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by maurits 13y ago
Have a look at the "The mind's I" [1]. It is a collection of essays and other short texts on consciousness, self, AI and strange loops with added commentary by Hofstadter and Dennett. [1]: http://www.amazon.com&#x2
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by maurits 13y ago
There is a nice python wrapper, called nolearn [1] that uses a pre-trained CNN called DeCaF to extract features prior to the final classification layer. I found the results to be surprisingly good in a lot of situations. [1]: https:/&
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by maurits 13y ago
To me it feels like people protecting their little kingdoms within a large organisation. There is no market in which you have to compete against the new (superior) competitor so the only tool you are left with are fallacies like referring t
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by maurits 13y ago
Ugh, here we go again. I can see that modern government struggles with many complex issues for which there are no foolproof or easy timely solutions, but really, bicycles seem to bring out a specific kind of stupid. It really is not rocket
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by maurits 13y ago
How about watching a re-run of the X-files? Apart from the little green men and the reoccurring monster, it seems rather tame in this day and age. Secret courts, secret prisons, bit of wiretapping, all part of everyday life.
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by maurits 13y ago
If you liked the ML Coursera class, Ng also has an introduction to deep-learning in more or less the same casual explicit style. [1]: Wiki with code, exercises and explanation [2]: Video lecture one with a recap on backprop [3]: Video lectu
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by maurits 13y ago
Because people compartmentalise and so for engineers this is most probably not a political thing but just an interesting difficult problem that is fun to work hard on.
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by maurits 13y ago
The poverty line is 2200, the median around 5700, and a starting cashier at one of the big supermarket chains will make 3200+ and benefits. [1] [1]: http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen&#x2F
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by maurits 13y ago
Not at all. Enough methods, such as spread spectrum watermarking, survive a multitude of digital deformations and 'analog' attacks like printing and physically deforming. Action from 1.30 and German, but the demo is pretty clear.
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by maurits 13y ago
Well, it is like this. The larger the initial population, the greater the probability that long streaks of some favourable outcome will appear purely by change. So if I see a single monkey throw a die that consistently lands on 6, I might b
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by maurits 13y ago
I've spent some time trying to identify common traits in the Forbes list of billionaires and other similar lists of the world's wealthiest. Best example of survivorship bias I've seen in a long while.
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SMS racing: Arcade racing game while texting(holdenlink.com)
1 points by maurits 13y ago|0 comments
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by maurits 13y ago
I feel that the understated effect is, that doing x or stopping with y for a month gives you the idea (illusion) that you are in full control of your life.
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by maurits 13y ago
No it runs deeper than that. In my experience Matlab is used by people who are not programmers and don't aspire to be them. Ever. They want to easily prototype ideas and have zero interest in the machinery that makes it run. Scipy&#x2F
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by maurits 13y ago
The solution is basically a cross correlation in a colour channel between the image and a zebra pattern. That can be done in a few lines in more than one language. Also, 7 lines is hardly a good metric to judge the general effectiveness of
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by maurits 13y ago
The notion that the UK police force "doesn't have or wants fire arms" gives a somewhat wrong impression. They have special fire arms squads and in major cities they either patrol amongst the regular units or are on standby. I
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by maurits 13y ago
Define "para-militarized" but France has the Gendarmerie, which is an army branch that does policing in small communities as well as over arching national task such as anti-terror and mountain rescue. The Italians have the Carabin
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by maurits 13y ago
As the proverbial nerd I can appreciate this, but as a paying customer I am not amused. In my view, a company can joke and take on a more friendship-like role, but only if their core business is flawless. How funny would the google doodle b
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by maurits 13y ago
This pops up from time to time on stackoverflow as well: [1]: Favourite programming related academic papers [2]: Influential books every programmer should read [3]: Favourite (or most brilliant) Algorithms [1]: http://stackoverfl
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by maurits 13y ago
I would recommend reading "The Phd. Grind" by Philip Guo [1]. [1]: http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm
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by maurits 13y ago
In eloquent praise of the fifth amendment:[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
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by maurits 13y ago
For the curious, I think nothing beats the introduction to ML class from Stanfords Andrew Nq [1]. He lectures and explains with a clarity and consistency I don't often see. [1]: https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
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by maurits 13y ago
Handouts and two video lectures that accompany this tutorial: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/handouts.html
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by maurits 13y ago
In eloquent praise of the fifth amendment as I could not possibly formulate it better [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
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by maurits 13y ago
I am not to worried about Stapel. He is an outlier, and just as all outliers he is getting his share of attention in the media. I am in general much more worried about the dubious statistics and protocols that are deployed on real data. The
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by maurits 14y ago
I thought it was a pretty wel known response that people under duress or stress fallback to their normal behaviour, as if nothing happened.
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by maurits 14y ago
In short, build bike lanes like the dutch. [1] Big, physically separated, omnipresent bike lines. Ensure that bikes are first class citizens on intersections. Compare the 2-stage turn with the dutch design [2] [1] http://www.youtube.com/wa
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Electric Velomobiles: fast, comfortable, and more efficient than cars(lowtechmagazine.com)
59 points by maurits 14y ago|38 comments
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by maurits 14y ago
It used to have an evil twin, the Underhanded C Contest [1] where the aim was to make an innocent program also do something evil in such a way that that it can be plausibly denied as accidental when the 'bug' is detected in a code review. [
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by maurits 14y ago
I have lived in 8 and pretty much always traveled in the region I lived. I love having the time to emerge yourself and soaking it all in, something I can't do when on a tight travel schedule. And as such you will not see me on any packaged

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