thefalcon

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by thefalcon 9y ago
You don't have to convince me. Writing HTML e-mails, especially for higher ups that have no concern for the limitations of the platform, is awful. This is why I just insist on using Mailchimp templates these days[1]. They've done
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by thefalcon 9y ago
And if people are buying them for $5000 last month and $6000 this month...?
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by thefalcon 9y ago
You will never convince me that Microsoft rendering HTML using the MS Word engine is a feature.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
You can already buy an insurance plan that will pay for it in some states, and that's reasonably priced. In my case religious family members would never let it go down though even if the finances were solved.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
A great resource for "watching" AlphaGo's games: http://www.alphago-games.com
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Here's a self-play game: AGZ v AGZ - http://eidogo.com/#u2UdsDFJ
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by thefalcon 9y ago
The concept of locality is nothing but a human weakness in Go, the best AI must read the whole board with every move. EDIT: From the paper: "Surprisingly, shicho (“ladder” capture sequences that may span the whole board) – one of the f
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I'd certainly be surprised if I ever woke up from being cryopreserved. Which isn't to say that I'd object to the process if I had the disposable income and an understanding/cooperative family support structure, which I d
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by thefalcon 9y ago
This seems like something DeepMind could create, given the incentive. They were able to train AlphaGo to predict human moves in Go at a very high accuracy (obviously not with AlphaGo Zero, but the inferior human-predictive version is how th
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by thefalcon 9y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/deepmind-... Indeed.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Matt Levine has been musing on the topic for a while, and I appreciate his take on things. Here's a decent primer: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-15/blockchai...
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by thefalcon 9y ago
If they don't already, they will probably soon view the mobile app as "the main site" and then it's only a matter of time before the desktop site devolves as you fear.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
22 years ago: "You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man
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by thefalcon 9y ago
TIL; thank you.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I'm also always having to perform the manual translation in my head from shader effect when I read this term.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
This is fantastic, thanks for sharing! It's especially nice on a mostly green day like today, which is to say on a day when BTC is up, since as BTC goes so the alts follow.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I wish they sold a version with a bundled controller: not because I had any trouble buying a MiFi controller separately, but because the fact that I had to do that means that there are far too few games that are built expecting me to have a
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I believe the probability for identical twins is 1 in 1; they mentioned in the keynote that some people will have to stick with passcodes, including those with "evil twins". (Presumably if you trust your identical twin to not be e
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I so wish Apple would make a full sized camera. Include the A11 and a touch screen and even cellular if you want, I don't care how much it costs. Imagine all this hardware and software applied to a real image sensor.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Yeah, and Amazon often offers better prices with instant gift cards and several days grace period to ship your games to them on their dime. GameStop is only a good deal a few times a year during specific sales.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
It's possible to enforce MAP pricing (minimum advertised price) online that matches in-store prices, but if you're a small player you'll lose out on the business of some of the larger buyers who are used to getting their way,
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by thefalcon 9y ago
> I think we are up to the Seventh Law of Insider Trading. The first six are: (1) don't do it, (2) don't do it by buying short-dated out-of-the-money call options on undisclosed merger targets, (3) don't text or email abou
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by thefalcon 9y ago
The point is you're still going to be investigated, and it's not going to be fun, and probably not going to be worth the relative small gain you'll make even on the off chance you manage to get away with it. [That said, if it
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Silicon Valley did it best, and it's funny because it's true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTbNKWw7Zs
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by thefalcon 9y ago
He also said this (which, scanning through this thread, appears to be a rare voice of reason): > Also, though, I found it hard to imagine that those Equifax executives were consciously insider trading. It would just be too dumb. Equifax&
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Oh yeah, I forgot that I had to change that setting. I definitely hope it's the same with Face ID - I don't use home screen notifications for anything.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
The pitcher has final say, but a good battery (pitcher-catcher combo) is especially valuable because it lets the pitcher focus on throwing his pitches (and tracking runners as needed) instead of also involving him in the batter-pitcher mind
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Which is why signs are obfuscated whenever a runner is on second base.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
There are many people out there demanding their eCommerce websites "get on AMP" ASAP. The author is performing a valuable service to employees of such people.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I can't help but think fondly of the Baroque cycle when reading about the likes of Hooke and Wren. https://www.nealstephenson.com/baroque-cycle/

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