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by novaRom 8y ago
Everything made in US has become extremely expensive. As a product manufacturer you have to pay a lot more than your Asian competitors. You can open an R&D subsidiary in Asia to reduce costs, but in very short time you will see your tec
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by novaRom 8y ago
>> “By laziness, I mean that less and less thought is being given to getting a design correct, and simple – up-front,” he wrote. Competitors have more less expensive engineering resources. You simply cannot produce high-quality, safe,
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by novaRom 8y ago
Interesting observation.
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by novaRom 8y ago
Off topic, but it is really uncomfortable to read anything on medium because 25% of my screen is covered by header containing 'Sign In' and 'Get Started' and by footer with 'Get Updates' button.
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by novaRom 8y ago
>> EVs do not have significant advantages over ICE Disagree. Advantage 1: EV can be charged virtually everywhere with access to electricity (like parking lots), no gas stations, no gas transportation necessary. Advantage 2: low mainte
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by novaRom 8y ago
Web Search is still Google's unicorn but it is not as much profitable as few years ago mostly because there now better advertising channels like social nets and online videos. Many people today also use price comparison apps instead of
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by novaRom 8y ago
Fun facts: * DDG in 2018 has served similar amount of search queries as Google in 2000. * DDG growth rate is accelerating * Google search growth rate is negative * Google's share of global search is shrinking DDG stats: https:/&#
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by novaRom 8y ago
My impression Google helps DDG to become a popular alternative to its own search engine. Why? Just funny fact: In 2018 Google transferred ownership of the domain name Duck.com to DuckDuckGo.
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by novaRom 8y ago
Aside from the clickbait title, can anyone please ELI5, TL;DR this paper? From abstract: Here we show that, while in nature the complex conjugation needed for time reversal is exponentially improbable, one can design a quantum algorithm tha
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by novaRom 8y ago
Why do you think that "iOS is still much more secure"? The fact it's a closed source system means only we are not aware of many potential security risks. Apple has really bad reputation because of serious security bugs discov
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by novaRom 8y ago
Why unpopular? It's a rational decision. Diversity vs centralization.
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by novaRom 8y ago
Why do you need ecosystem own by one company? You can have Ubuntu laptop, Android phone, WebOS TV. They all support Spotify and Netflix, you can cast videos from Android phone to your LG TV.
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by novaRom 8y ago
But not 5)? I think if you watch youtube in FF Nightly with uBlock installed you should not see any ads?
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by novaRom 8y ago
The fact that a critical software (MCAS) is installed and not disclosed to the pilots is significant blow to their reputation.
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by novaRom 8y ago
You can only share files "with others nearby who also have the app".
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by novaRom 8y ago
No way. Xilinx is way too expensive already.
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by novaRom 8y ago
Thanks. Today I learned people could play 3D games (Quake2) at 25 fps at 1152x864 resolution (Nvidia TNT GPU, K6-2 300 Mhz CPU). It would be interesting to know how other computing technologies looked like 20 years ago. Is there any good pl
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by novaRom 8y ago
Not just quantum. Many micro effects are amplified in random way, so the measurement problem appears in macro world.
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by novaRom 8y ago
>> My net income after taxes, social contributions, etc is 65% of my gross salary. It certainly depends on your income?
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by novaRom 8y ago
>> 225kUSD/yr in usa to 95kEUR in Europe 95k is about 50k after taxes and other no opt-out insurances and social taxes. Most EU countries have VAT 19-24%. I usually compare USA with Western Europe using factor 2 (3 for Eastern Eu
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by novaRom 8y ago
Tried similar approach several years ago but was unsatisfied with final accuracy results. Pipelining is obvious method to accelerate a sequence of computations, but with respect to SGD it requires some accuracy tolerance because weight upda
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by novaRom 8y ago
Can someone please ELI5 what is Oracle software? I thought it's a Java, but this thread mentions data bases. Is it something like MySQL? Do customers pay a lot for this database software or for the hosting/cloud?
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by novaRom 8y ago
Original Deep Speech 2 paper released few years ago mentioned a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand hours, but the amount of data has increased since then significantly. Still quite a lot of languages have very tiny datasets of transcr
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by novaRom 8y ago
Transfer learning is not guaranteed to work well. Most learned features even in the first layers look usually very different if trained in a clean environment. Background noise is not just a simple stationary signal, but very different audi
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by novaRom 8y ago
>> What improvements have you noticed after quitting coffee? Better mood and feeling more energized through the day. Better vision. The latest is quite strange, but I can really see better, probably a side effect of improved concentra
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by novaRom 8y ago
I tried without it and it really improves my mood. I can sleep better, I feel much better. The only problem is withdrawal which takes several days and can be very painful depending on how long and strong you are on this drug.
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by novaRom 8y ago
Breakfast is relatively recent invention. It is simply against mother nature where we evolved as humans. Your body and brain need few hours of activity to feel hungry and find some food after night sleep.
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by novaRom 8y ago
My personal habit: 1) Skip breakfast completely 2) Zero coffein intake 3) Sunlight exposure: run topless if possible, go outside at noon for about an hour every day. Although it is not an issue for California as for the Northern Europe. 4)
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by novaRom 8y ago
I do similarly for many years, my no_calories window is between 10pm and 12-noon. This is very simple, just avoid any breakfast and drink some water instead. Also important to quit coffee, I find it improves a lot of things (after a week of
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by novaRom 8y ago
Three or more days is too extreme. I have very positive experience with 14/10 method where I skip eating between 10pm and 12-noon.

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