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by ssalazar 8y ago
"Unpopular opinion" is that people want to work for money?
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by ssalazar 8y ago
Stock FFT is a really high-dimension feature vector given the number of training examples used here, and most of the resolution of the FFT would be unneeded anyways. "Average loudness in several frequency ranges" captures spectral
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by ssalazar 9y ago
In fact it basically is: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/objectivec/objecti...
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by ssalazar 9y ago
> When you have a project with a 1000+ dependencies The Node concept of "package" management is really so different from traditional systems that they really shouldnt be discussed in the same context or as having the same conce
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Max/MSP and TouchDesigner are used heavily in creative industry, especially related to large-scale "experiences" that marketing agencies throw in urban spaces. Max/MSP is interesting because it was originally created un
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by ssalazar 9y ago
> Police everywhere have a shitload of guns. Wrong, police in e.g. UK or Japan do not customarily carry guns. And SHOCKER these countries have fewer police-related homicides.
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by ssalazar 9y ago
There is literally a special investigation right now that is attempting to determine how and where things went wrong.
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by ssalazar 9y ago
The barrier is from the tools, not NAT. Maintaining your own server is prohibitively difficult for pretty much anyone besides niche technology enthusiasts or IT professionals. > Were it not for NAT, I would have expected an explosion in
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Its completely meaningless to compare the render time of a single frame of a AAA video game with the load time of web page over a network.
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by ssalazar 9y ago
By flipside are you suggesting that managing multiple feature sets/behaviors across implementations is a good thing?
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Another thought- x^2 is differentiable for all x, so its easier to reason about and work with e.g. gradient descent than abs(x)^p for arbitrary p.
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Or possibly the final words of the article proper: > Meanwhile, gazing down upon the snowglobe of our disparity was The Corporation. A man in a suit, getting wealthier, plumper, more powerful, a rapacious beast delivering the shocks.
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by ssalazar 9y ago
True, i was thinking of a spectrogram as purely a visualization of a time-series of DFTs but Matlab and other tools do not make this distinction. I was mainly responding to the OP's distinction between analyzing a visual representation
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Spectrograms are a convenient way to visualize the data/algorithm but are rarely part of the actual analysis. They are already using the 2d array so to speak. In any case a spectrogram is just a 2d array where the magnitude of each a
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Cost/value. AAA games with "complex graphics" take years to develop, cost millions of dollars to produce, require dozens of developers, are extremely power hungry, and require specialized GPU programming to make look good an
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by ssalazar 9y ago
> the cost of education has gotten out of control primarily because whenever the government guarantees debt You are talking about undergraduate tuition and the article is talking about graduate/PhD tuition, which are entirely separa
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The GOP tax bill could be a disaster for PhD students(vox.com)
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by ssalazar 9y ago
We don’t have any moral or ethical ability to police the Saudis or any other foreign state on those issues, and moralizing from afar accomplishes nothing. But the tech industry and the individuals within it can choose who we do business wi
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Is this satire?
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Tables are pretty much the worst thing to use if you want it to look right on mobile.
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by ssalazar 9y ago
"Thanks to you, sales are up 20% and infrastructure costs are down 15%. But you made a minor spelling error in a Hacker News post, so we're gonna have to pass on that promotion this year."
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Fix the duty cycle to a particular slice of the phase of AC voltage (e.g. the first 0-pi/2) and you accomplish the same thing much more practically, at least within a single power network.
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by ssalazar 9y ago
When the only tool you have is a hammer...
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Yeah the real jam would be a low profile e-ink + custom pcb "prints." The low fidelity + refresh rate (compared w e.g. an LCD) could be positioned as a feature.
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by ssalazar 9y ago
> Both your inputs (ADC) and outputs (DAC) are fixed-point. Why would you want to use a floating point in between? Fixed point arithmetic is non-trivial and not well supported by CPU instruction sets. (Hint: you can't just use inte
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by ssalazar 9y ago
In markets with unreliable, inconvenient, or overpriced taxi service your options before Uber were to drive yourself, have a friend drive you, use public transportation, rough it in a taxi that may or may not show up and do so 30 minutes la
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by ssalazar 9y ago
> image representations of audio are horrible representations of it The spectrogram is just a series of FFTs taken over time; encoding it as a bitmap doesn't really change this, aside from precision issues. Any other representation
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by ssalazar 9y ago
> Fine for the time dimension of the spectrogram, but rather dubious for the frequency axis. MFCCs[1] are exactly that, a type of convolution along the frequency axis of a Fourier transform, and are highly apt features for music classifi
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by ssalazar 9y ago
> Late addition: The cost of distribution of a scientific journal in electronic format is minuscule "The annual budget for arXiv is approximately $826,000 for 2013 to 2017, funded jointly by Cornell University Library, the Simons Fo
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Even admitting biological propensity, is that really a quality to aspire to at the level of a nation-state? Is that how we should define and measure our "human-ness"?

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