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by virgilp 7y ago
Care to tell me one single speech to text product that had at least a horrible 50% accuracy for Romanian 20 years ago? Because today I can dictate my messages to Google - that, plus the occasional correction, is faster than typing.
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by virgilp 7y ago
No I don't but I didn't claim that. Whereas you did claim that speech to text and translation were about as good 20 years ago. Basically, to use your chemistry analogy... you're saying "Haber Bosch was nothing new, Caven
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by virgilp 7y ago
> Pretty sure that "progress" was mostly people writing frameworks for video cards. Pretty sure you either don't know as much as you claim, or are knowingly claiming things that are blatantly false
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by virgilp 7y ago
Where by "worked fine" you mean it couldn't tell a cat from a swan. Nowadays speech to text actually works, translation is actually usable, iPad unlocks with your face etc. Did you put in any effort to remember what it looked
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by virgilp 7y ago
Oh, but if we take that view - it's basically "rich and healthy is better than poor and sick". D'uh, of course I'd give up all the bad things if I could get more good things in return, who wouldn't? I think the
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by virgilp 7y ago
Do you also mean AI, space flight, genome research, evolution of computing, etc? Also - I agree that growth in the first world came at the expense of the middle class - but in much of the rest of the world, it didn't. I was _massively_
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by virgilp 7y ago
I largely agree with you, with some amendment: > The same is true about our knowledge of what will be possible 200 years from now. The same _might_ be true. I think it's really a race in the current moment of time - will our knowled
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by virgilp 7y ago
Typically the payment happens post-haggling... and by that point 1% of the price might be their entire margin on the sale. I mean, if you pay full list price, maybe they won't mind you paying with card :D
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by virgilp 7y ago
To be fair, in Romania I was refused too, ~5years ago. All cards have a percentage fee - when you spend tens of thousands on something, even a small percentage adds up. Thus the car dealers require a bank transfer, which is generally free
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by virgilp 7y ago
"Immutable" does not preclude deletion, that's what I'm saying. Indeed, to delete something can simply mean to publish a new version with no content. If there's no reference to the old version, it will get 'gar
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by virgilp 7y ago
> The first is that sometimes people make mistakes and publish things that they very strongly wish and need to change or retract. Pretending that they do not is ignoring reality. Really? I'd say regardless what their wishes might be
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by virgilp 7y ago
I'm confused again - wouldn't Elastic Cloud cost more than EC2? It makes no sense to be the other way around. And secondly - why use logstash if you had filebeat - why not send data to ES directly? (I mean, specifically for your u
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by virgilp 7y ago
Why? Market forces dictate that they should charge _more_ (likely have less competition there; will also be able to provide better service than in densely-populated areas).
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by virgilp 7y ago
> Before evaluating ES, we used Logstash Huh? I thought one would use Logstash to ingest & massage data going into ES. I view it as a sort of "quick&dirty stream processing engine". How would one go about using Logstash
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by virgilp 7y ago
It's inherent to progress that the average Joe - or even the most outstanding Joe - can't know much of the global knowledge (otherwise, global knowledge would be very little indeed). I'm sure lots of people have some ideas ho
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by virgilp 7y ago
So under this model, Gambia & Morocco would be punishing USA, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Vietnam and Ukraine?
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by virgilp 7y ago
Thousands of percents, right? If your 5% successes do not return at least 20x, you're globally in the red.
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by virgilp 7y ago
Government is in theory incentivized to reduce costs because it has limited funds. The thing with healthcare is that the purchaser, if private, pays whatever (s)he can afford (how much is your health worth it to you?). Whereas if the state
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by virgilp 7y ago
> even with exciting user feedback and crazy conversion rates, it probably will never scale How so? With crazy conversion rates, all you need is capital. Capital is readily available nowadays, if you need that marketing budget you can ge
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by virgilp 7y ago
They only have a problem with rust because of the C. (excuse me, I'll see myself out. Couldn't help it, my initial reaction was "how can Rust possibly create problems for the navy???")
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by virgilp 7y ago
I'd ignore it. There are a few other sentences to heed in the article: > Each of us is more than a statistics. Everyone has their own struggle. The average person doesn’t exist.
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by virgilp 7y ago
Uber: 50.73 bln Spacex: 33.3 bln? Airbnb: 35 bln? Palantir: 26 bln ? Pinterest: 10.4Bln Dropbox: 7.44 Bln They are far from $200bln, so he certainly lost the first one. Might have won the other 3 though.
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by virgilp 7y ago
For some definition of "worked" ... sure, you signed up. Then what? I already had an account when Quora did it, and that made me use it less (wasn't always signed in, wasn't always willing to sign in - e.g. incognito ses
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by virgilp 7y ago
It's basically "no insurance, plus a credit to pay for the losses". Except that you start paying the rate before you incur the loss itself. I still think this form of "perfect insurance" is bad - part of what I like
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by virgilp 7y ago
I wasn't debating the "interesting" part, I was debating the "I wouldn't call that stressful" one.
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by virgilp 7y ago
You need to make decisions in a high-uncertainty environment. If you care about your work... it's much more stressful to have actual decision power than to have none and just vent with your colleagues about how bad the top-level decisi
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by virgilp 7y ago
Except when you get to a high level. Then, the powers-that-be have plans for you, and you can't really refuse (e.g. how do you refuse the CTO who says "I need you on this critical project?"). And there really aren't that
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by virgilp 7y ago
well, that's the thing though - coding interview is pretty much a yes/no thing. What rank you get is typically based on "what rank do you have now?" and "how much do we respect your current employer?"
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by virgilp 7y ago
> This isn't true in any reasonable sense, > overall, they release less radiation joule for joule. How is that not a "reasonable sense"? Less radiation joule per joule seems to me like a reasonable measure as "less
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by virgilp 7y ago
I would argue that compared to status quo (ie either Russia, or Boeing &co) SpaceX saves the government a lot of money...

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