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by phenkdo 5y ago
The perfect is not the enemy of the good. "The west" is definitely not a paragon of virtue, all its flaws notwithstanding, is order of magnitude (or two) better than a CCP style government. I would much rather live in "the we
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by phenkdo 5y ago
It's this smug holier-than-thou sanctimony that any successful company is ipso facto evil, the bigger evil.
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by phenkdo 5y ago
yeah the cookie-cutter cover letters are useless, but i've hired people who write: "i love you are working in machine vision, i've worked with x,y and z tech to build _. I could augment your efforts in these fields..."
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by phenkdo 5y ago
It stretches credulity that you have that many skills and still unemployed. Employers are hiring just about anyone in tech these days. Where are you located? You can kvetch about the media all you want, but the job market is the best it has
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by phenkdo 5y ago
I have found EasyOCR to be more accurate in OCR than tesseract. Curious to learn about HN-ers experience with those tools.
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by phenkdo 5y ago
Hofstadter (GEB) and later Jeff Hawkins (Numenta) have long postulated this theory - and indeed it seems to be compelling - but the prediction-by-analogy paradigm has yet to deliver in a convincing way. Would love to see some progress on th
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Ask HN: What tools do you use for videos/livestream? (transcription etc.)
4 points by phenkdo 5y ago|0 comments
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by phenkdo 5y ago
Thank you for being polite, but IMHO my post wasn’t tonally any different than the GP, ergo your indignation is misplaced. Since you asked, I speak with the experience of starting 3 businesses across Pharma, Defense and Media industries. I
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by phenkdo 5y ago
and conversely "..at a capability we have". Sloganeering like you did is very popular on fora like HN, but the reality is quite different. There is 110% employment in tech even if you a C-grade programmer you have a job, the rest
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by phenkdo 5y ago
I couldn't disagree more. The shortage is very real, the current crop of "American programmers" are a bunch of incompetent, entitled brats who seem to think everything is owed to them. Many of these unemployed "American
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by phenkdo 5y ago
> Im dont even get the debate. There's trillions of dollars of potential damages at stake. Even if this was a Chernobyl type disaster due to mismanagement and negligence, the CCP will be on the hook, and they are all too aware of it
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by phenkdo 5y ago
From AIDS to COVID-19, America’s Medical System Has a Long History of Relying on Filipino Nurses to Fight on the Frontlines
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Filipino Nurses Have Propped Up America's Medical System(time.com)
6 points by phenkdo 5y ago|1 comments
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by phenkdo 5y ago
Actually there's quit a bit of overlap, many H1bs go onto start companies, some apply for an h1b through their own startup. Either way the immigrant entrepreneur almost universally say they find the US just "liberating" (comp
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by phenkdo 5y ago
As someone who argues for the H1b program, I wish the US opts for a points-based system (a la the Canadian system) and make the (current lottery) H1b a 5/10 year temporary green-card based on points. * Points for education level MS&#x
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by phenkdo 5y ago
As a video/movie/tv show lover, I love http://www.reelgood.com The mobile app is as good if not better than the browser version.
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by phenkdo 5y ago
Interesting, I heard another theory that it was due to some flying predator during our cave-people days that was our deadliest threat, and evolution baked-in that threat-sense into humans.
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by phenkdo 5y ago
Is this similar to the misophonia over nails over a chalkboard?
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Ask HN: What tool/method do you use to maintain your bookmarks?
11 points by phenkdo 5y ago|20 comments
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by phenkdo 5y ago
Interesting. Thanks for responding. 1. Did you look at CLIP? it provides a common (to images & text) embedding. 2. Do your models need specialized training (vs. open models)?
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by phenkdo 5y ago
Searching with text tags seems a bit odd, couldn't you search-by-example with image embeddings? or is the scale too large for an ANN to handle?
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by phenkdo 5y ago
how does this compare to milvus?
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by phenkdo 5y ago
AFAIK for conditioned reflexes (and most habits), the basal ganglia is responsible. The amygdala is the alarm center that kicks in for life/death situations. caveat: have cursory knowledge of neuroscience
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by phenkdo 5y ago
"WW2 was won with British intelligence, American industry and Soviet blood" - unknown
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by phenkdo 5y ago
It's not Buddhism per se, The Zoroastrians (religion of pre-islamic Persia) also practice this by leaving the bodies in "towers of silence" for birds of prey to devour them.
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by phenkdo 5y ago
However, for everyone of those examples there are many counter-examples: Intel came out of Shockley, ex-IBMers went onto found several other companies (SAP, Peoplesoft,...)... So Im skeptical of this outsider/insider characterization,
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by phenkdo 5y ago
how does this do with large-scale searches >10M+ rows? any benchmarks on performance?
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by phenkdo 5y ago
the usual yet-another-moving-part (YAMP) complexity.
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by phenkdo 5y ago
Love it! Need better ANNs approaches in databases, using external servers such as Milvus, faiss is a pita related: https://github.com/netrasys/pgANN
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by phenkdo 6y ago
I found easyocr to be the most accurate. Tesseract was meh.

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