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by jxcole 9y ago
It wouldn't really be a Cobra Effect. In the Cobra Effect, the net number of Cobras (which were trying to be eliminated) was increased instead of decreased. If farmers start breeding livestock intentionally to be eaten by wolves, it&#x
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by jxcole 9y ago
But what you're talking about is more like a club for new coders (which is a good idea). This guy was specifically looking for coding schools, which I assume are online only (so no classroom atmosphere).
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by jxcole 9y ago
While it may be true that in this particular instance the FBI might act benevolently, the idea was that it would be nice if there was an organization you could go to with any zero day bug. Even if the FBI is not mismanaged and always tries
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by jxcole 10y ago
TLDR: The point is to correct a known flaw with image recognition algorithms. I'm not a professional researcher, but here's what I gather from reading other articles: One major problem with image recognition in machines is that wh
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by jxcole 10y ago
There are many good answers already, but my two cents is that there are many standard statistical methods that work on basic "data" type problems. If your data is spreadsheet type data, where it has some number of basic float inpu
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by jxcole 10y ago
There is a known strategy in politics to intentionally book rooms for speeches that are too small for the number of people who will show up. That way the next day the newspapers will talk about how people were standing in the aisles just to
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by jxcole 10y ago
It's 39 light years so no fewer than 39 years from our perspective. The closer to the speed of light the travelers are the less time will appear to have elapsed from their perspective. If you had rockets that could instantaneously acce
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by jxcole 10y ago
Not really a specialist or anything, but I surmised that aging creates what you could call "bad chemicals" in your body. > unavoidable byproducts of enzyme function, for example, or of protein-to-protein interactions, errors in
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by jxcole 12y ago
That's right he didn't. The OP didn't quite do the TL;DR right, really the letter goes something like this: Part 1 (How I made my manager hate me): I insisted that we have better performance and everyone told me to f* off, so
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by jxcole 12y ago
I am by no means an AI professional or neurobioligist, but I have read recently that a major problem with neural networks is that they do not have glial cells which, among other things, move synapses around and helps with synapse growth. Th
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by jxcole 12y ago
You cannot actually be harmed by speech, and you certainly can't be harmed by a piano review. The EU has ruled wrong in this case.
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by jxcole 13y ago
Sorry, not an expert and I have never been an entrepreneur so forgive me if I am misunderstanding, but doesn't YC give them money? In order for this statement to be true either (1) having startup seed money has no bearing on success or
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by jxcole 13y ago
Hate to downvote an otherwise very informative post, but tech literacy is not an issue here. If this was a hundred years before facebook existed and someone joked "Oh yes I'm insane, I am going to stab a hundred babies...ha ha ha&
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by jxcole 14y ago
I would like to add one other thing I like about go: There is a parser and an abstract syntax tree in the standard library. Sometimes when I'm programming at work I need to add log messages to every method on a large interface (or several i
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by jxcole 14y ago
An aside: I find that this site looks absolutely beautiful on my phone.
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by jxcole 14y ago
A lot of people responding to this thread do not understand relativity. The OP is correct, the fundamental problem is causality, relativity and FTL do not mix. The common way of saying it is that you can have two of the three: FTL, causalit
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by jxcole 14y ago
And yet the wright brothers were not granted a patent on "things that fly". They were granted patents on some specific machines they invented that could fly. But the patents were about the mechanical machines themselves. If someone else had
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by jxcole 14y ago
I don't know if this makes me cruel, but whenever people talk about donating money to starving children in Africa, I always imagine the following: If I were to donate some amount of money to starving children in an impoverished nation every
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by jxcole 14y ago
I think the real reason people like Amazon cloud is for people like me who are decent programmers but who don't know or don't want to know how the system works internally. This guy sounds like he has a lot of what I would call "ops" knowled
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by jxcole 15y ago
I disagree. If you live any where near a university, you can usually walk right into their library, even if you aren't part of the university. I don't do it on a regular basis, but the breadth of knowledge available at say, the UW, library
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by jxcole 15y ago
Having been writing in Haxe for a long time, I think the "Code once deploy everwhere" line is an exaggeration. However, it is a nice framework and has some advantages. In Haxe, you can easily break out into the native language with c-like #
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by jxcole 15y ago
This is one of the stupidest articles I've ever read. Any half decent programmer, regardless of his experience level (just graduated from college to veteran 60 year old) can learn and be effective in programming a completely new language in
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by jxcole 15y ago
The fact that he was able to do it at all means that this should be a logical next step. There may even be a business idea here. Program good enough Computer Vision and planning AI you could loan a set of autonomous robots to someone and pi
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by jxcole 15y ago
Not only is this an interesting factoid, but the author is also a very good writer. I recommend reading the follow up articles.
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by jxcole 15y ago
You seem to define a mistake as 'an error in the code'. However, their use of the term mistake to be 'an error in judgement' or 'an error in the value of user's privacy', is also valid. When someone does something immoral, saying that it wa
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by jxcole 15y ago
I deeply respect Jeff's decision to put his family first. I have a general question though. I am an ordinary programmer at an ordinary job working ordinary hours. From those of you who have started their own project full time, is it impossi
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by jxcole 15y ago
While it's an interesting subject, this article is terrible. No actual news was contained within. A bunch of hyperbole about what "might" happen, without any evidence besides hearsay. Your time would be better spent reading the wikipedia ar
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by jxcole 15y ago
I recall a while back there were advertisements for a device that could stimulate your muscles directly, making them stronger without you even having to go to the gym. However, it was discovered not to long after their release that usage ov
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by jxcole 15y ago
I agree that variety is nice, but the underlying thrust of this article is that programming on a whiteboard is an inferior metric to programming on a computer (at least that's what I took away). It also makes very little sense to have a Mex

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