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by pugio 9y ago
Seconded. Their courses are superb, and they have their own library built on top of PyTorch that makes creating high quality models even easier. You start with their lib, and over time they teach you all the techniques they're using, s
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by pugio 9y ago
That would be absolutely amazing. I can't wait for the German addition to the site (current learning project). How much hand tuning does this process require? If you had a corpus of German news articles, for instance, could you just ru
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by pugio 9y ago
Does it support (or are there any others you've encountered that support) non-hierarchical links? A severe limitation of most mind-mapping software is that every node needs to be in its own little slot in the hierarchy; I don't th
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by pugio 9y ago
How did you eventually diagnose the bug? I sometimes wonder if something like that might be the cause of some issues.
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by pugio 9y ago
One thing that FB groups have going for it (and I agree it's a terrible interface) is that you don't have to click on anything to see posts. Whereas in discourse you only see post titles, and a tiny blurb, the FB group is kind of
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by pugio 9y ago
Can anyone recommend a good book about the Minecraft phenomenon? Something that covers its history, rise, proliferation; economics, education, global engagement, etc. It seems like a really great story...
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by pugio 9y ago
A really quick used book search for the top 3 books resulted: Sapiens: $12.87 Chaos Monkeys: $6.69 Creativity Inc: $7.50 Not sure why I'd ever pay $10 for a rental.
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by pugio 9y ago
SciRuby has been around for quite a while, and hasn't made significant inroads. Their development also seems to have stalled.
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by pugio 9y ago
I've maintained restrained excitement about Atom for years. A super hackable editor (what more could a tool-obsessed coder want)... but frustratingly laggy. This release finally feels snappy enough that I may switch. Large files, slowi
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by pugio 9y ago
I eat a very similar diet, and use good fats to move my total caloric intake up to my desired range. Eggs in butter, coconut cream in the smoothie, avocado oil for a vegetable stir fry...
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by pugio 9y ago
I have been working to do this with a high(er) degree of granularity for a high school physics curriculum. The idea is to represent a student's unique journey through a topic space, and break free of the enforced and artificial lineari
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by pugio 9y ago
A nick is harm. Either you compromise your morals or you don't. If you do make allowances for other concerns (ie. religious practice), then you're debating degree, not kind. Also, while a nick _may_ work for certain religions, it
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by pugio 9y ago
1. Internal identity: Being told that a Jewish male must be circumcised, realizing you're not, and experiencing alienation. This can hit adolescents quite hard. 2. Marriage: Barring a specific medical reason to not be circumcised, many
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by pugio 9y ago
That's not an argument, it's an assertion, one that does not address any points made above.
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by pugio 9y ago
Jewish _male_ identity, obviously. "Supposed" is irrelevant (and highly debatable). What _is_ is that Jewish male identity views circumcision as one of its lynchpins. Kick away that support, and you create a powerful identity cris
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by pugio 9y ago
Let's add some nuance: Circumcision, for (orthodox) Jews, is one of the most fundamental conditions for identification and belonging to that group. Leaving a Jewish male baby uncircumcised would most likely lead to feelings of alienati
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by pugio 9y ago
Actually, a good friend of mine just filed for a patent on a widget which will directly cut into Mylar's epipen sales. It's gonna be a tough startup, I'm sure, but he's doing it.
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by pugio 10y ago
1+ (2?) billion users. You make it sound like they're a has-been.
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by pugio 10y ago
I just read Chaos Monkeys ( http://amzn.to/2nr5THJ ) – a silicon valley insider tale with someone who worked at FB – and it points out that one of FB's cultural strengths was the ability and willingness to completely cha
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by pugio 10y ago
Agreed. Responding to the replies, regarding the fidelity of a copy: Yes, the copy would have a great claim to being you. Assuming the physiology of the copy is also (nearly) identical (behavior and personality is not a pure function of the
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by pugio 10y ago
It is not trivial, nor invalidated. They do exists as beings, yes, but different beings than the ones who possessed (or would have possessed) those limbs. The question is not one of necessary conditions for "being-hood", it is one
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by pugio 10y ago
I never got the brain upload style of immortality. I desire myself to live eternally, not a simulacrum or copy. What you're describing is a fancy way of creating, and then torturing, an AI.
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by pugio 10y ago
The World of Null-A I found a yellow-paged first edition on my parents' shelves as a young kid, and was heavily shaped by the idea of a character (and society) that trained themselves to think clearly. This included years of training o
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by pugio 10y ago
I know it's Pi day, and the title uses the word for the greek letter, but my mind read the domain and immediately thought Google was offering an API for automated pie delivery. Now I really want this.
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by pugio 10y ago
To those commenting that this somehow absolves friends from the responsibility of connection (and that's a bad thing), you're missing the point: - Not everyone HAS friends who are willing or able to connect with them sufficiently.
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by pugio 10y ago
You're describing the world in terms of "should/ought" rather than "is". Yes, it would be nice to live in a world where every person has friends who are capable of connecting with and supporting them, but that
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by pugio 10y ago
For most people, effective "self control" is really placing yourself in situations that don't tempt you, or don't make it easy for you to slip up. [Effective, long-term] Self control happens _before_ the situation, not d
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by pugio 10y ago
Does anyone know of a book / publication containing all Turing Award lectures. Every one I've seen (so far) has been well worth reading, and I'd love to kick back with a whole set of them for more contemplation.
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by pugio 10y ago
The majority of discussion on the previous post was about how many/most of the books conflicted with the 1-week ban on highly charged topics. Since that's over (right?) - perhaps people can now share their opinions on the book lis
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by pugio 10y ago
Does anyone else notice a tiny typing lag? I can't point to it, but whenever I type with a delayed response it feels as though I'm slogging through muddy ground, an almost subliminal sensation.

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