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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Metrics are really meant as a social tool for humans. For example a commonly repeated advice is that you need a "north star" metric. For facebook this was daily active users (for an arbitrary definition of active). For machine tra
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I assume you mean "wean library" instead of weak library lol
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
The hook was what I remembered the most from their video 5 years ago though! https://youtu.be/cRTNvWcx9Oo?t=67
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I was actually thinking more about natural languages than fractals. Maybe human thought is so utterly derivative you can just generate a random stream of words and it will contain most of the text that humanity will ever produce. Then it ca
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
What if most of the data humans care about is not random? For example to recover the state of an entire simulated universe you just need the value of the initial seed and the generator.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I think you can do it without extensions in firefox since they let you configure your own referrer-policy: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re... (search for "about:con
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Floats should now only be used for what it's named for, to float around other elements: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/shape-outsi... (shape-outside is super buggy though)
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
The comment thread is worth linking to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275269 In particular the Naval Ravikant interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44&t=3661
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Imgur is nice for loading galleries so it's heavily used for nsfw comics on /r/doujinshi
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I don't like /r/programming either but some of the smaller programming subs are ok. For example /r/cpp has moderators from the actual C++ standards committee. In general I wish there's a better way to stalk whe
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
The video is not so much about the problem solving process so it's not good for hints. The visualizations alone makes the problem a lot easier off the bat. It's mainly about showcasing a problem that is objectively hard (based on
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I often do use the unstyled input for say range sliders and color pickers. Most component libraries don't include them but they are complicated enough to make you not want to reimplement them. Even if you choose another external librar
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
A lot of early 3d scanners were just repurposed Kinects: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KOUSSlKUJ-A
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I meant that they didn't catch on in the same way say webcams or wireless headphones caught on among consumers. I have personally built stuff with KinectFusion before so I do know how powerful it is.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
It will just join the graveyard of gimmicky vr/ar motion controllers. Leap motion, Kinect, etc. Those can track precise skeletal gestures too. I think the differentiation here is low power always on and attached to the phone with high
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Instead of a hypothetical you can just use the example from the article: > Twitter said it would not ban President Trump despite incendiary tweets, including allegations that he threatened to declare war on North Korea.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
This is more or less an instance of the "paperclip maximizer" problem[1]. Complicated systems optimizing for simple goals often have unintended consequences. Surely the billions we threw at safe AI must be paying off anytime now r
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
That's usually how smart people get depressed in the first place, by thinking too much. You realize that there's no point to anything you do. You will die. Humanity will die. The universe will die.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I am not sure it has to be too large. It only takes 33 bits of information to identify 1 person out of 7 billion. How many bits did you lose just by talking about neural networks in that one sentence? How many bits did you lose from the tim
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
> But history tells us that literally everything will be used for fingerprinting I don't think you realize how right you are. Fingerprinting is eventually going to be a lost cause. In 10 years or so, we will have the tech to fingerp
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Yea I wished it were easier to use out of the box too. The code is fortunately very well organized so you can just copy the pieces you need: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/tree/master/src&#x2
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Is there a private API for a particular store's prices? It seems like coupled with couponing, you can build a decent price tracker that can tell you if you're actually getting a good deal. (like https://camelcamelcamel.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Squoosh is a much better demo of how to do in-browser compression (using optipng, mozjpeg, etc): https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/ There are far more knobs you can tune whereas the native browser conver
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I am not a native english speaker so I don't know if you're trying to take my words literally too. It's just conveying an intensity , not any specific action. Just like how "wiping the floor" with someone doesn&#x2
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
This reminds me of a huge story last year where suspicious activity on an account got the whole company banned, including their personal gmail if they linked it as a recovery account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=171
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I am really disappointed in BBC's reporting here. They chose to interpret a idiom in a literal way just to make a maximally controversial headline. Even in wuxia novels where I see this phrase used the most, the phrase is never used li
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
This was very informative and thoroughly convinced me that I am not good enough to do ML dev ops myself if I ever want to deploy a model. Is there an easier way? Shouldn't there be some company who will take my money to instantly turn
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
> Typescript seems to be approaching C++ levels of syntax I've been a bit traumatized by C++ so I can't help but see this as a bad thing. A lot of the insanity in C++ is because template metaprogramming made a lot of micro-opti
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Eh, can't only blame product managers for this. Developers don't like security features that make development slower either. I made the mistake of adding Content Security Policy to an app that was still in the prototype stage and
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Tech stocks outperformed market even when market was on a historical bull run. This might not (and probably won't) hold true in the future but it does bias all our current anecdotal samples. I think the FAANG people I know who supposed

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