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901.
by xchip 9y ago
Fantastic, I was in fact wondering why other editors were so big. I love it!
902.
by xchip 9y ago
Thanks for this, I wish every news here had a TL;DR post. In fact me myself I do it whenever I have a chance (most articles are 5% information and the rest 95% is just padding)
903.
by xchip 9y ago
TL;DR: The demonym for people from or properties of Manchester is “Mancunian,” which dates back to the Latin word for the area, “Mancunium.”
904.
by xchip 9y ago
They are late to the party and their stuff is too complicated and consumes too much. Also BLE devices with an 8051 (a CPU from 1980) won the game. Also despite of the hype IoT was not such a big thing (despite for the hobbyist market, wher
905.
by xchip 9y ago
They got the autonomous driving license 2 months ago... They are kind of late but I am glad to see another contender :D
906.
by xchip 9y ago
I think it was all marketing... Like the drones thing... How many people believe the porn excuse?
907.
by xchip 9y ago
Our brain is becoming less magical one paper at a time....
908.
by xchip 9y ago
I am a male and when I am talked over I have to say something like "hold on let me finish" and that fixes it :D It's not a male vs female thing, it's just that everyone gets too excited, it happens to me too sometimes :D
909.
by xchip 9y ago
Epictetus (134 BC) explained very well how to deal with that: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html It's a short but amazing read. On can't believe it was written 2151 years ago :) Let me know if yo
910.
by xchip 9y ago
Critical thinking skills are not taught because they teach you how to question authority, and that means criticizing parents, teachers and the system. Socrates already tried doing that and was accused of corrupting youth (and got him condem
911.
by xchip 9y ago
Awesome! You might find interesting my 250 lines python jpeg decoder, it uses only vanilla python. https://github.com/aguaviva/micro-jpeg-visualizer
912.
by xchip 9y ago
As a physicist I totally agree, there are more urgent matters.
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Ransomware cyber attack hits Telefonica, other Spanish firms(uk.reuters.com)
4 points by xchip 9y ago|0 comments
914.
by xchip 9y ago
DR;TL: use premultiplied alpha for transparency
915.
by xchip 9y ago
This is AWESOME! Sharing it with all my friends! Thanks OP!
916.
by xchip 9y ago
<vanity>That moment when you realize that your JS implementation supports conv nets and others don't :D </vanity>
917.
by xchip 9y ago
Because you can put your demo online plus your browser is also a nice debugger and profiler. And you can use HTML5 for graphics/fancy stuff that works everywhere.
918.
by xchip 9y ago
You have more chances of learning if you understand the math behind. But if you still are after some code here is mine: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/aguaviva/Ar...
919.
by xchip 9y ago
"I have never seen any evidence that the WMF has been following standard software engineering principles [...]. If they had, we would be seeing things like requirements documents and schedules with measurable milestones. This failure i
920.
by xchip 9y ago
Lets try! For example this the math behind a 2x2 neural network: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/aguaviva/Ar... It is computing the derivatives of the error with respect to the weights.
921.
by xchip 9y ago
That post is from 2014 and pretty much it is stating the obvious :)
922.
by xchip 10y ago
Awesome work, I am really impressed!
923.
by xchip 10y ago
I used that tutorial to write a 250 lines JPEG viewer in python https://github.com/aguaviva/micro-jpeg-visualizer
924.
by xchip 10y ago
I just want a phone where I can run linux. No chroot, I want the real thing, with all the drivers please :)
925.
by xchip 10y ago
Because we are in April and March is already gone.
926.
by xchip 10y ago
I'd teach kids how to program or build things. Basically I'd spend my time transferring my knowledge to others or building things people need. Im already doing that whenever I have a chance. In fact right now I'm going to tea
927.
by xchip 10y ago
Disappointing, I thought this was about making renal calculus... (joke)
928.
by xchip 10y ago
Is there any peer reviewed paper proving this? (Cuba is claiming they have finally cured cancer every 4 months.)
929.
by xchip 10y ago
As a broad simplification, the cosine transforms use sinusoids, and wavelets tend to use square waves (or other funny shaped waves that is not a sinusoid)....
930.
by xchip 10y ago
What is wrong with that?

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