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What do you suggest me learning( technologies, projects and skills for a better resume) having come from non-CS background to work in similar posts in companies such as you apart from being proficient in data structures and algorithms?

Ofcourse, The context of this question is cutting edge side of Indian markets.

I am taking notes from this thread. :)
No, in 2017
Indeed - the early astronauts' stick-and-rudder flying skills and physical and mental stamina get a lot of appreciation, less than their MIT rocket science PhD's that led to practical conclusions e.g.: "From the above conclusions, the first guiding rule for initiating the transition from the waiting orbit to the intercept trajectory can be formulated: Simply stay in the waiting orbit until the target reaches the angle 3 from the local vertical, then apply the nominal deltaV in the direction a."
Well, this is an interesting turn of events. I did consider this a possibility of mass hysteria. It might not have been, but the fact that the police considers this a possibility does impact the scales a bit in my view.

I am a bit surprised though because if 67 people reported these sighings, _something_ had to be there that prompted them.
My point is that no one has even started that effort here on earth. How about proving that we can provide that quality of life in the deserts of earth before we do it on another planet?
That's a prime example of what I'm talking about - vague statements ("sensitive", "decline", "threaten") about global effects on complex systems ("the food chain").

What is the expected specific, immediate, local effect of that? Can you tell a particular person (the abovementioned Midwest farmer) some particular clear consequence of phytoplankton decline he's going to personally experience in his lifetime (say, 2070) or the lifetime of his kids (say, 2100) if he doesn't do the utmost to prevent climate change change ?

The articles you quoted make no really scary (to the target audience) claims whatsoever. The third includes an expected impact on agriculture (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/figure/image?d...) which shows neutral or even positive effects on agriculture in much of first world (and horrible effects on Brasil and SE Asia, but that's not relevant to the USA consumer whom we're asking to change habits).
Umm, Bay Area has decent baguettes somewhere?!
Who ever said that? I've never heard that. Maybe you're joking (that would make more sense)
I think you might be missing the point here.

A game of chess doesn't need to take half an hour. It can take 15s (7.5s/side for the entire game), e.g. https://youtu.be/G2AMN9tHSB0?t=503 Edit: Here's a bunch more games with that time constraint to show they don't all end by running out of time https://youtu.be/6ieWb3LLBmM?t=380

Don't start trying to play 15s games. But I find 4-6 minute games (2-3m/side) to be perfectly playable even at a low level.
This year brought to us huge improvements in handling text (BERT), speech (Google TTS, especially the Allo demo), images (ProGAN, StyleGAN, BigGAN) and activities such as games (Alpha Zero), and robotics. Even music composition is improving a lot. I don't feel it is slowing down yet. And when it will eventually slow down, it will be all for the better - we will have time to reopen all those different approaches that have been more or less ignored because of the DL hype.

I think the key fields in AI will become simulator based learning (RL) and graph processing neural nets, because graphs can express any kind of highly dimensional data and are useful for reasoning tasks. They marry the symbolic and connectionist approaches. These two subdomains have had rapid evolution over the last couple of years. They also solve the data problem - in simulation you can produce as much data as you want, and graphs have combinatorial generalisation, thus they work on new configurations without retraining.
I lived in the Mojave Desert for 2.75 years, not far south of Death Valley at about 3000 feet above sea level. My quality of life was quite high.

So I have no clue what you are talking about.
> First of all, what you have described is far from the reality.

Did you try any of the links I included? This is the reality for all of them and they are a few years old. They have a model file loaded from bucket url and never make another network request thereafter.

It's actually the recommended workflow from https://js.tensorflow.org/ where you'd find tons of other examples.

But you're right, this is for inference only. I would not do training in JS.
Eh, the big companies have more resources to classify larger training data sets: e.g. Google reCAPTCHA
For those wondering why not just use CSS Grid -- it's not build for that[0] (see @rachelandrew's comment). It's not explained on the repo README but the author goes into it on the explanation blog post.

As mentioned, Masonry[1] is the other famous library for doing this. Magic Grid also has a Vue port[2] if you're into that.

