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871.
by lacker 6y ago
This is really interesting work, but I feel like the way the article summarizes it is getting it wrong. First Single Device To Act Like a Neuron One thing that’s kept engineers from copying the brain’s power efficiency and quirky computa
872.
by lacker 6y ago
It’s an arms race, and Google is providing technology to both sides of the arms race. Seems like a good business strategy! Eventually, when Google is providing voice assistants to both the consumer and the business, the bots can simply deal
873.
by lacker 6y ago
Eventually this will be full-fledged AI monitoring that politely interrupts you when you're reading social media and suggests that you get back to work.
874.
by lacker 6y ago
It's frustrating to me that this train only goes 79 miles an hour. It seems really hard for it to be a competitive option with driving when the maximum speed is approximately the same as the maximum speed in a car.
875.
by lacker 6y ago
The biggest reason for delay in the US is that the NFL signed a deal with DirecTV that goes from 2014-2022, and they signed it before the size of the streaming market was apparent. So in baseball, you can get all games streamed for $60 a ye
876.
by lacker 6y ago
Yes... over the weekend I discovered that my kids (ages 5 and 7) did not know what a "channel" is.
877.
by lacker 6y ago
This is bad, but 64 students isn't all that much. It pales in comparison to private colleges. For example, Harvard accepts about 1/3 of its students as "legacy". If you believe the lawsuits about Harvard's anti-Asia
878.
by lacker 6y ago
Yeah, they do often require a lot of math. It's just a restricted set of topics. The IMO doesn't do any calculus or anything beyond calculus like real analysis, topology, etc. It does have a lot of geometry problems that use geome
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by lacker 6y ago
From the article, Americans eat 55 million pounds of fish sticks per year, so Americans eat on average 1/6 of a pound of fish sticks per year, which is like... on average half of Americans have fish sticks once a year? That hardly soun
880.
by lacker 6y ago
Yes.
881.
by lacker 6y ago
This doesn’t seem “enterprise-only” to me. It’s $60 a month. That’s a lot cheaper than even one employee, something that any small business or solo professional should be able to handle.
882.
by lacker 6y ago
But anti-cheat software does work pretty well. It certainly reduces the amount of cheaters. It’s an arms race against the cheaters, rather than a perfect mechanism to stop all cheating, but it helps a lot.
883.
by lacker 6y ago
I think this is great. Nature is really a way for scientists to score points, not a publication that you read cover to cover that needs stylistic consistency. Right now the academic citation-count scoring mechanism doesn’t give enough incen
884.
by lacker 6y ago
It is actually built for that purpose! Or at least, there are many people dedicated to optimizing the use of Facebook at work, selling it into companies as an enterprise solution, and so on. There are millions of paying customers. At some p
885.
by lacker 6y ago
I was working at Facebook during the 2016 election and it was pretty unavoidable. A big part of the problem was just that everyone was using Facebook for work all the time. So quite often, there would be some enormous thread arguing about w
886.
by lacker 6y ago
How exactly do you avoid political discussion when you're asking what constitutes hate speech Just like any corporate decision, you have a small number of people who are relevant to making the decision, and they discuss among themsel
887.
by lacker 6y ago
Interesting, I guess all my real estate experience is in coastal-type areas where any sale priced below a previous sale is a red flag. TIL
888.
by lacker 6y ago
It's interesting, you can see in the URL that at some point the article was named "How Renormalization Saved Particle Physics". My guess is that an editor changed it to make it more comprehensible / clickbaity.
889.
by lacker 6y ago
I don't know very much about housing and construction, but this part set off a big red flag to me: We should have been forewarned when we were able to purchase the house for $45,000 less than the cost to build it. Yeah, that should h
890.
by lacker 6y ago
The main value is that you can choose your own training data. For example, if you wanted to train a text-generation model on purely C++ code, this would be a good way to do it.
891.
by lacker 6y ago
https://imgur.com/r/TheSimpsons/0F2Kvyu
892.
by lacker 6y ago
Try ublock origin, I saw no ads on this site.
893.
by lacker 6y ago
The frustrating thing about this DRM is that RDR2 requires an internet connection in order to play the single-player game. At one point my internet was down and I couldn't play it. Obviously not the biggest problem in the world, but st
894.
by lacker 6y ago
Yeah, the current state of Python is the worst. Especially in machine learning, it's common that a project only supports one of conda or pip installation, which are often but not always compatible. The idea of storing all dependencies
895.
by lacker 6y ago
It does kind of suck. But it’s better than npm... or rubygems... or the python ecosystem... hmm, what language’s package management system doesn’t suck?
896.
by lacker 6y ago
It's interesting to see Apple moving more towards an "Amazon Prime" model. Subscription services make a lot of money, but it's annoying to manage a lot of them, so perhaps it makes sense to trend toward "one large b
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by lacker 6y ago
The EU hasn't decided whether to permit it, yet. https://siliconcanals.com/news/google-fitbit-merger-5-things...
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by lacker 6y ago
It would be funny if the logos for the various "corporate" factions were just Helvetica words inside a rectangle.
899.
by lacker 6y ago
How exactly is your Coway struggling? Typically it is harder for a filter to clean the air in your apartment when you are bringing in extra outside air. If you have a good filter but it is not managing to clean the air in your apartment,
900.
by lacker 6y ago
The main difference is that I can drive around in a Tesla and it seems like a pretty nice car. I don’t own one but it can’t really be a hoax at this point.

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