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by maldeh 8y ago
It's possible that in the short term, Amazon could be changing the economics of mass surveillance, making it more feasible for police departments that could not afford such tech before. But at this point, I think a change of dynamic is
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by maldeh 8y ago
Hit the nail on the nose. Sure, you can build a discriminating classifier or generative model that is the most accurate, correctly identifying / emulating the reality of our world down to 5 nines; and nobody says you shouldn't be
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by maldeh 9y ago
In addition to dealing with a vast surplus of used cards on any secondary markets if the crash gets bad enough. It would be rather convenient for them if older miner GPUs were quickly made 'incompatible' with the needs of the cons
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by maldeh 9y ago
Additionally, this extends to the usage of latent or inferred variables that behave as a proxy to a protected class - so neural networks and other discriminative approaches outside of a distinctly diagnosable decision tree, could be in a ra
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by maldeh 9y ago
If $y is the useful PoW, would that not make $y the scientific reward while $z is the (monetary) token reward by way of mining? Edit: silly question on my part. y and z should be trivially interchangeable. Your argument appears to rest on t
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by maldeh 9y ago
This comment leads me towards a question that I think is ignored in most of the article and the rest of this thread - the Danes' sovereignty notwithstanding, what was the gain / loss to Greenland as an entity as a result of this d
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by maldeh 9y ago
Handy google translate link: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&tl=en&u=h...
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by maldeh 9y ago
Unless I'm misinterpreting the meaning of "usually" or "important", I find this comment a little bewildering in the context of the article.
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by maldeh 9y ago
> Anything that can go to dynamo, can go to s3, especially at that volume. Please think very carefully before architecting your app with S3 as a makeshift-database. S3 would be a valid option if you don't care about millisecond la
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by maldeh 9y ago
The notion of such a collaboration sounds interesting. For most industries, it would healthier for consumers in the long run if the major stakeholders competed, rather than collaborated, at this early stage. But in the short term, it means
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by maldeh 9y ago
I think you might be right from a technical, mechanical sense, but I think most of the objections from posters here are because of an impedance mismatch between the word of copyright law and the spirit of what it's intended to achieve.
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by maldeh 9y ago
My takeaway is that there's a more pressing risk from humans automating too much too fast with something approximate and suboptimal, but "good enough". There're already plenty of situations where city planners enforce ma
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by maldeh 9y ago
A more likely use case for Bancor is some SMB (store/restaurant) or content creator issuing tokens to be used for membership reward/points or for voting on a new video/project idea, not for Augur/Steem/Gnosis 2.0 t
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by maldeh 9y ago
Not very educated on patent matters, but isn't there any requirement for plaintiffs to demonstrate patent utilization, or at the very least abstract plans of utilization, no matter how impractical? Making a public claim that the patent
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by maldeh 9y ago
I imagine this may irk some googlers on here, but after Hangout's effect on xmpp / Reader's on RSS, I find it hard to discount the impact a built-in Chrome ad blocker would have on other generally available blockers. A lot of
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by maldeh 9y ago
By your statement I presume you are alluding to India sourcing ~70% of its energy consumption from coal (compared to ~40% by the US), according to this source. I should point out that the parent poster's dataset comes from 2014, wherea
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by maldeh 9y ago
"something custom for TPU" is what seems interesting here. Researchers working on the TF research cloud probably wouldn't learn much about the sorts of workloads this architecture is suited to, if all they have access to is t
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by maldeh 9y ago
Per my understanding of XLA, it provides the right high-level abstraction for compiling the tensorflow computation graph under a range of architectures, CPU, NVIDIA GPU, mobile, etc. but it still delegates to a lower level domain-specific A
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by maldeh 9y ago
Another potential source of friction I've wondered about regarding getting research workloads running on TPU2 is the heavy reliance of most of the popular DL frameworks on CUDA and CuDNN; I don't understand how one could port thos
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by maldeh 9y ago
From first looks, there is little doubt that that NVIDIA's Volta architecture is a monster and will revolutionize the AI and HPC market. But the article seems to avoid quantifying how 16-point FP operations are beneficial against 32- o
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by maldeh 10y ago
One really contrived usecase may be "flame graphs" for high level diagnostics of learned models in a production pipeline, as you collect more data or modify features. But I don't imagine it'd be very good. - the images a
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by maldeh 10y ago
It's likely the locality / ephemerality / repudiability of those identifiers made them less of a big deal in an era when people couldn't instantly look these details up or build a detailed profile of everybody given the
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by maldeh 10y ago
To say "OWS shut down this fork" is a rather drastic distortion of the truth. The project was simply not entitled to running on OWS servers, or of re-using the Signal trademark, both of which are perfectly understandable. And if y
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by maldeh 10y ago
You're right that they don't have a bunch of obligations to stick by Snowden through legal challenges. Yes, it is ethically acceptable to publish public-interest excerpts from a source they believe is intrinsically illegal. They c
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by maldeh 10y ago
is there an editorial they could have written that would advance their opinion about clemency and not been treacherous? I think the nature of the opinion itself makes it an unavoidable binary of betrayal / non-betrayal here, since to
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by maldeh 10y ago
However, attempts to contact more than 100 of the addresses in the sample saw many returned as undeliverable with auto-responses reading: "This account has been disabled or discontinued," which might suggest that the data is old.
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by maldeh 10y ago
Perhaps this is distracting the conversation then. I just brought up rust because it is a common element of rental inspection ( http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/looking.shtm... ), and because inhaling
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by maldeh 10y ago
I may be missing something, is this not a thing people say?
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by maldeh 10y ago
On whether I am myself mistaken about the ecological impact of clothing, eating out, etc. I agree - it is hard to compare efficiencies in a complex environment, or to quantify the net environmental impact of any one action, so my assumption
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by maldeh 10y ago
He did go and call it an experiment in sustainable living, implying the intent was for it to be a dwelling. I don't think it's unreasonable for some permit requisites to apply to it, like being a rust hazard or a danger to neighbo

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