skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, and here, they're including the prior R(x) in the model architecture. So R(x) = 0 here,

and they pose x = f_theta(z), where f_theta is a neural net.

So they can avoid overfitting by stopping the training at the right moment.

So they're not really trying to minimize E(x, x0), but rather to get a small enough value, so that they obtain good results. A too small value means overfitting.
Am I the only one who finds it difficult to figure out what this device actually does?

What are the inputs, and outputs?

How do you train it?

I only see a hardware assembly guide, but nothing on the software.

EDIT: found more information here: https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/11/introducing-aiy-vi...
The article doesn't say anything like that at all. The rat "neighborhoods" do overlap, but not densely (think of the islands of wooded areas in a ski resort). In such a case it's not unreasonable to see speciation. (which is not described in this article, thus implying continued interbreeding.)

You don't need a lot of territory for this to happen. The lice that specialize in humans have split into two distinct species: one for head hair and one for pubic hair. (and allegedly the latter is under threat).
Nice article and project.

I have been experimenting with Pact that is written in Haskell and implements a non Turing complete Lisp language for writing contracts and provides a blockchain implementation. https://github.com/kadena-io/pact
Google tells me this says: "The possibilities of German grammar can surprise you, if you look at what you should, if you want to, should."

Which probably isn't exactly what it says, but it's good enough.

As I am an embarrassed English speaking monoglot, I can't wait for real-time speech-to-text-to-speech translation devices to become ubiquitous.
It's not that easy, as a native french speaking person, I have close to 0 understanding of Italian and Spanish.
I also learned Dutch and English and those two are much closer.
you dont say...
I assume this is blatant speculation. Do you have any data or any other indication that indicates that venture funds are putting money into Bitcoin? Or if the investors in the funds are pouring money into bitcoin.
Reddit, Hacker News, Google News, Stack Overflow
> SORRY, YOU NEED TO ENABLE JAVASCRIPT TO VISIT THIS WEBSITE.

What the hell? It's just an article
> I think that worrying about acheiving "near-native fluency" is a waste of time for most language learners.

Learning a language can be about much more than mere pragmatic considerations like "Will I be able to get my point across to my peers.". Language also is about culture and aesthetics.

So, while native proficiency might be a waste of time if you simply want to use a language as a communication tool it becomes a worthwhile endeavour if you see a foreign language as something that in a broader sense helps you to grow as a person.

Most non-native speakers probably will never reach that level of proficiency but to quote a French philosopher: "La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un coeur d'homme." ("The struggle itself is enough to fill a man's heart.")
I created an account to agree with you. That's a great way of putting it.
At uni I went through a module on compilers which basically covered all the Dragon book.

I then followed this on-line course where you actually write a compiler for the COOL language. It has been one of the best educative things I've ever done in my life and I can't help recommending it.

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...

I'd love to do something like that in my professional career but unfortunately 90% of the time I ended up carrying out way less interesting work (writing application for end users).
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Thank you for the clarification! :)
If he's using headless Chrome then it's likely form filling. I.e. just automatically typing in the answers to the authentication prompts on the pages as you'd normally do when you log in. Most banks, even those with TOTP or alternate MFA methods, allow you to login with standard authentication details to get access to statements and not make any changes.
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I recently went farther down the note-taking rabbit hole than I care to admit. I wanted the app to be cross platform (macOS/win10/Arch (Gnome)). What I found was that by separating my two use cases -- web clipping and Markdown/Gist-like notes -- I was able to find a sweet spot (for now).

the abbreviated version of my setup is this:

AmazonBasics dotted notebook as my primary note taking device. I use a system similar to a bullet journal.

Microsoft OneNote for web clipping. The web client is good enough if I need to read notes on linux. I use Boostnote for programming notes / Markdown. Then, at the end of the day, I type my notes from my physical notebook in to OneNote for searchability.

I know that my setup is not earth shattering. But that's kind of my point. I spent a lot of time searching high and low for a fully digital solution. I assumed that I would find several excellent cross-platform note taking applications to choose from. I was wrong. They were either not very good at taking notes, or the few that are good, are not cross platform. Honorable mention to Simplenote and Quiver. Quiver is solid if you're only on a Mac.
You don't need the password for an OS upgrade?!
As long as you're personally living on Earth, various governments can, and will, say a lot. Even if you migrate to space permanently, it'll only be a matter of whether it's worth it to launch something after you.
Why people think that AI with a gun more scarier than a soldier with a gun, I would never understand.

