jxcole

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by jxcole 5y ago
> Finally, buying a local cluster of TITAN Xs is an outright weird recommendation for massive models. VRAM limitations alone make this a losing proposition. Do you have an alternative recommendation?
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by jxcole 5y ago
>> could not be understood by people and thus programmers are detached from the decisions making by machines. This isn't really true. A programmer may not understand the exact mechanism of computation but they will have trained i
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by jxcole 6y ago
I think it's mostly psychological...since missiles move so quickly you might not be able to see them people think of them as more like bullets, regardless of the complex technology involved. People see these slow moving AI powered dron
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by jxcole 6y ago
You're right it's not an ethical dilemma at all, but your reasons are completely off. All killing of humans by other humans is unethical, regardless of technology. Saying there is a dilemma implies that somehow a human would make
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by jxcole 6y ago
So Roberta, the deep learning model used, uses text to infer the price of stock. So if it's modeled from language what is its data source? Twitter? Reddit? How frequently does it update?
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by jxcole 6y ago
IANAL, but one possibility that comes to mind is that these examples are specifically chosen to limit liability. For example, if they banned Trump today based on comments he made a month ago, then someone could sue twitter for allowing spee
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by jxcole 6y ago
Telomeres are intentionally shortened by the body, a process which is no doubt favored by evolution. While we don't know why for sure, it is entirely possible that telomere shortening actually lengthens life. As telomeres become shorte
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by jxcole 6y ago
As a counterpoint, I believe that I essentially behave the way you are describing, frequently doing things like going to meetings and saying "this big project won't work, it will harm the end user" which doesn't make you
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by jxcole 6y ago
I'm curious how laws like this would handle jurisdiction. If I take a photo in Portland and send the data to Morocco where facial recognition is used and the results are sent back to Portland, have I violated anything?
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by jxcole 7y ago
Interesting, but how does it perform on standard benchmarks like image net and MNIST?
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by jxcole 7y ago
Now if on the slow end you connected an exactly reversed series of gears you could configure it such that the final gear moves at exactly the same speed as the first gear, but the middle gear moves at 1/googol the speed. Of course this
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by jxcole 7y ago
One of the most fascinating things this article claims is that apparently these scientists were able to detect the firing of individual neurons. I have briefly looked up some of the technologies involved in brain scanning before and if this
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by jxcole 7y ago
This is mainstream news...
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by jxcole 7y ago
This definitely counts as mainstream news.
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by jxcole 7y ago
It's pretty hard to get upset about this since nobody actually runs Windows Server on the Cloud anyway. Even Azure is dominated by Linux server usage.
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by jxcole 8y ago
It's a little ridiculous to view this as a problem. I am currently working on a small personal project in my spare time with 775 dependencies. Quickly perusing the dependencies the reason there are so many is because I am using: * Webp
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by jxcole 8y ago
One of the most interesting properties of matter with negative mass is that if something collides with it it accelerates in the opposite direction of the incoming object. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_matter#Ne
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by jxcole 8y ago
What if every employee were paid at the Austin rate?
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by jxcole 8y ago
The standard attack in this case is that someone could steal your cookies (if they are Js cookies) or execute instructions on gkoberger.github.io without your permission, since that is the context. The way you would do this is create an ans
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by jxcole 8y ago
I've always thought that the CIA was completely incompetent, but I've never seen more conclusive evidence than this. I've never worked with anyone so flippant about security, but no one should ever expose secrets without prop
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by jxcole 9y ago
This jumped out at me: With 10 percent of the world’s population — more than 60 million people — living with chronic pain... Its true that 700 million is more than 60 million, so technically its correct but a word way to phrase it...
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by jxcole 9y ago
I don't think you understand Tensorflow. Tensorflow compiles tensor mathematics into a shader that can be run on the gpu. This is usually faster than acpu computation.
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by jxcole 9y ago
So the article basically says: 1) Some stuff is already written in Fortran so they don't want to rewrite that. I dig it. 2) It's fast (except C sometimes) but easier to write than c. Like 100x faster than python. I'm not sure
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by jxcole 9y ago
It's a pity there are no JavaScript options listed.
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by jxcole 9y ago
The fact that they argued that leghemoglobin is safe because it is similar to other globins is kind of weird. A chemistry professor once told me that the chemical Thalidomide is a medicine that can be used to treat morning sickness, but if
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by jxcole 9y ago
Not by a long shot. Where would you put this solution once you found it? Github? Npm? Of course corporations will sue these organizations out of existence for hosting a DRM work around, so they won't be able to host it. So at the end u
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by jxcole 9y ago
Or even better: it will drive off to pick up random people in an Uber/Lyft scenario, so your car makes you a small amount of money while you're working by itself.
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by jxcole 9y ago
I don't think that's what these researchers are saying. I think they are saying more along the lines of: "Hutchins has shown that he is a security researcher through his work on wannacry. As a security researcher, he probably
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by jxcole 9y ago
You summarize the exact point of the article perfectly: women are paid less not because they have the same job and are paid less, but because they are offered different jobs which pay less. To address sexism we should focus on making sure w
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by jxcole 9y ago
Can anyone explain if there is something particularly new or interesting about this image format? Or do I have to read the source code?

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