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by whazor 8y ago
Inform your boss about the cost savings in licensing and benefits in recruitment.
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by whazor 8y ago
Indeed, privacy-wise it is equivalent to having cameras recording. But convenience wise it is brilliant, when I want to do sports.. I do not want to bring keys or gym cards, just sports clothes
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by whazor 8y ago
Rust is conceptually nice as it offers low overhead.
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by whazor 8y ago
ELO rating with A/B per airport where some friends got some information per location.
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by whazor 8y ago
To provide some more details: - Instead of graph algorithms, we use more algorithms that originate from databases - Currently the bottleneck is improving server parallelism and filtering/limiting the amount of results (cause the algori
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by whazor 8y ago
We (me and friend) are working on the same problem, however we are stuck at the next step. Namely the user interface: how do you let the user search through all the possibilities. We created some data structures that allow almost instant se
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by whazor 8y ago
Current title of this HN post is very misleading. Roomba simply uploads a skill add-on to Google Assistant. The only data Google receives is names of rooms and when the user requests to vacuum them. This is given the fact that the user owns
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by whazor 8y ago
Why would anyone capable work in the government if you can make many times the amount elsewhere? I think this is the economic curse.
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by whazor 8y ago
Our dystopian future where we will be forced fed cookies in order for accurate optimization.
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by whazor 8y ago
Thankfully, these nerds also map when going on vacation and from satellite images.
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by whazor 8y ago
The maker of Augur, Joey Krug, recently posted an analysis[1] providing the arguments why Augur is at the moment still too expensive. For me this is very insightful into why Ethereum applications are not yet super successful. [1] https:&#x
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by whazor 8y ago
It is not about the big scale of processes that make process mining interesting. But also the tooling that comes with the field, look for example at the tool Disco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmXZQhFSv10 It provides au
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by whazor 8y ago
Apple is not a monopolist (24% market share). Being the biggest operating system comes with responsibilities (in EU). If Google would pull Android away from Europe, other parties would take over as most consumers only buy less expensive pho
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by whazor 8y ago
You do not need a GPU accelerated or highly optimised text editor.. You simply need an editor that does not load the whole file to memory, and potentially preloads some data for smooth scrolling and zooming. Operations should be done in O(1
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by whazor 8y ago
When sorting on disk, there are actually limitations in sorting linear time. Has to do with being able to read blocks in memory and write them back to disk. As everything is in blocks, you are limited to O(n/B log(n/B)) with B bei
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by whazor 8y ago
In Europe, it is not easy to fire people. So hiring employees via detachment companies is also the norm for big companies.
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by whazor 8y ago
As far as I know, China does not possess the newest semiconductor machines. Either it will create these chips via TSMC, or they will use a lower resolution and less powerful chips. I wonder if they can make something competitive.
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by whazor 8y ago
This makes Canada the most advanced cannabis country! I remember reading in a Dutch news paper that Dutch weed growers were jealous of experiments in USA. The Dutch system does not allow growing and daily there is a rollup of a farm. Legali
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by whazor 8y ago
I believe China is too unbalanced in their IP protection in order to 'win the tech race'. They either have a monopoly that controls the market via Chinese gov, or there are no rules at all and everyone will backstab you. I believe
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by whazor 8y ago
According to boring company: Many of the speed improvements come from the design of the system. Smaller tunnels, automatic stone placement, removal of dirt.
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by whazor 8y ago
But how? Let's assume I personally offer artificial intelligence services. So I provide some API's where my customers upload training and testing data, and I return a trained ML model. I do not know who uses my service or what the
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by whazor 8y ago
More chips on a board requires more cooling or less power consumption.
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by whazor 8y ago
Maybe a general AI is just a very big collection of many smaller abilities.
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by whazor 8y ago
They are probably investing in employees, facilities, software infrastructure, and knowledge. It is smarter to start with a feasible project and start improving from there, then building something too big which you might not be able to laun
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by whazor 8y ago
I tried to use RSS and I added some websites I liked. However, websites have too much articles nowadays and many news sites have the same stories. I am going to need filtering and grouping of articles in order to use RSS again.
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by whazor 9y ago
To support your point, e-bikes are fast. They go like 25km/h, and they often beat cars in speed as they do not get stuck in traffic.
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by whazor 9y ago
I have heard of it as it's a Dutch company and I am Dutch. They are doing really well in the sense of having many payment methods, as in Europe every country prefers a different method. The CEO has a lot of experience in payment integr
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by whazor 9y ago
Their Google Suite customer service is great, tried it multiple times and they immediately helped me and solved my problems. As far as I know their support is only good if you are actually paying for something.
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by whazor 9y ago
As it is ranked based on new stars in 2017, not total amount of stars.
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by whazor 9y ago
To be fair, most subscription model software that I know changes UI less frequently than pay–per-release software. As for every big release the marketing department steps in to fully redesign everything.

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