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by luckyt 9y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this. For sure, it's nice to be disconnected once in a while, but internet makes a lot of logistical things more convenient. When I traveled in foreign countries, sometimes I went without data, but often
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by luckyt 9y ago
This reminds me of this snippet from #haskell IRC. The Haskell community's got it right. https://gist.github.com/quchen/5280339
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by luckyt 9y ago
> Each participant met each opposite-sex participant attending a speed-dating event for a 4-min speed date I wonder if the results would be different if the participants got to know each other better. In 4 minutes you're not going t
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by luckyt 9y ago
Anybody actually making money trading cryptocurrencies wouldn't be eager to share their strategies on Hacker News...
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by luckyt 9y ago
So if I buy VIX, I make money if the stock market goes up or down by a lot, but lose money if it remains stable? Can someone explain how that works?
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by luckyt 9y ago
Is it possible to make it spew out random personal information like addresses and phone numbers if you give it the right input? That's usually what happens when you train a RNN and it overfits.
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The Power Law Distribution and the Harsh Reality of Language Learning(reddit.com)
2 points by luckyt 9y ago|0 comments
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How a simple trick decreased my elevator waiting time by 33%(luckytoilet.wordpress.com)
1 points by luckyt 9y ago|0 comments
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by luckyt 9y ago
I recently worked on a project that attempted to find harmonizing chord progressions for pop songs, given a melody. Since pop music has such predictable structure, I think AI generation is well within possibility. https://luckyto
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Learning R as a Computer Scientist(luckytoilet.wordpress.com)
5 points by luckyt 9y ago|0 comments
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by luckyt 9y ago
Okay, I don't feel this way either. Unfortunately, most of the world is not as liberal as the community on hacker news, and as soon as you mention 'gay' or 'transgender', the discussion turns to gender / sexual
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by luckyt 9y ago
I didn't notice that the subject was trans-gender until I read your comment. It's good that the article doesn't highlight the fact: as soon as someone is presented as transgender, this trait becomes their principal trait, eve
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by luckyt 9y ago
Wow, the modifying assembly code part was impressive! I wouldn't even be able to find the dialog drawing routine amid thousands of lines of undocumented assembly, let alone modify it. It's amazing that a high school kid could figu
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Show HN: Harmonizing Pop Melodies Using Hidden Markov Models(luckytoilet.wordpress.com)
2 points by luckyt 9y ago|0 comments
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by luckyt 10y ago
> just eight have won Nobel Prizes You pick 2000 teenagers, and 8 go on to win a Nobel Prize, and you're still not satisfied? High expectations much...
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by luckyt 10y ago
I wrote a Minesweeper solver a while ago, it uses backtracking search with decent results: https://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/2125/ Now I wonder how does the performance of this SAT solver comp
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by luckyt 10y ago
Yea, that's a problem for sure. I don't know what's the best way to weigh being able to make progress in the future vs surviving the next click. For example, is it better to take a 50/50 chance and be guaranteed to make
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by luckyt 10y ago
I implemented a lot of these tactics, and my AI achieved about 50% success rate on expert mode. https://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/2125/
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by luckyt 10y ago
This is a really nice analysis, but I'm wondering if GPA is the right metric to optimize for. It's good to have a high GPA, but is it worth it to structure your leisure, sleep, and dating patterns around it? I'm doing somethi
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by luckyt 10y ago
I wrote an article that explains this result with pictures. You might find it helpful for understanding it: https://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/a-brief-introdu...
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Are programming competitions a good use of time?(luckytoilet.wordpress.com)
3 points by luckyt 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Play back text message conversations in real time(luckytoilet.wordpress.com)
2 points by luckyt 10y ago|1 comments
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by luckyt 10y ago
Why bother with a checkbox at all at this point? Can't they send everyone the newsletter and not bother with a checkbox?
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How to succeed in your first tech internship(luckytoilet.wordpress.com)
1 points by luckyt 10y ago|0 comments
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Brief Introduction to DNA Computing(luckytoilet.wordpress.com)
1 points by luckyt 10y ago|0 comments
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A Brief Introduction to DNA Computing(luckytoilet.wordpress.com)
2 points by luckyt 10y ago|0 comments
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by luckyt 10y ago
Some time ago I wrote an English -> Gregg Shorthand converter: https://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/an-introduction... It's not very good, but I'd like to see if anyone can make a better
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by luckyt 10y ago
You can append ?r=1 to the URL to see who you matched with.
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Show HN: Roboroast – upload your photo and get a funny insult(roboroast.tk)
6 points by luckyt 10y ago|4 comments