Remember a video where helicopter shot reporters because their cameras looked like an RPG? A soldier with a gun, when facing an uncertain situation with where he or his friends risk death, will weigh heavily on the "caution" side, shooting on everything that moves. AI with a gun, however, can accept it's death as an acceptable outcome in a similar situation.
Maybe I misremember, but after an iOS upgrade you have to sign into your Apple account again (at least I got asked every time). So knowing the passcode and upgrading from iOS 10 to 11 could mean the owner’s Apple account cannot be hijacked because the owner is not signed into the Apple account.
This hits a little too close to home for me.

I cannot count the number of times per that one of the following situations has happened:

- I go to our designers with an inconsistency, omission or even an outright contradiction in the design just to hear that this is how it was designed and that the client approved this design, so we should implement it precisely as the design says.

- Development is slowed down/held back by technical debt and odd implementation choices. When I suggest we fix this, I get told that fixing what isn't broken doesn't earn us money, so I should work around it for now.

- I have a suggestion for some process improvement (for example: developer post-mortems, including developers in the design review process), to get told that it's already been tried at some point in the past (usually back in the really early days of the company when there were less than 5 employees) and that it didn't work back then, which means that it will never work, no matter how much has changed since then.
Those terms work as well, but the term "partner" translates 1:1 in my native language so I can use the term in my 2 main languages. YMMV.
Nothing like hearing from an expert.
It made me wonder whether OP's goal was no in fact to drive people away from Perl by posting this.
Tried to learn Japanese. Gave up after 5 years.

I really did make an effort, signing up to Japanese courses at my local Kumon (when I lived in Japan), trying lots of different methods (e.g. Rosetta Stone), but it just wasn't to be.

I'll stick to learning programming languages - those I can relate to.
> In my head I usually hear the English words

I think that's just because as a new learner of a language, you are still thinking in your native language, not in the language you are trying to speak.

I've learned that it is easier to learn a language if you try to skip that intermediate translation process. Dutch is actually simpler than English in many ways (just as Old English is simpler than Modern English). Part of your and your daughter's confusion is perhaps because the same verb tense can be said in multiple ways in English, but in Dutch is usually only said in one way.

In English you might have "we are eating" and "we eat" that both represent now, but in Dutch it is usually just the latter. Similarly in English you might have "we will eat tomorrow", "we are going to eat tomorrow," etc, but even the Dutch use the present tense for this, "we eat tomorrow."

In fact, Dutch even skips verb conjugations entirely half the time, and just uses the infinite.
As someone who plays a "competitive" first-person shooter (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) I can say that at least one game does the exact opposite. Players compete directly, and elimination is for the rest of a ~5 minute "round", meaning that failure is a harsh punishment. However, other games do it differently--Quake 3, for instance, featured near-instant "respawning", such that a player is never eliminated, only reset (and because the player's starting resources are enough to eliminate another player, it's possible to recover quickly). Strategy games and RPGs typically play much more like early boardgames, with elimination being a major setback or even a "game over" state, and conflict being direct combat. Fighting games are direct and brutal, and typically you lose the game after two or perhaps three eliminations--but the game moves so fast that a whole game may be over in two minutes, so elimination is a non-issue as far as not getting to continue play.

Where boardgames solve it by making the "time to elimination" as long as possible relative to the game, videogames solve this by allowing players to return to the game quickly.
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Actually "das Mädchen" makes perfect sense. The diminutive ("-chen") requires the neuter form. This is remarkably regular for a language full of exceptions: Der Brief, Das Briefchen. Die Flasche, Das Fläschchen etc.
Awesome. Any others that you know of?
That's just a bad company you're working for, it absolutely does not have to be this bad.
There is no "intrinsic value", but the subjective value of Bitcoin is that could be a better money than any money that has existed so far.

Strictly speaking "intrinsic value" does not exist, there is only subjective value placed on things based on their properties and usefulness to humans.

Gold only has "intrinsic value" because we value that we can use it to build machines or shiny jewellery. But that is only valuable because we value machines and shiny things. Even air is only valuable to us because we require it to survive, but anaerobic lifeforms don't care. So the value is not intrinsic, but only subjectively "intrinsic" because most people value staying alive.

So the subjective value of Bitcoin is based on its its properties. Humans happen to use money, and the properties of Bitcoin could theoretically make it "better" money than any money that has existed so far.

Anything can be money, but is judged on how "good" a money it is depending on several criteria such as:

1.) Scarcity: Only a select group can create money.

2.) Durability: Should be resistant to aging and natural elements.

3.) Divisibility: Can be divided into smaller sub-units.

