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by unimpressive 8y ago
Yes but that's very obvious, the route just discussed is subtle and difficult to detect.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
In that case it would make more sense to try and isolate the tasks comprising the last 20% and train on them separately, so that you get more practice.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
People are exasperated with bad actors being allowed to set the common trust on fire with gasoline. For example, if this story were about a smaller dev they would probably be prosecuted for credit card fraud: https://news.ycombin
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by unimpressive 8y ago
>Perhaps it might be better if younger programmers learned the old stuff instead of just badly reinventing the wheel every few years. I think if you pick a concrete example of this phenomena (say, Java applets vs. WebAssembly) and you as
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by unimpressive 8y ago
So it would appear the Bryan Caplan thesis is consensus among the sample of HN readers that comment, and that honestly makes me pretty happy because I'm fairly sure it's correct. Still, it's always good to examine things from
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Not necessarily, it just has to not preclude a de facto standard solution. And it doesn't. The scheme described by OP above sounds fairly sane without compromising the overall security of the system (in the way that e.g, password res
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by unimpressive 8y ago
This might be my raw unfiltered bitterness talking, but as someone who's a few weeks off from getting their associates I'm 100% in for the peacocks tail theory of education. >This doesn’t mean that everybody without a formal ed
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by unimpressive 8y ago
My point was more that this is a thing which has apparently been going on for decades...and we just didn't notice. What else might we not be noticing?
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by unimpressive 8y ago
I'm worried about the tails. Recent revelations like the bug biomass loss should sober anybody up. https://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2017/10/insect-biom...
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Well that's certainly antisocial.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Given that experts in the field seem to think this is an incremental step forward, OpenAI has already demonstrated a track record of doing things probably more impressive than this, and the massive loss of credibility that would come with b
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Did you tell them we're trying that and algae can only sink so much carbon? ;)
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by unimpressive 8y ago
>Maybe you are assuming that all groups have equal underlying genetic potential, but there's no actual evidence for this, it's just the politically correct belief that everyone is scared to question. Well, for good reason. The
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by unimpressive 8y ago
My friend wrote a browser plugin that removes sticky web elements like subscription boxes on pages (Chrome only, for now). https://git.sr.ht/~achmizs/AlwaysKillSticky.git Sad that we have to resort to this sort of thin
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Obvious resolution: There's no such thing, the universe is deterministic but not predictable. This doesn't matter very much in practice, punishment is about game theory so your 'free will' to perform or not perform an ac
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by unimpressive 8y ago
What makes you think it's a bubble? Just because something is unpleasant, or even outright evil doesn't make it a bubble. Perhaps at some point an equilibrium is reached where these institutions extract exactly as much as the degr
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Going to second 'go luxury'. This is an expensive thing, and there's a weird effect where the bigger the dollar value your transaction the better you get treated. Moreover if it's complex it basically needs expert instal
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by unimpressive 8y ago
>As a side effect it also meant that the functions I was writing became smaller (easier to test) and it became easier to see what the end solution might look like because I could understand the intermediary steps more easily. I definitel
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by unimpressive 8y ago
This is blogspam of a Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2018/12/23/fro... Would appreciate mods changing it.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
So what you're saying is, visibly panicking is a public good?
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Don't put your elevator pitch at the end of your blog posts, it makes me feel vaguely dirty upvoting them even when they're good. In particular, don't present it as part of the content. A brief aside that the author is bla bl
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Celcius.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
"According to Instagram, some users who used that feature had their passwords included in a URL in their web browser, and that the passwords were stored on Facebook’s servers, Instagram’s parent company. A security researcher told The
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by unimpressive 8y ago
I think the thing that makes this ebook stand out, is that it's native web content. Most "ebooks" on the web resemble the infamous photograph-of-a-printout web design strategy: https://thedailywtf.com/articles
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Amazing as this tale is, folks for anyone else who is sure that memorization is too hard don't do this. The real tip is: Spaced repetition. Load up Anki or Mnemosyne and stick the info in there. "Craig prepared for Jeopardy! by
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Neural Population Control via Deep Image Synthesis(biorxiv.org)
2 points by unimpressive 8y ago|0 comments
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Urban Area Cost-Of-Living as Big Tech Moats and Employee Golden Handcuffs(reddit.com)
43 points by unimpressive 8y ago|3 comments
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by unimpressive 8y ago
I submitted this post for a fairly simple reason: The approach taken here of outlining test cases for a thing implemented multiple times which consistently has bugs, is genius. I've never seen it anywhere else and I'm curious if t
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Diplomacy Adjudicator Test Cases(web.inter.nl.net)
2 points by unimpressive 8y ago|1 comments
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Would appreciate if the "3" could be omitted from the title, per HN guidelines. Since this is actually a decent enough article that has an uber-clickbait title.

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