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by sgillen 6y ago
The reason it’s on the front page of HN and making noise on Twitter is because many people do consider it blatant racism.
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by sgillen 6y ago
No doubt it's a good laptop. However I would recommend anyone looking at laptops with machine learning in mind seriously consider a cheaper / less powerful laptop, and to do their training remotely on either on a workstation or in
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by sgillen 6y ago
Would you say it's significantly better than python for quick and dirty work? Or if not what still supported tool comes the closest for you.
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by sgillen 6y ago
This is pretty discouraging honestly, from the perspective of what the article calls a “fan”. I like to make small contributions to projects I use when I can, but I don’t become a core dev on any of them. Is it really not worth the maintain
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by sgillen 6y ago
I think maybe you made a typo in your OP? The authors assume beauty is decidable and use that to show that would imply that the halting problem is undecidable. It applies to anything, like you say, and to me it seems like a silly argument
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by sgillen 6y ago
Maybe just no hate speech in general? I'm not totally clear what a protected class means in this context. Like what would hate speech towards a non protected class look like? Edit: Thanks for correcting my ignorance.
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by sgillen 6y ago
I was really excited to see the visual debugger there. I tried it myself, it was really easy to get it going. Unfortunately, using it briefly in the notebook I was using I found it pretty buggy, lots of glitches and big slowdowns in the UI.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Julia certainly places a lot of emphasis on the repl. It doesn't have break looks that I'm aware of although I really wish it did!. It's a specialty language though IMO, if you're not doing something scientific I'm
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by sgillen 6y ago
I think in this case it’s largely a matter of taste. I actually like the everything is three letters thing. It feels clean, and personally I can still read and understand each abbreviation. I do actually agree on the primitive vs p thing th
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by sgillen 6y ago
Yeah, if your problem is mostly banging around matrices, Matlab feels really great (it is, after all, Matrix Laboratory). I prefer python for the most part, but it does feel a lot more verbose in comparison whenever you are in Matlabs wheel
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Show HN: Low Fractional Dimensional Trajectories via Reinforcement Learning(arxiv.org)
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by sgillen 6y ago
It depends what we mean by emergent. It was designed to be this way, but there is no switch in the code that says “if there are this many zerglings, buff their attack”. Instead it’s a consequence of their mechanics (they die quickly but in
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by sgillen 6y ago
I think you are underestimating the difficulty of the problem. The interactions between all the stats you listed can’t be distilled to to a single number. For example maybe a very slow but powerful unit gets a normal score, but when paired
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by sgillen 6y ago
The general policy really does seem to be a core LEGO mantra. The article however talks about LEGO withdrawing an search a rescue themed v22 osprey set, after a German activist group protested. Maybe they show themselves in the foot but it
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Show HN: Shrinking Fractional Dimensions with Reinforcement Learning(github.com)
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by sgillen 6y ago
Microsoft bought github (creators of Atom). But Microsoft is putting its resources behind VSCode, so Atoms future support looks shaky.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Well, voat was a community founded and populated by all the people banned or unwelcome by mainstream platforms. I don’t think it follows that Reddit would become as bad a voat if it was “all free speech all the time”.
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by sgillen 6y ago
I think the two questions being considered are largely a matter of public opinion. You can use something of sci hub etc to justify your opinion, or try to change someone’s mind (esp in this example with the trans athletes). But unless other
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by sgillen 6y ago
You can certainly enjoy org mode documents read only without emacs, it’s ultimately plain text. If you want to edit org files I really don’t think there is a good substitute for emacs if you want all the features, however you can definitely
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by sgillen 6y ago
If Monte Carlo tree search is not brute force , what would you consider brute force?
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by sgillen 6y ago
Interesting, have you tried torches C++ API at all? I’m wondering if the frameworks are fragile or just python the language .
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by sgillen 6y ago
I think he means that those who are in their teens / even younger now will get to experience immensely cool tech in their lifetime.
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by sgillen 6y ago
I would be curious to know more about your firm and what customers you are serving? I feel like I have a lot of experience translating or communicating with weird things to MATLAB but I'm not sure who values this outside Academia.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Julia is a new player but probably still "too new" for most people (I say this as a Julia fan). Python is a pretty old language at this point, but the data sciencey eco system has only matured relatively recently (compared to the
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by sgillen 6y ago
Maybe, some companies seem to adopt the strategy of “hire talented 22 year olds out of college, work them until they burn out in two-three years and move on, hire more”. Not claiming this is necessarily effective.
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by sgillen 6y ago
>> I never understood why they didn't just hire more people and instead preferred to work the talented people they attract half to death. I think that a small number of talented people that will work themselves to death will be m
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by sgillen 6y ago
This legit brought a big smile to my face. So much passion on display here.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Do you mind sharing what battery life you are seeing for your real life workloads? And also an idea of what those work loads are?
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by sgillen 6y ago
For someone who wants to eventually be drowning in freelance work (or at least the option to be), what jobs would you recommend looking to join if not startups or big name SV firms.
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by sgillen 6y ago
I think probably a lot of self selection. I would guess most people get involved with open source so because the technical problems being solved are interesting. I would guess the people who choose to work on emacs don’t necessarily care ab

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