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by jo_ 12y ago
I've shuffled through all of them and, near as I can tell, there really isn't one. They're very early in development, not aesthetically pleasing, and offer limited functionality.
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by jo_ 12y ago
> ... If the algorithm was so intelligent as to know how to go from manufacturing paper clips out of supplied resources to deciding how to get more of the necessary resources by killing humans, it could probably figure out that this is p
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by jo_ 12y ago
The gx2.2 instances will run you $0.650 per hour of compute time and have K520 (?) in them, which works pretty well. There are a few preconfigured instances, but if you want to make your own and go through the hassle, it will take about tw
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by jo_ 12y ago
I can't attest to the motivation of Al Gore and the others, but I can at least tell you what the scientific consensus is. Climate change is real. It is caused by us. The evidence is overwhelming. "The facts are very clear: CO2 i
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by jo_ 12y ago
Same with Ubuntu, which I run on my servers. It was patched by the time I had SSH'd in.
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by jo_ 12y ago
Nothing impossible -- just integration with the standard library algorithms and some older source code I don't want to modify. It's less difficulty and more a matter of laziness.
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by jo_ 12y ago
Does Qt still do that thing where they reimplement a lot of the C++ standard components like Vector? I remember years ago having problems with their reimplementation and wonder how much that's changed.
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by jo_ 12y ago
I never considered Bruce Wayne much of a tinkerer. More like Tony Stark playing with Legos.
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by jo_ 12y ago
The title is terrible, but the article is wonderfully well written. It highlights with even handedness a very sensitive and central issue facing not just the skeptical community but the internet as a whole today. I'm impressed with t
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by jo_ 12y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to refute. I was (am) saying that installing the JDK is really pleasant and painless. Installing the JRE is gross for the average Windows user because of all the bullshit that Oracle stuffs in the
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by jo_ 12y ago
People who aren't Java developers hate it because the JRE install is irritating as FUCK. The JDK is smooth sailing. Install, add JAVA_HOME, done. The JRE, on the other hand, pesters people to update once a week, adds a little tray i
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by jo_ 12y ago
I mentioned this in my post ("given nonlinear activations"), but you're correct to point out its importance. The combination of linear functions is always linear. Full stop. You need at least one non-linear layer to get re
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by jo_ 12y ago
I misunderstood intentions. I just wanted to chime in with the name of theorem I thought you were describing. I like knowing the names of theorems, and I had a hard time finding this name when I first looked for it.
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by jo_ 12y ago
Certainly not in the deeper senses of the phrase. If we take the phrase neural network to mean, "a series of deeply and widely interconnected elements which assist or inhibit the transmission of signals to one another, activated by the
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by jo_ 12y ago
You are correct. This is Cover's Theorem. "A complex pattern-classification problem, cast in a high-dimensional space nonlinearly, is more likely to be linearly separable than in a low-dimensional space, provided that the space i
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by jo_ 12y ago
'Single-layer' is an easily overlooked and absolutely essential modifier. Very few networks these days are single layers. (Three is the minimum for infinite dimensional functional approximation, given nonlinear activations.) De
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by jo_ 12y ago
I'm quite familiar with all of them, and I completely agree. I'm simply pointing out that there's a divide between the things that make us happy on a conscious level and a visceral level. I'd liken getting a patent to
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by jo_ 12y ago
Ah. I misunderstood. Though I'm really surprised you can't do that with iPhone apps. Can you not distribute an iPhone package (whatever the extension is) via alternative means?
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by jo_ 12y ago
>> A platform that doesn't limit your freedom. You're free to build and distribute your apps without walled gardens. You don't need to pay to place an app on Firefox Marketplace. >The same is true of Android. This is
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by jo_ 12y ago
Similar to what WorldWideWayne is saying, it's possible to be anti-patent and still have some sense of pride over being granted one. The two are far from mutually exclusive. I'm strongly opposed to software patents but would sti
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by jo_ 12y ago
For anyone without a concept of the Minecraft team size: They have 12 coders and 5 artists. With the business and infrastructure teams included, Mojang has 40 people. Source: https://help.mojang.com/customer/portal&#x
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by jo_ 12y ago
I think there are several factors to consider. Terrorism is an infinitesimally small threat, but many on the political side chose to treat it with heavy gloves despite the diminishing returns because (1) the Zero-risk cognitive bias makes p
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by jo_ 12y ago
Some lighters. Regular ones are okay, I think, but I had my butane torch confiscated last May in San Francisco. I'd been carrying it around for three or four years and had never been stopped. I've also brought a swiss army knife
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by jo_ 12y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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by jo_ 12y ago
Yeah. Carmack wanted to calculate the distortion of the ear-canal on positional audio and to calculate the effects of sound diffusion off of surfaces like light. Creative owns patents on both of those techniques. :(
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by jo_ 12y ago
My front door, the buzzer, and maybe the door to my room and the lights. It would be nice if UPS ringing my doorbell sent an SMS to my phone so I could remotely unlock it. That way they can put the package inside my gate or front door, an
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by jo_ 12y ago
This is pretty much exactly the kind of device I've been looking for. I wanted a tiny system with a GPGPU that runs CUDA from the get-go. I have an nVidia desktop, but I'm running Windows for work and my other hobbies, so Python
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by jo_ 12y ago
It should be noted that the paper (as I've read in the abstract) extrapolates from MEDICAL data. There's a huge prevalence of pseudomedicine and mysticism which receives incorrect confirmation (as evidenced by the aforementioned
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by jo_ 12y ago
I considered investing in a foreign country bank since I happened upon $20k through some fortunate stock picks. I was advised that this is a _very_ bad idea because of the currency fluctuations between countries. You might earn 7% in Indi
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by jo_ 12y ago
I believe http://codeforamerica.org/ exists for exactly this purpose. It matches techies with their local governments to improve things.

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