lvoudour

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by lvoudour 9y ago
>Data have turned journalism into a commodity, something to be marketed, tested, calibrated. Perhaps people in the media have always thought this way. But if that impulse existed, it was at least buffered. Journalism’s leaders were vigil
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>Compared to these problems, the choice of input mechanism is trivial I don't know why you think the visual/aural problem is trivial. The biggest achievement of AIs so far in this field is classification of static images
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by lvoudour 9y ago
To me though as an outside observer it seems that the dota problem is harder than the car problem. There's too much action going on, too many visual/aural cues to keep track of, team cooperation/coordination, fog of war, etc.
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>And the response as I've seen it on other threads: It probably doesn't make a big difference, and will outperform humans there too, and it would be a huge waste of computing power to train it that way. Well they may be right a
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by lvoudour 9y ago
I know it has been mentioned a lot the past few days, but since the articles keep flowing about it I'll mention it again: It's a great feat and kudos to the openai team, but it is VERY unfair for the human players who rely on a se
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Then don't tell him I've also read all his floating point papers as well back in the day :)
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by lvoudour 9y ago
I first saw the code in the early 2000's and although I figured out the newton-rapshon part I couldn't wrap my head around the magic number, until I read chris Lomont's famous paper[1]. A little gem which reminds us that not
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>I thought to myself: if a schoolchild worked this one day, they'd potentially learn some things. Like how some people can turn into shut-ins and how that's a bad thing. How smoking and drinking can help a person develop a ment
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by lvoudour 9y ago
I don't know how big those companies are, but they may qualify for big data if they have millions of users or enormous datasets to analyze. The question is, what's the advantage compared to other methods? Is being "left behin
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by lvoudour 9y ago
I think the title of the article does not accurately reflect the author's thesis, which is more like "trending tech may not be the best solution to your problem". I agree that riding the hype train instead of using establishe
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by lvoudour 9y ago
The article is correct that it tastes a lot like vanilla. Nothing special if you ask me, there's plenty of spices with more characteristic taste. Maybe if used by an exceptional chef will make a bigger difference, I don't know I&#
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Just FYI, my company's firewall blocks it with the label 'malicious'. Don't know if its the .xyz extension or something in the content
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>Banks may need to find $30 billion to $50 billion of additional capital to support new European units No explanation given for those absurd figures, no evidence, no calculations, nothing. And that's 50B without relocation cost, whi
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Just curious, if Russia has no vat for that service, Dmitry is based in Russia and the sole purpose of the foundation is to support him, why was the foundation set up in the Netherlands and not in russia?
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by lvoudour 9y ago
I was thinking exactly the same analogy. I think people are overreacting to simple facts of life: if a technology is mature and the services around it plenty and cheap, there's no point wasting your time learning the ins and outs of it
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>A true Direct Democracy (DD) requires representativeless government. The concept is so new that the word representativeless does not even exist. We had to invent it I think non-representative would suffice and it would sound better. Any
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>The problem with both LV and MATLAB is that once you've done the basics, and now you want to turn it into something that you can maintain and sell. That's true, but it's not their strong selling point. There's tons o
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by lvoudour 9y ago
I strongly disagree. I've used both LV and matlab for many years and they are tremendously good for specific tasks. Labview is great for data acquisition and GUIs to visualize this data. Drop a ready made UART/TCP/VISA block,
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by lvoudour 9y ago
I came to say exactly that. That's a very well written statement that clarifies the situation more than any news outlet I happened to read on the case. As for the decision, it may seem unfair for Google, but the European commission has
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs Sure, but how many spaces? grabs popcorn
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>Readability. Just like you can cram a whole bunch of code on a single line for a regular program it doesn't help a person trying to understand the code. Language syntax is also a major problem. For example, if the author chose to j
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Couldn't tell if you are being sarcastic, so excuse me for answering like you're not. It doesn't match the artistic quality and cultural significance of st sophia or the pyramids, not even close. It's just a big glass an
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Since mobile browsing is so prevalent, you would expect websites to be more optimised for mobile cpus/bandwidth and therefore very fast on ethernet connected desktops. But more and more I find sites that take so much time to load I fee
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by lvoudour 9y ago
I didn't believe it so I timed it. Took 15s for me, which is still absurd given the fact that civ 5 takes about the same time to generate a new game. Fancy or not it's just a website. I'm not an expert on the subject (web dev
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Smoke free bars? How about smoke-free restaurants first :) To be fair though I'm witnessing a shift the last few years, at least in restaurants/tavernas/fast-food joints. You can more easily find places to eat these days wher
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by lvoudour 9y ago
It's not as big a problem as in northern Europe (alcoholism), but it's still a problem. Alcohol has claimed significantly more victims than all hard drugs combined. I agree prohibition is not the answer, only a change of culture w
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>In Greece, we don't check IDs for alcohol use (in practice. I think we're supposed to be doing it, nowadays). There are also no on-premises laws for alcohol. That's not correct. The law states clearly that alcohol purchas
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by lvoudour 10y ago
Designing an ASIC with low power in mind will always beat an FPGA, no question there. But the design cost is prohibitive for many applications (not to mention the lack of flexibility to re-iterate/patch your design with little to no co
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by lvoudour 10y ago
Not my personal/professional experience. Even with heavy DSP usage with nodes >14nm you can still create designs with lower than 30 W power consumption, since you can control the frequency and use low power design techniques. There
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by lvoudour 10y ago
They've grown beyond prototyping a long time ago. They are full featured SoCs with great flexibility that fill niches where CPUs, GPUs, ASICs can't compete in flexibility/power consumption/development cost. - ASICs are t

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