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by rybosome 10y ago
Performance is a nice benefit, but the standardization of message passing is by far the biggest benefit in my opinion. Within a given language, I know that any API I call will have certain unvarying semantics, I can see a highly readable ye
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by rybosome 10y ago
That was my experience as well. I wanted to cancel because the interface for pausing deliveries was so painful to use that my wife and I often failed or forgot to pause weeks which were too busy to receive a delivery, thus wasting large amo
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by rybosome 10y ago
We should always be thoughtful and critical of ideas regardless from whom they are coming, but autonomously landed first stage rocket boosters returning from orbit is a _big_ fucking deal. There may be some blind worship, but we are not tal
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by rybosome 10y ago
I spent a long time ruminating on this awhile ago and came away very depressed. Deep down, I believe that human nature simply does not allow complex civilizations to live indefinitely. The interplay between selfishness which ensures individ
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by rybosome 10y ago
I think the point of the post was that software can maintain such a large market share in spite of major reliability issues due to the unwillingness for developers to serve that market. "Amateur hour" was a reference to the qualit
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by rybosome 10y ago
There's a difference between "is this the right thing to do?" and "oh God I'm a fucking failure and nobody has figured it out". The latter is quite pervasive, and it's a killer (sometimes non-figuratively)
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by rybosome 10y ago
This ability to apply knowledge gained in one domain to another is called transfer learning, and it's not really known how to do it well for AI. My layman's understanding of memory-augmented neural-networks (e.g. neural turing mac
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by rybosome 10y ago
It seems like the binding function (e.g. the hippocampus) is the next major challenge. I think this is related to what is referred to as "transfer learning", where the training a model has received in one domain can be partially a
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by rybosome 10y ago
I'm very excited about this. Cannot even imagine how I would feel if we observed an atmosphere with oxygen in it.
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by rybosome 10y ago
> but unlike many people, I do live with some regrets surrounding my 20s. What people are you talking to that don't have regrets from that age? Accumulating regret is a part of life. I wish that I had been more patient with others,
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by rybosome 11y ago
This makes me wonder why federated login via Facebook doesn't meet this need. It works quite well, but perhaps the OAuth confirmation scares people off (or they are worried the requestor will access data they don't wish to share,
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by rybosome 11y ago
Here is a good summary of the state of EmDrive testing (as of a year ago): https://www.reddit.com/comments/34cq1b/ TL;DR - a small, experimental division within NASA called Eagleworks tested the device. They are a
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by rybosome 11y ago
Fair points. Paul March of Eagleworks has claimed that a peer reviewed paper is under review for publishing currently, but who knows what the rigor of this publisher is. I badly, badly want this to be real, but I've accepted that it li
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by rybosome 11y ago
> CO2 is what every human breathes out; every plant, in turn,consumes CO2 That tweet from Ted Cruz is bizarre. We've removed 3.6 million square miles of forest (from the original 6 million)[1], not to mention the billions of tons of
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by rybosome 11y ago
> To me, he's sending a huge message that science is valued I find it surreal that such a thing needs to be done, as if science has not proven its worth time and time again, but here we are.
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by rybosome 11y ago
Is that strange? I switched from radiology to music composition to business to computer science.
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by rybosome 11y ago
The article states that Google has deployed defenses against brute forcing, so attempting to do slow at a rate that doesn't trip these defenses may not be worthwhile. I must admit that I don't understand how the number of characte
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by rybosome 11y ago
That's a reasonable point, but "sufficiently differentiated from their offerings" is pretty broad. Anything that's not a physical service could be considered insufficiently differentiated, not to mention that they could
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by rybosome 11y ago
> Our banking system is in the 1990s because PayPal, Square and now Facebook will lobby to keep their business models. I find it thoroughly unbelievable that banks are trying to offer advanced, consumer-friendly features, only to be thwa
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by rybosome 11y ago
Watched this in public with my coworkers, so I controlled myself. Had I been alone I would have wept with joy. This is so incredible.
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by rybosome 11y ago
Having given it considerable thought, I have come to the conclusion that I will use words like that in academic or quotational contexts, but only if I'm with company who will understand my intentions and not be offended. Although I val
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by rybosome 11y ago
This is a challenging viewpoint. It could theoretically be correct, but what if it wasn't? What if there truly is an imminent threat to the stability of our civilization, and we are still debating its existence when we should be acting
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by rybosome 11y ago
Almost, but the existing code only pads when the str length is less than that of len.
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by rybosome 11y ago
If you can get that script to run on a user's machine, they're hosed whether or not this service exists. Curl or mail to an endpoint in the attacker's control would be equally effective.
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by rybosome 11y ago
They compensate for this with reprojection. If the off board hardware hasn't received a new frame within 8 milliseconds of a move event, they reproject the existing frame moved over by the delta of the move event. I assume the thinking
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by rybosome 11y ago
Great example. Overall it was a thoroughly mediocre game, but it had very, very distinct and memorable music. I too feel fondness for that game.
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by rybosome 11y ago
Chrono Trigger is my favorite game of all time. Its images and music have been part of my life since I was ten years old, so I've often wondered how I would perceive it if the experience were new as an adult. Glad to hear that it held
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by rybosome 11y ago
What an incredible moment - I'm so happy to have experienced this live. As noted in the Nature paper, the most incredible thing about this is that the AI was not built specifically to play Go as Deep Blue was. Vast quantities of labell
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by rybosome 11y ago
Agreed. I tend to scroll in small increments (maybe every other line of text) in an attempt to keep the content I am looking in the same position relative to my eye. This site's scrolling kept behaving in a way that was inconsistent wi
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by rybosome 11y ago
That this is being down voted suggests that we (people in tech) find it difficult to imagine ourselves as contributors to dischord and stratification. My initial reaction is to disagree, but that is defensiveness. What if there is some trut

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