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by svantana 7y ago
Interesting, but a bit weird that the benchmark doesn't include the standard math functions - the question most potential users would ask is, how much performance could I gain from this? Personally I do a lot of approximations of math
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by svantana 7y ago
Can't it be policed using traffic cameras? That's a mature off-the-shelf solution that works well in a lot of other cities.
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by svantana 7y ago
> Nobody creates land but somebody gets to "tax" it. Well put. If I suggested privatising air and that you needed to pay the owner to breathe it, that would be seen as ridiculous, and rightly so. Meanwhile, land is an equally n
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by svantana 7y ago
Land taxes won't lower rents but probably won't increase them either, as rents are set by supply & demand. The cost for renting out a space over keeping it empty is minimal. Meanwhile the tax revenue can be used to subsidise r
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by svantana 7y ago
The US has about 60x the population of Finland, so on a per capita basis the situation (sans programme) seems comparable.
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by svantana 7y ago
That's a bit like saying the fact that turtles have very hard shells is evidence that the earth is balancing on a giant turtle. There were a bunch of movies in the late 90's about reality being virtual (the matrix, the 13th floor,
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by svantana 7y ago
The analogy is not about the difficulty of quitting, but about externalized costs. Quitting oil won't improve your life in any way, and if you look at the lists of reasons to quit fb, most of them are not of individual concern. Just li
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by svantana 7y ago
This is a tactic that I've noticed right wingers using increasingly: to frame societal/collective problems as individual responsibilities. We shouldn't tax billionaires because some are philantrophists. We don't need soc
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by svantana 7y ago
That's 2.5 days on the 13 MW Summit supercomputer, for a single run. Presumably you would need multiple runs to get good statistics.
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by svantana 7y ago
That's too bad. I invite criticism of my projects, because I want to make sure I'm not fooling myself. Other people's perspective can shine new light on a problem and force you to reconsider the idea, hopefully leading to imp
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by svantana 7y ago
This article is mostly about the release schedule of music (TLDR: one song at a time, once every few months), saying very little about how the actual music has changed. For more on this, music journo Liz Pelly has written a lot about what s
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by svantana 7y ago
The big advantage of using raw audio is that there's an abundance of data (all the music that's ever been released pretty easily scraped from the internet), whereas "semantic" data is rare, expensive and of lower quality
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by svantana 7y ago
Also, on that same chart, the US ranks #5 on mean wealth, and the numbers are way higher than in the linked article. Clearly this is highly dependent on how you measure.
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by svantana 7y ago
Of course it's a herculean task to write a library with that many features. But I don't think that's the issue, it's more that the devs of TF can't possibly optimize for every use case. For me, I knew what kind of o
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by svantana 7y ago
Same here, I guess it's a complex function of hardware and what you're trying to do. Personally I ended up writing my own autodiffing tensor library in C++, because all existing solutions had abysmal performance on my problem (lot
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by svantana 7y ago
Through the magic of information theory, I can tell you that this particular trick will save you log2(100) = 6.6 bits. Probably not enough to make a difference.
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by svantana 7y ago
Solving sudokus in AR could also be described as "gimmicky"...
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by svantana 7y ago
You mean like the free booze we get at company events?
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by svantana 8y ago
I dunno, I think you're more likely to find drug addict "employers" in some of the most sought-after businesses -- movies, music, fashion, sports -- compared to normal, boring jobs...
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by svantana 8y ago
A better example could be electric scooters, which are indeed stolen sometimes, but apparently not enough to kill the various operator businesses (lime etc).
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by svantana 8y ago
That sounds like guesswork, don't we already know which passwords are in common use from the various large-scale breaches? You could even use that data to train a character sequence model (e.g RNN), but really just randomly selecting f
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by svantana 8y ago
Okay, nice! There are a bunch of langs/environments like chuck, supercollider, MAX. What fits best is mainly about style and preference. A nice way to learn about setups/approaches is to watch algorave videos.
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by svantana 8y ago
I'm curious to know how you use tone.js in a creative way, as I have seen it as a framework for developing musical apps, not a creative tool in itself. Also, do you sync the hardware devices with js stuff, if so how?
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by svantana 8y ago
On the other hand, the copyright owners will have a harder time finding the allegedly infringing material. A bot that can find and scrape media on any website needs to be pretty advanced, especially if the site is using encrypted media exte
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by svantana 8y ago
Right, which is one of the main critiques against deep learning, there is no separation of concerns or encapsulation, just a single function matching input to output. But at the end of most days, performance is what matters. Similarly, the
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by svantana 8y ago
Indeed, the Network-in-Network architecture [1] was a compelling idea to get complex activations, until it was realised that it's just a standard neural network which is not fully connected. Since neural networks are universal approxim
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by svantana 8y ago
Interestingly, this new 7" ipad is really good value for money with regards to raw compute. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's possible to buy a new complete computer scoring 11k on geekbench
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by svantana 8y ago
I recently saw the documentary Catfish, and was struck by the similarities to the Cyrano play. It's interesting how Cyrano gets the audience's sympathy even though he is a blatant manipulator. In Catfish, the woman with the corres
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by svantana 8y ago
My go-to for these things is wolframalpha.com, mainly for ease of access, and the natural language interface means I don't have to remember any syntax. You can input queries like "complete the square a x^2 + b x + c" or &quot
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by svantana 8y ago
In real psychophysics experiments, you never tell the subjects if they were right or wrong (in fact, double blindness means not even the experimenter knows). So in that case you could try using relative estimates, but it won't increase

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