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by oofbey 5y ago
Without reading the papers it’s hard to know for sure, but we can break down the terms and make a decent guess. Domain invariance is the ability for a model to deal with multiple problem domains (e.g. wind conditions, type of drone, etc). A
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by oofbey 5y ago
Wow that video is an amazing time capsule of top AI researchers working together! But aside from controlling helicopters the research is very different. That research was based on apprenticeship learning where a human provides the ground
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by oofbey 5y ago
This happens, but is pretty rare. Using containers generally leads to much more reliable portability than trying to manage all the dependencies by hand.
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by oofbey 5y ago
Companies sugar-coating their outage reports is a pet peeve of mine and a real trust-buster. “Some users may experience delays” typically means the whole thing is completely dead. Companies that are really open and honest about such things
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by oofbey 5y ago
I think you should read more about Facebook. Try e.g. the Damien Collins email dump, and read about how their android app tricked people into letting it record all phone call and text message records, knowing full well users would hate it
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by oofbey 5y ago
ROS 2 is in this uncomfortable place that python3 was in for many years. It's clearly the future. Everybody wants to move to it. But too many of the useful libraries haven't been ported over yet, so people mostly stick with ROS
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by oofbey 5y ago
Totally disagree. To a very large degree, the mechanics are a solved problem. Robots have all the mechanical capabilities they need to solve all sorts of useful problems. The challenge is figuring out how to control them to do anything u
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by oofbey 5y ago
Why improve when you can start over? Modern tools for pub sub and websockets are so much better. We don’t need to use XML any more. (For the love of god please let XML die.) The old code and implementations are more of a liability than an a
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by oofbey 5y ago
When somebody is typing or not does not get broadcast to every contact. It’s only sent to the individual who is about to receive the typed message. O(1) communication vs O(N). That is a different feature which is not XMPP presence and I agr
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by oofbey 5y ago
Core indeed. The first P in XMPP standards for Presence.
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by oofbey 5y ago
Yeah, any kind of aggregation would help. But XMPP dictates that you "MUST" broadcast presence messages to all subscribers every time it changes. (Many open standards are very forceful in their language about such things.) Most
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by oofbey 5y ago
I worked on a large XMPP system for a while and realized it's actually not a very good protocol, for one reason: presence. "Presence" is the feature that shows a little indicator next to each one of your contacts indicating
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by oofbey 5y ago
I agree that Transformers are here to stay. The basic building block (self-attention layers) seem to me like the "new fully-connected layer" - the natural way to connect layers and build a deep net. Except that with FC-layers th
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by oofbey 5y ago
Probably. IIRC postgresql has better support for looking inside JSON documents than mysql does. Storing, searching, manipulating JSON is what mongodb is all about.
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by oofbey 5y ago
Really glad to see them using inclusive naming, and remove the term "master" from their jargon. Watching movies like Django Unchained has given me an appreciation for how simple words like that can be triggering, so I work hard t
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by oofbey 5y ago
If I’m reading this right, it’s only a tiny bit faster than the existing M1 on single core. 1780 vs 1720 or so. For a lot of tasks, single core is what really matters.
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by oofbey 5y ago
The de-noising and super-resolution looks quite good to me. It's the colorization that's super unstable and looks ugly. If they'd just left it B&W it would IMHO be more impressive.
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by oofbey 5y ago
They should add a regularizing term between frames, like a simple L2 loss between output pixel values, to stabilize the color.
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by oofbey 5y ago
Douglas Crockford explicitly refused to allow comments in JSON because he saw people using them to faithfully encode XML metadata in them. So actually you could blame XML for that too. Now YAML is mostly replacing JSON in places where you w
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by oofbey 5y ago
XML was a dumpster fire from day one. It burned hot for a while but thankfully has all but faded away.
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by oofbey 5y ago
I’m a heavy professional python user, and I’ve read about this new feature maybe a half dozen times. And I still don’t get it. Sigh. Powerful? I guess so. Complicated? Definitely. Confusing? You bet. Good addition? Uhh, I really hope so.
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by oofbey 5y ago
How was it better? I'm having trouble understanding why this is better than a simple grid. Grids on the surface of a sphere certainly have problems at high latitudes if naively applied. But they are incredibly simple to use, and don
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by oofbey 5y ago
Carbon tax is a really nice and simple idea. But its key problem is that it costs the same whether or not there is a viable alternative for lowering carbon. So it punishes industries for which there is no viable alternative using today’s te
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by oofbey 5y ago
Of course not. But here’s an analogy. “Nobody got fat by eating just one little scoop of ice cream.” It all adds up.
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by oofbey 5y ago
Sure one laptop doesn’t matter. But if everybody in the country has one it does matter. 300 million laptops each drawing 6 watts 24/7 adds up to 15 terawatt*hrs per year, which is real power. That’s pushing 1% of all the coal-powered e
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by oofbey 5y ago
Why? Because it’s cool to break the rules? Does it matter to you that these rules are trying to protect our civilization from dissolving in a heap of wildfires, floods, power outages, droughts, storms, etc? This stuff is not just hypothetic
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by oofbey 5y ago
It’s definitely more complex than just using a monorepo. This tool that all your code runs through is young and not well supported.
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by oofbey 5y ago
So ironic that the OP's website doesn't require HTTPS. The most minimum security practice on the web that's nearly enforced by even the worst browser, and this security rant either doesn't care or doesn't realize t
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by oofbey 5y ago
I think the OP is just wrong here. I personally agree with Brave's statement that they are protecting users here. The assertion that "Anyone who knows a bit about how JavaScript works and it’s [sic] capacities to track you witho
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by oofbey 5y ago
Satellite constellations are super expensive. How are they gonna pay for this?

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