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In those terms, it says "you may not store, aggregate or create compilations or databases of Spotify Content". So for this site to be compliant, they should be serving up the data directly from the Spotify API, which ought to get
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If this was the case, then why are most applications full of bugs, including those written by trillion dollar corporations? To me, coding is a lot like physical construction - anyone who can swing a hammer can build a treehouse, but try to
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There is obviously monetary value, but us skeptics see that it is driven by illicit trade, money laundering, tax evasion, pump & dump schemes, ponzi schemes, wash trading scams, etc. All things that are a net negative for society.
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You can have low-bandwidth realism with a heavy client, for example you can enumerate all people on earth with 33 bits. But to me, video games with fancy CGI is like a chessboard with ornate gold pieces. Impressive, but in the end it's
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You can just as easily turn the comparison around: how many neurons does it take to compute a single 32-bit float multiplication? Clearly a lot, since >99.99% of humans are enable to do it without any tools. Whereas artificial nets rely
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I've used the SD slot to flash the OS for raspberry pi's, not sure how I would have solved it otherwise.
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False comparison - there are about 10 octaves in the audible spectrum. Telling E4 from F4 is like distinguishing two slightly different blueish greens. A better comparison would be to classify sinewaves into bass/mid/treble, which
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Interpolated translation is continuous and easily differentiated. There's lots of work on machine-learned video codecs already, from Nvidia, Qualcomm and others.
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What a weird tweet. Firstly, the "goal" was set for two years after 2017, so how is this the 4th annual reminder? Secondly, according to a random google link [1], Uber market cap has exceeded $100B in the last year. Stocks go up a
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It's not about smoothness, it's about how to JIT the gradient function. ML libs don't generally do interpolation, partly because it's tricky to vectorize (you have to search for which segment to use for each element) and
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Your idea of what is punk sounds like the mass-marketing by malcolm mclaren. Consider a band like the Buzzcocks, all around friendly looking blokes but they pressed up their own 7" singles, that is the true spirit of punk.
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Honest question - wouldn't rooted android phones serve the main use cases of what you're proposing? To me, it seems the landfilling is mainly because people aren't technical and/or don't have any need for a tiny lin
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The "what-have-you" in this case is the stronghold that capitalism and tragedy-of-the-commons has on urban society and our way of life. Of course, capitalism could produce such neigborhoods, at least on a small scale, simply becau
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Nice work! I would assume something like this would quickly run into rate limiting on google, does that happen or did you do something to mitigate?
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Right, but in this case even a minimal deviation from period will be catastrophic. I do however like the idea of jumping "up" (north) while facing the earth and landing in the same spot 45 min later.
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> If the astronaut jumps directly to the direction of the orbit normal at any velocity, it will end up in an orbit with equal period That's obviously false for e.g. escape velocity, and by continuity also wrong for lower velocities.
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Here's a random thought I've had: if an astronaut jumps off the ISS at exactly the right angle and speed, he could collide with the ISS again after one period. The period is given by the area of the orbit, so it should be straight
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Right, I was talking about mathematically defined objectives and inputs (algorithms & data, in practice). With self-driving, arguably the main stumbling block is that the objective is not well-defined and the inputs are potentially wron
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> The “how” of the RL agent is not even 99% of the problem, it is all of it I'm not sure that's true anymore - pretty much any objective devised is being solved by ML solutions within months (with some exceptions such as Cholle
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> creating a product for a too-narrow niche In my experience, the opposite is more common. Instead of just nailing core feature A, devs start thinking that users will want features B, C and D as well. And this is before even entering bet
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> an imaginary argument The article is written like there are people that want python 4 regardless of what features it has. And I know from experience that there are plenty of people out there that want new shiny versions of software, bu
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> Don't get your hopes up about Python 4.0 Who thinks like this? Computer numerologists? Surely what matters is feature support and quality, not big version numbers. I for one am glad that python is stabilizing and old(ish) code ten
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Browser incognito mode usually does the trick. You never know with these "intelligent" websites though :)
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I think the main thing about the japanese instruments were the lower prices. There was plenty of great products from E-mu, Ensoniq, Oberheim, Linn, Moog, and Sequential in the 80's. But they were pricier, which lead to lower market sha
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Even among just software developers, I've noticed that personalities differ a lot in this respect. I know a bunch of devs who don't seem to care too much what they're working on, they will churn through at a medium pace regar
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> I must treat my children as badly as the worst parent in the name of equality This is close to the right-wing trope "the left wants everyone to be equally poor", when in reality it's more about gaining support for progre
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All the best art, whether it be books, music, movies or software, make it seem so effortless. Ironically, it's when you see something bad that you kinda realize what goes into it. Like huh, hundreds of talented professionals worked rea
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When you say "score well" on that test, what does that mean? From the marketing around lossless, they make it sound like most folks will get 6 out of 6. I've got good monitors and good hearing (in the audiology sense), and I
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For me, the public-ness is what makes it compelling. IMO what it lacks is an HN/reddit-style downvote, that would immediately send the vile comments to oblivion. Then perhaps you could choose to only let users with positive karma reply
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I can see your point, but isn't the WHO tweeting “FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne.” an example of the opposite? They made a hard assertion without any clear proof to back it up.

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