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by romaniv 8y ago
Right now the visuals for these fakes seem to fall apart at higher resolutions or when there is any significant head rotation. This is actually better than what we have in the realm of images, where almost anyone can create a "realisti
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This doesn't automatically mean GANs can outpace any detection method.
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> automated system integration is the combination of existing technologies. Which ones? As far as I can see, it's all manual right now. Service integration is probably the largest area of IT at the moment and it sucks in more and
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> I do think though that AI is the last "fundamental" change information technologies will bring though. There are wast continents of mostly unexplored or abandoned territory in IT. Moreover, some of them are well documented.
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>I think you have got the wrong lesson off those guys. They are about engaging the spatio-visual systems. The whiteboard is the first step away from text towards that. Not when you are literally writing code on it.
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Whiteboards are okay for ad-hoc lists and diagrams, but they are a poor medium for coding. Some of the biggest productivity gains I've had over the years were related switching from "writing code down" to "thinking in co
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Proxies are a basic feature that should be a part of any OO language. Their usefulness ranges from "save yourself a lot of repetitive work" to "impossible to implement without". Very simple real-life use case: factor out
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>I don't know if I agree with that, since we are seeing some interesting things There were plenty of interesting results in AI research before the last two AI winters.
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IIRC, original Recaptcha was about OCR of books that weren't readable. I'm not sure why anyone uses it right now. Like you said, it's obvious where it's going. Not to mention that it's increasingly annoying for user
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I would be way more impressed if there was an AI that can play Overwatch. It's one of those games that are fundamentally hard for computers because of meta-gaming, map differences and ability combinations. It would be much harder for A
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>a large amount of waste generated by these countries is done so in the production of goods meant for Western consumption. Why does this matter? A factory polluting local lakes and rivers to make goods for export to another state defin
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> Is spending the time and resources on creating a non-JS site worth it Comments like these make me wonder if any of the people saying PE is hard ever tried it at all. The whole point of progressive enhancement is that you don't
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>If your page consist solely on a dynamically generated graph You can put data for the graph into a table, then use a script to render that table as a graph. If people cared enough, graph libraries could expect heir data in table for
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>It made web app development so much easier I aim to develop web UIs using (mostly) progressive enhancement. I adopted several practices and developed some libraries supporting this process. As a result: 1. When I need to create someth
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This is actually a very acute and non-obvious observation. People might get tired during meetings, but this will mostly affect following meetings, rather than engineering. And it's easier to focus on an activity (and optimize it) if it
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>The question for the industry remains: how do we deal with systems that should be up for 10 years? 25 yrs? 50 yrs? 100 yrs? We didn't even have computers as they exist today 50 years ago. Is this a question the industry actually
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>Google seems to have the best know-how. Funny how they publish their "research papers", yet no one else is able to implement their engine with even remotely comparable results.
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>Biological life began with the first self-replicator I never understood why people assume that those biological self-replicators were in any way analogous to quines. Quines generate information from within themselves. Proto-life would
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by romaniv 9y ago
This argument doesn't stop a myriad of widely used JavaScript frameworks that rely on custom attributes. Besides, if you really care about validity, you can use <div data-my-block="my-element my-modifier"> It&#x2
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Never understood why people prefer verbose and repetitive BEM classes over custom properties and appropriate CSS selectors. <div class="my-block my-block__my-element my-block__my-element--my-modifier"> becomes <
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>Kasparov apparently continues to believe that his expertise in chess transfers to other disciplines. There is a lot of irony in this statement, since he speaks about expertise of AI systems in Chess and other games transferring to mor
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> The proof of a theorem can be memorized without any understanding just as easily as algebraic rules. Sure, but in practice students who rely purely on memorization can't answer questions that go beyond what's directly cover
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Microsoft Research also seems to be much more willing to create usable demos of their work.
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That's not his argument at all. His argument is that just because you can do some task doesn't mean you "understand" it. You don't need some fancy philosophy and complex thought experiments to see what he means. Jus
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I would be ecstatic if I had an option to replace some of my university classes with MOOCs. The leap in quality of lecturing would be gigantic. MOOCs made me realize that most of the subjects in college I found "complicated" rea
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>Nearly everyone recognizes that MOOCs are by and large a failure with ~2% completion rates, but they make us feel good because now it’s the students’ fault not they’re not learning, not the school’s Before: simply getting familiar wit
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Last time I read about it, using 3D Secure changed your liability agreement with the credit card provider. Not to mention that its implementation is a confusing mess that bounces you between badly designed websites with questionable securit
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Allow me plug something. If you just want to "AJAXify" a few links and forms you could try the splice-into behavior from this repo: http://quickenloans.github.io/Behaviors.js/ It has no server-side dependenci
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>I'm also wary of people who see themselves above mundane requests. Let me give you an analogy from another domain. "My company requires excellent communication and writing skills, so would you mind talking a 5h grade spellin
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Then maybe we should put more resources to study other approaches and higher-level concepts, like statistical learning research done by Vladimir Vapnik.

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