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by wwarner 9y ago
Also -- ctl-r <chars> ctl-r ctl-r ret To match two commands containing <chars>
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by wwarner 9y ago
All those, and ctl-r <chars><ret> for searching history.
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Time-lapse video shot from Seattle's Space Needle over 3 years(geekwire.com)
2 points by wwarner 9y ago|0 comments
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by wwarner 9y ago
The fact that Spectre was manifest on Intel, AMD and ARM suggests that any open source solution that utilized the same performance strategies would have also had the same attack vector.
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by wwarner 9y ago
What's really needed is a mathematical analysis of size of the bug space compared to the size of proving code required to cover it. I.e. to get to 99.5% confidence that a system of size N is bug-free it would take a proving system of s
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by wwarner 9y ago
I have nothing constructive to say except that i love it.
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by wwarner 9y ago
I agree that this is the best line in the paper. I interpret it to mean that while a second transaction is in progress, if a commit log comes in it's an extremely cheap operation to check the timestamp and ignore it.
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by wwarner 9y ago
The CTO said that support for machine learning was the deciding factor. In that case the lesson for Amazon would be that it should get serious about machine learning and offering pipelines and automation around it. MTurk puts them in an exc
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by wwarner 9y ago
Copy of the article without a paywal http://www.cetusnews.com/business/Etsy-Picks-Google-for-Firs...
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by wwarner 9y ago
For me, the paper was of interest because of the ways that Spanner reduces the surface area of faults through controlling the networking and the application of a global clock.
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Spanner, TrueTime and the CAP Theorem [pdf](static.googleusercontent.com)
125 points by wwarner 9y ago|49 comments
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by wwarner 9y ago
Sure, m4 looks hoary now, but portability is the purpose and the legacy of the autoconf system, not opacity, sloppiness or laziness. The only alternative is an OS tightly bound to hardware.
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by wwarner 9y ago
nytimes gets so much free seo from hn!
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by wwarner 9y ago
Pretty sure that both OpenCV and Dropbox knew what they were doing when they avoided the affero license.
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by wwarner 9y ago
it's in the master branch, it just hasn't been tagged for release yet.
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by wwarner 9y ago
c'mon -- that's the easy way!
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by wwarner 9y ago
Character recognition might be "hello world" but full page OCR definitely is not. When I read the article and think about all the obstacles dropbox overcame, it looks like a pretty huge achievement. I can tell you, it would take m
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by wwarner 9y ago
Yeah that would be a great read. You want your system to learn what's in real photographs, not how to see through your simulation.
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Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning(blogs.dropbox.com)
460 points by wwarner 9y ago|125 comments
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by wwarner 9y ago
I would love to know how this adversarial training doesn't end up overfitting. Or, put another way, I'd love to see another piece of software (or even a human being?) exploit Alpha Go's overfitted strategy.
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by wwarner 9y ago
I've been wondering about this for longer than I care to admit. I always felt the perceived responsiveness of my old sparc 20 was much better than pcs I used 15 years later, and I thought it had to do with keyboard latency and interrup
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by wwarner 9y ago
Ya, this dump truck: 148 gal, compared to honda fit's 11 gal tank. That's like 13x. Tho the amount of energy on board only affects the range of the vehicle, so it's not that interesting. http://www.ritchiespecs.com
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by wwarner 9y ago
zing!
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by wwarner 9y ago
Probabilistic Topic Models http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~blei/papers/Blei2012.pdf
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by wwarner 9y ago
It's great to read someone challenging the hype, but this analysis is a bit too negative. I'd point out that AlphaGo did something a little bit like the author's toddler learning to squeeze through the back of her chair. AG l
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by wwarner 9y ago
Found this opposing pov: http://thebulletin.org/fusion-reactors-not-what-they%E2%80%9...
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by wwarner 9y ago
a great read -- almost as good as Franz de Waal's "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" (where this study and others are cited) https://www.amazon.com/Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals/dp/
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by wwarner 9y ago
I think this is exactly right, but I would add that when we start using computers to analyze and help write programs, faster, more intuitive ways of programming will emerge.
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by wwarner 9y ago
Maybe college is too expensive -- maybe it's expensive because there is a very high demand for well educated people. In other words, in my field, computer science, you will meet very few immigrants without a hard won master's degr
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by wwarner 9y ago
I would think that any regular reader of HN would think this list is tame and unimaginative. But I'll agree that investing in computational power is worthwhile. I say that because of all of this year's news in quantum computing, a

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