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by kobeya 9y ago
> Shibboleth I don't know what that is. Should I?
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by kobeya 9y ago
You've said why it is expensive. Not why it needs to be expensive.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Former defense contractor here. I trust Microsoft to have put more time and money into making that controller maximally usable and useful than whatever subcontractor would have made the thing otherwise.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I recommend writing a memory allocator. And then throwing it out and never using it because there are better off the shelf solutions, but now you'll understand why. Or read one of the white papers that accompanies new memory allocators
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by kobeya 9y ago
I can't speak for the UK, but in the government-managed science programs of other countries this behavior would be landing people in prison, standard practice or not.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I was talking about word2vec.
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by kobeya 9y ago
That would be scandalous headline news if true.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Citations?
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by kobeya 9y ago
Not equivalent but a different set of trade offs.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Okay, same question for AAPL. Point is good performance doesn't automatically mean a bubble.
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by kobeya 9y ago
USD is the currency of choice in the drug market.
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by kobeya 9y ago
There is plenty of innovation on the bitcoin platform.
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by kobeya 9y ago
NVDA has had some incredible appreciation. It outperformed BTC in 2016. Should I short it then?
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by kobeya 9y ago
It's what the Be leadership were betting on. They lost that bet and the company folded. Whether they were ever in the running or just deluding themselves I have no special insight into. BeOS was less production ready but a better multi
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by kobeya 9y ago
Also BeOS was wooing Apple to be the replacement for the pre-X macOS. It would have been too, if Jobs hadn't returned and decided on NeXT instead.
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by kobeya 9y ago
They do. That's what a modern file system is. The on disk data structures and related code is usually less complex than the higher level software features. It's just that unfortunately these layers aren't often exposed for us
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by kobeya 9y ago
Even SSDs need file systems.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I remember reading this book way back when. It is a great introduction to file system design. HOWEVER, the core thesis of BFS is basically "Let's see what happens when we make a filesystem that is more like a database." The T
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by kobeya 9y ago
> Maybe I'm reading too much between the lines, but so far there haven't been any major successes in un-supervised learning models Word2vec, a variant of which is Transform, Google's new machine translation framework which
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by kobeya 9y ago
False dichotomy. The alternative is not blind trial and error.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I think his quote is out of context. If he is saying that back propagation networks alone are insufficient for AGI, that is neither surprising nor controversial. Hinton has never been working on the AGI problem. It sounds more like the auth
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by kobeya 9y ago
The iPhone has a liveness test as part of its biometric.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Unions claim that every advance made is due to labor organization. They would claim that, wouldn't they.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The price of bitcoin is an index of the bitcoin economy.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> Firefox always clicks when starting and stopping each tone. I think that's due to a longstanding Firefox bug and not the Web Audio API. I could mostly elminate the clicks by ramping the gain, but the threshold was different for ea
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by kobeya 9y ago
Someone, somewhere created the first fidget spinner, named it, and marketed it. The fact that you do t know their name maybe just means they did a better job of staying out of the limelight while still profiting from the craze.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Then you work to change the incentives.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Not everyone is in a position to ignore their notifications. Would you rather they pull out their phone?
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by kobeya 9y ago
The "one on the ISS" is usually an astronaut looking out the window ;)
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by kobeya 9y ago
> You've clearly never, ever been in a position where money was an issue for you. I have.

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