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pkoird

1,831karma·349submissions·May 16, 2016
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Currently startint Book 2. Definitely agree that some of the elements are weird but the core ideas of Book 1 were really awesome!
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I'd be curious to know the results you get if you forgo serialization entirely and save the embeddings on a table with 512 columns, one for each embeddings. Some rough calculation, assuming you s…
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This is strikingly similar to the downfall of Quora that's on the frontpage right now and I agree with the answers on that discussion thread. The solution, to me, is to establish more moderation.…
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> Since then, the number of severe crashes has climbed. It is hard to say exactly why. The article mentions some of the reasons but the one I find personally annoying the most are white LED headlig…
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But what does the patch stand on?
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> Currently, the association has over 20,000 members from all over India Sounds like utter dystopian nightmare. Imagine 20000 living people just declared legally dead at the whims of the state. Wha…
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If I may ask, which meds is this with the short half-life? I've heard some ADHD meds take a lot to wear off and thus, result in sleep difficulties.
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Also check out The Nine Billion Names of God by the same writer. https://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/WRIT510/readings/The%20... …
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It's difficult to take this list seriously given that it doesn't have War & Peace in it. Probably the only book that I'll never finish.
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This is an unfair comparison imo. Just because Dewalt (or similar) sell a comprehensive toolbox does not mean people won't pay for a standalone screwdriver. It all depends on what people feel the…
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Perhaps because they just made it public?
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I'm sorry but what? Do you have any references for this?
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I don't necessarily disagree with you, I just don't see the connection between what you said and the subject matter. As far as near 80% cases occuring in developing countries is concerned, d…
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A simple "yes / no" would probably be valuable even for being a single token.
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Nicotine is a stimulant but weirdly enough, it has always improved my sleep (even when taken close to sleep). I never really understood why.
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Alas, it's not always about what you care. It'd be way too useful to treat this platform as an exploratory tool, and enjoy contents of different variety as opposed to what you expect. This w…
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Have not read the paper yet but why do they only cut the decoder and not the encoder?
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I remember reading this chapter and being blown away by the "construction" of the entire Mathematics (for me at that time) by Feynman in what seems like a barely over an hour lecture. In par…
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N=1 but I've felt that I always sleep better when I've spent an hour in the sun that day. Considering how the sun has been a constant during much of human evolution, it just makes sense that…
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Is this a parody of "Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter" [1] signed by Yoshua Bengio, Elon Musk, and Steve Wozniak among others? [1] https://futureoflife.org/open-let…
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Maybe related but Alchohol severely affects sleep quality and adverse sleep quality is known to be linked with inflammations.
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They probably mean dynamic.
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Terrible is using a dynamic programming language and expecting static features from it. Besides, linters and type hinting have come a long way.
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Anonymity is one of those things that if you do not fight consistently for, will be eventually taken away from you. I fail to envision a society where anonymity doesn't really matter for most peo…
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It's a frog in a steadily boiling water problem. People not caring about their privacy enables certain actors to increasingly encroach it and then suddenly you find that these actors know everyth…
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I would rather have an untracked janky web experience. I think you should think it through before speaking for others.
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People who are generally ambivalent on TOR are the ones that we need to convert. I believe the message needs to be that anonymity is not only desirable but mandatory as well, especially because of the…
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The bit about expertise overlap is curious. After all, why hire someone that can eventually be your competition? Academia is viciously competitive on the inside and it just doesn't look rational.
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Have you tried nicotine patches? It's popular for a reason.
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