4.) Transportability: Easy to transport and transact in.

5.) Recognizability: Should be difficult to counterfeit.

6.) Fungibility: Any $1 bill is equal to any other $1 bill.

Bitcoin could theoretically be better in every category.

However, it is still suffering from lots of problems.

Currently "portability" is often suffering due to network congestion and high fees, which also impacts "divisibility" as it becomes impractical to move small amounts.

However, there's still a good chance that either Bitcoin Core or Bitcoin Cash or any other of the current cryptocurrencies will find a way to scale and retain good portability and divisibility.

tl;dr Bitcoin has no "intrinsic value", nothing does, but the subjective value is that it could be better money than any other.
Thank you. Any others that you know of?
Prior to iOS 11, the OS would quite often ask for your Apple ID username/password by showing a popup regardless of whether you were in another app or Springboard.
Since you don’t know what the hell’s prompted that request, it was noted that this opens a vector for phishing [1] and it conditions users to blindly put their password into anything that asks.

I wonder if this is an attempt to fix that gone wrong.

1: https://9to5mac.com/2017/10/10/psa-apple-id-phishing-attempt...
Icelandic and Greek should be Category I or II?
Icelandic is a germanic language and Greek has many influences on English. At most C3.
These influences are almost exclusively related to vocabulary. English's grammar on the other hand is Germanic.
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Dude, what do you expect from posting it every couple of hours?
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Laughed pretty loud about learning Russian in 24 weeks for B2 level.
In russian schools language course for B2-C1 level is done in 4 years (A1/not-so-A2 is done in elementary school, but it's included in that course IIRC) with minimum of 245 hours per year, 4*245=980 hours. Nowhere near 600.
3 GW measures average power. Google just buys the entire output of wind or solar farms, so supply is not matched with demand.[1] This is a known problem with renewables. Elon Musk claims that he can solve it with a relatively small area of batteries like the Powerpack, but he's sold less than 1 GW so far because batteries are expensive.

[1] https://environment.google/projects/announcement-100/
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Small World kind of sort of does that.

The game simulates the rise and fall of civilisations, and a key part of the game is knowing when to call it quits with your current civilization and start playing with a new one. You skip a turn whenever you do that, so you can easily shoot yourself in the foot if your timing is off.
I'll second this video recommendation. Robert Sapolsky is an incredible researcher and lecturer.
I did try to imagine myself speaking Shakespearian English at times in the beginning.

That's actually the problem of translating Shakespeare into Dutch, it just sounds normal and less romantic.

"Romeo, where are you?"

If they'd translate it into old Dutch [0] it would give a better feel of the language but still wouldn't be correct as Old Dutch died out in the 12th century.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Dutch
But surely this just means that binary search is not relevant?
It's not just programming; anything where your thoughts and concerns are automatically dismissed and shoved aside becomes incredibly demoralizing. Eventually you either give up completely, or you settle into the tiny corner where you're allowed to have opinions and act on them.
This is the problem I have in Spain, the few people I know who speak a bit of English use me to practice on.
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Yet another person who I feel I would dislike working with. Maybe, at the start of each post where people ramble in such a binary fashion, they could post a snippet of why they think they can comment with authority on whatever the article content is about.

This guys MO ties in nicely with most "well meaning" but utterly clueless folk I've seen when it comes to software development.

Even more so when I see his site (https://marcusblankenship.com) has:

> Let me teach you how to create a high-performing software team
Yes, people will want that. My stock answer was "thanks, but anyone who lives in <x> should get used to speaking <y>" and that always settled it. That problem is more of an excuse for failing to learn proper <y> than a reason.

(There are a lot of expats among the parents at my children's school and it's easy to tell who persisted and who didn't.)
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I agree but it is ironic, because one of the great strengths of Bitcoin is that, with just a little education and following the right basic procedures, anyone can hold it directly with very little risk. No need the need for any middlemen, custodians or trusted third parties.

But yes I can see that some people/businesses would want to outsource that risk by trusting someone else to do it properly.
Sounds like you didn't anticipate they would ever change the user experience. Perhaps you can slice out ux portions of video separate from portions teaching programming concepts. Then you can build a better product that is resilient to change. Not all is lost. It's just a lesson to be learned from.
Icelandic seemingly has not gone through the process of simplification that most modern European languages have. It is more like Old Norse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_language
This. Almost everywhere you go, there will be a lot of people trying to speak English with you.
Like the folks who lost their multisig ethereum wallets less than a month back because a rando sent a kill command to the master contract?
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I met her 12 years ago when I was in college. She was my neighbor:)
After 2 years of friendship we became a couple.
How did I know? She always kept me in check! I get anxious easily and she always finds a way to keep us calm and stay positive. She is also rock solid when faced with a difficult situation. We complement each other.

