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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
Whenever I'm dealing with C++, I get tripped by the most basic of things: like for example, why use "&&" for what appears to be a pointer to a pointer? And if this indeed the case, why is int&& x compatible wi
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
I was visiting Palm Springs one year, late summer. I had assumed that since it was in the middle of the desert, that water use would be regulated. But as I drove around over there, I was shocked to see massive lawns being watered in the mid
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
Some people: these online companies have too much information about us! They know everything about us!! Where's muh privacy?? Same people now: how will the poor company know that it's an underage user?? Oh noes!
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
They should have named their company "YASAI" (pronounced as "Yes AI") and just watched the investments roll in ...
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
Maybe I don't want to doxx myself. As I said, it's been a couple of years and I'm over it. I stand nothing to gain by reopening old wounds. Take it FWIW. But ask yourself: is this the first time you've heard that Wiki ed
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
Since you insisted. This is from a couple of years ago, and I have moved on to never donating to Wikipedia again, so take it FWIW. I pointed out that India had reduced extreme poverty from ~16% in 2013 to ~2% in 2022. This is directly from
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
Believe it or not, me (not white, did not grow up in the West, had the faintest clue about Nazism) used to do what you would consider a "Nazi salute" when I'd see friends and wave to them from a distance. I don't know ho
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
> I observed an example of this at New Relic: So, sample size == 1. :-D
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
When I started working at 24, a friend of mine (a few years older than me) asked me if our company had a 401(K) and what was the match. I was confused. What's this gobbledygook? So I asked around and got him the answers, and he respond
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
Take a look at Shohei Ohtani's contract.
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by mlmonkey 4y ago
"we exist to make as much money as possible".... for ourselves. You plebes should just be thankful that you have jobs.
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by mlmonkey 11y ago
Good guide. Here's a somewhat related question: I'm thinking of writing an iOS app. Should I register an LLC, or is launching it by myself OK?
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by mlmonkey 11y ago
> That seems to be the true advantage of rail travel .... till some nut does something stupid, and then the whole security theater moves to railway stations.
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by mlmonkey 11y ago
Google in 2013 had 37,000 employees and 100 VPs (as per this article). Yahoo, in comparison, around the same timeframe had 16,000 employees and almost 300 VPs. Guess which one has grown, and which one has stagnated?
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by mlmonkey 11y ago
The writer has no clue about SF, and yet pontificates as if he knows something. Mission (in SF) was not historically a Latino neighborhood; it was originally Irish. He picks 1 example (8 Washington) and proceeds to paint the entire city wit
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by mlmonkey 11y ago
Even after many years of talk about HTM, I've yet to come across one result which shows HTM outperforming other ML algorithms on any of the myriad data sets out there. Isn't it time they showed something? Anything?
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by mlmonkey 11y ago
But apparently they care enough to point out that no one cares about them....
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
But what are the long-term effects of all this zapping?
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
FTA: "Almost precisely one year later, the same crew of tech “journalists” who proclaimed Secret would be massively influential, declared Meerkat the next huge social media app." Can these "journalists" be identified? I
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
I disagree. The condescension that western people show to the rest of the world is very grating, as a non-westerner. People don't care about "culture" when it comes to basic needs and survival. A roof, any roof, over my head
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
You misunderstood the GP. Instead of using Twilio, you can send an email directly to the phone number, and it works the same as SMS (more or less).
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
> Basically neural networks and many other machine learning methods are highly linear No they're not! You introduce non-linearities like the sigmoid or tanh to make them highly non-linear.
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
Not to forget, the Unabomber's Manifesto (published way after 1938).
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
Does this apply to vegetarian Japanese men? Does this mean vegetarianism is considered a negative (at least among men)?
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
This is interesting. Homomorphic encryption has been talked about a lot in the past, but no one had an efficient implementation. Good overview: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2012/5/alice-and
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
Couple of things. Dealers know you're doing this, so they'll try to confuse/bamboozle you to regain their advantage in information asymmetry. You have to be 100% sure of what you want, and why you want it. The slightest hes
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
This is like complaining that Wikipedia has only 35K Bengali articles, while English has over 4.7M! <s>Why is Wikipedia not doing more to translate the 4.7M articles into Bengali? It does claim to be the world's encyclopedia!<
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
do you have any evidence that the UC has actively ignored requests from Bengali speakers? Has any Bengali speaker made proposals to the UC for fixing these issues? If yes, and the UC chose to ignore them, then there is some blame to be assi
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
The Indian government recognizes 22 languages, not 2. The government has a department dedicated to their support: http://tdil.mit.gov.in Why isn't someone asking that department WTF has it been doing? Added later: and th
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by mlmonkey 12y ago
That's ridiculous. How can you expect UC to reach out to the 1000s of languages out there? Plus, shouldn't the party who expects to benefit put in the effort? Did you know that the Indian Government has a department for just such

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