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Pinterest IPO Raises $1.4B as It Shuns Social-Media Tag(bloomberg.com)
1 points by mav3r1ck 7y ago|0 comments
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(2001) KPMG hits wrong note as its anthem rocks the world(theguardian.com)
1 points by mav3r1ck 8y ago|0 comments
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by mav3r1ck 8y ago
>Remember the KPMG anthem that leaked circa 2000? Actually, no I don't, never heard of this until now, but it is beyond hilariously bad, assuming this [0] was the real version. It gets better, KPMG tried to claim that another websi
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by mav3r1ck 8y ago
This is a huge deal. It smells a lot to me like Cambridge Analytica, but even worst. >The service can find the whereabouts of almost any cellphone in the country within seconds. It does this by going through a system typically used by ma
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StarCraft Micromanagement with Reinforcement Learning and Curriculum Transfer(arxiv.org)
98 points by mav3r1ck 8y ago|53 comments
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Robots Continue Attempting to Master Ikea Furniture Assembly(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by mav3r1ck 8y ago|0 comments
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
Having been on a project with a 100x tech lead who rarely wrote code (but every time it was amazing) due to their leadership position, followed (and preceded now that I think about it) by a project where the tech lead was a 10x engineer who
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The Case of the “Killer Robot”(ethics.csc.ncsu.edu)
2 points by mav3r1ck 9y ago|0 comments
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
You are not off base at all, thanks for clarify and sorry for the confusion, I did not mean to say it was using gradient descent. It's been a while. The term I was thinking of was multiple "simulated annealing".
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
Having studied this extensively back when they were called Genetic Algorithms, I would like to offer a few insights. 1) One of the biggest reasons they fell out of favor for more "mathematical" approaches was that no one could rea
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
Wow. I’ve discovered many bugs in my life. But none caused me to fear for my life. >There were often significant food shortages in the Soviet Union, and the government plan was to mix the meat from Chernobyl-area cattle with the uncontam
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
Let's hope they start bringing these cars to upstate New York in the winter, only then can we seriously consider Level5. The salt layers on so thickly that I would be surprised if LIDAR and cameras could work through that. I am not s
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
You don’t see why forcing the open sourcing of the entire Google codebase would be a problem? That’s essentially what GPL does, if you use even a tiny portion of it for your code and they prove it, you have to GPL ALL the source code from
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
Agreed! The Great Treat List Recursion problem from Parlante's intro to CS page is really good practice with pointers.
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
I edited the original comment to include a source. Serious talk of self-driving cars was around by then, as they had already successfully used auto-pilot in planes, it wasn't that infeasible.
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
You already are quite involved by providing translations, thanks!
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
You’re right it’s not that novel. Volvo has self-driving* truck convoys going back to the 90s I think. I think for long-haul trucking it’s certainly pretty hard to stay fully tuned while driving for such long times. And for truck companies,
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
Interesting. So that's why emacs whigs out sometimes when trying to open very large files: because it has a recursive GC that has trouble when it runs out of stack space. Assuming I read the first statement correctly. Seems like a wel
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
I was reacting to > but sadly there's nothing they can do about this Even if legally one has no options, you can still try to do something. Like raise awareness, etc.
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
This was revealed less than 5 years ago. Did not enough people learn about it / forget about it already?
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
(commented out hastily-written comment, too late to delete).
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
This is actually pretty awesome if you ask me. There has been an exploding of "expert curated lists" on GitHub and it's been quite dizzying for me. And now we have a curated list of curated lists. What is genius about this
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Curated List of Awesome Lists(github.com)
3 points by mav3r1ck 9y ago|1 comments
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
“The tricky thing, though, is in order to get good at machine learning, you need to be able to do deploys as fast as humanly possible and repeatedly as humanly possible. Deploying a machine learning model isn’t like deploying a regular cod
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
I love the term "reproducible computational narratives" from their post. This is a great step toward making software accessible for everyone. In addition, imagine how transparent governments and open source communities can be by
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
Oh yah, that’s right, I forgot about those since I’ve never implementing those things by hand before. I have used almost all of the list at one point, but never had the need to dive down and write my own and always have been fortunate to be
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
This article deserves way more attention. The Atari DQN paper was a really buzzy thing when it came out. It’s been over four years now and we haven’t seen DQN and similar Deep RL techniques generalize well.
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
Java is my main language, but not for those things if I can help it. For network protocols for example, I’m a big fan of Netty. Thanks for answering! I’m sure you’re aware of all this and I don’t want to backseat drive/code. It’s just
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
I’m confused by “listing 5” that states private methods and variables are accessible without reflection. The example it gives shows a static main within the same class that declared private. That’s the definition of private, that only the d
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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
Wow. That is weird. I didn’t realize that. But then again, the only time I’m dealing with bytes in Java is for file reading. With the latest use having it wrapped in a Guava ByteStream. I have to ask, why would you be trying to, I presume,

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