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by lqdc13 10y ago
Why do humans distrust "algorithms"? Maybe they had past experiences where algorithms behaved worse than humans? A recent example from recently: facebook replaced human-curated news with machine-curated, they started trending fake
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No Linux unfortunately.
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I don't think it's nearly as difficult as DRM. That feature is mostly a gimmick. A lot like Snapchat's. This might help with security if it takes as long to crack someone's phone as it takes to expire the messages.
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Regarding SMS - it's not always an alternative to SMS since it uses data. I know data is more popular than SMS in many countries, but when you hit your monthly limit, you want to disable all data. Regarding the simplicity of using a
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by lqdc13 10y ago
I love Signal and this seems to be a stab at Wickr since from what I've heard that is the reason people prefer it to Signal sometimes. Having said that, it has a couple of problems: 1. Images are downsampled without warning. There shou
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Juniper Networks | San Francisco | Full-time | Onsite The Juniper Sky ATP team is developing new cloud-based technologies to stop and prevent damage from advanced threats such as malware, intrusions, and exploits. Current openings are malwa
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Still seems much better to buy your own gtx 1080 for $700 which you would have spent in a month playing with parameters on these instances. And at the end of the month you still have a modern GPU to play video games on etc. Of course if you
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I guess my point is that the valids could have been 100x better athletes than all the invalids which wasn't the case in the movie. For example, they could have retractable fins and could breathe under water. Something which would make
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Machine Learning Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them(blog.junipersecurity.net)
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That's the thing. If he was the better athlete then they didn't do the generic engineering well at all. For me the message seemed to be "don't do generic engineering because it cannot beat motivation" which discount
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I was very much annoyed by the movie when I saw it. Primarily because the "genetically inferior" person somehow had more motivation and drive than the genetically engineered ones. So perhaps they were not so much genetically super
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Then why bring up WSJ at all? What about all the other papers? and what about all the other sources of training data for NLP research? WSJ dataset is not the only such dataset. NLP is not very good with standard English yet and usually does
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They clearly got the ages wrong that's not really debatable. Do not take my word for it though. There are plenty of studies in this space that got wildly different results some of which mostly agree with hotornot ratings.
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That particular study is pretty bad. Look at the contestants' faces. They might be failing at identifying facial features or not accounting for lighting, tilt, etc. It is obvious if you look at their estimated ages.
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What every coder should know about gamma (function)
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I would be surprised if it became popular. Perhaps it doesn't have the features of Hangouts while it does have the requirement that you install another app and the stigma of it being a Google product (i.e. they collect all your info).
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by lqdc13 10y ago
If you look at the official figures: San Francisco - 7,539 homeless out of population of 837k[0] Tokyo - 1500 - 5000 homeless out of 13.62 million [1] It is orders of magnitude difference. [0] http://abc7news.com/news/da
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by lqdc13 10y ago
Well, given you have money, where does choice end and mental illness begin? I talked to a few army vets who are homeless and stayed near the building where I lived. They still had income but chose to not be a part of the system. They were c
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by lqdc13 10y ago
The PDF spec is 1000 pages. Nobody seems to complain. Or at least they complain a lot less.
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So for larger dicts the memory size of the dict would be 5/3 of what it is now? That seems like a big regression unless I'm missing something.
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"The problem is that I don't know what methods the returned objects have available, and as such whether they are a duck or a tiger." I don't get this... Why not do the following: In [1]: import requests In [2]:
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People should do it in some cases because sometimes Python libs have to link against some other non-Python libs that are not part of the pip package. Then if you just install the dependencies, sometimes the newer version in the PyPI require
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To provide a counterexample, it takes me forever to figure out how to do something after reading Java/Cpp docs, but I instantly know how to do it in Python after reading the docs. Typical workflow for Java: This function takes in these
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They do sometimes. With the Tay twitter bot for example. It was a ploy to get people to switch to Azure. Most things are less obvious I imagine.
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Climate change benefits Russia though. Why would they want to do something about it? A lot more land becomes arable. Trade routes don't freeze over as much. Countries with political enemies may get destabilized from immigration.
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One of their servers or dev machines might have a rootkit. At this point, wiping basically everything is required.
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However, don't they yield more per square foot than in other countries? It might make sense if space is much more valuable. In fact, even given their weird terrain features, they're pretty close to the top in cerial yield for exam
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To provide a counterexample, I definitely type less than 50 (their median) wpm on a mobile device. More like 10 - especially if there are symbols involved that are not on the first two screens. On blackberry maybe 50. On the other hand, spe
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by lqdc13 10y ago
I thought tarsnap is completely different in that it is in a way its own cloud storage that uses S3 as the backend? As in it encrypts your files, dedups and puts them on S3?
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Anyone knows how they generated the illustration images? Seems much better than relying on the client to render cpu intensive JS.

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