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by shriphani 8y ago
27 - this morning I learned to apply gold leaf to wood. Most recently acquired skill - chip carving wood.
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by shriphani 8y ago
possibly some internal metric they have? 80% might be the pairwise similarity for a pair of images and across a whole dataset this might have a 5% error rate.
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by shriphani 8y ago
I have used a bunch of carving axes - nothing matches the gransfors.
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by shriphani 8y ago
I recently acquired a gransfors bruks axe for a sculpture I was working on - and I have discovered a newfound love for scandinavian woodworking tools. My arsenal is almost entirely Japanese but I might convert over the next few years.
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by shriphani 8y ago
I took the california zephyr after 2 harsh years (professionally); from Chicago to SF. So many inner demons were vanquished on that trip. That train route is truly a love-letter to America - the Colorado river, the Sierra Nevada, beautiful
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The Magic of Hang Gliding(medium.com)
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by shriphani 9y ago
Did these need qwerty keyboards? The mechanism seems to not need the qwerty arrangement - might have been a legacy thing?
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by shriphani 9y ago
Antifragile - Nicholas Nassim Taleb Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut Pavarotti: My World - Luciano Pavarotti, William Wright Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
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by shriphani 9y ago
Also hacker dojo mentioned that they are willing to accomodate the needs of techshop refugees (they're basically the only serious space now all the way from SF SJ). They have a small space now and if people pitch in a lot more can happ
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by shriphani 9y ago
dheera, I was in the same boat - hacker dojo has at least one of those things. There's a "techshop orphans" group on facebook coordinating things right now for ex members/employees. Civilization has successfully wiped ou
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by shriphani 9y ago
Quite a shocker for me since I go there everyday (redwood city). What are my options? (Palo Alto, Stanford area - not stanford student). Am I SOL?
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by shriphani 9y ago
They have a great chance to set up something like techshop for electronics. I discovered a new serious hobby in carpentry thanks to the community there. Imagine what this could do for electronics hobbyists.
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by shriphani 9y ago
What an inspiring story! I love that innate sense of purpose, where a top practitioner is getting their hands dirty, working real hard, putting their training to good use but also has a grand positive vision for the future of society. A lif
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by shriphani 9y ago
Given the sustaining market for artisanal wine and cheese, I think we can hold off a bit on predicting the future of work.
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by shriphani 9y ago
Indeed. A simple solution is to add a differential optimization layer (see Amos et al): https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00443
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by shriphani 9y ago
About Alex Honnold, there's just one thing that comes to mind - Unbridled Ambition. That same spirit that Caesar's men harnessed to build a bridge across the Rhine in 10 days, that led NASA to get to the moon in a decade, that led
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by shriphani 9y ago
A simple way to get suggestions is to take your finite state machine (that consumes tokens) to a special error state and just analyze what got you there. You'll pick up quite a lot of errors.
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by shriphani 9y ago
There was similar work by W. Zaremba (OpenAI I think). LSTM trained to interpret python source code. Took a ton of hackery to get it to not fall apart on simple operations and it continued making indexing errors. I wouldn't read too mu
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by shriphani 9y ago
Indian banks offer very good interest rates and are sort-of backed by the gov (might be wrong on this).
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by shriphani 9y ago
This is a great setup for a dilbert comic strip actually!
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by shriphani 9y ago
Great column. What a body of work! I wish I have something that touched so many lives when I finally hang up my gloves.
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by shriphani 9y ago
This is a simple function of the number of tinkerers available. Any ML project I've worked on has been a lot of tinkering - not unlike the sort of craftsmanship one associates with woodworking and blacksmithing. Tinkerers gave us Googl
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by shriphani 9y ago
Hadoop's carbon footprint should make it one of the top threats to civilization.
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by shriphani 9y ago
They will more likely ask for a bailout.
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by shriphani 9y ago
I found this comment on Quora: Through 1992, the top 50 colleges in the USA got together each year to collude on: amount of tuition base salary for assistant professors preventing any bidding wars for applicants Then the Federal government
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by shriphani 9y ago
I love the punchy writing style of the FAQ - so full of Elon's spirit and go-getter attitude! I hope these guys do a great job!
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by shriphani 9y ago
I wonder if the sort of people who produce these sorts of thought-pieces have ever considered the societal consequences of tossing out entire skillsets. Pre-colonization, an Indian craftsman could carve an entire complicated scene in a sing
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by shriphani 9y ago
I think it was only a stereoisomer that caused trouble.
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by shriphani 9y ago
Irrationalism? Err no. Taleb expounds on his definition of the natural - anything that man has done for 100s of years without observing downside. There is reasonable cause to believe that people are very interventionist in a lot of cases wh
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by shriphani 9y ago
I wonder if they can combine this with bytenet (dilated convolutons in place of vanilla convs) - gives you a larger FOV and add in attention and then you probably have a new SOTA.

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