[EDIT] - PR just got merged, explanation of this stuff is on the Github README now

[0]: https://github.com/rachelandrew/cssgrid-ama/issues/19

[1]: https://github.com/desandro/masonry

[2]: https://github.com/imlinus/Vue-Magic-Grid
haven't been able to pick up chess. I just couldn't make any inferences when the consequences are half an hour away

The most popular time controls to play chess online seem to be 1 0 and 3 0 - i.e. you have 1 or 3 minutes total to play every move in the game, so the game lasts 2 or 6 minutes maximum. That seems crazy fast to me, but e.g. watch grandmasters play banter blitz on chess24[0], and 3 0 seems quite leisurely, most of the time. (3 0 means 3 minutes to start, with 0 seconds added after each move.) I prefer 5 12, 15 10 or something where you have time to think, to plan. There's not a lot of planning in blitz chess, they mostly play by intuition, playing whatever move feels right. There's no time to think about complicated tactics or formulate a complex plan.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/chess24media/videos#top
Certainly there are people who seem like there's no one home or that they're innately antisocial, but I'd say that a sizable fraction of sociopathic behavior stems from the rich/affluent who are more isolated from other people and from the consequences of their behavior. The rigged Monopoly game study seems to indicate that having more changes people, that resources emboldens some people with self-important hubris over others.

It's interesting that delusions of grandeur or persecution seem to be common among people who haven't accomplished very much or who are in bad circumstances. I used to talk to this relatively-sane, non-drug-using older homeless guy who repeatedly claimed the FBI has a file on him. IMHO, losers make wild, unsubstantiated claims while successful achievers point out minor, trivial flaws and shortcomings about themselves (if you're small, act big; if you're big, act small.)
First off, I am tired of people using the 'just Google it' argument. That is not a replacement for citations when someone asks you to see data and I insist that you and anyone using that argument stop. Google tailors searches based on the user, location etc and without actual citations it is incredibly difficult to assess the credibility of one's argument. If you had the time to Google your own claim, then you had the opportunity to actually cite them in your response.

And second, 1-2% is such a low amount according to your claims that I absolutely do not believe it warrents invading someone's privacy and harassing them, full stop.
> Does a silver mirror in space actually end up at the same equilibrium temperature as a lump of coal?

Yes. It takes longer to reach the equilibrium, but it does reach the same equilibrium temperature.

> [1] Here's the outline of the counterargument. Start with a blackbody moon. Estimate that with perfect optics you can heat an object to X. Now increase the reflectivity of the no-longer-black-body, noting that the surface temperature does not increase.

Right, so, let's say the total solar power received by the blackbody moon is Ps. The moon increases in temperature until it reaches temperature Tb, at which the power emitted equals the power absorbed Pb = Ps. That is the equilibrium.

Now let's let the moon reflect (scattering) some light, by giving it a realistic albedo of 10%. Then of the solar power received at the moon, 0.9Ps is absorbed and 0.1Ps is scattered. But this albedo also causes the moon to emit 10% less light, so it now emits 0.9Pb at the same temperature Tb, hence it reaches equilibrium 0.9Ps = 0.9Pb at the same temperature.

Note that the total light energy leaving the moon is now: 0.9Pb (emitted thermal) + 0.1Ps (scattered) = 0.9Ps + 0.1Ps = Ps. Just the same as the amount that was emitted as a blackbody. So in fact it's not any brighter (in terms of power), just has a different spectrum.
Yea the infinite scaling was referring to deployment of inference, not training.
It’s just a poll question.

I personally think the answer is probably a high percentage, given the power dynamics and also what happened with Anita Hill.
As a former smoker and vaper I find Juul and the whole e-cig business wicked. I stopped smoking and started vaping in 2012 and years later I realized I replaced a nasty habit with what was basically a hobby. I was never enthusiastic about smoking but I became increasingly enthusiastic about flavors and coils and all that crap. I was consuming way more nicotine than when I was smoking cigarettes. I noticed that when I chained 2 cigarettes after not smoking for 3 years and right after, I continued vaping with my mod for another 5 minutes.

