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by scribu 6y ago
Don't a lot of philosophers invent new terms, tho? They want to avoid all the baggage that old expressions accumulate over the centuries and start fresh.
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Extracting sensitive information out of GPT2(ai.googleblog.com)
2 points by scribu 6y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 6y ago
> how many servers are running on storage this modern? AWS allows you to provision EC2 instances with NVMe, without much fanfare. Cost is only ~20% more than SATA.
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by scribu 6y ago
"For a spacecraft to launch toward the sun, it must accelerate to nearly match the Earth’s velocity—in the opposite direction." Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/parker
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The Chinese Surveillance State Isn't Effective(the-american-interest.com)
7 points by scribu 6y ago|0 comments
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On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016(nytimes.com)
2 points by scribu 6y ago|0 comments
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Foldable Standing Bicycle [video](youtu.be)
2 points by scribu 6y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 6y ago
Competitiveness of any kind, with others or with oneself, whether physical or mental, seems to me like a crutch rather than a path to happiness. If you can only feel good about yourself when you're on the up and up, what happens when y
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by scribu 6y ago
It's a collection of features meant to sit on top of ActivityPub. ActivityPub is a general protocol for decentralised social networking. Instead of Facebook or Twitter servers generating a feed for each user, user's servers send u
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by scribu 6y ago
I own a Kinesis Freestyle2. It's collecting dust because I've found the keyboard layout suboptimal. My thumbs would awkwardly reach inwards for the modifier keys.
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by scribu 6y ago
That's so fun! Having a background rhythm makes it a lot easier to create a decent groove.
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by scribu 6y ago
Did you read the part where it says that the people writing the content don't receive any of the donations? And that the foundation's software initiatives have been largely innefective at getting more/better content? [0] (I&#
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The God of Silence Speaks Up(afar.com)
25 points by scribu 6y ago|7 comments
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by scribu 6y ago
The paper proposes a ban on almost all advertising: > It is hard to believe that as late as the 1970s the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) viewed non-false, non-misleading advertising as anticompetitive conduct capable of violating the ant
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by scribu 6y ago
Ah, this is so handy! It explains why some Economics degrees have a course on Cybernetics.
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by scribu 6y ago
I'm curious how it differs from PyPortfolioOpt. https://github.com/robertmartin8/PyPortfolioOpt
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by scribu 6y ago
The lifecycle diagram is legit. As for the vendors, Nvidia is just promoting their own services or their partners. But there aren't any established players yet. It's still a nascent field.
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by scribu 6y ago
Indeed: > test_onefile.c - This file implements a demonstration VFS named "fs" that shows how SQLite can be used on an embedded device that lacks a filesystem.
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by scribu 6y ago
Dropshipping has been around for a while. What's new is using Influencer Marketing to lend more credibility to knockoffs.
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Facebook funnelling readers towards Covid misinformation – study(theguardian.com)
4 points by scribu 6y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 6y ago
IMHO, a better title would be " Probabilistic Theories Of Everything" Contrast with the recent work from David Deutsch, which eliminates all probabilities from physics. Intro to Constructor Theory: https://youtu.be&#x2
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Facebook removes Trump post over false Covid-19 claim for first time(theguardian.com)
6 points by scribu 6y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 6y ago
The post makes a good case for why it's a bad idea to split a business problem into slices. Even though you have multiple small teams, they still need to closely coordinate with each other. But I can't find the next post in the se
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by scribu 6y ago
Model visualization can be useful even for experts, either as an additional sanity check or to debug surprising results. I couldn't evaluate this Otto thing because I'm on a laptop right now and it looks like the developers assume
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by scribu 6y ago
Did anyone else notice that the biggest non-academic supporters of functional programming seem to be financial institutions? Is it due to the nature of the problem space? Is it because finance people tend to be more analytical? Something el
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by scribu 6y ago
I feel like Black Mirror Bandersnatch gets closer to the promise of interactive video. You get choices which lead to meaningfully different endings. And you get a little reward for playing it through multiple times. :-)
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by scribu 6y ago
Not the author; just a fellow ML practitioner.
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by scribu 6y ago
In theory, yes, you can feed these new distorted images into a new model and defeat the cloaking. In practice, building new training sets is much more expensive than slightly changing the cloaking algorithm.
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by scribu 6y ago
Shapecatcher is a free webapp that allows you to draw any Unicode symbol: https://shapecatcher.com/
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by scribu 6y ago
> unless the product changes to suit my needs in some way But isn't that the point of the article? To figure out how to change the product so that it meets more people's needs.

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