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by lev99 9y ago
Neural Network describes a class of algorithms. It's often misused in marketing (buzzword), but there is an engineering definition used by people that practice machine learning. A perceptron, the basic unit in a neural network, has on
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by lev99 9y ago
The public ownership model is awesome at raising capital.
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I've heard it be used by people that are downsplaning basic accounting.
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by lev99 9y ago
I wake up at dawn everyday. The only bad part is that I live on the 47th parallel, so sunrise changes from 5am - 8am every year. Luckily my schedule is flexible enough to accommodate this.
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by lev99 9y ago
> For me, the real killer app is using them as an alarm in the morning. I use a window for that. If I didn't have access to sunlight I would consider using bright dimmable programmable leds in my bedroom. Very good point.
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> For some people dimming/color changes/automation features etc are worthwhile. Who? I'm not dismissing that there is a market, I'm dismissing that it's the type of product that should be in most homes. I see th
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by lev99 9y ago
Maybe I'm too frugal, but I don't see an API worth that much additional cost.
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by lev99 9y ago
Why is YeeLight worth $18? I usually spend $5 or less for led lightblubs. Where is the extra value? Edit: Amazon sells a pack of 16 Phillips 800 Lumen (brither than YeeLight) for $1.75/blub. The light is brighter, the color temperatu
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by lev99 9y ago
> An interesting fact is that the bulb does not interact with the mobile application directly. Instead, both the bulb and the mobile application are connected to a cloud service and communication goes through it. That convinces me to not
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by lev99 9y ago
No. The things I listed are reasons I am hesitant to work with a company I am unfamiliar with. To be considered you have to have everything listed, and be clearly better than AWS. Better shouldn't be defined as cheaper, but by a high
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by lev99 9y ago
I don't think it's just that. I have complete freedom to use any cloud solution in my organization, but I almost always choose AWS. Mostly it's a seal of basic quality. I know it had documentation, I know it has uptime, and
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by lev99 9y ago
There are several easy to reach pages without categories. Almost anyone alive during WW2 will have a WW2 link. Almost every country is 1 degree from Hitler. Most companies/publications around than will link to Hitler.
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by lev99 9y ago
There are diminishing returns on exercise. A person doing 3 hours of exercise a week will see more benefit per hour than a person doing 9. I've gone into 10+ hours/week to try to reach a personal fitness goal before. Reaching the
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by lev99 9y ago
3-5hrs/week of exercise provides a huge ROI on mental performance and health. Find a program that works for you and stick with it. In my opinion not exercising is as short sighted as not using an employer matching 401k program.
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The cost of living in rural agricultural areas is less than the cost of living in the towns with top agricultural programs.
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by lev99 9y ago
People in rural areas have less options to live with their parents while attending a college. People that live with their parents while going to college save a significant amount of money compared to people that live on their own. College c
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by lev99 9y ago
It's a great feel good article by Evan Bush, in a publication that usually talks about growing pains more than benefits of growth. I hope this article makes recent transplants feel a little more welcome during the dark cloudy winter.
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I suspect we'll see the market for reusable straws increase in Taiwan.
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> There's a real problem with legitimate studies being reported as something sensational, and then when the headline is proven to be false the public loses respect for the scientific process. I'm the author of the root comment.
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I'm saying less than 1 petabyte is a small amount of data for long-term storage. 30TB is large if your talking about daily network activity or your personal photo collection, or the size of one SSD that can fit in a laptop. Many busine
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by lev99 9y ago
The scientific article states alcohol use disorder, not alcohol use. The scientific article is about early onset dementia, not all dementia. The scientific article uses a large sample size, but the entire population is French. I would rewri
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by lev99 9y ago
Did anyone else notice the Easter egg in Hipchat's web client when using js debugging tools?
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My understanding was 10x more of his users integrate with slack than hipchat.
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The core tech hasn't changed a ton, but slack is a good chat program for how people use computers in the modern age. If it encourages communication among your organization it's probably worth adopting, even at the higher price.
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Long term storage (archive) of sequential data is still being done on tapes in many circumstances. Tapes are more reliable than hard drives, cheaper, and have a faster write speed. Sony announced their highest density tape at 201Gbit/i
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I re-listened to this after your link. The take away is that intervening in at-risk kids life can lead to both negative and positive outcomes and that it's important to further study which interventions are successful and which are hur
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by lev99 9y ago
> (me) Netflix should only be compared to entities that do not own networks.. > (vkou) When you pay for cable, your $60/month bill pays for programming, as well as the wires that deliver your television to your home. Vkou's
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by lev99 9y ago
If (good) tech companies use tech as a means to an end, and a bank wants to think of themselves as a tech company, that means that a bank thinking of themselves as a tech company doesn't necessary think of tech as an end in of itself.
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by lev99 9y ago
We shouldn't be comparing Netflix to Cable TV, but comparing Netflix to Youtube, Twitch, Prime Video, Hulu, etc. Cable TV has such a high price because it includes both a network and content. Netflix should only be compared to entitie
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by lev99 9y ago
I'll be okay if the price increases moves at the same rate as inflation, but the price is increasing much faster.

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