kirillseva

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by kirillseva 9y ago
Oh no, don't get me wrong, I think the regulation is totally stupid. Why bother regulating something over which you have no control of? It is just putting unnecessary barriers for domestic innovators while your real competition is not
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Just as US military satellites take pictures of Russian and Chinese facilities as well. Both can play this game
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by kirillseva 9y ago
I'd definitely put John Carmack on the list, probably as #1. And I think antirez should be somewhere up there as well
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Right now such currency is USD, with the Fed acting as a trusted third party. That's one of the reasons why other countries are investing in "blockchain technology", whatever that entails
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by kirillseva 9y ago
The biggest names in AI technology are the very same advertisement companies. General public can't win in this arms race
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Maybe the bot is trying to boost its github commit stats before applying for a job at Oracle? Could have just used "rockstar" https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar
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by kirillseva 9y ago
I'm no saying that HN is bad and Ethereum is good. For one thing, here I am posting on HN, so it's pretty telling :) I just wanted to highlight the difference and that that HN is not free. It's free as in beer. As far as inco
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by kirillseva 9y ago
HN comments are free but the platform is owned by YC and YC enforces certain rules as they see fit. In Ethereum there is no owner, but looks like you have to pay for that
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Brakes are fly-by-wire on new cars because slamming the brake is not the most optimal strategy for stopping the car as fast as you can. And it can also damage the car.
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by kirillseva 9y ago
So many deaths happening in London. Must be something in the water there.
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by kirillseva 9y ago
the thing that he was sentenced for was a white collar crime with no monetary damages. If it were a white collar crime with damage done then sure, prison time might have been appropriate. 7 years seems too harsh, and was most likely the byp
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by kirillseva 9y ago
IOTA has a lot of PhD contributors, allegedly
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by kirillseva 9y ago
are there more windows PCs that care about running graphics-demanding software, or are there more iphones?
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by kirillseva 9y ago
that vision is not dead. google "lightning network" for an answer to how this vision will be realized at scale this app is just USD <> crypto onboarding + price speculations for those who enjoy gambling on their mobile phone
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by kirillseva 9y ago
R, python and Julia are all Turing-complete languages, so of course you can drop any two and get by with just the third. The real selection happens when you consider what's available in opensource world. What code you don't ha
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by kirillseva 9y ago
You should try https://github.com/robertzk/lockbox for dependency management It's like bundler or cargo for R
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by kirillseva 9y ago
etherdelta
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by kirillseva 9y ago
The US government is not a business, its typical income is taxes. This policy of printing trillions of dollars to, essentially, give a loan to banks, all the while devaluing USD for every holder, sounds like a new form of taxation.
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by kirillseva 9y ago
> Why did SpaceX spend resources to get them to safe landing then? collect data + parts of the booster can be reused
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by kirillseva 9y ago
coursera has a great course on self-driving cars. the only prerequisite is a college course in linear algebra and some python knowledge. If you don't have either of the two the course is still very much approachable - you'll just
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by kirillseva 9y ago
the tweet you link to is architectural search, or figuring out what the neural network should look like (along with its parameters). If self-driving car ML is "data scientists replacing a driver with computers", architecture searc
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by kirillseva 9y ago
pivotal labs -> pivotal tracker
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by kirillseva 9y ago
But can jet fuel melt crushed wood?
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by kirillseva 9y ago
I highly recommend that you build out more boring themes. Software engineers need resumes too, and interesting looking ones are treated as an expression of creativity. But target demographic for chrome extensions is not on HN, where people
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by kirillseva 9y ago
This is the spearmint paper, describes how bayesian search algorithms can be parallelized in practice. There was also a very gentle introduction to bayesian optimization, I think it's one of the referenced papers. Cannot seem to find i
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by kirillseva 9y ago
I know that's too much to ask, but if you implement simple into a "chooser" in https://github.com/avantoss/loop/tree/master/lib/choosers you'll have at least one company using th
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Assuming we want to exchange two tokens, let's say, FBI and NSA. Centralized exchange: send your FBI to exchange's wallet -> exchange updates your balance in its database, i.e. postgres -> trade for NSA -> withdraw NSA, w
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by kirillseva 9y ago
That's because people should stop using centralized exchanges that don't have their funds insured, and should instead investigate using decentralized exchanges. Cross-blockchain ones are currently being developed, with OmiseGO and
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by kirillseva 9y ago
not trying to assume any position here, just want to point out that you're looking at the world through the gucci glasses of someone who lives in a 1st world country with functional financial and legal systems. There are plenty of peop
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by kirillseva 9y ago
You could have just said J.P. Morgan

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