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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Bethany McLean is the best in business writing. The Smartest Guys in the Room was fantastic. As for Microsoft: the adage goes that success has many fathers. Failure has even more. It would have been nothing short of amazing if Microsoft was
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That seems relevant. I have a feeling that it's not that people hadn't noticed the pattern followed by the moon (people knew a lot about the sky back then, apparently, probably because people looked at it more and more carefully s
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There are names for these different gaits in horses[1]. The difference between the natural and unnatural running motions seems to be exactly equivalent to the difference between a trot and a pace. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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That occurred to me, too. Also, it would be easier to draw the unnatural pose. For one, it straightens out the body. Two, you can have a model stand in the unnatural pose, because it's stable. Once the masters used this pose, it would
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We have control in principle, and, in practice, if the public was energized enough about this it would get done. It's just that the bar is set extremely high and it's almost unthinkable what abuses might need to occur to get that
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The DEA has no purpose other than to enforce drug laws. The public has consistently shown that it wants drug laws to be more liberal, but to the DEA, that's an existential threat. The DEA has a vested interest in the drug police state.
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I know far more about scripting linux/unix than Powershell, so I can't really speak directly to Powershell's strengths and weaknesses. But there's reason to be skeptical that Powershell has actually blown bash out of the
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There are more coefficients than necessary. The FT has the minimum; it's bijective.
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Security would be a good reason to be slow, but I suspect that isn't the reason.
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It seems like in high school you're more likely to miss out on recent history than have too much. Recent history is at the very end of the textbook/class and you're lucky if it doesn't get cut.
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Having a predictable email address is normally a good thing, I think.
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His current address is probably at his foundation.
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There are no constraints on history other than that it happened in the past. If a story hasn't been adequately told, it should be.
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Banks frustrate me, and I don't think there is any technological excuse. I suspect the systems are antiquated and they are not motivated to change. They use security as a cover for their slowness.
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I can't use my debit card without a PIN, so I would hope that other people cant debit my account without it. Otherwise I'd like to have the same privilege.
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The article doesn't say anything about whether it can learn it, just that it can represent it.
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I agree. The Anandtech reader in me is sorry to see him go. But he's around my age, and if he was my brother, I'd tell him to go for it.
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That sounds like a symptom of simply being more familiar with the Windows environment. People who have grown up in China probably find chopsticks simpler and more powerful than forks -- I'm hypothesizing -- but not because forks don&#x
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They are read far more often -- by a machine.
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Thanks for this candid impression. I had some slight interest in learning PowerShell, but it looked like a little bit too high of a learning curve, given that I had other scripting languages I could use (including bash in Cygwin). Piped obj
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If it's slow on the first run, then it might be loading a large interpreter from disk. If so, MS might have let the interpreter get a bit ungainly -- you might argue.
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>> A simple way to bootstrap the compiler with the script itself would be especially nice. Basically, an embedded batsh compiler. Might be an interesting avenue for an enterprising person to look into. This could be very easy. If this
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If destiny has that this is to become wildly popular, it's practically inevitable.
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Right-- in the musculoskeletal system there are mechanisms that operate approximately like pulleys; so I think you can say "a person is a neural net" in exactly the same sense as you can say "a person is a pulley." Neura
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I think I know the problem you're referring to (despite not having the right kind of specialist training to actually work in this field). I think that the fact that random or quasirandom probes are able to explore these high-dimensiona
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>> Once you add all three qualifiers in (approximate/continuous/compact) it starts to sound more like math and less like a miracle. I agree. The problem with attempting to make subtle technical points digestible by untrained
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Yes (I am not expert in neural nets, but that appears to be exactly what this is saying). If you look at what goes into a neural net and compare it to what goes into a Fourier transform, it should be obvious that neural nets have even more
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I think you may not be familiar with how "sellout" is commonly used. It's commonly said, e.g., of musicians when they make a popular song, for violating their assumed allegiance to being "true" to something other th
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I think it would be loss of authenticity, and I am sure Apple can afford to pay more than could pay himself at Anandtech. At the very least, he no longer has to worry that his paycheck might ever bounce. The concept of "selling out&quo
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I never sensed that type of bias on anandtech. The present career change does seem a bit like selling out. As the downvotes are starting, I feel like pointing out that I don't blame him for accepting the offer. My point is that it&#x27

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