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by sytelus 7y ago
Stupid question: what’s up with trucks in urban areas? I understand the utility of a truck in rural/farm setting but never figured why folks want to lug around that pointless empty half while living in cities. Two of the folks I know w
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by sytelus 7y ago
Here's interesting tidbit: Vast majority of underground railway network in Moscow was built in 1950s. Cost of building a mile of interstate highway in US is about $5M. Interestingly this cost hasn't changed since 1956 in inflation
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by sytelus 7y ago
To be contrarian, I feel ads are good and useful thing if done right . I look at ads as website working hard to figure out my needs. Ads connect products and companies which want to add value and the customer who otherwise might not discov
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by sytelus 7y ago
Preventing squatting is a fundamentally unsolved problem which I'm afraid can't be just "dealt with differently". If you want to allow anyone to own any domain and treat domain as personal property then squatting i
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by sytelus 7y ago
ICANN has made several decisions in past that are mind-boggling and definitely not in public good. I wonder who runs this org? How someone gets into leadership in there? It surprises me to no end that we are being forced to pay $$ perpetual
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by sytelus 7y ago
I sort of agree with you. The demand and supply for askers and answerers is imbalanced: questioners: 24035 answerers: 10888 It's not that we are running out of people who have questions. The reward system needs to reflect this
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by sytelus 7y ago
I've recommended a test called "canoe test" for figuring out compatibility with your future partner. If you can't figure out how to canoe together over the long enough period and make it a more pleasurable experience tha
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by sytelus 7y ago
GitHub 2fa is the worse implementation than the most I have encountered. They tell you that you can save recovery codes in facebook but guess what? It doesn't work! So you get lulled into having recovery codes safe in your FB account u
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by sytelus 7y ago
Could you summarize what exactly interesting insights did you gained by casting this problem as the election system? Unfortunately abstract fails to communicate this (I hate "teaser-only" abstracts!). Also, it might be easy to go
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by sytelus 7y ago
I don't like Venmo at all. It's hard to get money out and I'm always wary of bank account details stored by a startup. It's good to see this coming from FB and for this specific instance, a bad startup hopefully getting
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by sytelus 7y ago
Just look for any local astronomy groups doing public viewing event. Even the medium-size cities have such gatherings.
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by sytelus 7y ago
If T-Mobile doesn't know who is really the originator, how the cost of call gets attributed? Wouldn't this mean I can just use their network without paying them as no one know how to identify me?
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by sytelus 7y ago
> Magic Leap is spending somewhere between $600M and $800M per year and that they have burned through all of their initial $2.4 Billion. Is it possible for ML to be viable at all? Assuming they manage to make $1000 profit eventually pe
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Yet Another Computer Vision Index to Datasets (Yacvid)(yacvid.hayko.at)
3 points by sytelus 7y ago|0 comments
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A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000(publicdomainreview.org)
2 points by sytelus 7y ago|1 comments
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by sytelus 7y ago
Even more tantalizing idea: Some advance versions of GANs can learn from huge amount of data from your life and recreate you in digital world. Future generation can talk to that generative model of yourself which talks like you and says thi
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by sytelus 7y ago
His house of cards fell when his mom died. While he was still devastated from the loss, board members approached him for leadership change and he just signed it off like that. Board members were extremely surprised because they though it wo
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by sytelus 7y ago
TLDR; 1. They don't have to worry about latency due to review delays. 2. They can use vision based detection algos for classification which are much reliable than NLP based understanding. 3. They recruit users to do reviews for in-site
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by sytelus 7y ago
I hope things works out for you. Having a mom with PhD makes huge difference in balancing things out but these studies are not bogus. They have proper sample size, metrics, control group and there is high probability that hypothesis is plau
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by sytelus 7y ago
In general I agree. However many studies in this field had been large scale enough with low variance that effect is not ignorable. Given similar results, it appears reproducibility is also high.
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by sytelus 7y ago
No. Disney movies are watched lot less in 3rd world countries. Most population in these countries didn't had (perhaps recently) any on-demand access to large movie collection - not as VCRs, DVDs or streaming. You gets to watch movie
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by sytelus 7y ago
I don't have link to original talk I'd seen but if you search Ted talks for disney effect, you will find many discussing this. Saying that it just does "gender-stereotypical" portrayal grossly underestimates the impact o
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by sytelus 7y ago
Most of us outside of entertainment business don't know this but Disney had been taking huge dissing from media as well as academics for princess movies. They have started change their ways and recent slew of movies like Moana focuses
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by sytelus 7y ago
There was a good discussion (I can't get link) where an expert basically said that STEM enrollment for girls fell through the roof in last few decades is highly correlated with series of Disney movies that virtually every young girl wa
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by sytelus 7y ago
I'm super careful about exposing Disney content to my kids. The especially pre-2000 era Disney content is absolutely damaging and well documented in the academic community for that. Disney content gets created to increasing shareholder
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by sytelus 7y ago
XR is very much tech a problem. Wearing headsets have induced headaches for me within 30 mins. The resolution is choppy. Field of view makes everything non-convincing. There is actually ton of content which is good for 5 minutes of demo-sur
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by sytelus 7y ago
It's a simple side effect of money creates money . If you have X dollars, it almost automatically can create Y dollars in time T. Integrate over time and you have exponential growth. People starting with low initial number will have
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by sytelus 7y ago
Experience matters - a lot! Recently I got new phone and it was bit of an adventure just to login to Uber. After that I'd to add CC numbers manually. For Lyft it was simply taking a photo. There are several other small things, for exam
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by sytelus 7y ago
It didn't looked that way to me. I think his advice is right on the dot if you were doing startup and finding co-founder. The best co-founder you might find is the one who multiplies your capabilities as opposed to merely adds to y
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by sytelus 7y ago
ooh... don't miss the t-shirt!

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