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by sgk284 10y ago
It works fine on desktop. Just go to http://mobile.twitter.com
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Using approaches like OpenAI's recent evolution strategies paper would remove the need for backprop, likely allowing these TPUs to be using for training without any changes.
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While the 40% number is interesting, the average increase across the nation was 30%. The much bigger question here is why did the rate of suicide increase more than 30% for the entire nation in a 16 year time span? It's a fairly consis
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If you get the same energy in 1/3 that space (but 2.5x the weight), you could have a phone that is the same size as today but with 3x the time on a single charge in exchange for a battery that is 7.5x heavier. Phones are light enough t
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For those who might miss the date on that blog post, it's an April Fool's joke.
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Have you ever been on a team at a large company? Tons of bureaucracy. You're correct that Let's Encrypt is the path of least resistance in a shop where you control everything. In many large companies the path of least resistance i
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This opinion is unfortunately common in the Haskell community and one of the biggest things holding back Haskell adoption. I'm a big fan of Haskell (see my recent comment history), but types are not sufficient documentation. Doubly-so
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The main takeaway from my example, I'd hope, wouldn't be that recursion is awesome (though it is). It's really trying to highlight that separation of concerns, purity, and building functionality through composition of smaller
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I think the proper answer here is that Python 2.x should be treated as legacy. Python 3.x defaults to generators for maps/filters by default.
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I think that's a perfect example of why a functional implementation is superior here. The index is being mutated in two different spots (i++ and i += 2) and it's easy to miss the fact that the i += 2 isn't just a running sum
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I'm a big fan of command queues, but if there is a chance of a server-side failure that can't be realized immediately on the client (e.g. an edit conflict with a different user editing a same piece of information), then I find tha
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For folks who mostly just need a browser and for whom malware is a risk, you really can't do better than an iPad. I love Linux, but there really is no beating an iPad if you need a PC-approximate that is absurdly low maintenance.
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When you do mail-in voting, your ballot has a tab you pull off with a number on it. You can check on a government website whether or not your ballot was counted using this number (though it won't show how you voted).
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The parent seems to be coming from a skewed background. Most of his suggestions are way too low level. It's like telling a software engineer they must first write an operating system before they can write a web app. Learn Theano, Tenso
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Kaggle has a number of starter challenges. See https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic for one related to predicting the survival of passengers on the Titanic.
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It completely eliminates a class of runtime errors from your code, while also allowing all code that consumes the data to make assumptions about the data. In the untyped code you must validate everywhere you access the data or trust that so
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As a Capitol Hill resident, the resistance isn't that crazy. Over half of Seattle residents rent (it's 16% higher than the national average), and the city is on track to have 60% of all housing be high density housing. This is alm
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That is a very American-centric privacy perspective and does not apply to most of the world.
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Just like with software, backwards compatibility is a double-edged sword. You can look at almost any land assignment, building or commercial sale ever in the history of the United States and be able to compare / modify / extend it
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The divorce rate peaked in the 80s and has been declining ever since in the States. Here's the last 15 years, but can't find the full data set right now: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage_divorce_tabl
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Yep, that's technically more accurate. I should have added the qualifier that, "for those centers that do charge by traffic this is roughly what they'll charge".
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Nope, they all just overcharge like crazy. Bandwidth from any traditional data center will cost you (at most) $0.0015 per GB. That's about 60x cheaper than what AWS costs. AWS only kind of makes sense until your bill starts approaching
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Bezos set a mandate to HR a few years ago that he wanted them to be able to hire a new grad without ever needing to speak to a human engineer. That is, he wants the entire interview process automated (specifically for new grads, at least fo
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While religion in ancient Greece had great debate, anything that happened during and after the fall of the Roman empire had effectively zero critical thought to it for the next several hundred years. Christianity was ultimately thrust on we
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He's trying to force a narrative, likely to justify his own personal choices of technology.
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It comes off as something that was fabricated and would be forwarded in a chain e-mail to get a rise out of people. There are way too many details that only serve to agitate the reader (the concert tickets, other employees being helped out
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I don't find that to be true at any place worth working at (and I've worked at Google, Microsoft, and Twitter among other places). All had fairly reasonable work/life balance, though I imagine it depends greatly on your team
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I'm curious what do you think is absurd about working at Instagram and moonlighting at the same time? (Note: Many Facebook employees do exactly this.)
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In the 20th century the total population of employable humans doubled in roughly a decade. That is, when women were allowed to enter the workforce in a real capacity. We adjusted and the economy grew. Concerns like yours were the same conce
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Many people do. S3 is convenient though. It handles durability, replication, uptime, etc... and even with the insane markup on bandwidth many startups / companies can afford a $10k/mo bandwidth bill because it's cheaper than

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