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by nmfisher 5y ago
Used needles are still a common sight in Melbourne.
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by nmfisher 5y ago
FWIW, I recently tried WINE/Codeweavers again after hearing everyone rave that it ran practically everything, and it was an absolute disaster. Literally 5/6 of the applications I tried didn’t run (and the sixth was Telegram, which
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by nmfisher 5y ago
Disagree on Goodfellow, personally I found it the most approachable introduction to neural networks & backprop. To be fair, I think this must have been the pre-GAN edition so maybe it's changed a bit since then. ESL is a fantastic
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by nmfisher 5y ago
This was a default judgment, meaning the defendant never even turned up to court and so the plaintiff won “by default”. Most likely the guy has skipped the country, so you’re right, probably a paper victory.
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by nmfisher 5y ago
They're also incredibly dull, poorly acted, bad script and low budget.
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by nmfisher 5y ago
> As for your particular case (running a Windows VM with PCI-e GPU passthrough), that's... such a niche corner case that you're you just don't factor in. I'm not saying it's not niche (it definitely is), but I ju
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by nmfisher 5y ago
Oh wow, I thought I was the only one who had that exact reaction. Very strange feeling, like a thousand warm caterpillars walking over your skin. It was enough for me to stop using it (though I don't think I ever really saw any benefit
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by nmfisher 5y ago
I’ve said this a number of times before, but I still can’t see why loans > $1m against share-based collateral shouldn’t be taxed as income.
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by nmfisher 5y ago
I can't stand Objective-C, but I'm pretty apathetic towards Swift. As far as I can see, Swift simply swapped Obj-C's terrible syntax for its own, equally terrible syntax. I probably would have been more enthusiastic about &qu
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by nmfisher 5y ago
Coincidentally, I've been digging deep into Filament over the past couple of weeks as a replacement for Unity (I just need 3D rendering without all the doo-dads that come with a full game engine). I'm guessing from the submitter&#
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by nmfisher 5y ago
I don't know where this absurd idea came from that "China invading Taiwan" means "Australia/Japan would be next!". As far as the PRC is concerned, Taiwan is a part of China. They wouldn't be invading anoth
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by nmfisher 5y ago
I’ll be interested to see how many people are actually using Codex in 12 months time. I honestly don’t know if it’s a shiny new toy that people will get bored with, or a genuinely useful tool that will become part of your average developers
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by nmfisher 5y ago
Except, dictating who can and can’t use their models, or what you can and can’t say if they deign to give you access https://twitter.com/mtrc/status/1363893222993498117?s=20
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by nmfisher 5y ago
I did exactly that (wife’s family lives in Beijing). Various parts of Beijing and Nanjing have been under relative “lockdown” at various points in time in the last year. I’m pretty sure this has been reported in Western media too (and I’m s
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by nmfisher 5y ago
At the risk of having everyone jump down my throat for saying it, I feel very much the same. I'm consciously aware of how many (or how few) years I have left, and I would never have agreed to losing two of them by not being able to see
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by nmfisher 5y ago
Off-topic, but has he (or anyone else) written more on getting rid of loss functions in ML?
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by nmfisher 5y ago
I suspect he's more so talking from his position/experience as (1) a father, and (2) someone who launched his own (incredibly successful) business at a very young age.
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by nmfisher 5y ago
Hey, I’m literally going through this at the moment. Only at the end of the first chapter, but so far I can say it’s written in a very accessible, clear style.
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by nmfisher 5y ago
This is what I've started doing, and I'm definitely a life-long convert. I still experience a few glitches (extensions randomly stop working, Intellisense sometimes dies, and auto-detecting architecture for launching mobile apps s
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by nmfisher 5y ago
A lot of truth to this comment. I can’t believe the amount of money I wasted in my early 20s on…junk. Things that, with the benefit of hindsight, actually brought me no pleasure at all. I’m glad I realised this, and I totally agree - once y
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by nmfisher 5y ago
This is probably the best summary I've come across, particularly the true believers vs functional burnouts bit. The only thing I'd add is that many (most?) lawyers are not only fundamentally uncreative and arrogant, but also weird
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by nmfisher 5y ago
Because “mediocre” games sell incredibly well.
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by nmfisher 5y ago
> What sort of apps are in the intersection of being performant enough to be written in JavaScript and also generate lots of in-app purchase revenue (which is typically recurring revenue)? Or maybe it's just selection bias - we don&
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by nmfisher 5y ago
For what it’s worth, Defender has been going crazy with false positives since the last Windows update. It’s regularly flagging Android split APKs that I build as trojans, with different signatures each time.
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by nmfisher 5y ago
This was 20 years ago, but my wife went to a public school in China and never learned calculus or linear algebra (and had only the faintest grasp of trigonometry).
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by nmfisher 5y ago
Carmack has been pretty explicit that he is not, nor does he want to be, a manager (either in the executive sense, or the “technical lead” sense). He sees himself more as a senior craftsman.
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by nmfisher 5y ago
I learned BASIC and bash from library books as late as the early 90s. Nowhere near as good as the real thing, but I remember loving it nonetheless.
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by nmfisher 5y ago
Did you license your code under terms that allowed them to do so?
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by nmfisher 5y ago
I've never used Clojurescript, but I have played around with Fable (F# to JS transpiler), and from memory I had a bit of a headache with transpiling non-framework dependencies and getting it to talk to Javascript libraries (e.g. Plotly
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by nmfisher 5y ago
If everybody refused to let junior surgeons operate on them, juniors don't get the experience to become seniors. Fast forward 15 years, suddenly there's zero seniors left to operate on anybody. Juniors have to learn somewhere. Th

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