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by yazr 8y ago
This is shocking in so many ways. Sad !!! Also, from the article, TIL a new word: Obdurate ...
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by yazr 8y ago
Similar sentiment has been expressed by others. In the (simpler and less studied) game of Shogi, AG made very startling moves, which increase the number of vulnerabilities (and opportunities). AG is able to better balance all these combinat
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by yazr 8y ago
Isnt vandalism a problem with dock-less scooters ? I can imagine someone passing by, picking up one of these and dumping it into a garbage can. Maybe the margins are so high they can just effort to replace them ?
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by yazr 8y ago
TLDR: testing on-the-fly memory (de)compression on contagious memory benchmarks
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by yazr 8y ago
With ebook its even worse.. ;( u can hoard.. but u cant win.
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by yazr 8y ago
Are these the space-grade multi-junction panels? Are the Loon panels size-constrained or cost-constrained ? The article itself is odd - most PV will go to utility and commercial scale. Even on rooftop, aesthetics are possibly down the list
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by yazr 8y ago
Well, I can probably mine 10 tops books and come up with a good list of 100 abstractions. But i am sure someone has done a much better job than me on this..
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by yazr 8y ago
Is anyone aware of a birds-eye catalog of common code abstractions? e.g. linked list, hashes, lookup table, classes, counters, iterators, etc (Not referring to books such as TAOCP which cover a few topics in-depth)
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by yazr 8y ago
Are we ok with buying compute on AWS ?
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by yazr 8y ago
HP paid $11BN for UK-based Autonomy, only to discover accounting irregularities and crashing sales within a year. The British criminal investigation was closed last year. Sigh..
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US charges Autonomy boss Lynch with fraud over $11bn sale to HP(zdnet.com)
5 points by yazr 8y ago|1 comments
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by yazr 8y ago
Well, actually... PG laments the difference between today and 1500s. He is not talking about some ideal utopia. So the reply tweet claims that the difference is not that great.
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by yazr 8y ago
The simplest and best reply to the Darwin tweet is this https://twitter.com/paraschopra/status/1068462375970443264 > Today’s Darwin would be like the original Darwin. > Someone with FU money, not dependen
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by yazr 8y ago
The reddit discussion is https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/a0nnp7/r_m... Some skepticism in the comments, since the algorithm assumes you can "return to a previous state" (e.g.
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by yazr 8y ago
Very nice product. Which lib is used for pdf processing ? Is epub support in the roadmap ?
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by yazr 8y ago
Well - how did China finance all these investments ?! (start rant) The simple answer is "China consumed less, and invested more". The US can tax fuel and SUV, and invest in green energy. The EU can tax London's banks and offs
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by yazr 8y ago
A train+bus is a much higher threshold for many people. Will you go to a lawyer that requires a bus+train? A restaurant? A party u r not too sure about ? Trains are relatively dependable. The last mile is a big problem. (To be clear : i am
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by yazr 8y ago
Lots of truths in the article. BUT Trains is always a system that picks winners & losers. The closer u r to the nearest station - the bigger winner u r. I lived in London. Any location not within 1km of a station is basically a prison.
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by yazr 8y ago
A balanced and convincing analysis. The speed of this decline however, is still very debatable.
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The doom of fossil fuel investments(cleantechnica.com)
12 points by yazr 8y ago|4 comments
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by yazr 8y ago
Will this lead to price hikes (a-la Oracle death by a thousand cuts of "improved plans", surcharges, etc) Wondering what people think about this.
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by yazr 8y ago
TLDR : actual progress is slower than expected ;) The article also mentions skepticism over China HW efforts, and and also compute shortages, which i find surprising I generally feel that the compute is solvable given time/funding&#x2F
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China’s artificial intelligence ambitions hit hurdles(ft.com)
3 points by yazr 8y ago|1 comments
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by yazr 8y ago
a. single threaded code b. extended benchmark duration - no thermal throttling encountered c. straight forward C compiler - no special code for the GPU unit or whatever d. main reason is probably memory and cache configuration I think it is
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by yazr 8y ago
This is by Hansjörg Wyss the founder of biotech company Synthes. His focus is on nature conservation. But i do feel this is treating the symptoms rather than the disease e.g. excessive population growth, extraction rather than recycling, fr
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Donating $1B to help accelerate land and ocean conservation(nytimes.com)
61 points by yazr 8y ago|26 comments
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by yazr 8y ago
> typical Chrome build today still takes about 15 minutes Is this a typical build experience for Google devs? Or is this more of a rebuild / core header changed ?
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by yazr 8y ago
Yikes. There is just so much progress with ML and DL. Can anyone estimate how much CPU $$ we need to get some results with this ? I train on about 20M samples (1K data points each).
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by yazr 8y ago
Which neighborhoods can u recommend? Preferably walk-able with cafes etc and some expats..
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by yazr 8y ago
Thanks everyone for the feedback here. Staying close to the airport is probably the top priority ;) Is Prague safe for a quiet+european+foreign+laptop-carrying male? Or should i stick to the tourist areas?

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