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by niyazpk 7y ago
>> I learned that to achieve better results that everybody else, you just need to do a little more upront work. People tend to not do that. The funny part is that after you do that upront work you are usually in a place where you have
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by niyazpk 7y ago
As more businesses move their compute to the cloud, one might predict that more people will be impacted by outages in the large cloud providers. This in turn means that the affected people will start up-voting these threads. Expect these to
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by niyazpk 7y ago
One way to do this without breaking existing applications would be to charge more for the path style requests for a while. Then deprecate once enough people have moved away from it, so that less people are outraged by the change.
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by niyazpk 8y ago
I am not entirely certain that all of Saudi Arabia's problems can be attributed to UBI.
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by niyazpk 8y ago
I was under the impression that Amazon has a large portion of its engineering talent outside the US.
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by niyazpk 8y ago
I am wondering how not having H1B could have helped the Disney employees though. If Disney wants to cut costs and hire cheaper labor (presumably why they hired H1Bs? I don't know), they could as well move the jobs offshore. Now the US
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by niyazpk 8y ago
That is a great idea. Thank you!
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by niyazpk 8y ago
Not as fancy as other tips here, but I bet this is really time saving in the long run for most developers. My core work is alway around ~10 directories, which are mostly code packages. As soon as I start working on a project/team, I cr
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by niyazpk 8y ago
Is there a way for retail investors to buy shares in companies pre-IPO?
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Fired for third time – what to do?(workplace.stackexchange.com)
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by niyazpk 8y ago
Vuejs is a good option for lightweight websites. Just include the library as a <script> tag and you are good to go.
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by niyazpk 8y ago
Well... how are you printing these books?
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by niyazpk 8y ago
Elon said[1] in the shareholder meeting that the Model S has changed significantly from the older versions. I don't know the differences myself, so take it FWIW. [1] https://www.tesla.com/shareholdermeeting at around 0
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by niyazpk 8y ago
I use Google Fi (for 3 years now) and _never_ get Robocalls. Am I just lucky or is Fi doing the spam filtering for me?
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by niyazpk 9y ago
>> Modern settlement and clearing is efficient. If this is true, why oh why does it take 3 days (in the US) to transfer funds between my own accounts in two different banks? Why does it take 5-15 days (including multiple "fraud&q
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by niyazpk 9y ago
>> Real inflation is 10 times the official rate. ELI5 please?
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by niyazpk 9y ago
The first answer in that page (right now), is terribly misleading. >> "As the image shows, all the nodes are connected to each other." He is confused between a block-chain and the computing nodes in a network.
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by niyazpk 9y ago
For most Deep Learning developers, using AMD is out of question until DL frameworks like TensorFlow start natively supporting them. I am not really sure if/when this is going to happen. AMD needs to really step up their game.
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by niyazpk 9y ago
>> We've seen ~200MB production models get down to ~4MB and not lose much precision. Details please. What techniques are used to reduce the model size?
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by niyazpk 9y ago
>> "Suspicious activity might include someone who consistently posts from New York and then starts posting from Russia" That's actually a pretty funny line given the current political situation in the US.
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by niyazpk 9y ago
>> another 2% improvement 2% is HUGE at this point, at least on the datasets that I am familiar with - ImageNet, MS-Coco, PascalVOC etc. And at this point, any modifications or strategies that gets you the 2% improvement is noteworthy
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by niyazpk 9y ago
Can you please expand on what you mean by custom layers and abstractions and stuff? Thanks!
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by niyazpk 9y ago
>> I personally enjoy PyTorch a lot Why?
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by niyazpk 9y ago
(Hopefully) Related question: What is the state of the art in OCR on photographs? Is there something like the inception model for OCR?
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by niyazpk 9y ago
I used to have the same problem(, I still have). I had accumulated over a thousand bookmarks and was having trouble deleting them. "I want to learn {subject} some day, so cannot lose this article". Related was the issue of not abl
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by niyazpk 9y ago
Credit(?): https://twitter.com/ChicagoPhotoSho/status/87570898151116390...
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by niyazpk 9y ago
I play "Kingdom Rush" on my phone.
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by niyazpk 9y ago
This looks like a cool (probably impractical) way to recharging the car on the go. No more delays to re-charge the battery.
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by niyazpk 10y ago
Created an issue here: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/13634
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by niyazpk 10y ago
The first (and personally the only) requirement I have with any chat system is that it should _not_ modify the text I enter in any way - especially if I am pasting something. Sometimes I have to paste a line or two of code, or a few lines o

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