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by rryan 5y ago
> No one at Google is responsible for these half baked and largely irrelevant widgets or wants to stake their career fixing them. You're just ... wrong about this. There's an entire team of dozens of people (maybe hundreds now)
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by rryan 5y ago
AIUI, AssemblyScript is a TypeScript-like language that is designed to compile to wasm.
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by rryan 7y ago
I love that Firefox exists and Quantum is an amazing step forward, but Firefox still regularly runs away with gigabytes of RAM and hung worker processes. I have no problem with long-lived Chrome sessions but I need to restart Firefox ~dai
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by rryan 7y ago
Uh, 2040? Seattle will be underwater by then.
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by rryan 7y ago
The grandma stereotype is discriminatory towards both age and gender.
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by rryan 7y ago
Cloud TPU pods are seriously amazing. I'm a researcher at Google working on speech synthesis, and they allow me to flexibly trade off resource usage vs. time to results with nearly linear scaling due to the insanely fast interconnect.
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by rryan 8y ago
Travis has weird priorities. The Ubuntu environment has been stuck on Precise/Trusty for years now. And the only place you can upload artifacts is Amazon S3. I really hate to be that person who sees a new offering and is like "but
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by rryan 8y ago
I would kind of expect that "in 2018" we'd be using QML and not QtWidgets?
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by rryan 8y ago
Loud swearing doesn't show up on metrics. This drives me insane about Amazon. My behavior won't change, even though my perception of the brand is going down the tubes. Netflix is also horrible about autoplaying trailers with sound
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by rryan 8y ago
dat: https://datproject.org/
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by rryan 8y ago
We're coming from Freenode as our only real-time communication so the difference is night and day. Slack is a no-go for many due to not being FLOSS and I'm concerned about vendor lock-in if they were to stop being so generous or r
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by rryan 8y ago
They offer free hosting for open source projects. It has been really great for Mixxx (floss DJ software), allowing our ~10 person distributed dev team to work together much more effectively.
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by rryan 8y ago
Eh probably not, Zulip was acquired by Dropbox in 2014, long before Slack was popular.
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by rryan 9y ago
> This technology has been around for a year but we only got a few samples. I'm very excited. I use TTS to read back all the text I consume on PC. Nope! These two papers are fresh work on prosody modeling. You can see the evolution
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by rryan 9y ago
It's obvious the topic of this post is strategic -- it will drive traffic which helps him sell his content.
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by rryan 9y ago
Do StarCraft AIs (the ones that are included with the game) cheat? (e.g. can they see past the fog of war?)
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by rryan 9y ago
Yup! The code is here: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...
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by rryan 9y ago
Anyone interested in machine learning for audio (or any other signals) should keep a close eye on tf.contrib.signal. I just checked in some code to do efficient framing, windowing and overlap-add. In a day or so I'll be checking in an
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by rryan 9y ago
That's really odd that that Keras API's interval is measured in epochs (which is a different wallclock interval for every different model/dataset/hardware configuration). It's much more common to checkpoint based on
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by rryan 9y ago
/That's/ the lede you're taking away from this story? Some asshole's fall from grace?
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by rryan 9y ago
Anyone who loves the Lisp concept of "code is data" will love TensorFlow. Instead of coding imperatively, you write code to build a computation graph. The graph is a data structure that fully describes the computation you want to
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by rryan 9y ago
> I feel the right to complain anytime Most people on the Internet do.
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by rryan 9y ago
Allowing LD_LIBRARY_PATH in production is a potential security risk.
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by rryan 9y ago
This is one of zsh's many killer features. Years of accumulated shell history with backsearch-by-regex saves me so much time.
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by rryan 9y ago
No, just put the following in ~/.zshrc: # share history among terminals setopt share_history # append to the history instead of overwriting setopt append_history # append to history incrementally instead of when the shell
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by rryan 10y ago
Emacs user with hundreds of Chrome tabs open? This extension will change your life. It's iswitchb, for tabs. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/powerswitch/lljbpn...
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by rryan 10y ago
I just switched from C-z to C-q and couldn't be happier. C-z was fine, but I realized it was a really unergonomic stretch. With caps lock as ctrl, C-q is only a slight movement of my ring finger.
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by rryan 10y ago
GANs are a general tool -- they just happen to get a lot of attention for generating images of stuff. Here's an example for generating sequences [1]. The example is language oriented, but ultimately GANs are interesting because you can
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by rryan 10y ago
The person who replaced Amit as head of search (John Giannandrea) is the founder / CEO of Metaweb and creator of Freebase -- aka what became Google's Knowledge Graph. Google using more ML in search doesn't mean a KG isn'
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by rryan 10y ago
> There's a number of things that have happened in the organic search area of Google that seem to suggest a declining interest in quality organic results. I think you may be falling for the SV cult of personality fallacy. There are

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