommend checking out?
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by jey 9y ago
Close, but not quite: compressed sensing really works in a lot of domains. You "just" have to know of a basis set in which your signal is sparse. This basis set can be (and often is) overcomplete; i.e. you don't need a minima
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by jey 9y ago
Yeah, weirdly a lot of basic image processing tasks can be expressed as convolutions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(image_processing)
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by jey 9y ago
Counterintuitively, drip coffee actually contains more caffeine per serving than espresso.
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by jey 9y ago
How do they determine the number of open requisitions? Seems like number of job postings is misleading since one posting could be used to hire multiple people.
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by jey 9y ago
> I was considering using Reflux Redux is the de facto standard now in that space. It seems to have "won". See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36326210/what-is-the-cor... for further discussion.
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by jey 9y ago
Diamonds are bullshit, but body adornment is a human universal that exists in all cultures. So the diamond bullshit is hijacking something very real and human.
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by jey 9y ago
I tacitly assumed that "model-free" really meant "model has been marginalized out", i.e. instead of treating it as a function to be estimated/learned through regression. Is that not the case?
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by jey 9y ago
Actually, that's exactly what they're claiming to refute: > A small number of papers had indicated that humans also possessed this capability, specifically in an interior region of the brain known as the hippocampus, which is
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by jey 9y ago
A likely possibility: the molecules get replaced, but it's still the same cell.
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by jey 9y ago
I'm gonna wait for the replication, as always. But what about all that exercise-induced BDNF-mediated neurogenesis stuff? Was that only observed in mouse models?
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by jey 9y ago
Can you offer suggestions on alternative methods you'd prefer to see?
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by jey 9y ago
According to the much better article at https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/judge-rul... , it was a WA state judge who ruled based on WA's "Homestead Act".
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by jey 9y ago
Or maybe "Bumble App Capitalizes on Mass Shootings for Extra Press Coverage" in the style of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html ? Just seems weird for the NYT to cover this.
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by jey 9y ago
> many bay area companies just don't understand why anyone would want to live anywhere but the bay What do you mean? Is this a way of saying "many Bay Area companies don't hire remote workers"?
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by jey 9y ago
We've already had multiple highly-ranked discussions of the topic. (Additionally, these posts might be setting off the flamewar detector.)
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by jey 9y ago
One of your jobs as a manager is to debug these people issues, right? So when you get a "bug report" like "I'm stuck", you should investigate the bug and look for a solution, which might be something like "Hey
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by jey 9y ago
That's not what the quoted text really means; Datastore has a form of strong consistency too. I'm pretty sure Firestore is built on Datastore. https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/structu
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by jey 9y ago
Isn't it actually built on top of Datastore?
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by jey 9y ago
Yup, it's more biomechanically natural. There's a footstool product that makes Western toilets more comfortable, giving you the best of both worlds: https://www.squattypotty.com/ Here's an amusing explainer v
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by jey 9y ago
Promise.all() does a pretty good job of parallelizing tasks while maintaining readability.
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by jey 9y ago
> Now they expect me to write async calls in a try-catch block!?! What do you mean? In my experience, the use of async/await leads to much cleaner code for I/O driven tasks like querying APIs and databases. Yes, I do have a try
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by jey 9y ago
This one: https://twitter.com/byjayroot/status/809485903051812864
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by jey 9y ago
"Our study suggests that 3 months of imprisonment in an impoverished environment may lead to reduced self-control, measured as increased risk taking and reduced attentional performance. This is a significant and societally relevant fin
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by jey 9y ago
> one DES link encryption box [...] was sending out plaintext on the LEDs What? Care to elaborate? Did they just set the LED brightness based on the current octet being encoded or something? But that seems like it's too high frequen
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by jey 9y ago
The grandparent post isn't making a value judgment, it's just pointing out that the two cases should be approached and marketed differently. (And should avoid deluding yourself into thinking you have ice skates when you actually h
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by jey 9y ago
This is only true if there really is a USD for every USDT out there in the market. If it turns out to be a fake, the whole thing comes crashing down and becomes unpegged as soon as growth stops, i.e. as soon as we run out of "greater f
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by jey 9y ago
Even better, Julia code is super high-level and readable. And you can just drop down to C using the builtin "ccall" facility. Julia's type system is designed for excellent interop with the C ABI.
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by jey 9y ago
> That is probably what caused his episode. Photosensitive epilepsy is a real thing, but this is just speculation.

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