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by sago 9y ago
I don't understand the images associated with that article. They purport to show the progressive refinement of the output over a series of days. But the figure changes dramatically from image to image, all the way to the end of the run
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by sago 9y ago
I am a member of three (admittedly weird) niche communities. These have been orders of magnitude more impactful in my life than Facebook. The friends I met there have become real-life friends. We've flown around the world to visit each
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by sago 9y ago
I think most of us would agree here that "violent media creates violent people" is false. But violent media can still be a problem, if it is caused and enabled by a pathological society, a symptom of that pathology. I personally t
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by sago 9y ago
> The only scenario I can think of where playing them in a mobile app is a problem is if you don't have a smartphone. What a thought! But yes, and in the context of partial sight / blindness, smart phones are not great for acce
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by sago 9y ago
Frustratingly (for me) Audible only supports faster reading speeds on its mobile app. Its webapp doesn't, neither does its Alexa skill, nor does iTunes (which is what it recommends if you download, since it can negotiate the DRM). Anyt
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by sago 9y ago
If I back a new creator, it charges me immediately (I think, at least it seems that way from my billing history), but going forward I'm billed with the rest of my support in one transaction (definitely). I really don't see the p
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by sago 9y ago
> the proposed fee patron fee structure of 2.9% + $0.35 The problem was that was per pledge. So if, like me, you support a couple dozen creators at $1-$3 each, you would expect to pay 24 x $.35. But all those payments are charged in one
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Data Science Meets Music at Spotify [video](youtube.com)
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by sago 9y ago
Artificial neural networks are considerably less complex than the real thing we carry around in our heads. We have very little clue why we make decisions either, and various bits of psychological research show that it's much less ratio
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by sago 9y ago
For those of us on the other side of the world, Would you be willing to give a quick summary of the biases you see in the piece, a taster of your experience of the reality on the ground?
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by sago 9y ago
This is an finicky method, imho, and it was hard to explain clearly. If you can follow some of those sewing diagrams, purely from the picture, I'm impressed! Unfortunately a lot of older bookbinding resources assume quite a level of cr
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by sago 9y ago
No, setup.py doesn't list the repo and bug tracker , so pypi doesn't list the repo and bug tracker either.
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by sago 9y ago
I meant the repo and bug tracker, which is can we listed in setup.py and is picked up by pypi.
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by sago 9y ago
My choice of word was unnecessarily pejorative. I agree. Though I would say that it's the stretch to say it might 'need no further changes' if it doesn't work with the latest version of python.
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by sago 9y ago
Thank you. I wonder why they don't list this in their setup.py
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by sago 9y ago
Clicking around, those that don't seem to be: 1. Obsolete. Either explicitly so (e.g. Google API) or abandoned, without even a minor/patch release (initools, 2010) or in some cases a code commit (e.g. pathtools, 2012) for five ye
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by sago 9y ago
How did you do lambdas and lexical scoping without 'functional values'?
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by sago 9y ago
Thanks for the tip. If it wasn't the end of the weekend, I'd be tempted to break out emacs.
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by sago 9y ago
Writing your own Lisp-ette is a brilliant evening or weekend project, regardless of the language. It's some of the simplest non-toy parsing you can attempt, a bit of light data structure work, and understanding eval/apply is 80% o
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by sago 9y ago
Yes very much so. And in fact you could already tell that that was not going to be the right answer, because also in high school, you learned that some species don't reproduce sexually. In fact even within sexual species there are a wh
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by sago 9y ago
I downvoted you (sorry, It's not often I do), and it wasn't knee-jerk. Because: 1. In both your comments on this thread you seem to want to relitigate some beef with 'random mutation and natural selection', even though t
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by sago 9y ago
One of the problems with game development is that consumers aren't always very good at judging what they're getting (in terms of quantity, I'm not suggesting consumers can't be trusted to decide whether they like somethi
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by sago 9y ago
A great piece, an ethical decision, and I hope the start of something bigger. I agree that free to play is often horribly exploitative, not to mention horrible game design. But that price point. That makes me worried. Browse around Steam t
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by sago 9y ago
There is a whole category for Alexa CYOA games. Amazon even released a tool to author them [0]. [0]: https://github.com/alexa/interactive-adventure-game-tool
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by sago 9y ago
I'm not aware of any defacto place in the way there was in the usenet days of rec.arts.int-fiction [0] (although there is still a raif Google group [1]) Try http://intfiction.org/forum/ https://www.redd
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by sago 9y ago
Good tip. It's never been a problem before, 4Gb for a few days is way more than I would normally use. Can you block the system from connecting to the Internet?
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by sago 9y ago
:D - My fault, of course! It has worked fine before. Most background stuff checks for updates, downloads small stuff, I figure < 500Mb a day for gmail, my git repos, checking news, messaging apps: 5.6 Gb is an obnoxious amount. Not only
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by sago 9y ago
They haven't. I moved house three weeks ago, and was using a short-term cellular internet connection to stay in touch with emails, update version control, etc. The automatic download blew through all my bandwidth, and I needed to top u
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by sago 9y ago
Good point, thank you.
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by sago 9y ago
That's doubly fishy, since it has an airbrake. [My caveat on this, I'm not a road-car enthusiast, so I'm just deducing. But I used to work in motor racing, mostly bikes. Based on the standard of reporting I saw about stuff I

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