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by woeirua 6y ago
The problem with missiles is that they have a limited amount of propellant. Most missiles will spend the majority of their flight time gliding toward their target after the initial boost phase. Fighters can spend hours in the sky, and fly
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by woeirua 6y ago
Probably not as much as you would think. Modern airframes are still not capable of sustaining as much acceleration as missiles. You just can't outmaneuver today's missiles.
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by woeirua 6y ago
I suspect that California is going to backpedal on this pretty quickly. Uber and Lyft are popular. Going back to taxis is going to be very unpopular. IMO, if the California Republican party was smart they would make this a wedge issue in th
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by woeirua 6y ago
The reason you don't see more startups in the hard sciences is not due to the lack of hybrid talent as this article surmises. It's because: 1 - VCs are reluctant to fund capital intensive startups that have time horizons for exits
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by woeirua 6y ago
You should really look at what the FB app does have access to...
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by woeirua 6y ago
Until they make you download the FB app to use it, and then they get access to everything you do on your phone and follow you around the internet. So sacrifice your privacy, or sacrifice the Oculus. I know which one I'm going to choose
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by woeirua 6y ago
All of the media messaging around COVID has been a complete disaster from the moment it became apparent it was spreading in January in China. One of the main takeaways from this pandemic needs to be that doctors and experts need to learn h
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by woeirua 6y ago
Florida's covid data shows that they're testing far fewer kids then the rest of the population [1]. The 30% figure apparently comes from [2] which shows that of the kids that are getting tested, a significantly larger proportion a
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by woeirua 6y ago
Yeah, but for some tasks, like recognizing a car, or something else you'd have to write pretty sophisticated code to even get to a reasonable result. It's far easier in those cases to use supervised learning to have a NN learn to
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by woeirua 6y ago
Does it work for semantic segmentation? That's really where I'm struggling to see how this could work.
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by woeirua 6y ago
I can see how this would work for tabular and text data, where the labeling functions are well-defined. I don't understand, at all , how this would work with computer vision tasks where heuristics are pretty much impossible to define.
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by woeirua 6y ago
Most of the competing services are built on AWS anyways, so it's not like there's big problem switching back and forth...
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by woeirua 6y ago
The proliferation of half-baked services at AWS needs to end. There are way too many services that are just enticing enough to get you to play around with it, but then you realize it's totally crippled and unusable for most actual wor
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by woeirua 6y ago
I hadn't really considered that the attack might be against Twitter, the corporation, itself. The BTC thing is obviously too stupid to be the objective, but if you hate Twitter, then would there be a better way to teardown the entire
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by woeirua 6y ago
That's definitely one way you could blackmail people for more BTC, or unmasking various prominent anonymous accounts... Lots of way to use that info to make serious money on the darkweb.
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by woeirua 6y ago
Bingo, they're probably walking away with all of Twitter's internal data as we speak...
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by woeirua 6y ago
I'm about 99% certain that the actual cause for the disparity between the two is that Boeing is a publicly traded company while SpaceX is a privately held firm, which completely eliminates the need for management to focus on short-term
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by woeirua 6y ago
There is literally no way right now for any company to assess the false negative rate, i.e. how many well-qualified engineers they turned away. They can only assess internally the false positive rate, i.e. how many engineers they thought w
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by woeirua 6y ago
And yet, time and time again we see that Generals promoted during peace-time rarely have the skills necessary to lead men under intense combat conditions. The best generals are identified on the battlefield.
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by woeirua 6y ago
Meanwhile, engineer retention statistics at FAANG companies prove otherwise... [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/average-employee-tenure-rete...
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by woeirua 6y ago
This is absolutely not true. I have seen amazing scientists and engineers get turned down by FAANG companies because they did not happen to study particular algorithms that were featured in that day's set of questions, and mediocre eng
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by woeirua 6y ago
You know that it's even faster through their return portal, right? I've had literally zero positive experiences with chatbots. There's a reason why they're not taking off.
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by woeirua 6y ago
You're misinterpreting it. It says that for every 1 fatality there are 19 covid patients that have longlasting complications. It doesn't state though how many mild, uncomplicated cases there will be for every 1 hospitalized, i.e.
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by woeirua 6y ago
The only question now is, which state will win the race to be the first to reinstitute stay-at-home orders?
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by woeirua 6y ago
Lawful evictions take time, yes, but as the system becomes overwhelmed desperate landlords are going to take matters into their own hands. Cops, strained by lots of other problems just wont have the time or resources to respond to all the c
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by woeirua 6y ago
I mean, large scale tent encampments. Right now, you have relatively small encampments in some metro areas. I expect to see tens of thousands of people living in tent cities in every major metro area by October.
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by woeirua 6y ago
It's unlikely that would be sustainable for long for various reasons. You're talking about needing literally tens of BILLIONS of shots a year for the forseeable future? If immunity is not long lasting, then the only path out is gl
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by woeirua 6y ago
Without a doubt, the coming wave of evictions and foreclosures is going to pop the bubble. Once the tent cities (maybe we should call them "Trump hotels") start springing up in every metro area around the US, I think the market wi
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by woeirua 6y ago
When we talk about AGI, everyone always takes it for granted that an AGI would be human-like. But I think if you look at the complexity of the brain, and how poor our attempts to emulate it have been so far, I think it is almost a virtual c
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by woeirua 6y ago
Ah, but this point has yet to be proved to even a small degree. Neural models of very simple organisms do tend to show that adequate connectome models appear to be enough to produce similar behaviors, but we know for a fact that there&#x27

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