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by oofbey 3y ago
TF1 was pretty rough to use, but beat the pants off Theano for usability, which was really the best thing going before it. Sure it was slow as dirt ("tensorslow") even though the awkward design was justified on being able to make
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by oofbey 3y ago
Google is fundamentally allergic to top-down management. Most googlers will reject any attempt to be told what to do as wrong, because lots of IC's voting with their feet are smarter than any (google) exec at figuring out what to do.
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by oofbey 4y ago
Cool to read about the actual science that maybe underlies a lot of sci-fi stories that include eerie blue lights coming from futuristic things.
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Cherenkov Radiation – real life version of the strange blue light in sci-fi(en.wikipedia.org)
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by oofbey 4y ago
It's not exactly sarcasm. From a purely theoretical perspective vinyl actually does have a higher dynamic range and wider frequency response than CD. The dynamic range of CD is fixed by its 16-bit format to ### decibels (I'm not
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by oofbey 4y ago
Diehards also think vinyl sounds better than CD, or at least many used to. (You know, because CD's are digital, which limits their dynamic range and frequency, whereas analog can be "perfect" in theory if you don't thin
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by oofbey 4y ago
What's the utility of having the propellors be able to go up and down relative to the body? Usually they show the propellors way above the camera, which makes sense to keep them out of view. But one of the shots shows the arms way do
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by oofbey 4y ago
It's synonymous with "containers" for a lot of people. I know a lot of groups that use docker to build containers and other infra to run them. Too bad the company screwed up turning their technology into a real business, or
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by oofbey 4y ago
If I had to wait 45 seconds to see a single line of code change run, I would be looking for a new dev environment. Reminds me of compile times in the 1990’s. Serverless is “cool” and all but productivity is what really matters.
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by oofbey 4y ago
But I thought the future of financial accounting infra was the blockchain. Problem solved, right?
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by oofbey 4y ago
NeRFs are cool and someday will do what the Lytro cinema camera claimed. But today it’s nowhere close. See how Lytro took 10 years to go from lab science to a cinema quality camera. NeRFs have a similar journey ahead of them. Today they
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by oofbey 4y ago
I'm trying to imagine why somebody would start a data analytics project in ruby.
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by oofbey 4y ago
> Different amounts of necessary accuracy lead to completely different model architectures Not really. For object detection, there are really only two kinds of architecture in common use - the multi-stage RCNN-style and the single-pass
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by oofbey 4y ago
tl;dr: These tricks work pretty reliably against budget AI systems. But not good ones. The surprising truth is that these camouflage anti-patterns often work across many AI models. It's been a fairly baffling result in many research
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by oofbey 4y ago
I think they're spot on to say they were too early. But their analysis of the current state is pretty tainted by their personal situation. Many people I know find copilot extremely helpful. I think tools like it are about to become e
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by oofbey 4y ago
This is a very telling example, and probably not uncommon.
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by oofbey 4y ago
You probably wouldn't want to have to code in multiple languages even for a thin layer. Somebody could build that thin JS layer once for your language. Sounds like that's happening.
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by oofbey 4y ago
Doesn’t WASM provide a graceful and natural end to JavaScript’s hegemony? People can just use whatever language they want in the browser now.
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by oofbey 4y ago
How about fps?
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by oofbey 4y ago
Recent discovery: "We got lucky" -- did you know that evolution is a result of random chance!? Shocking clickbait below.
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by oofbey 4y ago
Article says $100M. Why does the title here say $600M? $100M crypto thefts are like every other Thursday, right?
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by oofbey 4y ago
With no real repercussions.
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by oofbey 4y ago
I uninstalled Uber when Travis Kalanick's myriad improprieties came to light. I'm not ready to forgive the company, since its very existence is built on such despicable behavior. Sure they've made improvements blah blah, bu
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by oofbey 4y ago
300k/yr with amazing perks for sitting on your ass. Lots of people think that's the best thing evar. Unless you care about, say, building novel things people actually use. Then it's a dystopian nightmare.
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by oofbey 4y ago
Beautiful observation on Ars Technica[1]: "Google's damaged reputation made the death of Stadia a self-fulfilling prophecy. No one buys Stadia games because they assume the service will be shut down, and Stadia is forced to shut d
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by oofbey 4y ago
> Can someone please explain what Sundar Pichai's big goals as a CEO are? I'd say he's trying not to be remembered as the "Steve Ballmer" of Google. You know - that second-run CEO who drove the company into the
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by oofbey 4y ago
Exactly. Russian policy frequently follows this philosophy of "a sinking tide lowers all boats, so long as ours is lowered a little bit less, we win." They're happy to burn the world down as long as they end up a little les
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by oofbey 4y ago
1,000,000 drives at 16 TB each I think. Kilo is 10 bits. Mega 20. Gigs 30. Tera 40. 16TB is 44 bits. 1000* is another 10 bits so 54.
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by oofbey 4y ago
Hey thanks for explaining it to me! :)
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by oofbey 4y ago
Not too different from using Google Forms to create a form anybody can fill out, and then buying search ads to get people to fill it out, is it now?

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