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OpenCerts: “An easy way to check and verify your certificates” using ethereum(opencerts.io)
6 points by stilley2 7y ago|1 comments
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by stilley2 8y ago
Hmm I skimmed the paper on the algorithm this morning and didn't get the impression they trained the model on other images. I thought they jointly estimated patches that make up the image and penalized deviations from these patches (i.
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by stilley2 8y ago
I believe Agg is only for bitmap output. While there are probably backends that work with a headless system, I find the OO option much more flexible.
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by stilley2 8y ago
I had problems using pyplot over ssh because it can assume there's a display and fail when it couldn't find one. Maybe this has changed. I use the OO interface. For example https://matplotlib.org/gallery/api&#
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by stilley2 8y ago
Thanks for the write-up! Two notes from my experience: pgf output works well with latex as well (although will slowdown compilation), and I recommend not using the pyplot submodule, especially if you'll be running things remotely over
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by stilley2 8y ago
> "When you hit a pedestrian with a car, you're in the wrong", it doesn't become more unambiguous than that. Even if a pedestrian runs out onto a highway and it's physically impossible for you to avoid hitting th
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by stilley2 8y ago
I just finished a PhD in the US and loved it. Sure there were some stressful times, but I don't blame the system for that, and my advisor was very supportive. I'm sure it helped that my PhD was reasonable well funded and I lived i
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by stilley2 8y ago
Reminds me of https://paperkast.com
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by stilley2 8y ago
This is probably wrong, but I always think of tensor's as n-dimensional generalizations of matrices with units attached. Edit: After some wikipediaing, "bases" might be a better word than "units."
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by stilley2 8y ago
I see that does make sense. Thanks for clarifying.
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by stilley2 8y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I suspect this may cause you to lose the liability protection of the corporation. From [1]: "The veil of liability protection provided by an entity may be pierced based on the following theories: Alter Ego Th
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by stilley2 8y ago
True. But that form is a convenience, not a requirement.
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by stilley2 8y ago
I suppose my example meets the case of knowing the joint distribution.
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by stilley2 8y ago
But that form is not required. A quick counter example. I'm trying to estimate a value from N measurements. The measurements experience Gaussian noise with some general covariance matrix K (i.e., they are not independent) Therefore, y
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by stilley2 8y ago
Nice write-up! Minor nitpick: ML/MAP estimators don't _require_ observations to be independent. At least, in my field we're looking at a single observation of a multivariate distribution, and we don't need to assume the
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by stilley2 8y ago
My work email has disabled imap in the name of security. My understanding is it's easier to lock down email entirely than to get doctors not to email patient data around, so I kind of understand, but it's annoying to have to read
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by stilley2 8y ago
I've only used it to look at data, not alter it, but visidata might interest you http://visidata.org/
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by stilley2 8y ago
I gave emacs another try earlier this year. First vanilla, but then I missed vim keybindings so I installed evil. Then I switched to spacemacs. Eventually I decided I was barely using any emacs-specific features and just went back to vim. V
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by stilley2 8y ago
Potentially relevant from the AMA: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/advertising-...
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by stilley2 8y ago
Does it drive anybody else crazy when resume and CV are used interchangeably?
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by stilley2 8y ago
What specific exploratory methods are you referring to?
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by stilley2 8y ago
I would say that not all research needs to be held to the pre-registering standard of clinical trials. Some research is more exploratory, and should be interpreted that way.
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by stilley2 8y ago
But the journalist is likely more of an expert on the issues. While there are great comments on HN and Reddit, there are also a lot of arm chair "experts," who now have just as much exposure as real experts. If these scheme is to
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by stilley2 8y ago
Ah interesting. While that's a bit disconcerting, it does offer some advantages. You get the flexibility of an ERC20 token, but the (potential) benefit of the consortium being able to give you back tokens that get stolen (blacklist the
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by stilley2 8y ago
The article says USDC is an ERC20 coin, which means you can keep it in your own wallet (i.e., not the exchange). You are still trusting the centre consortium to maintain the coins value.
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by stilley2 8y ago
Once my current computer dies I'm done with lenovo for a while. Admittedly I got a mid range computer (yoga 2 pro) not a Thinkpad, but I don't think that excuses the fact that screws simply fall out of the bottom of the machine. S
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by stilley2 8y ago
I'm a fan of the three parameter sign fit https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/469117 . Sorry for the paywall. Essentially if you want to fit a sinusoid to some data, and know the frequency, you can transform it in
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by stilley2 8y ago
Ah that makes sense. Thanks
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by stilley2 8y ago
Cool project (legal/ethical issues aside)! My big question is why bother with OCR at all? Presumably you can construct a representation of the screen for each question ahead of time, and you already solve the projective transform due t
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by stilley2 8y ago
Random story: my niece was visiting shortly after we got an echo, and we showed it to her and told her to ask it a question. She held something up and asked, "Alexa, what color is this?" Cue trying to explain to her that Alexa doe

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