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by viksit 8y ago
"Move fast and break things" very accurately reflects the state of Javascript development in 2019. Libraries and frameworks, and node/npm themselves move so quickly that APIs, versions, ways of doing things -- all break so qu
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Thanks for the pointers -- I'm pretty familiar with Blockstack and the Gaia ecosystem. I started playing around with it a couple of years ago, and registered [1] my ID in 2017 maybe? or 2018? I forget. Of course, it was much more bare
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The biggest challenge I've seen with using decentralized systems today is with on-boarding the average user into them. As @woah mentions, the process isn't straightforward and even remotely close to signing for a facebook or ig ac
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Great job! A categorization system (especially if it can be crowdsourced/edited via github) would be great, since these datasets are likely to be useful across multiple domains - and not just "CV" or "NLP" - I'
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I hope you got recognition for this work!
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And the lowest are all in Russia and Canada. (first question I had after reading this headline). Wonder if similar records are being broken there?
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This is a very interesting observation. The whole point of speech to text models being biased towards the US in terms of training data and innovation is valid not only across the larger things (gender/race/religion) but just small
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Could you elaborate why this is so impressive? As I understand it, it's because things like TF or PyTorch can only AD specific things as part of a spec vs generic functions like this?
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Contrarian thought here - but I stopped saving things. I was a very heavy user of pocket, pinboard, delicious et al for web articles. For academic papers I use Mendeley. I now make an active effort to read the article as I discover it - the
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Great piece, but I was struck with a thought about the researcher’s name. Maurice Temerlin - that last name is so close to “Tamerlane”, the mongol ruler that I wonder if there’s any correlation at all or would it just be a coincidence that
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Greenspuns tenth rule: “Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.” I’ve always wanted a clojure style thread operator [1] in other lan
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I’ve used it in a semi professional way (internal tooling in clojure). I’ve also written about it here (Practical applications of the ycombinator in clojure) [1]. [1] http://www.viksit.com/tags/clojure/practical-ap
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Wow. I didn’t realize they were Finnish. I’ve grown up with so many of these in India, I used to think they were actually Indian! TIL.
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The biggest pro IMO is that you get to see how a startup is built without having to take all the risk as a founder. Not everyone is in a position to jump in to a risk taking venture on their own, or have the ideas that lead them there. This
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Downvotes without explanations?
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How would the smaller units handle larger ops and convolutions, RNNs and others? Even assuming custom chips, all that heat that is generated (which gpus use large fans and heat sinks for dissipation) has to be removed somehow. Won’t that be
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Interestingly, Hemingway was famous for doing this. > When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm
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This reminds me of a recent Netflix show called "Occupied", whose premise runs something like this, > In the near future, Russia initiates a "silk glove" invasion of Norway to restart oil production, but soon uncertai
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I think your point is also valid in countries that are still developing - and more so, if you consider those cultures have never used tp and likely never will.
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Longreads.org is a great aggregator for these. The Atlantic Vice The Economist Vox has a few really good ones Nautilus (for science) Vanity fair Caravan magazine is another (with a focus on Indian culture and arts) Edit: formatting an
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Ah yes, the etacts debacle. Agree. I meant more the Quip integration (which would make sense) vs Salesforce as a company. But good point.
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I for one hope Salesforce acquires Airtable and integrates them into Quip. That will be a kick-ass workflow and documentation system.
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My JPB Story (from ~1998): I grew up in New Delhi in the late 90s on a steady diet of 2600, phrack, BBSes and the EFF/internet. Two of the people I'd read a lot about and was very inspired by were JPB and Mitch Kapor, as founders
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by viksit 9y ago
Can we change the title to “google forked the swift GitHub repo” or somesuch? The current one is rather misleading!
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Curiously: what does that username mean!?
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Obligatory Terry Pratchett Clacks reference here :) this was a great article on how real life got into a story which got into a real life situation again.. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/book
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Does anyone know who wrote that answer?
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Interesting. Does this domain have any possibility of hosting http apps, or is this completely limited to dapps?
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Ethereum whitepaper in Kindle Mobi/iBooks Epub formats(github.com)
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Funny, I had the exact same question since I meant to come back and read this post but couldn't find it thanks to the name change. I'd love to know the reasoning behind this edit.

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