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by plonk 4y ago
Sounds like the right time to buy stocks? Assets likely won't stay dead for the next forty years.
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You don't want the whole office to be out of work for a day because the last Nvidia update broke some professional software your techs are using. This lets you test the patch on some machines before rolling it out to your whole org.
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> Does anybody actually use this network anymore? Why not? It's still good for simple classification tasks. We use it as an encoder for a segmentation model in some cases. Most ResNet variants are much heavier.
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> "孔明" (Kongming, the genius strategist/statesman from China's Three Kingdoms period) got translated as "Confucius" AI finally reached the level of a lazy high school history student who didn't study en
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> rush at the attacking bear without thinking, for example Would that work? I don’t see a bear backing down and I don’t see the human winning either.
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Yes, use the list argument to Python’s subprocess.run for example. It’s much easier to not mess up if your arguments don’t get parsed by a shell before getting passed.
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> At that point you're going to have to pitch up much more than 15 degrees if you don't want to overspeed. What's the risk of overspeeding? Can you actually reach speeds that are dangerous to the engines while climbing?
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> They still manage two concurrent designs and have been for years - it's the longest frontend migration I've ever seen. Maybe the new design is so obviously slower and broken that they see killing old.reddit.com as too risky (
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I would look for a reproducible test case but I'd feel like I'm doing Reddit's job for free.
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It's funny, I've never seen it work correctly, even in the simplest case, on any of my devices. Usually, clicking on the video does nothing. If I wait for enough seconds, it might start, maybe without sound. Or it might start the
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by plonk 4y ago
If a tweet gets shared enough, its author gets approached by brands who want to pay them to add ads below the tweet. The same probably happens on Reddit, except it's even easier, because anyone can write a review, since the author of a
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It's nice that we can fork these things, but I don't see the point for browsers, where even well-paid teams like Google's can't avoid regular vulnerabilities.
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> Apps have the power to update themselves out-of-band from the package manager Isn't that disabled in Ubuntu's Firefox APT package?
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> You can mark modules with "type:ignore" to make mypy ignore them. If I added MyPy to the CI/CD checks, some coworkers would flood the code with these to not have to think about their typing. Too bad that some libraries l
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> This should only be a problem if you don't adjust the models. If you run a huge number of tests, you can create far more detailed models and thus reduce the false positive rate. Can you? The problem is the test's sensitivity
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>> Gradual typing is a type system in which some variables and expressions may be given types and the correctness of the typing is checked at compile time [...] > This is definitely not what Python is doing. When I read "compi
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If they are run, the results could be uninformative ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy ). Too many false positives could lead to risky treatment and be dangerous. Testing each positive again would still cr
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I still read Le Monde because they touch on a lot of topics and are usually honest. But their bias is tiring sometimes, like with the current election. I vote for their candidate, but I'm not impressed with the barrage of one-sided rep
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I don't really care that the Russian forces have advanced 5 meters compared to yesterday. I've read too many "articles" that said "this guy said X, this other guy said Y, <5 paragraphs of useless context that I&#
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The Economist, the NYT, Foreign Affairs, a French newspaper, and sometimes The Verge for consumer tech news. Only long articles, not instant news, the latter are usually just noise. HN and stack exchange are the only forums I read frequentl