We married in 2015 and we have a kid on the way :)
It has a formal term in Japanese so there's likely plenty of books and research in their language

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi
Those colors are very unintuitive. You'd think that "red" means "more hours"..?

Weird.
When the CEO is making a public statement, as the CEO, then they most definitely are representing the view of the company.

An employee may or may not be depending on their role and the circumstances. For example, if they are the company's press officer then they will be representing the company's view.

Your link is regarding the view of an analyst who works at Goldman's. Because of the nature of their role, they can and do make statements that are not company policy nor strategy.

As such, of the two, Blankfein's statements will better reflect the official position of Goldman.
I grew up in northern Germany. Being able to understand Low German helped immensely with learning English.
> It also makes me nervous that they're putting resources into phones when they obviously haven't solved all the issues with non-free components of laptops.

By not using x86 (the board is going to use i.MX8), they remove a whole series of issues that plague modern laptops (no ME, no EMC, etc). They have a very long run-down on why they chose i.MX8, and the freedom status of the components[1].

[1]: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-roadmap-to-imx8/
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Hackerrank is currently de-facto around me, any comparisons in them?
and don't tell them if their equipment pops up on shodan unless you want an accusatory tone and questions relating to you being a "hacker"
Good to know it's a wide spread issue.
It's hardly usable when scrolling hackernews causes cpu to spike to 60%
It really depends on how you are set up, what your job is, how long you've had burnout for, how long you've been working for and many other variables.

You have to be careful because depression and burnout seem to be best buddies. You need to deal with this sooner rather than later.

For me the answer was quite simple - to just work less - a lot less. I contract and take lots of time off between contracts. I take long walks every day - sometimes with a weight vest, sometimes without. I meditate (nothing fancy). I eat light. I occasionally row. It's important to get away from the computer, and get outside and get some fresh air. In my spare time I do my hobbies: Python coding, work on my website, photography, read, travel, stroke my cat, relax with my partner. I have a side project to watch every Star Trek movie/episode ever made! {grin}

I realized in the end I had to re-prioritize my life away from work and money. It's worked out far better than I could have hoped for. YMMV. If you want to discuss more feel free to contact me via my website (see my profile here for details). All the best.
There are no governments in the open ocean but maritime law still exists.
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Personal favorite calculator:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
I sent you an email as you requested.

I wish to remark however that mine is a purely doctrinarian point of view, argued from first principles, and that bitcoin is by no means my field of expertise. I'm just looking at is as any neoliberal/monetarist financial economist (with a passion for market failures and the study of disequilibria) would.

To coin an analogy (pardon the pun): I'm like a chemist telling people about how dangerous plutonium is, purely on the basis of its chemical reactivity and toxicity, blissfully ignorant of its transcendent physical reactivity and fissile potential.

Within the window of that proviso, and assuming I have more to say on the topic (it might surprise you, but I'm not terribly interested in bitcoin, and don't bother to stay up to date on it beyond the occasional sensationalistic news that filters through Bloomberg and international media), I'm always eager to have a rational, measured conversation even between people that disagree. I'm not a bitcoin guru, I'm not an active equities, commodities, or derivatives analyst or investor, and I concern myself with the comparatively mundane task of running a family business that has blossomed into a multinational corporation. Despite what my written English may belay I'm not even an Anglo-Saxon, so I couldn’t declare myself to be entirely up-to-date on the nuances of political debates occurring in America in particular either, and I will of course exhibit an unknown Continental, centrist, statist bias.
How is Bitcoin replacing Goldman? They're an investment bank.

If anything, it'll be net positive for Goldman if Bitcoin settles down as a sensible investment vehicle as they can then make fees flogging it.
A few articles on the same topic:

https://blog.graph.cool/thinking-in-terms-of-graphs-a9087423...
https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/the-concepts-of-graphql-bc68...

And a more full featured tutorial:

https://www.howtographql.com/

Full disclosure - I'm the co-founder of Graphcool.
bad 'reason': problema is greek too
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Sure both can happen. I think the real fear is an army of AI bots gone wrong. I don't think we've had an army of humans turn on each other.

Humans will always make mistakes, and not that two humans can't make the same mistake, but each mistake is individual. A bunch bots stamped with the same code using the same hardware will be capable of making the same mistake for each bot due to the same bug.
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