willbudd

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by willbudd 4y ago
Not really. Depends entirely on how general-purpose (abstract) the learned concept is. For example, detecting the possible presence of a cavity inside an object X, and whether that cavity is large enough to hide another object Y. Learning g
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by willbudd 4y ago
Perhaps this is just my ignorance showing, but wasn't the data that Exxon based its own modelling on more or less publicly available? It can't have been a secret how many barrels were being pulled out of the ground each year? What
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by willbudd 4y ago
Not a physicist at all either; but on a per particle basis, I know gravity is by far the weakest of the fundamental forces. However, unlike the others, it doesn't have spin/charge/polarity that results in their vectors repell
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by willbudd 4y ago
Good luck talking to cloud infrastructure such as Cognito-authorized AWS S3 buckets on the client side with a last century mindset like that.
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by willbudd 4y ago
> And Perl has the best support for regular expressions. To me this sounds a bit like driving to a supermarket three towns away because it has the best selection of coffee filters... :)
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by willbudd 4y ago
> It can't expand the edges, it can't come up with anything truly original. You're dead wrong about that. Remember Deepmind's original claim to fame? Alphago? It came up with tactics and strategies that top profession
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by willbudd 4y ago
That's simply not true. There are numerous problem domains in AI where Chinese research groups are advancing the SOTA, or at least are well-presented at the forefront. Your comment reads like little more than casual racism to me.
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by willbudd 4y ago
I've been interested in forming this kind of organizational structure for a while. However, I have doubts about how to ensure sufficient levels of trust between individuals involved, given the different dynamics in terms of monetary co
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by willbudd 4y ago
Allowing one app to register more than one phone service provider smells like an Android API bug. Allowing an unlimited number definitely is a bug. Allowing the corresponding integer to overflow and... well... do we really need to argue thi
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by willbudd 4y ago
I've been thinking about more or less the same idea, but the computational edge inference costs probably makes it impractical for most of today's client devices. I see a lot of potential in this direction in the near future though
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by willbudd 4y ago
To demonstrate the effectiveness of the attack they deliberately chose SIKE as a protocol that was thought to be very resilient against side channel shenanigans. If anything, real-world contexts are likely to be lower hanging fruit.
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by willbudd 4y ago
Only a very small percentage of Linux binaries in the wild is fully static though (e.g., those that are compiled with musl). This is "thanks" to Glibc, which makes doing so nigh impossible. I also highly doubt "many" pro
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by willbudd 4y ago
You don't need to know or trust any underlying technology though. The only thing you need is a basic grasp of Darwinian natural selection. The "shittier" those "shitcoins" are, the quicker they'll die out. The
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by willbudd 4y ago
Becoming successful requires a stubborn conviction that you can make your own ideas a reality. Doing well on tests requires the ability to re-enact the ideas of others. They're both valuable skills of course, but they should be recogni
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by willbudd 4y ago
I can't believe it took people 12 years since the publication of the WebSocket standard to figure this stuff out. Is everyone just running in circles?
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by willbudd 5y ago
I've always thought of capillary action as a very interesting phenomenon that can make all sorts of seemingly improbable engineering tricks possible. Great to see such an elegant application thereof here.
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by willbudd 5y ago
> I could have made so much more money if I stayed Are you sure that isn't a bit of a "glass is half empty" perspective? There's no upper limit to how much money you can make by choosing your own path. (If, hypothetic
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by willbudd 5y ago
That's fair, but there didn't even need to be an API. Just some feature to import WAV files and/or track listings would have gone a long way.
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by willbudd 5y ago
Yeah, no doubt. Everything can be automated. And I'm sure some dirty hack was cobbled together to work around the situation rather than turning some poor human into a zombie with both RSI and PTSD. I'd hope. But let's not tur
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by willbudd 5y ago
Can you imagine having to manually insert 100000 CDs and all their metadata into some GUI, even though you have everything on file elsewhere already? And not just any GUI application, but the complete garbage that is iTunes. Because some de
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by willbudd 5y ago
Yes, of course that's correct, and it has been like that for many years. What is your point?
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by willbudd 5y ago
I'm not questioning the existence of such elements in Taiwan — including some group apparently so formidable that you can't/won't even mention its name. No, what I find highly implausible is the notion that such an extre
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by willbudd 5y ago
Peaceful coexistence? Sure. Closer coordination and cooperation in a socioeconomic context? Also on the table. But _integration_ with the communist PRC? Uhmm... yeah no, that's a pretty disingenuous characterization of the KMT side of
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by willbudd 5y ago
OK, I'll bite. What is this "diplomatic takeover" of Taiwan you speak of? The historical circumstances of HK and Taiwan are nothing alike. Furthermore, the mainland communist party doesn't have any sway on Taiwanese poli
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by willbudd 5y ago
I guess it didn't occur to you that retrieving and setting image data with getImageData()/putImageData() actually turn out to be indispensable features when generating complex multi-layer canvases. Your trivial heuristic would fla
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by willbudd 5y ago
I tried to offer my perspective to some extent in my reply to taurath above (or below). And as for me being a "gaijin"? That's not even relevant, because my observations are based not on how people interact with me, but rathe
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by willbudd 5y ago
> Salarymen working conditions I would guess. Working conditions vary hugely from company to company. On a spectrum from "black companies" -as they're called here- to "modern companies" with strict enforcement of
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by willbudd 5y ago
I wonder where this myth of Japanese society being rigid comes from. As someone who has lived here a long time it makes very little sense to me.
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by willbudd 5y ago
Actually, upvoting my comments will beset you on a path to enlightenment and world peace. Source: trust me bro.
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by willbudd 5y ago
Upvote me if you absolutely detest stalebot. Closing issues after a while if the reporting user fails to follow up on a request for additional information can be useful. But more often than not these stalebots kick in because the maintainer

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