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by rawnlq 9y ago
There was a really interesting nerds vs feminists war on Scott Aaronson's blog a few years ago: > I believe that “the problem of the nerdy heterosexual male” is surely one of the worst social problems today that you can’t even ackno
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by rawnlq 9y ago
Who are the major players still working on AR glasses? Meta and Hololens? Magic Leap?
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1) Throw n balls into n bins, the bin for each ball chosen randomly 2) Throw n balls into n bins, two bin for each ball chosen randomly, always picking the bin with fewer balls in it In both cases you will have n balls distributed over n bi
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by rawnlq 9y ago
Is http://mern.io/ still cool? What problems did it have that made people look for something else?
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by rawnlq 9y ago
> why can't they show the public It doesn't really help them until they need to start marketing. Even oculus/vive mismanaged the expectations of the public so there's no advantage to start doing it until you have to.
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by rawnlq 9y ago
There's a reddit account summarizer (I know you said you don't own /u/spare_account on reddit, this is just an example): https://www.snoopsnoo.com/u/Spare_Account
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by rawnlq 9y ago
Is anyone working on this for 3d avatars (like in game character creation/customization except automatic)?
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Why is there so much fragmentation already? React VR backed by facebook (who controls oculus): <View> <Pano source={asset('chess-world.jpg')}/> <Text style={{ fontS
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Have you tried the Alias Method? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_method
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by rawnlq 10y ago
How does this compare with https://horizon.io/ ?
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Uber switched from mysql to postgres in 2013: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/53683323/migrating-ub... but switched back to mysql in 2016 which generated a lot of discussion: https://ne
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by rawnlq 10y ago
There's a popular interview question that has a las vegas algorithm as a solution. It's a more illustrative example since it takes an unbounded amount of time. Let's say you want to simulate a 1/3-biased coin with a fair
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by rawnlq 10y ago
I recall reading about this from the same guys a few years ago (I'm not from this field so I can't really figure out what's actually different): http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers&
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by rawnlq 10y ago
See also the problem of induction from philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/ . Here induction refers to inductive reasoning rather than mathematical induction. For example if you see a b
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by rawnlq 10y ago
On some online learning sites there are interactive knowledge graph mapping prerequisites such as: https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard https://www.expii.com/map/0
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by rawnlq 10y ago
Frequency illusion or Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is probably a better term to search for: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion But I don't think it's chance here. I think the facebook app has locati
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Portal in Augmented Reality with HoloLens(youtube.com)
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by rawnlq 10y ago
You might like the book Snow Crash. Spoilers: One of the plot points is that looking at certain visual pattern (in the form of tv static/snow) can permanently destroy someone's mind. The later parts of the book explore auditory si
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by rawnlq 10y ago
There's an app used by over a million doctors called "Figure 1" that allows them to share medical images for crowdsourced diagnosis and treatment of rare cases. I wonder when we will get to a point where machine learning can
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Guy mines Bitcoin with excess solar power from his vertical farm in the desert(reddit.com)
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Kalman filters are never going to completely go away since they are optimal[1] under certain assumptions. But these assumptions are often not met so you have to start approximating (with EKF or UKF). In those scenarios, once computational p
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by rawnlq 10y ago
Score of past submissions on hn/reddit is a good signal. For example to get sorted submissions by domain on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/domain/blog.codinghorror.com/top/?sor... Similarly for HN (but n
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by rawnlq 10y ago
She has a defined Erdős–Bacon number now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_numbe...
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by rawnlq 10y ago
I wonder how simulations like this transfer to the real world. For example if you want to win in the real world you just start driving like a maniac. People will very quickly get out of dodge. Spoilers: I tried to encode this idea by settin
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by rawnlq 10y ago
Gabe Newell is doing an AMA on reddit later today: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Gaben/comments/5o8fsy/gabe_l_ne...
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I wonder if there are actually enough anatomical differences for it to learn? Like chicken sexing[1]. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-intuition-of-p...
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by rawnlq 10y ago
I don't know how to answer the other parts of your comment, but your "double or even triple length" estimate might be off: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) > English tex
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I am a native speaker so I don't really care about the number of tones, I was just citing the link. You can speak to me in monotone and I will figure it out from context just like how you can learn to understand someone with a strong a
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by rawnlq 10y ago
I am pretty suspicious of my meat-based random phrase generator. A lot of the analysis on the entropy of correcthorsebatterystaple type passwords assume the words are uniformly drawn from a vocabulary of whatever thousands. But if you have
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by rawnlq 10y ago
If you look at cantonese, an older chinese dialect, you will find 9 tones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_phonology#Tones Particularly useful in that section is this graph: https://en.wikipedia.org&

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