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I depends on what the networks have been trained to recognise - if they have been trained to recognise images of dogs then they are more likely to detect dogs in clouds. See also https://ne…

"In the past, almost everybody travelled on the left side of the road because that was the most sensible option for feudal, violent societies... Furthermore, a right-handed person finds it easie…

Slides 28 and 35 suggest it was 3 servers, each with 4 GPUs, i.e. 12 GPUs total. If that's the case, then you can probably build a Google scale network (1 billion parameter, 9 layer neural networ…

... I had more than one hundred sites. I hired a tech guy to manage my sites... I hired a couple of writers to write the content for all my sites, I hired a few sales guys to manage... social media m…

Skimmed and semi-skimmed milk tends to freeze better than full fat milk.

If anyone is interested in the "mole man" from London that the article references: Since the early 1960s, the man who owns and lives inside the £1m Victorian property has been digging. No o…

Not much information in the video on how this was achieved, but a quick search for "gruv algorithmic music generation" returns the following: https://sites.google.com/site&#x…

This story has been picked up by The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/18/google-ima... …

Seedcamp is "€25k for 5% w/ optional further €50k for no more than 2% (totalling €75k for 7%)" [0], which at current exchange rates is around £18K for 5%. [0] http://seedcamp…

That's how I read it too. The article didn't say whether the person under the bus benefited from, or suffered extra as a result of, the actions of the crowd. But rather it was how an excepti…

And the 18650 is about to be produced on a massive scale in the Tesla Gigafactory. Personally I've recently switched from conventional AA rechargeable NiMH batteries to low self-discharge NiMH ba…

1. No, startups aren't the only way to "significant wealth". In fact, in my experience, startups are something of a lottery, i.e. you only a very small chance of making a lot of money. …

There was a case last year in England where a religious school removed questions on evolution from exam papers: "The examinations body, OCR, says it was satisfied that the girls did not have an u…

See also "Heating houses with 'nerd power'" from last week at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9581588 .…

> I really wish there was a resource that would collect pieces like this There was the The Memory Hole (web site) [0]. I remember an article by the Scottish Nationalist Party saying they would mode…

"Society should place an initial emphasis on abundance," Mr. Buffett argued, but "then should continuously strive" to redistribute the abundance more equitably. This is both succ…

Yes - from today's news at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32897388 "Some 20,000 people in the German city of Cologne have been forced to leave their homes as au…

From "Why Wasn't Big Ben Bombed During World War II?" [0]: "Luck. Sheer luck. At the time of the Blitz, the Germans, like every air power, did not have the ability to specifically …

Also worth noting that unexploded bombs from the Second World War still turn up in London every now and again, e.g. 21 May in Wembley [0], 14 May in Bromley [1], 23 March in Bermondsey [2], 20 Februar…

Also a discussion on HN about Japanese balloon bombs a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8922927 …

Strangely enough I was just showing the visiting inlaws this site last night, after their trip to the Imperial War Museum yesterday. I now live in a part of London which is a conservation area, which …

Some points: 1. It is not uncommon for some of the most expensive properties in London to have "mostly absentee owners, hiding behind offshore corporations based in tax havens". [0] 2. Highg…

I remember wanting to train a neural net for my MSc thesis more than 20 years ago, but my tutor recommended against doing so for precisely this reason, i.e. he said it is very difficult to prove your …

Interesting to see open source called "slow computing" (not quite what I expected when I clicked on the link). I've never been a big fan of the use of the word "slow" in the v…

A quick search on e.g. rightmove.co.uk suggests there are multiple studio flats and one beds in the Shoreditch / "Tech City" area (some in zone 1) in the £14K-£15K pa range. Still not g…

"it is difficult to know whether a mother who worked caused her daughter to work, or whether other factors were more influential" - reminds me of the "An Eleanor is 100 times more likel…

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8738646 from December