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by urthor 5y ago
"In March it announced a deal with Microsoft to build such a system. This could, over the course of a decade, cost a staggering $21.9bn." Compared to the current AR/VR market, this is actually staggering. The impact of the mi
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by urthor 5y ago
I strongly suspect that BMW et al have actually timed it perfectly. Volume and demand for electric vehicles has not quite hit a tipping point, but just at the right time they've come out with the i3, which has really beaten Tesla in
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by urthor 5y ago
What's the opposite of this experience I guess. The Toyota as you've cited, or a similar Hyundai? Where the sheer volume and implicit agreement with the customer is predicated on the fact every single part is engineered for reliab
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by urthor 5y ago
I think this is the fundamental disagreement. Preserving the ICE is like preserving the cigarette. The cigarette's place in classic culture, in classic movies and nightlife, is profound. Doesn't make me sympathetic one little bit
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by urthor 5y ago
Managed Kubernetes is the serverless paradigm, done right I find. Kubernetes is hard because it needs to be hard, stateful machines are stateful because they have to be stateful. Managed Kubernetes is the compromise between vendors desire f
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by urthor 5y ago
It's just $$$. You can save a LOT of money in GCP by specifying the columns you actually need in your queries, and various very simple SQL optimization techniques. Everyone is scared of the cost of these vendor tools.
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by urthor 5y ago
That's a really good insight.
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by urthor 5y ago
Agree. You need to structure your talent pipeline, and organization, based on the average level of talent you can likely receive at your compensation bracket. You cannot create a single point of dependency on an employee who you'll n
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by urthor 5y ago
Ah but you see, in coding, before you write the test, you need a software developer and/or a team lead who gives a shit about writing tests. So it all comes back to the good ole "give a shit" factor.
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by urthor 5y ago
It's mostly work ethic I find. I've met quite a lot of Black Swans, and been employed alongside precisely zero. I know one hard science PhD who runs their own K8s cluster at home and plays with Linux distros. They describe themsel
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by urthor 5y ago
Going out on a limb. 95% of all substantial corporate meetings would be vastly, vastly improved if someone wrote up some dot point notes of said meeting, and circulated the document as a courtesy. In my time in the workplace I've seen
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by urthor 5y ago
Also I will say. There is some fantastic tooling for machine learning. Databricks, GCP, everyone knows it. The issue is that the data industry was raised from birth in complete fear of the boogeyman. The boogeyman is Oracle. And the fr
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by urthor 5y ago
I don't think it's a particularly new feature of software development that a few highly paid employees who've got the entire stack in their brains are vastly more productive than a vast cross functional team.
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by urthor 5y ago
Yes, but a liberal interpretation of "and other measures, as in his judgment may be necessary" would imply unlimited executive power for the Surgeon General. The US Congress can't just delete every single authority of the leg
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by urthor 5y ago
It's also very difficult to justify under the commerce clause I imagine. That said, the US constitution is an interesting beast, because of the Supreme Court's very very progressive interpretation of the commerce clause. The Supre
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by urthor 5y ago
Rule engine is the term I believe. Often the biggest benefit is that the ML version is good at catching when the experts hadn't had their cup of coffee as well. Most experts are like family doctors, they get the correct diagnosis 70% o
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by urthor 5y ago
A large part of the actual answer is that they are doing a build in for their first party services like Amazon Prime Video. Those services don't want to be sent intercontinental because it's just an enormous amount of data, and th
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by urthor 5y ago
It's funny because I am so far from the OOP world right now, I'm barely qualified to even comment on this topic given how little OOP I've done in the last 3 years. I've literally never done this stuff, but the idea of &q
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by urthor 5y ago
It's not my area at all, but to my non-expert knowledge the differences between generics and class based inheritance can border on the semantics at times. The high-level concept I always use to think about it is "coupling." H
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by urthor 5y ago
The headline makes it look like this is for the benefit of consumers. The article makes it clear this ruling is entirely to the benefit of Samsung Electronics.
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by urthor 5y ago
I'm almost certain the actual reason is producing all the infrastructure to DMCA content on Google/Facebook/Twitter/Youtube and other "mainstream" Web 2.0 platforms is expensive . Copyright enforcement is a lo
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by urthor 5y ago
This pretty much. Small business that doesn't make much money, doesn't pay its workers much, and requires a lot of exploitation to keep the doors open. Now the workers are leaving and those businesses are going bust. It's cap
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by urthor 5y ago
Quite honestly, in a team that's stressed and run down to the line, checking for that particular classification in a model that has hundreds of classification targets can be really tricky. Say you have 1000 classification targets. You
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by urthor 5y ago
Sounds like OpenAI itself cannot be bothered to maintain the original project. A well meaning forker (forkee?) interested in RL looking to make a name for themselves could do the world a huge amount of good.
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by urthor 5y ago
That's actually really cool to hear.
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by urthor 5y ago
It's the best algorithm I would say, but the site itself has quite horrid design these days.
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by urthor 5y ago
Absolutely this. You need that machine language model of how a computer works to really understand programming, otherwise you are just guessing why stuff works. I'm not capable at all with assembler, can't write my own compiler.
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by urthor 5y ago
I think it's so much about the crowd who gets into those languages. But there are absolutely Java developers who are about the good times as much as Ruby developers. They're just outnumbered, but they're there if you look har
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Generally speaking the negatives come in as recruitment. How do you, say, recruit a senior Haskell developer? Or a senior Haskell developer who's good fun to have around the office? With great difficulty.
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by urthor 5y ago
Exactly. Machine learning, and "data driven" business leadership, is being treated as a get rich quick scheme like it's low hanging fruit that's easy to do . When in fact it's been known under multiple different na

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