vadansky

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   by vadansky 9y ago

   There was a revolution, when they started using backpropogation to optimize the gradient search. It's also why I don't agree with calling them "neural" anything because there is no proof brains learn using backpropogati
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   by vadansky 9y ago

   Today, Twitter is a planetary-scale hate machine. By which I don't mean "people post hateful things on Twitter." I mean literally generates hate, as in, put a bunch of people with diverse perspectives on Twitter and by the e
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   by vadansky 9y ago

   Also However, fast forward to 2018 and React.js is the popular choice for React.js development.
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   by vadansky 9y ago

   Any chance asking for an invite will work?
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   by vadansky 9y ago

   The discussion reignited my desire to learn quantum mechanics on the side. Usually the Geiffiths book is recommended, is this still the best intro to quantum mechanics?
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   by vadansky 9y ago

   Any advice on getting into one? I'd be willing to put in the work but it seems like you need to know the right people and I tend to keep to myself.
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   by vadansky 9y ago

   I bought $200 worth of bitcoin years ago that I cashed out at 7k when it was around 19k$. Now I'm thinking I should cash back in incase it rebounds strongly again. I guess I should be happy with my free money and not get greedy.
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   by vadansky 9y ago

   This isn't true. I use spotify and I don't even have facebook, and I don't have any limits
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   by vadansky 9y ago

   Seconding this. I don't know what effect it will have on shipping costs and general logistics and if it's worth it profit wise for the people running it, but I would love this option.
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    Is it a death sentence to try and learn Haskell on this challenge? Or should I go with a language I'm more comfortable in?
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    I found a battered copy of 1984 in a school hallway once. At the time I hate books because I mostly read the ones we were taught in English class, which were mostly Hardy Boy-esque type books so I all books were like that. After reading 198
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    According to uMatrix, DuckDuckGo serves 43 cookies from Google? Does it only "No Follow You" if you're proactive enough block them using uMatrix?
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    A combined AR/VR headset would be amazing for this. I would love AR for a workspace, I can do my work and interact with my team, and then switch to VR to do something more complex.
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    Is it too late to start playing EVE? Every time I hear about these great events it seems like it's the last and the game is over now.
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    >maybe you've just learned some interesting features of current trends in dating site photos. Again, I hate to keep parroting what another HN said, but I hate to see misinformation repeated: >The paper states that they used an ex
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    Again, I hate to keep parroting what another HN said, but I hate to see misinformation repeated: The paper states that they used an existing net, VGG-Face, to exact facial features: https://osf.io/fk3xr/ (page 13) >
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    >the idea that they are correlated implies that my physical features will change when my sexual preference change No, it doesn't. It means sexual orientation and hormonal/chemical composition might be related, and hormonal&#x2F
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    People keep saying this, but as another HN pointed out: The paper states that they used an existing net, VGG-Face, to exact facial features: https://osf.io/fk3xr/ (page 13) >VGG-Face aims at representing a given fac
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    Can't you trace by amount? If I put 1.114596 bitcoins and pass them through the mixer, won't there be an account X with the same amount?
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    >One thing I learned and wanted to warn about here is that Chrome headless currently doesn't support file downloads [1]. Not true. At least with C# You can use var client = new WebClient(); client.Headers[H
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    by vadansky 9y ago

    Also throwing in my hat in hopes for an invite
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    by vadansky 10y ago

    >The important research in hardware for machine learning is focused on taking designs that work I'm sorry but that is a really glib remark. The best working neural net is the human brain, and the current direction of neural networks
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    by vadansky 10y ago

    If you absolutely have to use Windows (like me) is it possible to block all the telemetry at the router level, maybe somekind of hardware firewall? Do we have a list of IPs to blacklist?