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   by variaga 7y ago

   See also Greyfriars Bobby https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby
2. 182.▲
   by variaga 7y ago

   I had a bug on a small system (basically an embedded computer with some custom I/O hardware), where the report was a unit "wouldn't reboot if it was turned off for too long(!?)". Focused testing easily reproduced the pro
3. 183.▲
   by variaga 7y ago

   Try 'Toolmaker Koan' by John McLoughlin Also the Silurians from Doctor Who (and the 'Sea Devils', also from Doctor Who because of an IP licensing dispute)
4. 184.▲
   by variaga 7y ago

   For processes >= 40nm, the number is the gate length of the transistor. For smaller processes, the number is (approximately) the equivalent gate length that would result in the same transistor density (transistors per mm^2) as if the ga
5. 185.▲
   by variaga 7y ago

   It's hard to observe particles directly (they're very small) so much particle physics involves using conservation laws to observe indirectly. If you imagine for a moment that particles are integers and "total count" is a
6. 186.▲
   by variaga 7y ago

   Even if the EMH were true, it only says "_IF_ a market is efficient, THEN all <modifier depending on the EMH version> information is included in the price." The EMH does not imply that any particular market is efficient, and
7. 187.▲
   by variaga 7y ago

   What you describe is properly called "positive feedback" in the engineering sense. positive feedback -> doing a thing now results in doing more of that same thing in the future negative feedback -> doing a thing now results
8. 188.▲
   by variaga 7y ago

   Sort of - the experiment was more limited than that. Basically they show some congruence between electrical potential propagation in actual fungi vs a simulation model, then demonstrate that it's possible to build gates in the model.
9. 189.▲
   by variaga 7y ago

   Any (artificial) intelligent agent sophisticated enough to convincingly explain its reasons, is likely also sophisticated enough to lie about them.
10. 190.▲
    by variaga 7y ago

    When I was applying to colleges (in the 90's), my parents told me that: (a) If I applied and was accepted at the local state University, they would pay the full costs for me to attend there. (at the time, ~$10K/yr) (b) If I was ad
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    by variaga 7y ago

    >Tesla currently is at around 260Wh/kg thus roughly ten times the amount of potential energy needed to get to 10.000m altitude. That's the energy - assuming 100% efficient conversion of battery power to altitude - to lift _only
12. 192.▲
    by variaga 7y ago

    I've seen it. If you're referring to the barbershop scene, yes, it does have two men who have a long-established friendship insulting each other - and then when an unknown (to the barber) 3rd party uses the _exact_same_language_ t
13. 193.▲
    by variaga 7y ago

    In your experience men publicly declare (in writing) that other men are pedophiles and child rapists who only move to Thailand to have sex with 11-year-olds "all the time"? Where do you live so I can make sure to never visit there
14. 194.▲
    by variaga 7y ago

    Unless I missed it, the referenced paper doesn't quantify what savings Amazon achieved, or even if Amazon actually used the NN described. It does not support the statement "found massive savings".
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    by variaga 7y ago

    SO has always been hostile to questioners by design. It's a natural consequence of requiring "high-quality" questions. Since most questions will not be "high-quality" (for any reasonable definition of "high-qu
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    by variaga 7y ago

    Agree 100% - the single largest problem with applying ML to anything is getting (1) enough (2) accurate (3) representative (4) correctly labeled data to train and validate the models. Everything else is noise. For any proposed ML
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    by variaga 7y ago

    Recurring expenses (i.e. the kind that will generate enough data to adequately train a ML system) are already handled pretty well by most businesses through traditional (non-ML) methods. Operations Research has been a thing for 60+ years.
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    by variaga 7y ago

    Indeed. The "safety drivers" are designed to protect Uber's liability, not pedestrians. see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757236 ("Moral Crumple Zones")
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    by variaga 7y ago

    I was using 123 456-7890 as my Vons' loyalty # for a while. "Thank you mister... Tester #2? You have $98,427 in savings this year".
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    by variaga 7y ago

    Deadspin's "brand identity" _was_ that they didn't stick to sports. That's why people liked them. Your analogy is backwards. Deadspin had a profitable pizza business ("woke sports journalism"), and the n
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    by variaga 7y ago

    I'd say you're not making the problem "harder" - rather, requiring that object detection be orietation-agnostic makes the problem exactly as hard as the problem actually is. Allowing the network to train only on images