svantana

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by svantana 10y ago
You're expressing an ad hominem sentiment that has become increasingly common in my experience, that policy advocates should "practice what they preach" -- this is, when you think about it, ridiculous. If a politician is in f
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by svantana 10y ago
From the article: >> Got a cool project? I am currently available for freelance work. Whether you are lying or not does not really matter, after all you're just a regular guy trying to get ahead like the rest of us. And the start
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by svantana 10y ago
Yes that's entirely possible, but my main point was that the chart looks really hand-made (by someone who doesn't really know what they're doing). I don't really see how an ascii data visualization tool would spit out su
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by svantana 10y ago
Agree 100% (see my top level comment for more incriminating evidence) and while this is the worst one yet, I feel earlier indiehacker articles have had similar problems -- exaggerating success and achievements for personal gain. If indieha
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by svantana 10y ago
I may be way to cynical for my own good, but there's no proof that this is actually real, right? Besides a couple of pretty bizarre screenshots [1]. I'm skeptical because a) these types of gains in public markets are pretty much u
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by svantana 10y ago
Even worse, I have the MBP with the 750M GPU (which I believe is the fastest CUDA card in any MBP) and the models and batch sizes that do fit in memory are not particularly faster than on the CPU, because they can't fully exploit the h
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by svantana 10y ago
It's a good example but I think the core of the article is that there is inherent success bias in the history of science and engineering. The scientists of the past that were working on dead end problems were not necessarily worse scie
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by svantana 10y ago
>I shoot film because it requires me to slow down and think about each shot; I can't fallback on "guess and check" for exposure or composition. If this is a common sentiment then here's an idea for a product: a digita
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by svantana 10y ago
Exactly this. It's like saying shadertoy is bad because it's centralized. When in reality it doesn't matter because everyone is going to lift their code out to their production env when they're done experimenting.
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by svantana 10y ago
Pretty much everyone in the civilized world profit from or take part in climate-altering behavior. No need to call out a fictional "them" -- it's us doing it. Shaming the people with disproportionate control of the means of p
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by svantana 10y ago
It's mentioned in the original article as well.
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by svantana 10y ago
No, because the predictions are not public. If they were, everyone could just copy the top predictions.
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by svantana 10y ago
No they actually mean what they write - 1g gives you 0-60 in 60*1609/3600/9.81 = 2.73 seconds. The way to get that friction is probably to use a particular combination of tires and road. It's equivalent to standing still on
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by svantana 10y ago
> Wool In The Gang, a supplier of knitting kits, was acquired for about the same price that investors put in; Crowdcube backers got a gift certificate in lieu of payment. This had me scratching my head. Why would anyone invest in a compa
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by svantana 10y ago
Agree 100%. And even if it's not a pro tool, what's wrong with having options? I think it comes down to two reasons: 1) It clutters the user experience 2) App designers are benevolent gods that keep users from self-harm Now 1) I c
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by svantana 10y ago
That I would call: driving autonomously with a human driver ready to take over if something unexpected were to happen. I believe that to get to superhuman performance (which is probably what will be needed to make it legal) you will need 36
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by svantana 10y ago
The only problem is, Tesla's sensor suite is too weak to ever get to full autonomy. So once they upgrade the sensors, what good is the data from the old sensors? Perhaps it's possible to extrapolate the data somehow, to have a dat
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by svantana 10y ago
They sure put a lot of focus on "toy" problems such as sorting and path planning in their papers - perhaps because they are easy to understand and show a major improvement over other ML approaches. IMHO they should focus more on &
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by svantana 10y ago
if you think about it, the row-comparing algo basically boils down to a sum of differences. As summation is independent of the order of its terms, it can be done in arbitrary order, and thus the (orthogonal) shuffling makes no difference.
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by svantana 10y ago
Yes and if you look at the footnote where the arithmetic is laid out, it seems quite confused. It conflates querying with indexing and also flatly assumes that each machine will index 5M pages, which seems low to me.
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by svantana 10y ago
While in essence I think it's an interesting idea, there's nothing that stops it from happening right now, except lack of market demand. It's also going to be moot as audio analysis technology improves (I'm looking at yo
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by svantana 10y ago
There's also BPG [1], a javascript image decoder that can be used on the web today, with (in my estimate) about a 40% improvement over jpeg. It's a bit disingenuous to use something so far from the state of the art as baseline, bu
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by svantana 10y ago
This I don't get -- why are rich savers bad? How can a large number in some bank account possibly affect anyone else's life in any tangible way? The way I see it, the 'problem' with rich folks is when they use up a dispr
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by svantana 10y ago
I am firmly in the DRY camp, although obviously there are limits to how far you should go to maintain the dry-purity. In my experience, the biggest issue with copy-pasting code is that someone else (or your future self) will edit the code i
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by svantana 10y ago
The most interesting thing here is the note at the bottom regarding computational cost: "A recent macbook pro reaches about 5 samples per second." This shows how far this model is from realtime usage. However I'm sure Deepmin
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by svantana 10y ago
Actually it will begin any day now [1], however they failed to mention that there will be a driver behind the wheel -- i.e. doing what google has been doing for years already, but also picking up passengers. Seems to me it's mainly a P
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by svantana 10y ago
It's inevitable that the market will have some inefficiencies, the question is: how can you tell whether you found one? Mark Cuban claims he got rich because he found stock price anomalies in a business he was knowledgeable about, na
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by svantana 10y ago
Wow, that's an average 26% per year increase (for the non-inflation-adjusted data) over a 70 year timespan. That's definitely not a random walk down wall street [1]. For reference, Dow Jones seems to have about 7% per year for the
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by svantana 10y ago
> Fun fact: any algorithmic process that "renders" something given a set of inputs can be "run in reverse" Now wait a minute, most algorithms cannot be run in reverse! The only general way to reverse an algo is to t
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by svantana 10y ago
Well, to begin with, find a state where laws are more relaxed: http://www.freerangekids.com/laws/ Moral judgements from people in your community can be bad enough, but it's a whole different ball game when you run

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