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811.
by yalogin 5y ago
Can someone ELI5 how one increases the size of an NN? If I take the handwritten digit classifier that people use as ML 101, is it just a matter of increasing the size of the hidden layers?
812.
by yalogin 5y ago
Advertising is not micropayment with low friction. That’s like saying war is just the other country buying weapons for free. Advertising is an attempt at making the customer pay for stuff. Attention is free and so you cannot stop or prevent
813.
by yalogin 5y ago
I cannot believe that solution was allowed to be patented. How crappy is our patent process? Most engineers writing code would come up with that solution first.
814.
by yalogin 5y ago
Nah, if you follow his actions you can tell that is most definitely not it.
815.
by yalogin 5y ago
I was hoping Theil is being opportunistic when he pandered to the previous guy, but looks like he fully believes in that form of governance and really likes everything the guy stands for. So much so that Theil is heavily supporting candidat
816.
by yalogin 5y ago
The amount of drop caught people’s attention but that huge drop has nothing to do with Facebook. The whole market is on edge right now and investors are convinced the bubble is popping and they are looking at everything as a sign to take m
817.
by yalogin 5y ago
I have a problem with calling him a libertarian, I would call him an opportunist in the same mould as shikreli who doesn’t seem to have any moral/ethical lines when trying to make money. That is what defines him more libertarianism.
818.
by yalogin 5y ago
I haven't followed the whole apple privacy push and how it impacted advertising. However, isn't everyone always logged into Facebook? If so they already know who is using it and any interaction will tell them exactly who used it.
819.
by yalogin 5y ago
Who is “you” here? A end user or app developer?
820.
by yalogin 5y ago
If this comes into effect will we see a plethora of appstores on each devices? Every app worth its salt will want to create their own bundle or App Store and hope to control their own end to end experience. I cannot imagine how terrible tha
821.
by yalogin 5y ago
Yep, you nailed it. TikTok is hitting Facebook and they are unable to respond. May be they will by copying the algorithm but things are going to get worse before they improve. Not sure if they will change Facebook itself though. That is too
822.
by yalogin 5y ago
I don’t know how I feel, all the recruiters that reach out to me are hilariously out of touch and it’s patently obvious that they are purely reaching out to me as a stat and nothing else. The worst of the bunch is Amazon, I keep getting mes
823.
by yalogin 5y ago
I fully agree. Hiding those icons is terrible. I would go a step further d say it’s a safety issue. The defroster is usually needed very urgently in most cases. No one would expect the icon to be hidden and in the moment of need taking eyes
824.
by yalogin 5y ago
I don't understand this obsession against vaccines. Even looking at it selfishly, Science has done the US so much good and over the course of this pandemic I am shocked how prevalent anti-science thinking is here. Actually it feels lik
825.
by yalogin 5y ago
What does “ compute this as a function of the length of the input encoded in binary” mean? Can someone explain it with the other sample used in the article? Does it mean the input will be provided in binary form instead of decimal? How does
826.
by yalogin 5y ago
I dread interviews. I am an engineering manager, a product guy and have a long track record of finding creative solutions to problems, convincing leadership at all levels and executing on it. However, I suck at coding and coming up with sol
827.
by yalogin 5y ago
One thing that is not clear is if the current run up has some inherent defect or economic malfunction it's relying on. Of course its a bubble because we don't know and we will know only when it pops. However, what I am trying to g
828.
by yalogin 5y ago
I think most people know this on some level. Alcohol cannot be good for the body. However, society encourages and even shames people that don't drink to an extreme degree that people go with the herd on this. Its going to be impossible
829.
by yalogin 5y ago
Does Nintendo compete with Sony and Microsoft? Their segments are different. They compete with Xbox and PS just like Apple TV and the iPhone apps do, not head on. So yeah only two console companies in that segment of the market.
830.
by yalogin 5y ago
Will the DoJ jump in? Only two gaming consoles in the world and one of it is buying one of the biggest game developer for both platforms. Very good reason for DoJ to jump in
831.
by yalogin 5y ago
I haven’t been keeping up with the dynamics of covid spread, I thought covid is mostly spread by close proximity and over water particles. How much of the covid spread is attributed to transmission through air? I am curious because covid al
832.
by yalogin 5y ago
I am not seeing the value in discussing privacy at the protocol level. Sure I share what I want to share with the other party but that is not where the privacy violations occur. The host of the service (like FB) will suck up all data and us
833.
by yalogin 5y ago
This is exactly over engineering and solving for the wrong problem. It can be solved easily d efficiently in other ways.
834.
by yalogin 5y ago
Why would anyone use a random value as a primary key? I haven’t done databases in a long time but isn’t it standard practice to use a sequential incrementing value for the primary key?
835.
by yalogin 5y ago
I see a lot of people predicting the decline of democracy. The US is the pole that is crucial to the world order as I cannot imagine how the world will be if China is the sole power. The last few years as shown how flimsy our systems and s
836.
by yalogin 5y ago
The popular culture in those days and may be even a few decades after that always predicted food intake to minimized to pills. Has there ever been attempt to do so? I mean any company or university attempting to deliver the same nutrients a
837.
by yalogin 5y ago
It's unfortunate that they did not just say "changed jobs" in the title. However, as someone who doesn't know how employees leaving is handled by the HR, can someone tell me what happens when an employee leaves or joins?
838.
by yalogin 5y ago
I have to say I am a little surprised. I expected her to not be convicted and end up with millions of her scammed money and slowly make her way into the entrepreneurial circle. Glad she is convicted though.
839.
by yalogin 5y ago
Did we already have a thread for 2022 predictions?
840.
by yalogin 5y ago
What is web0? Looks like I am out of the loop here.

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