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by mjn 10y ago
This was also my experience when I lived in the U.S., but in the U.K. my experience with in-store pickup (usually called "click and collect") has been pretty good. Not sure why. Virtually everyone does it in the U.K., both higher-
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AI Dangers: Imagined and Real(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by mjn 10y ago|0 comments
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by mjn 10y ago
Interesting. I thought it rang a bell, and I indeed ran across a version of this a few years ago, via this paper: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2330089 However at the time it was Scheme-based. You wrote Scheme in one c
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How difficult is the GVG-AI competition?(kmjn.org)
3 points by mjn 10y ago|0 comments
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by mjn 10y ago
For most people I know, when they say they wish they had enough money that they didn't have to work, what they mean is that they wish they had enough money to escape the wage-labor relationship with an employer.
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by mjn 10y ago
All else equal, education is good, but education isn't going to make everyone into healthcare policy wonks, nor is that necessarily a good use of everyone's time. Which... is a problem when the programs are designed so that you mo
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by mjn 10y ago
It's quite possible that it's mainly using even more surface-level audio features, before getting to whether the genres are formulaic or not. For example, if specific mastering studios have telltale production features visible in
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by mjn 10y ago
Yeah, you have a choice of using their prebuilt disk images, running one of the officially supported OS installers from the console menu, or downloading your own installer. The list of prebuilt images and supported installers is here: http
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by mjn 10y ago
I've used it and am happy with it. It's reasonably reliable, but has more downtime than the big providers. I wouldn't run mission-critical software that needs 5 9's uptime on it, but for anything else it's fine, cer
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by mjn 10y ago
I may be missing the bigger picture here, but it seems like you could simultaneously believe these two things. Even if you're a conservative who believes most mainstream media is biased towards liberals, isn't there a clear differ
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The Zone of Entrainment(limn.it)
2 points by mjn 10y ago|0 comments
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by mjn 10y ago
This sounds more like standard bureaucratic graft to me, where some private-sector middleman is going to get paid a bunch to "evaluate art quality" according to some proprietary set of "art quality metrics". The article
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by mjn 10y ago
In my case it doesn't seem to be the wifi side of things, but the routing side of things that's causing trouble. I can consistently ping the local AP itself, but the connection to the internet has periodic dropouts.
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by mjn 10y ago
An intriguing and plausible theory! In my case though it seems that the lease is 86400 seconds (24 hours), or at least that's what the router is claiming to give out. So I don't think this is it. My guess is that renewing the DHCP
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by mjn 10y ago
I did try that (though you're right that it's not in the article), setting the last DHCP address I'd received as static IP, but it doesn't seem to change anything. Still the same dropouts every ~30 seconds.
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by mjn 10y ago
Interesting! I looked quite a bit to see if there was anything OSX-specific that anyone else online had documented, but nothing I turned up seemed to pan out. I am reasonably certain that the ultimate culprit here is bad low-end wifi device
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Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points(kmjn.org)
178 points by mjn 10y ago|173 comments
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by mjn 10y ago
I disagree that neural networks are necessarily mysterious. In most cases they can be straightforwardly understood as brute-force function approximation (approximation here meaning mostly interpolation, in some cases capable of a limited de
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by mjn 10y ago
> You could probably be stateless if you absolutely wanted In many cases that isn't true anymore, since modern law generally disfavors statelessness. In many countries, you can't renounce your citizenship unless you have anothe
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Steel and the dematerialisation (or not) of the world economy(softmachines.org)
3 points by mjn 10y ago|0 comments
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by mjn 10y ago
Although he didn't reiterate it in the STM section, up front he was pretty explicit about what he meant by "production" software, really a specific kind of production software. So the recommendations might not apply if you wr
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by mjn 10y ago
There's a little work on that part of jazz too, though not much. My undergrad supervisor built a solo-trading jazz system about 15 years ago for her PhD thesis. Solo trading isn't the full extent of jazz improvisation, but is at l
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by mjn 10y ago
Debian 'stable' releases mainly target people who like fixed upgrade cycles. No feature/API/etc. changes for the lifetime of a release, only security patches. Means that you can have your servers routinely applying updat
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Search engine agendas(cacm.acm.org)
1 points by mjn 10y ago|0 comments
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by mjn 10y ago
This review article may also be of interest, "The evolution of concepts on the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals" (2004): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pawet_Koteja/publicatio... [pdf]
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by mjn 11y ago
I go back and forth on that. I like both Perl 5 and Common Lisp, and am investigating Perl 6 now. Perl has more operator magic, but it also makes many things a lot less tedious to write, and for common tasks I quickly figure out a nice way
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by mjn 11y ago
The mod is apparently unstable and crashes periodically, so the author has to restart it now and then.
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by mjn 11y ago
Hah, that's the first (serious) glitch I've seen in about an hour of watching. It periodically respawns in a random part of the world, and looks like it had the bad luck to respawn in a mineshaft this time. I'm actually surpr
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam(sanandreasanimalcams.com)
492 points by mjn 11y ago|109 comments
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by mjn 11y ago
Fwiw, the point where the Go curve massively changes slope is when Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) began to be used in its modern form. I think that's been an underreported part of AlphaGo's success: deep networks get the lion&#x27

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