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by simsla 8y ago
My "learning style" is a consequence of my attention span (I've got ADD). I tend to start thinking about tangents even (or especially) during the more interesting lectures. After 30mins I'm often hopelessly lost. Books (
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by simsla 8y ago
He's missing some important facts in those areas as well. He talks of the effects of the walled garden of Alexa + Amazon Music on Spotify, but it's long been possible to use competing services (like Spotify) on Alexa...
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by simsla 8y ago
If someone has a disproportionate amount of wealth, I'd rather they spend it. You can't have it both ways. Silly purchases are way better for the rest of us than them just parking the wealth.
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by simsla 8y ago
Don't see how the gain from that would be worth the risk.
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by simsla 8y ago
They just really shouldn't have called this autopilot. It creates all the wrong expectations. Better names: - Advanced cruise control - Lane Following Doesn't sound as sexy, though. :-)
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by simsla 8y ago
Whenever you're crowdsourcing, bad actors are a possibility. You'd usually track agreement to root out both the bad and incompetent actors, but what you're saying would essentially amount to a 51%-attack. That is, with enough
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by simsla 8y ago
"Name me one X" is not a proper counter to "X might be possible, we haven't ruled it out." There are tons of things that have been created/observed/proven only in the last 100 years. The fact that Bob from
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by simsla 8y ago
> by Bekenstein Bound Can you explain why this would be the case? (Or point me in the right direction.)
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by simsla 8y ago
Turing-completeness might be a sufficient framework for consciousness. (Meaning it would be possible to distill it into an algorithm, even if we have not sufficiently advanced to do so, and even if the slowness of current hardware might mak
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by simsla 8y ago
If I remember correctly, the product in that episode was applying "snapchat filters" (deformation/modification/accessories) to animal faces. It was portrayed like this stupid job, but as an ML researcher myself my first
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by simsla 8y ago
I tried to look up studies regarding ketogenesis, but most of it was pretty flimsy.
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by simsla 8y ago
And if a hovercraft is an array of size 331, then it should hold 331 eels.
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by simsla 8y ago
As someone who's in the same boat (Late twenties. Moved to a country where I don't know anyone. "Discovered" that most people already have friends, and they don't materialise spontaneously as they used to at uni.),
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by simsla 8y ago
The article seems to claim exactly that: that the interviews with Deepak et al are anecdotal at best, and don't add much substance to the author's claims. Seems like this is one of those countless self improvement books: built aro
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by simsla 8y ago
Same here. Interface elements still shifting around after a second is very bad UX.
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by simsla 8y ago
Doesn't mean it's not crushing.
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by simsla 8y ago
Sounds like a good thought process, but that's not how I feel it happens in my department. The thought process there is more like "hey, this sounds like it's relevant for 'the team'. Let me check the calendar for th
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by simsla 8y ago
Neither are the other two.
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by simsla 9y ago
Rather than lsq, you could use autocorrelation within rows to line them up.
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by simsla 9y ago
These are censored (mozaic), as far as I can see. I think the social credit thing sounds horrible, but I don't think there's anything wrong with automatic detection of traffic violations. Traffic codes are here to help people stay
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by simsla 9y ago
Does the recipient team of an internal transfer at Google not conduct any kind of interview? (I'm not talking about your traditional whiteboard interview, but surely people meet up and make sure that the transfer meets the bar of the n
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by simsla 9y ago
I think that's definitely part of it. It's very interesting to observe the lifecycle of many of these services. - The company has a business need. - Because of the economics of scale, it often makes sense to develop an internal so
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by simsla 9y ago
I think you have a typo (or mobile font problem) on the homepage. "platformin" on Chrome Android.
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by simsla 9y ago
Would it be possible to buffer it in a way that survives interruption of jupyter/the kernel? (Maybe a stupid question. This lies outside of my expertise.) Thanks for building jupyter by the way. It's an essential part of my workfl
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by simsla 9y ago
To each his own. I'm not a very family oriented person. I really enjoy solving problems, learning, etc. The measure of your life is following your dreams / passion. For some, that's interpersonal relationships. For others, it
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by simsla 9y ago
I agree the article is incredibly long (him establishing his credentials is almost an article onto itself), but I assure you that the article is not just about him. :-) One of the other commenters gave a succinct bulleted overview. I recomm
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by simsla 9y ago
If you'd read the article, you would know that it is not about election meddling, but about the susceptibility of social media to social engineering, because of specific underlying technology (filter bubbles) and current policy (outdat
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by simsla 9y ago
IMO even the blockchain is here to stay. But more in the toolbox of useful datastructures than in the realm of "hip company ideas".
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by simsla 9y ago
In Belgium and the UK (Scotland), I've never had people leave packages in the open. Even if I explicitly ask them to leave them in the building hallway (because I'm at work) it's 50/50 whether they'll do it.
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by simsla 10y ago
Scala is compiled against the jvm, so you're able to e.g. compile a scala jar and call it directly from java. A couple of caveats, though. - collections are different. You'll need to use helpers from JavaConversions, etc. to e.g.

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