woko

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by woko 6y ago
This confirms my impression: the conversation does not have to go sideways about advertisements. It is kind of a deflecting trick to provide customer support instead of cancelling the subscription. Once you step in their trap, then it is sl
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by woko 6y ago
I will tell you about my scam anecdote. I had been receiving an email once every few months for several years about the possibility to create an account on the website of my electricity provider. All of these emails were suspicious because
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by woko 6y ago
> “Life is too short to be around negative people,” she said. “I need people around me who care about me and are appreciative, and see the world as a glass half full, not half empty.” That is the key part to me, and it is good to be remi
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by woko 6y ago
I see your point when it comes to paper publication in general, but I feel that your post is very unwarranted with respect to the original post: DeepMind has recruited top-quality theoretical researchers from public institutions, it is not
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by woko 6y ago
Yes, Steam has grown a lot. Last I checked, there were ~50k apps. Edit: 50,630 apps according to https://www.gamedatacrunch.com/ As I focused on vertical banners, the list was smaller (~30k apps). This is equivalent to the
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by woko 6y ago
Which would require an easy access to all of the videos, which only Googe/Youtube itself has. Many nice things could be done, but the platform (or the data owner) has all the power in its hands.
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by woko 6y ago
Yes, I know. :D Your previous project with Unsplash made me try a similar approach [1] for banners of video games on Steam. [1] https://github.com/woctezuma/steam-image-search
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by woko 6y ago
For info, the same tool works well with 2 million images found in the Unsplash dataset [1]. Features only have to be computed once for the dataset, and only the feature vector for the user query has to be computed on the fly. Then matching
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by woko 6y ago
This only works if someone who follows this <username> has already signed up to the service.
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by woko 6y ago
> made it a webpage, and called it a service. That is added value for many people. Some people will google the answer to their question, land on this webpage, read the transcript for this one video that caught their interest in the first
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by woko 6y ago
Just to be clear, electroshock therapy is still a thing.
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by woko 6y ago
I was about to comment with a similar anecdote. Situations will be different depending on the psychiatric facilities, but there are some, usually the most expensive ones (and being expensive is not at all an indicator of being a good one),
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by woko 6y ago
For 5.50€/month, it is an extremely cheap way to get to play games with all graphical settings at max with 1080p resolution at 60 fps. However, this price won't last, it is written on the web page that one day, there will be an in
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by woko 6y ago
Sorry, but I don't see the link between the quote and your sentence.
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by woko 6y ago
From the README on Github: > Note also, the models are also stronger than the rating they are trained on since they make the average move of a player at that rating. Reference: https://github.com/CSSLab/maia-chess
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by woko 6y ago
I think it was a joke about zero Kelvin.
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by woko 6y ago
I know you are being ironic, but I wish more people would try to "sell their free content". This blog post would help them do so: https://ternaus.blog/tutorial/2020/08/28/Trained-model-what-...
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by woko 6y ago
You are right, but off-topic in this specific context. Indeed, it was neither retaliation, nor exclusion. She offered her employer a "clean" opportunity to let her go, and they accepted it. It will be difficult for her lawyers to
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by woko 6y ago
My guess would be that they took the issue as a personal offence, and they believe that someone higher in the power structure has some personal beef against them as a person, rather than against parts of their work. They want to confron
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by woko 6y ago
I don't understand what the strength of being misunderstood is.
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by woko 6y ago
I think the chess puzzles are what could shine in this book: http://www.chessproblems.org/ (it is the Chess Quizzer from the OP) I have tried a few, and I enjoy the explanation of the solutions in plain English. Short and c
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by woko 6y ago
Based on the doc: > Websites listed here are downloaded and analyzed with Phantomas. The total weight is counted and then the size of actual content is measured and shown as a ratio. > For example: If a website has a total weight of 1
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by woko 6y ago
It is a French magazine about video-games with a satirical tone. It is called "Canard PC", which is a play on a well-known toilet brand ("Canard WC"). It brings interesting takes to video-game coverage, and it makes me l
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by woko 6y ago
Try replacing "christian" in your statement with "jew" or "muslism", and read it out loud. Being "anti-christian" is an issue, because it is always an issue when a society is against a group of people
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Automatic forwarding of emails in free Yahoo Mail accounts will be discontinued(help.yahoo.com)
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by woko 6y ago
> I still feel that neural networks and genetic algorithms are far underused methods of solving problems. (Especially the latter, which don’t require training.) Funny how he is more ambitious about genetic algorithms.
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by woko 6y ago
Automation did not make all of humanity transition. Manual labour is still used nowadays, even for works which could be automated in some way. Actually, there is a larger and larger gap between educated people with office jobs who earn a go
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by woko 6y ago
> I struggled finding the publish button. As it was under the Share text. Ditto, except that I have yet to find this button. Edit: Oh, you have to hover over the "Share" text! I would not have found it without your comment.
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by woko 6y ago
As a Colab user, I have got to admit that I am impressed. I have used your website today to give it a try, and the interface is responsive (and thus somewhat addictive). I use GPU on Colab, so I will stick to Colab for now, but I think I wi
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by woko 6y ago
I would not say that there is no point trying to memorize a full book. It is an inefficient use of one's time, sure. However, I believe it can have some benefits. Typically, the process of trying to memorize (assuming one does not do i

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