local_yokel

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by local_yokel 8y ago
You act like getting the extra money was some kind of unexpected surprise. In reality RSI has been shamelessly and aggressively soliciting extra funds since the early days - most famously by selling concept art for ships (not even fully des
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by local_yokel 8y ago
Come watch some DS3 speedruns and travel even further down the rabbit hole of people who know everything about the game to an absolutely obsessive degree and are insanely good at playing it. It's not for everyone mind you, but I find i
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by local_yokel 8y ago
How should Germany have answered the Obama-sanctioned eavesdropping on Angela Merkel's phone?
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by local_yokel 8y ago
It's worth pointing out that the original ProPublica investigation was conducted by journalists unskilled in statistics and machine learning. There was a convincing rebuttal posted by the actual scientists involved, which is of course
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by local_yokel 8y ago
I agree. It's a well known problem where the training set isn't representative of the underlying population. While it can certainly be argued that the engineers should have recognized this deficiency and taken corrective action, I
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by local_yokel 8y ago
Can also recommend lichess. Been playing there for a couple years now. They're a registered non-profit, and none of the features are hidden if you choose not to donate.
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by local_yokel 8y ago
For people with a signal processing background, this is actually a very trivial thing. The basic technique has been in use for probably a hundred years - radar being a classical example - nothing at all to do with Google. Basically, you can
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by local_yokel 8y ago
Summary: grouchy suburban dad who realizes he isn't cool anymore shakes fist at rebellious neighborhood kids, shouting that they need to grow up. Why is it that whenever a mainstream site like Wired pumps out an article looking down th
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by local_yokel 8y ago
Even more unnerving than the fake smile and general aggressiveness of retail workers / waiters to chat you up is when the pizza delivery guy tries to get personal by using your real name, as if we were at the pub sharing some jokes ove
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by local_yokel 8y ago
Well, they're certainly not doing anything differently than traditional producers when it comes to taking the axe to shows after just 1 or 2 seasons. Whenever I see a new Netflix show released, which seems to be just about every week n
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by local_yokel 8y ago
Of course they threw the word "learn" in there to make it sound like advanced new tech, but this seems like something that can be done with simple heuristics (as opposed to machine learning).
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by local_yokel 8y ago
As with most people from ivy league schools, they're certainly the best at believing they're the best based exclusively on where they come from.
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by local_yokel 8y ago
How is cheating only an issue in academia? It shows a lack of ethics and a lack of knowledge on the part of the student, and these are things that are quite important to being able to do a good job in the real world. You say "the curre