mumbisChungo

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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
From the abstract: >In this work, we prove that if a central conjecture in the area of network coding is true, then any constant degree boolean circuit for multiplication must have size Ω(nlgn), thus almost completely settling the comple
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
And that evidence is... an unproven theory, which itself is also heavily qualified?
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
I think I'm misunderstanding something about the article. In what way is this method perfect, as is mentioned multiple times? Is it not just an incremental improvement over standard practice?
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
I am responding to the comment about >just new web frontends on existing industries The gig economy is just some subset of that. In reality, 'just new web frontends on existing industries' describes the majority of the demand f
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
I don't think it's rent seeking by definition to modernize a product and/or make it more accessible to people. The fact of the matter is that there is a tremendous backlog of legacy industry/infrastructure that needs to
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
>Is anyone else unimpressed with the ideas being funded? look at Work at a Startup and it is just new web frontends on existing industries. If there's money basically just lying all over the ground, why wouldn't you pick it up
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
USPS is actually an extremely effective lightweight parcel courier. Their rates aren't great for big, heavy stuff, but for typical ecommerce volume their rates are very competitive. They're also the only major courier who is anywh
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
>You cannot talk about these things at cocktail parties, though, because people will slowly shuffle away from you -- whereas you can talk about deep learning, which is odd. It's really not odd at all. The average person has some fam
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
Maybe I misinterpreted this: >it will be boring to anyone but specialists, as the rest of machine learning ought to be.
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
Why ought machine learning be boring to anyone but specialists? Does this imply that specialists ought to be born, rather than become specialists out of interest?
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
>At the same time, the low barrier of entry and hype has resulted in a huge amount of people downloading Keras, copying a bunch of code, tuning a few parameters, and then putting their result on arXiv so they can put AI research on their
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
I don't think either of us really posited an argument, but you're right that I shouldn't have responded to a snarky bad-faith comment with my own.
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
Surely it wouldn't surprise you to learn gay voters are individual humans with their own thoughts and perspectives?
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
>and are working diligently to prove others
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
The conflict between "anti-PC" and "woke" in its entirety is in service of power. A perpetual screaming match between poor and middle-class people, about topics that have little to no bearing on profits, is ideal for cor
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
In the orthodoxy discussed in the article, people are taking it for granted that their beliefs are true and working diligently to ridicule those who don't agree. In science, people hold many beliefs that have already been proven beyond
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
>Cameras can’t tell you the name and address of the pixel blob that is committing the crime. Given sufficient resolution, software, and access to data they can with some degree of accuracy. >My building had countless footage of people
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
Which language from the letter is being used by others in a way to express hatred?
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
>Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences of that speech. It is though, it's just that we as a society define which consequences you are free from as the speaker (ex. some legal consequences). The internet, and social
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
Number 2 took me from using paint constantly to just using photoshop instead.
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
CEOs are paid what they're paid due to prevailing financial incentive structures and scarcity of talent, not because they feel entitled (though I'm sure many of them do). From my own personal experiences- which you can take with a
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
Do you have a source for this? From my experiences, healthcare advice is designed for the most likely scenario given an imaginary average person- and it is incredibly important to take an active role in conversations with medical profession
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
All you have to do to be "defensible" in many industries is observe the status quo, but add decent customer service.
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
I imagine that for some people it's about the added features and not about what pop culture thinks is in right now.
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
That’a just a very strange comment to make. Why is it commentworthy that people would criticize a product that they do make an exchange to use and that has gotten markedly worse over time?
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
It’s not really free though is it? It just doesn’t cost money.
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
Actually, I believe they are vilified for being moderates.
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
I bought the original Street Fighter II the month it came out for SNES for $99 CAD (which at the time was ~$83 USD).
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
I think my 3 year old niece is already using that word in context.
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by mumbisChungo 6y ago
Interesting article, but I'll stick with my dual 144 hz 27" 1080p monitors for less than the cost of a single 4k 144 hz that I wouldn't be able to use for gaming without investing another $10k in my tower.

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