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by svantana 9y ago
Fun fact: bluetooth audio is not lossless (best case is 264kbps AAC, which is unlikely to be better than Spotify's 320 kbps Vorbis), so that's pretty much a moot point.
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by svantana 9y ago
I would compare it to sugar instead. At some point in the last century, food companies figured out that they could leverage the sweet tooth inherent in us using refined sugars. Dental health declined rapidly and obesity went up. It took a c
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by svantana 9y ago
> it’s not enough for elections to just be safe. They also need to be safe in a way that is obvious to non-cryptographers Not as much so in nations where people generally trust experts and government officials, and where conspiracy theor
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by svantana 9y ago
First off, I'm not saying I want this tech, I'm saying it would do well in the marketplace if it existed. Second, the 'effort' is not the physical act of plugging in, but rather the mental act of remembering to. Plus the
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by svantana 9y ago
I can't believe true effortless phone charging still isn't solved. The capacity of a phone battery is about 8 Wh, which would mean that an "ambient" charging solution in a bedroom would need to provide 1W of charging to
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by svantana 9y ago
This is partly why YC (and others) suggest being 2-3 cofounders in startups (the same idea should hold in hobbies as well): the social pressure to perform 'your end of the bargain' is enormous and can do wonders for motivation &#x
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by svantana 9y ago
I think the analogy was between the car and the asteroid.
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by svantana 9y ago
Halley's comet is ~11 km in diameter, which makes it visible to the naked eye when it's close enough. Potentially astronomers will be able to spot this car at some point in the future, but I doubt that will give the same wow facto
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by svantana 9y ago
In my experience, the best scientists are not motivated by money, at least not beyond enough to provide a comfortable lifestyle. For me it's much more important to work on interesting problems in a good team. Also, startups can provide
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by svantana 9y ago
Ain't it funny though when people are for of a free market when it works in their favor, but against it when it doesn't? I.e. when you undercut someone else's price, that's a market miracle! When someone undercuts you, t
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by svantana 9y ago
Well that is super common in language, that the most common "sub-genre" of a word takes over the word itself, e.g. "pervert" now mostly meaning sexual pervert, chauvinist meaning male chauvinist, etc. As I understand it
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by svantana 9y ago
Errr, what? This project uses huge neural nets for detection, nothing like that is available in OpenCV. I think they only use OpenCV for IO (accessing webcams etc).
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by svantana 9y ago
Nowhere was that implied, I'm pretty sure most people agree that both are important, no need to create a false dichotomy. You're argument is reminiscent of some who opposed the suffragettes, who argued that raising children is muc
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by svantana 9y ago
> not interested. To be fair, most of us would have been pretty turned off by any educational computer thingy our parents would have pushed on us. In my experience most programmers have learned on their own, which is part of the charm --
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by svantana 9y ago
What people want, say they want, and how they act are separate things. For example, no one has ever said "I want to spend hundreds of dollars on a pointless mobile game", yet that is what a lot of people end up doing. Conversely,
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by svantana 9y ago
You're really underselling the achievements of MS and Alibaba here. These are machine learning systems that are most likely not using grammar rules and matching, but learning patterns from large amounts of text data. Most of these syst
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by svantana 9y ago
Using neural nets for this purpose makes it likely to be susceptible to adversarial examples. Fairly harmless in this use case, but if a similar system would be used for ContentID on YouTube, that could be exploited to subvert it (i.e. spam
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by svantana 9y ago
A global downturn, yes definitely, but BTC will probably not be affected by a crash (or hyper-inflation) of a small-ish economy.
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by svantana 9y ago
Nope, bitcoin mining is based on finding large integers that hash to small integers (under the current threshold). It's got nothing to do with primes. Although there is a cryptocurrency based on this very concept, currently with a mark
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by svantana 9y ago
The word "sin" implicates that it's all about morality, but there are also real negative externalities associated with these stimulants that are costing society a lot of money. Also, taxes have to come from somewhere, isn&#x2
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by svantana 9y ago
Xcode is about as native as you can get (developed by the same company as the OS!), yet it becomes more sluggish with each new version. I think the real problem is product managers focusing too heavily on "shiny new features" and
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by svantana 9y ago
There's also a print version of the page: https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332763&print=ye...
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by svantana 9y ago
Well, take decibels for example. They are a log scale physical intensity, so averaging them make no sense whatsoever (e.g. absolute silence is negative infinity dB). I would argue these scores are more like labels than actual numbers (i.e.
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by svantana 9y ago
I only mentioned wars since the article was about wars.
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by svantana 9y ago
You consider Saudi Arabia "stable"? They just had a coup d'etat this month, and have been involved in plenty of wars in the region, most recently in Yemen.
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by svantana 9y ago
>Any normal statistician would just report on the mean of all the scores they collected from respondents What? No!!! Any self-respecting statistician would know that the mean of a quantity where addition is not well-defined is meaningles
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by svantana 9y ago
Looking at their rank history at AppAnnie, they were doing really well in 2015 but it's been downhill from there (from top 10 to >500 in all the major App store charts). How they were able to go from 140M to 350M downloads in the la
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by svantana 9y ago
There is one obvious use case where it's already in use: illegal trade. The article mentions it as an aside but it's definitely not small business; if half the world's drug, weapon and human trafficking trade were to happen i
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by svantana 9y ago
...unless you live in basically any western country (except the US) that have high quality Public Service TV, where commercials and product placement is not allowed.
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by svantana 9y ago
What? Surely deployment is by far the easiest part of machine learning? The learning is the hard part. If you are resource constrained, then learning a small/efficient model is even harder, obviously. As for binary math, usually all yo

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