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Mozilla DeepSpeech: TensorFlow Implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech Architecture(github.com)
2 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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Trying to discredit Washington Post, woman tells them false tale about Roy Moore(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
Ceausescu was killed on Dec 25 1989, after widespread protests.
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by merraksh 9y ago
Note that the only explicit mention of Facebook is in the title.
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by merraksh 9y ago
Let me also add "The consolations of the forest" by Sylvain Tesson, who lived alone on the shores of Lake Baykal for about a year. A well-written book about an interesting story. https://www.theguardian.com/books&#
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by merraksh 9y ago
Six black hole merges observed in ~2 years! That's quite interesting. More observations will make for some useful statistical study. I wonder if this would give us any insights w.r.t. matter and its distribution across the Universe, an
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by merraksh 9y ago
Is there a typo in operator== ? friend bool operator==(const CIString& a, const CIString& b) { return ci_compare(a.s.c_str(), b.s.c_str()) != 0; } friend bool operator< (const CIString& a, const CIString& b) {
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Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers' time(boingboing.net)
2 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14185891
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Grasshopper stuck in van Gogh painting for 128 years(nytimes.com)
2 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
As I read this, the post has 6 points and 6 comments. Gotta fix it.
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by merraksh 9y ago
In describing what the business climate at EADS International does to newcomers, a person with knowledge of the company says: "If you put Mother Teresa in a neighborhood with rampant drug use, she wouldn't remain a saint for long
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by merraksh 9y ago
Well, that clears the doubt on whether I'm biased or not ;-) Birmingham is the only UK city I've lived in. Still, Birmingham is the second largest city in the UK, so its low quality of life affects a large number of people. Moving
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Facebook scrubbed Russia data before researchers could analyze it further(uk.businessinsider.com)
3 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
(EU national living in UK). I was ambivalent on working at the headquarters (here in Birmingham) or in remote, and actually started looking for a house here. Thankfully I waited until after the referendum. The ensuing social, political, and
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Salt Lake Police Fire Cop Who Arrested Nurse Over Blood Draw(reason.com)
4 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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A modern formatting library for C++(youtube.com)
1 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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Phone-size camera with 16 lenses promises DSLR quality(light.co)
3 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
It could have been that parent graciously took my suggestion and replaced "old guy" with "technophobe" in his/her comment, while mine stayed, implicitly making my comment a rather incorrect interpretation and trigge
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by merraksh 9y ago
I don't want to wait in line for 3 minutes while some old guy tries to figure out Please rewrite, this is borderline discriminatory and quite offensive. Some "old guys" can be as capable to handle such UI as some "youn
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by merraksh 9y ago
Only tangentially related, but here's a piano-inspired crossing in Warsaw, Poland: http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Poland/East/Mazowiec...
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by merraksh 9y ago
("S" is dit dit dit in Morse, and "O" is "dah dah dah".) Some old Nokia phone used to have a single-pitched ringtone for text messages that sounded ". . . _ _ . . .", which is Morse code for SMS.
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by merraksh 9y ago
> Finally, this photo of Brian Wansink does not favor the hypothesis "rigorous scientist" over scam artist: > https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-09/27/1... . Maybe, but i
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Britain Moves to End the Burning of Coal(e360.yale.edu)
2 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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30-day time lapse of a cargo ship’s voyage(kottke.org)
2 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
It was later revealed that what the Soviet satellites took for missiles launch was sunlight reflected from clouds I hope detection systems improved since the 80s.
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Equifax's CIO and CSO are out(money.cnn.com)
5 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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Apple Park employees revolt over having to work in open-plan offices(dezeen.com)
178 points by merraksh 9y ago|176 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
It would be interesting to test this on academicians: take objectives off of them (grants, large number of publications; hell, even tenure!) and let them wander freely through their field of research. I have the impression this was normalit
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by merraksh 9y ago
Agreed. I wonder how long before most of FB's users notice how aggressive this is and, perhaps more likely, how boring the feed becomes with these tricks. Is FB getting more aggressive because it wants even more or because it is actual

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