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by trextrex 8y ago
Flattr's model seems really well suited for conveniently contribution back to open source. Does Flattr not work for software anymore? I'm trying to figure out why it's not more popular as a way to contribute to open source so
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by trextrex 8y ago
According to the Wikipedia article on movable type [1], it existed long before Gutenberg, in East Asia. It seems like Gutenberg's contribution was to introduce some additional innovations and popularize it in Europe. [1] https:/&
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by trextrex 8y ago
This reminds me of other similar attempts that have happened in the past to help "assimilation" and "integration": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc... https://
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by trextrex 8y ago
Having interacted with immigrants from many different places, I find for a vast majority of them, the environment does in fact determine their culture. Are there a few for whom it doesn't? Sure. In the same way there are criminals even
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by trextrex 8y ago
Have you ever considered that what you consider "western values" are in fact values that emerge in a society that lives in conditions where there is political stability and economic opportunity? That people's "culture&qu
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by trextrex 8y ago
While it's a good idea in principle to publish failures, in practice it's a bit more tricky. So a particular model didn't work. Does that mean the model is fundamentally flawed? Or that you weren't smart enough to engine
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by trextrex 8y ago
Agreed. The hype surrounding machine learning is quite disproportionate to what's actually going on. But it's always been that way with machine learning -- maybe because it captures the public's imagination like few other fie
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by trextrex 8y ago
While I don't completely disagree with you, how would you propose researchers go about the problem? If anything, machine learning is applied to real world problems these days more than it ever was. For better or worse, AGI is a hard pr
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The Association Between Early ArXiv Posting and Citations(blog.semanticscholar.org)
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by trextrex 8y ago
Many concerns in this paper, especially about deep learning being data hungry, limited capacity for transfer, and integrating prior knowledge are addressed by recent papers in meta-learning and learning-to-learn [1,2,3 and many many others]
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Announcing Gatsby Manor, Themes for Gatsby(gatsbyjs.org)
3 points by trextrex 8y ago|0 comments
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The Gastric Network: How the stomach and the brain work together at rest(elifesciences.org)
2 points by trextrex 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are the best hosting solutions for PHP and MYSQL in 2018?
2 points by trextrex 8y ago|0 comments
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3000 missing children traced by Delhi police with facial recognition software(newindianexpress.com)
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by trextrex 8y ago
I just attempted to try GitKraken, and while it looks quite good on paper, I find it perplexing (and a deal breaker) that it asks me to login (with Github or Gitkraken) before using the open source and free desktop client.
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by trextrex 8y ago
As far as I know, ArchLinux is the only distribution where python points to python3 (and IIRC the change predated PEP394)
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by trextrex 8y ago
Star Trek (the various series) certainly did a good job communicating the vastness of space to the viewer.
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Why SQLite Does Not Use Git(sqlite.org)
508 points by trextrex 8y ago|608 comments
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by trextrex 8y ago
Very cool. It's interesting how powerful the recurrent network becomes with the addition of the learned hebbian term. For context, even without the Hebbian term, recurrent networks can learn to learn to do quite interesting things (Hoc
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Breaking down language barriers with IBM Watson technology(ibm.com)
1 points by trextrex 9y ago|0 comments
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by trextrex 9y ago
Agreed. There is a very condescending implication that in "developing countries" everything universally is shitty.
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by trextrex 9y ago
I implemented a library that does exactly this -- https://github.com/IGITUGraz/SimRecorder (In case anyone finds it useful). It supports storing data in both hdf5 and redis (although I wouldn't recommend redis for
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by trextrex 9y ago
There was one theoretical paper to enable learning more complex distributions in the encoding layer(s) while still using a factorized gaussian or similarly simple distribution to derive the learning rules [1]. This approach should, in theor
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by trextrex 9y ago
Couldn't this be done a lot more simply with a mailing list or RSS feed? Using GitHub issues seems a bit convoluted, although I'm guessing it's probably because it's easier to set up and free to use. It seems like somebo
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by trextrex 9y ago
If we are making statements based on history, you are squarely ignoring the progress that happened in Europe in spite of it being very "fragmented". Some argue that it was this competition between various nation states that pushed
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by trextrex 9y ago
On one hand, the author takes a lot of effort (with a lot of references) to explain that stereotype threat, implicit bias, etc. may only be a small contributor to the unequal representation of women in STEM. But, on the other hand, his coun
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by trextrex 9y ago
Yeah, except that it seems like PySide still doesn't support Qt 5.x according to [1]? While there is a page for PySide2 [2], I can't figure out if it's complete or not. [1] http://wiki.qt.io/PySide [2] http:
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by trextrex 9y ago
In the few years that I lived in the US, there were at least two occasions where I have been approached with a somewhat scammy story in different (large) cities. I'm not saying its endemic in the US, but it does happen. But compared to
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by trextrex 9y ago
Surely, it was quite noble of them to stop the slave trade in Benin while colonising, exploiting and draining their wealth.
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by trextrex 9y ago
Right, this was probably because it was already called "cha" in India by then, and the Portugese didn't have direct contact with the people speaking Min Nan Chinese, but rather the Indians who used the Sinitic version of the

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