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by oli5679 6y ago
Yes Thibault Duplessis is a very funny guy and has made something great without capturing any personal value!
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by oli5679 6y ago
As an online chess player I find it a bit shady. Lichess.org has a better UX and featureset for free than a premium chess.com subscription, but many of my friends watch steamers --> sign up to chess.com and get a worse expereince.
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by oli5679 6y ago
If anyone is interested in online chess, https://lichess.org/ is a really interesting project. It is non-for-profit, avoiding freemium upselling and instead relying on user donations Here is a great talk by the founder htt
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by oli5679 6y ago
Below is a link with some of the history of EC2. It wasn't linked to Darpa but it was developed as an experimental project by an autonomous team in South African office lead by Chris Pinkham and initially Amazon were quite secretive ab
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Elon Musk becomes richest person as wealth tops $185bn(bbc.co.uk)
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I find the miniconda docker image quite useful for making reproducible R environments. You can install specific package versions recorded in environment.yml file. There are probably many ways to do this but this is an approach I like. http
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by oli5679 6y ago
The founder of Whatsapp (1) claims that Facebook promised Whatsapp would not be monetised, and that Facebook and and Whatsapp's data would not be combined. This information was also provided to European antitrust regulators (2) missed
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by oli5679 6y ago
If you want to keep the 'events' capability but remove your newsfeed then it's possible to write a bot that unsubscribes from all of your friends. This also works well for LinkedIn I find.
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by oli5679 6y ago
He also made a short gradient descent library, tinygrad. https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad
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by oli5679 6y ago
I am so grateful for their hard work. They developed a 90% effective vaccine in weeks, before proving safety and efficacy, and scaling up to 600M doses in months. It makes me emotional to think of the number of lives they will save. I didn&
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by oli5679 6y ago
> Sure, you're never going to know exactly how many people you advertised to would have organically, eventually found your product and bought it. This is typically an order of magnitude less than the attribution figures stated by di
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This is pretty interesting study at Ebay. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w20171/w201... They tested the counterintuitive claims by performance marketers that 'brand' keywords
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by oli5679 6y ago
http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamju ... Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritag
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Was 2020 a Good Year?(themoneyillusion.com)
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I've been relistening today. Some lyrics like 'Living off borrowed, the clock ticks faster' from Accordian stand out more or take on a different meaning to me now.
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by oli5679 6y ago
When I was a student, I remember listing to his collaboration with Madlib, 'Madvilliany' and loving it. Here it is if anyone is interested. https://youtu.be/zQ0yXh_ADlQ
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Demis Hassabis AI will unlock secrets of how life works(newscientist.com)
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Elon Musk Interview(businessinsider.com)
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by oli5679 6y ago
I really like Trevor.io https://trevor.io/ It has nice gui for data exploration, clean charts and integrates really well with gsheets. If you save the API calls in a database could use this?
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by oli5679 6y ago
this is great, thanks!
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by oli5679 6y ago
Naive question: is solar + battery feasible for shipping?
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by oli5679 6y ago
Best site to play on: https://lichess.org/ , free and with really nice features to study and learn. It is not-for-profit, funded by donations and has the best UI and feature-set, without the annoying popups trying to sell yo
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A Review of the Lean Theorem Prover(jiggerwit.wordpress.com)
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Citymapper mobility index is quite interesting for quantifying level of lockdown. https://citymapper.com/cmi/london
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by oli5679 6y ago
My idea for a chess variant is that an engine autoplays the first X moves into a sharp, balanced position and this is what is used by all tournament players for the round. This would avoid excessive opening preparation and steering opening
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by oli5679 6y ago
Can you link to this please?
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by oli5679 6y ago
Can you link?
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AlphaFold: The Making of a Scientific Breakthrough(m.youtube.com)
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by oli5679 6y ago
I really enjoyed Tim Roughgarden's 'Algorithms' specialisation. The first half are actually on Stanford's online learning platform for free. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/algorithms
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Mistakes I made as a seed stage CEO(deliberateceo.substack.com)
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