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by webmaven 4y ago
We can rephrase the "without a plan" more accurately as "without one overarching plan, but only a tangle of many partial and conflicting plans."
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by webmaven 4y ago
Sorry, Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist who drew ridiculously over elaborate machines. Some biochemical pathways strike me the same way (though this is mostly due to contingency and opportunistic reuse, and definitely not gratuitous complicat
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‘People should be more aware’: the business dynasties who benefited from Nazis(theguardian.com)
6 points by webmaven 4y ago|1 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
The headline and lede on the page are a bit better: > How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection > Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines.
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by webmaven 4y ago
Almost certainly. Though the music industry's "Artists and Repertoire" (sometimes abbreviated AR, sometimes A&R) is a not-particularly-close second. To make matters worse, I have seen A&R being used to mean "Acco
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by webmaven 4y ago
Don't be too hard on yourself. Over the years I've come across a few folks who never figure out how not to smash their thumb with that hammer (and never figure out that what they need is a screwdriver).
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by webmaven 4y ago
A cursory search turns up mostly videos. What's a good text source for his arguments (Blogs, essays, articles, books)?
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by webmaven 4y ago
Conclusion not supported by the available evidence, sorry.
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by webmaven 4y ago
I hear more stress by the human reader, but it isn't always in the appropriate spot, IMO.
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by webmaven 4y ago
> The synthesis still doesn't know where to place emphasis. True. And yet, these samples aren't in a monotone! That's an enormous improvement. > You may be unable to distinguish between POOR human voice work and TT
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by webmaven 4y ago
Over 3 decades. BBSs and Fidonet, Usenet, early web forums, ICQ, AIM, Jabber, Mailing Lists (so many!), IRC, Friendster, Orkut, FriendFeed, Blogs and their comments, Convore, Hacker News, LinkedIn, Twitter, Quora, Github, Goodreads, Gchat,
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by webmaven 4y ago
You're basically trying to de-risk the idea before committing to execution. You can't do this completely, but you can do it progressively. Without going into too much detail, I suggest reading "The Lean Startup" by Eric
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Programming in the Large and Programming in the Small(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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Cvedia-RT(docs.cvedia.com)
2 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
Perhaps. There is an obvious centralizing security play in markets like IOT devices ( "The 'S' in IOT stands for 'Security'" ). That said, just as with other Open Source™ efforts by Google, there is potentially
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by webmaven 4y ago
Can't, sorry, the original title was too long for HN's limits.
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by webmaven 4y ago
> That is the critical element. Intelligence is connected to will, volition, the desire to do something. Where you have the “desire to do,” you also have the “desire not to do”: the ability to dissent, to disobey, to transgress. It is
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Intelligence and Comprehension(oreilly.com)
1 points by webmaven 4y ago|1 comments
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City of Asylum – Black Mountain Institute(blackmountaininstitute.org)
1 points by webmaven 4y ago|1 comments
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Earth First, Then Mars: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson (2016)(publicbooks.org)
1 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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Ending the Anthropocene (2019)(publicbooks.org)
1 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
Wowsers. This is a step change in quality compared to SOTA. I suspect that without evaluating samples as a correlated group, distinguishing between the generated samples and those recorded from a human will be little better than a coin toss
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by webmaven 4y ago
https://archive.ph/OwwmF
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Google opens futuristic Mountain View campus where 4k will work(mercurynews.com)
3 points by webmaven 4y ago|5 comments
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All Models Are Wrong(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by webmaven 4y ago|1 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
If you define "knowledge" both expansively (things that at least one human knows) and specifically (as in, not "how galaxies/stars/planets form" but "how did that Galaxy/star/planet form")
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by webmaven 4y ago
One of the more interesting bits in this posts: > Since under-maintained, critical open source components are a security risk, Google is starting a new Open Source Maintenance Crew, a dedicated staff of Google engineers who will work cl
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Shared success in building a safer open-source community(blog.google)
1 points by webmaven 4y ago|1 comments
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Google will distribute a vetted collection of open-source software libraries(theverge.com)
9 points by webmaven 4y ago|4 comments
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Every ISP in the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services(arstechnica.com)
33 points by webmaven 4y ago|5 comments

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