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by zawerf 7y ago
I feel like Google created the "Python train" to begin with. Maybe in an alternate universe Brin could've picked another random obscure language and it would become the most popular language today. It would be endorsed by one
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by zawerf 7y ago
You might've seen monkfish or ankimo(japanese for monkfish liver) on the menus of fancy restaurants before. Turns out monkfish is a type of anglerfish! I learned this while bingeing a weird part of youtube where you can see how fish ar
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by zawerf 7y ago
> I'm wowed by the fact that the model has learnt to negate words in if-else statements I know it learned natural languages from using GPT-2, but I am surprised it didn't get "confused" since words are used in such a
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by zawerf 7y ago
I was confused about the intended use case but there's more information in the docs folder: https://github.com/microsoft/bistring/blob/master/docs/Intro... Apparently it's for machine lear
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by zawerf 7y ago
I could be a lot happier if they gave me access to the analytics data (which they most definitely do log). It would let me freak out if there's an unexpected amount of traffic or any referrers from crawlers/reddit/social medi
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by zawerf 7y ago
The problem is that CLIs are undiscoverable. You either know what `ls` is or it's just a bunch of random letters. Your average user will never learn a new unforgiving language just to talk to their computer. You can try to re-experienc
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by zawerf 7y ago
I think you need at least one person who is completely independent of all others. For example if the same random is added up twice (say if the room is just you and your evil clone), you can get stuck with just even numbers. Independence is
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by zawerf 7y ago
There's some really interesting research going on in the deep learning world where they are trying to find the best way to represent graphs in vector space. For example hyperbolic embeddings for trees: https://dawn.cs.stanfo
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by zawerf 7y ago
The (malicious) goal I had in mind with service workers is to rewrite all other published pages: self.addEventListener('fetch', event => { event.respondWith( new Response('<h1>I murder kittens for fun&l
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by zawerf 7y ago
I meant all the pages published using this tool which are all at the same scope of: https://jstrieb.github.io/urlpages/#blahblah That said I couldn't get it to work. You would need to be able to register a service
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by zawerf 7y ago
One example would be if they can trick the user into installing a service worker, then they can hijack all fetch calls for all other pages (I think).
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by zawerf 7y ago
After many rounds, you expect to see half heads and half tails. In that case your outcome at n rounds would be around 1.5^n/2 * 0.6^n/2 = 0.9^n/2 which trends towards zero. You would need around 26% more heads than tails just
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by zawerf 7y ago
There are still a few uncontacted tribes left. I remember reading about the Sentinelese[1] last year when some guy snuck onto their island to try to convert them to christianity and died. I forgot where I read this but apparently they don&#
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by zawerf 7y ago
I don't really publish libraries so I didn't run into your main gripe. Is there any other reason why you didn't like worker-loader? I experimented with it and found it pretty straightforward. For anyone who wants to try it, y
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by zawerf 7y ago
A famous competitive programming prodigy is tourist[1]. You can find his rating graph starting from 2006 on topcoder when he was just 12 years old: https://www.topcoder.com/members/tourist/details/?track=DATA.
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by zawerf 7y ago
Can someone explain the appeal of desktop PWA to me? From the developers and the users point of view?
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by zawerf 7y ago
It's a zero sum game. If one side is positive, the other side must be negative. If jackpot isn't paid out, state gets (ticket_sales), players in total gets (-ticket_sales). If jackpot is paid out, state gets (ticket_sales - jackpo
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by zawerf 7y ago
I feel like mathematically, you must be right. One of the sides must be calculating their expected value wrong. For example I can offer to pay a $3 jackpot (split across winners) for a $1 game for guessing heads or tails. If more than 3 peo
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by zawerf 7y ago
I don't know how you remember that comment, it was from over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16784267 But as far as I know, kissmanga.com is still abusing blogspot.com/tumblr.com by using them as
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by zawerf 7y ago
For certain apps, bandwidth cost is stupid expensive on AWS. For example I've been following the development of an online manga reading site (mangadex.org) that is now pushing over 1PB/month of images. If they had built it on aws,
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by zawerf 7y ago
There is a large collection of gifs based on the reverse phi illusion in a tiny obscure subreddit that I unfortunately can't find again. I think most of the submissions were made by a handful of users and they never referred to the eff
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by zawerf 7y ago
These are minor details that didn't detract from her overall argument. And you seem to have figured out the issue yourself, that she only got it wrong because Neal Mohan is misrepresenting himself on his linkedin: https://ww
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by zawerf 7y ago
That twitter thread had a link to a video where you can see the actual shootings (NSFW, blood gore): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA4iKSeijZI
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by zawerf 7y ago
I really like this. Is it maintained? I am guessing the main repo is this one? https://github.com/caub/im-optim If not, can people point me to another out of the box solution? My use case is that I don't want to b
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by zawerf 7y ago
I think that's the scary thing. We don't even know if we know. It's all subconscious. For example most people can easily picture a gender, race, age, and where a person is from based on accent. But I never realized that I als
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by zawerf 7y ago
What info can possibly prevent this fraud though? Even the real large projects could ask friends and family to donate 5k that they gift back later. It's so easy/undetectable to do it's just leaving free money on the table.
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by zawerf 7y ago
I think your example in 4 doesn't work. I had a similar problem during an IPO lockup and couldn't sell when the stock was at a high point. If you buy protective puts (for the collar), it would reset the long term capital gains clo
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by zawerf 7y ago
I am confused about why I can see this screenshot since I am not on a wide gamut monitor. Is firefox doing a weird conversion or the screenshotting tool? My (probably flawed) understanding was that wide colors means there's more than 8
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by zawerf 7y ago
I had good experiences with it while traveling in china. Other people in my group bought local data sims which were 100 times cheaper than the $10/gb that google fi charges but everything they wanted to use (google search, google maps,
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by zawerf 7y ago
I remember from one of your older comments that you worked on Diablo 2 also. Isn't warcraft 3 almost cartoon-ish in comparison?

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