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by jostmey 11y ago
Uber is winning in Chicago because the taxi service is so aweful. I dread riding in the city taxis. On more than one occasion a taxi driver become nasty after I asked them to take a back road to save money. Each time I called for a city tax
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by jostmey 11y ago
"Right to be forgotten" is the wrong kind of control to give to people over their private information. I can understand why people may not want to be tracked over the internet, but from what I know "Right to be forgotten&quot
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by jostmey 11y ago
Wow! In 25 trials 2 treatments were beneficial and 1 was detrimental. It would seem that the process of finding new treatments is horribly inefficient and perhaps just completely broken given that so few treatments were found to work. I mea
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by jostmey 11y ago
The NN will imitate whatever it is trained on - it is just that some styles of music may require more powerful neural networks.
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by jostmey 11y ago
According to a wikipedia article, the force of the explosion can be estimated by the height of the mushroom cloud.
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by jostmey 11y ago
The estimates being thrown around is that the larger explosion was equivalent to 21 tons of TNT. Does that seem low to anyone?
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by jostmey 11y ago
Looks like there was an initial fire followed by a much larger explosion. My guess is that there was an accident at a major power/refinery plant.
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by jostmey 11y ago
My wife's Macbook has been a huge disappointment. The login is slow, the computer crashes all the time, and safari stopped working. And it's just over two years old. So N = 2.
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by jostmey 11y ago
Funny, the plugin works on every website that I've tested except for just one case - the plugins own homepage ;-)
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Unconventional Gas and Oil Drilling Associated with Increased Hospital Use(journals.plos.org)
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by jostmey 11y ago
People have been breeding and cross-breeding our food supply for thousands of years. What can we do about that? I know! Let's use the Internet to identify which foods are pure. Then we can be sure to stick to just those foods when we s
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by jostmey 11y ago
I think this is a sync issue. What happens when the files are still uploading on one device, while being donwloaded on another. Will the files waiting to uploaded disappear?
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by jostmey 11y ago
So if I move a folder out of iCloud before the sync finishes every pending file is lost? Did I understand the article correctly?
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by jostmey 11y ago
After rotating the image 90 degrees, the predicted result changes substantially. The author should not be surprised. A convolutional neural network is translationally invariant, not rotationally invariant.
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by jostmey 11y ago
And that is why the city of Detroit is going down the drain.
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by jostmey 11y ago
A major complaint about bitcoin is the wastefulness of mining. But that is precisely what makes bitcoin a commodity. If it were easy to generate bitcoins then people would start printing forgeries. I don't see a way around it.
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by jostmey 11y ago
I love this article! The author points out that as lifespan goes up the effect of aging on fitness goes down. So provided that an organism lives long enough, aging is not penalized by Natural Selection.
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by jostmey 11y ago
I call a 14% tax rate for a single service abusive. Why does a hotel tax exist in the first place, where does that money go, and why is the tax rate higher than the sales tax?
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by jostmey 11y ago
So they can scale up the strength of a connection. Can they also scale down the strength of a connection? You can't build a properly functioning neural network unless you dial the strength of the connection both up and down.
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by jostmey 12y ago
I think I can do better. Michael Rose breed fruit flies selecting for longevity. I believed his work showed that it was possible to extend lifespan simply by introducing the right selective pressure. If this doesn't demonstrate that ag
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by jostmey 12y ago
P.S. And yes, Mother Nature did not build us to last. Natural selection seems to have little regard for longevity.
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by jostmey 12y ago
Theoretical work by Fisher, Medawar, and Hamilton during the last century pretty much explained why we see super-exponential decay in mortality distributions. Their theories center around using the "Euler-Lotka Equation", which es
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by jostmey 12y ago
I imagine it takes a lot of hard work, perseverance, and determination to keep Moore's laws alive. It is easy to take it for granted.
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by jostmey 12y ago
A teenager picks up a gun. Could they be arrested for assault because "who knows what this teenager might have done"?
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by jostmey 12y ago
Quote from article "Note, however, that some studies suggest that LUCA may have lacked DNA and been defined wholly through RNA". How can anyone make this claim? Is there a single example of a living organisms that is not DNA based
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by jostmey 12y ago
I'd be interested in seeing if this same problem appears in generative models. It seems like a flaw of discriminative models. Convolutional Boltzmann machines have been developed, and neural networks trained with Backpropagation can be
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by jostmey 12y ago
Yeah, but some of methods that make the technique successful are less than ten years old.
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by jostmey 12y ago
How about comparing lumber usage? The U.S. may not have used as much cement, but we probably had more wood available. P.S. I imagine using cement is more eco-friendly.
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by jostmey 12y ago
About time!
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by jostmey 12y ago
I work in a research lab and we never touch anything like Lisp. What we use: C/C++, Matlab, Python, R, Fortran, and the occasional Mathematica. I myself have been getting into Julia.

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