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And when seeing his internal recommendation algorithm team hitting the wall in recommendation accuracy, Hastings boldly created a 1M$ "Netflix Prize" competition to create a better recommendation algorithm [0]. This boosted resear
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At last a way has been found to overflow stack on Stack Overflow :-)
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Silver Bullet is open source while Obsidian is not.
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Here comes the sad irony -- it was labor union Solidarity [0] that freed Poland from communism 30 years ago. Now one is terminated for forming a union. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union...
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With dedicated tenancy AWS Reserved Instances are physically reserved for you.
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I checked the OP link. Clicking on any category pops up an ad that needs to be explicitly "closed". It happens again and again as you navigate through the site. Annoying like hell.
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As it was recently discussed at length here on HN [0] (401 comments), George Hotz (the lead of tinygrad) is taking time off his self-driving startup comma.ai [1]. Curious if this would help or hurt tinygrad progress. [0] https://
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To make Rust release build run faster you should enable LTO (Link Time Optimization). In the Cargo.toml put [profile.release] lto = true
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> The explosions benefit Russia because it gives them cover for a permanent stop to supplying Germany with gas, Russia is still supplying gas to Europe (and indirectly to Germany) through Ukrainian pipelines that operate normally. Despit
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I love Obsidian and has been using it for about two years and I am a paying supporter. But at least on MacOS obsidian-1.0.0 is a forced update that automatically happens when you start (restart) obsidian. It broke my v0.15.9 setup and made
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> 40 percent of IAM users have not used their credentials in the past 90 days (access key or console password), affecting 70 percent of organizations. I am curious where the OP got this information. Cannot imagine AWS sharing this. Datad
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Also, please check other posts in Professor Nick Higham's blog. Especially his wonderful and accessible "What is ..." series of articles [0] [0] https://nhigham.com/index-of-what-is-articles/
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> * Higher density living USA is non-uniformly populated. The middle of the country is nowhere as dense as the coasts. Our goal as a society should be better land use across the whole country. That would require incentives on the governm
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You can point a camera on the first computer screen to capture and analyze GO board and second computer will provide suggestions. No need to memorize anything.
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> 40 years of microkernels, of which I know Linus is aware of, beg to differ. For better or worse Linux is NOT a microkernel. Therefore, the sound microkernel wisdom is not applicable to Linux in its present form. The "impedance mat
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By all means we should cure aging. Aging and longevity are not the same thing. Many people would prefer to live their entire lifes as they were young, healthy and at the top of their game, then peacefully die at a preset age of 101 yo. S
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Also, do not forget an easy and powerful sandboxing that you can achieve with Lua by selectively including/excluding parts of its std library at compile time and running Lua itself in a thread with no (or minimal) shared state. This al
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> I would say this is either the US, Ukraine or a EU state. Or UK ?
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> I hold a PhD in aerospace engineering with a minor in applied mathematics. ... > And as part of teaching it, they are attempting to instill a "mathematical mindset". ... > I told her that what she actually needed to und
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The PyX's github repo [0] shows fairly low activity recently. The last commit was on November 21, 2021 (almost a year ago). I am curious whether PyX is in a maintenance mode? [0] https://github.com/pyx-project/pyx
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> [From the end of the article] Lawyers for Mr. Sullivan have argued that other employees were responsible for regulatory disclosures and said the company had scapegoated Mr. Sullivan. Unless and until CEOs are held personally responsibl
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But is it plain illegal. For employment purposes Race is a protected class (at least in USA) and racial discrimination while hiring or firing violates federal law. How would they get away with this?
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> Apple isn't a monopoly in any area - but they are a strong competitor in many areas. New term: "Vertical Monopoly"
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> These CPUs aren't consuming 250W all the time. Those are peak numbers. But they require a heat-sink management designed for that peak. And it is insane. Try to keep microwave oven under 100C :-)
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I am curious, did Einstein wrote this quote in English or in German (his native language) and it was later rendered in English by a translator?
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> If someone tells you a fact you already know, then it could be communicating several different things. You are alluding to the "meaning of communication" while information and communication theory is strictly about bits that
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> I don't know how the law works where you live, but in my country, 'probably did it' isn't enough for a conviction. Even then, this isn't some spurious made up court trial, and the probabilities you're work
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> How about a Jeopardy question -- "What New York City famous gangster got his start as a mafia boss with his appointment to run the New York airport union" Is it Jimmy Hoffa [0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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> If you just want a bad atomic bomb, isn't it enough to put 2 chunks of fissile (enough) material at either end of a very thick steel tube and shoot them together using explosives? Linear (gun-type) fission design was tried at Los
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Student debt forgiveness only makes sense if accompanied by a broader reform that regulates how the participating universities can charge for tuition. Without such constrains on schools, debt forgiveness is an invitation for the educational

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