The moment I realized that I started vaping unflavored juice and stopped completely shortly after. It was never supposed to be cool and pleasant, it was supposed to stop me from being a smoker.

In my opinion it's a good cessation device but the way it's marketed and how the whole industry is behaving just doesn't sit well with me.

I totally get why teenagers are into it. It doesn't smell, it's pretty cool. I remember when I started smoking as a teenager, I had to chew mint gum and do all sorts of crazy things with perfumes to hide my habit from my parents. If I had Juul it would have been awesome.
>What type of gameplay doesn't involve some type of decision-making?

Games of chance! Sorry, chutes and ladders, candyland, etc. Similarly knowledge games (trivia), or indeed entirely reaction games.
Creating at least 45 Wikipedia sockpuppet accounts [1] probably doesn't correlate with optimal performance, either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_s...
And they made it so smooth, too - just replace www with old! Considering, too, their incredible API, I have a lot of respect for the Reddit developers.
Disappointed but not surprised that folks are down voting instead of replying.

The unionization discussion focuses way too much around compensation instead of on union-employee relations. People just assume unions are all roses in this department (the author likens them to some street fighting Batman) when in reality they're flawed and have incentives that work against workers too. If you don't think there's nepotism and favoritism in unions then you've probably never worked in one. Unions pick and choose the workers they stand up for, it's not some romantic all for one and one for all story.

In my experience you should trust the union just about as much as hr or management. If you're not on the same side as them in whatever issue, watch your back.
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It's written in C, you should be able to FFI into it from anywhere. The API is reasonably small, too.
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you are right! i didn't even think of that. i mean, i have been curious about lisp-machines and even smalltalk runnig directly on the machine, but i didn't look at my current setup in this way until you mentioned it.

in fact, my home office is set up with dual monitors with gnome so that one monitor scrolls through gnome workspaces and the other is static with pharo maximized.

then a few days ago i discovered a package that offers multiple desktops within pharo, so now i got a multi-desktop gnome on one screen and a multidesktop pharo on the other, and it feels like having two computers with a shared keyboard and mouse.
See https://js.tensorflow.org/ for automatically porting tensorflow models to the browser
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OT, but how did you figure out how Snapchat takes pictures?
Helpful to know I am not the only experiencing archiving pains. Most of my bookmarks didn't archive for over a month. About a 1/3 of my archived pages currently result in an internal "Forbidden" error. My support experience since end of October has been no response after sending to 2 email messages and a private twitter message. The rest of the site is so damn useful compared to its competitors that I'm willing to overlook this lack of professionalism. Currently the promises of support on https://pinboard.in/tour/ are misleading: "If you have an idea, or need help, you can bring it up directly with me and be sure of a prompt response." I hope he returns and gives the site some love.
In all cases, one node must send the first packet. The node sending the packet is the client, and the destination of the packet is the server.

Also, the internet is a peer-to-peer system. But "peer-to-peer" is an abstract paradigm, because ultimately, (a) two peers need to know about each other, and (b) one peer needs to initiate every transaction.

I realize we're just arguing semantics here, and I'm not sure what point I'm trying to make, but it's an interesting discussion nonetheless...
I often feel the same.

I could show someone a single photograph of an animal they have never seen before and they will recognize it forever, from different angles, in different lighting, in black and white, probably even from a silhouette.

The more I dig in to ML the more it seems like it's cheating, like a mathematical trick. At least the way we are using it.

I can't help but feel like it's a game of Pachinko with pixels instead of balls, and neural weights instead of pins and holes.

I'm no expert though so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Could be, but semantics allows it to fulfill the flight definition as well.

As in, we are fleeing from confrontation, or we are avoiding the things we would normally do/feel.
I don’t remember the last time I died from eating loose fresh fruit and veg.
GDPR compliant: http://archive.is/6tSgg
There are a lot of gotcha's when rolling your own web server based on the http and https packages and I think the conclusion of the article could have gone further in addressing what they are and in what context they might matter. I recently wrote a little zero-dependency NodeJs http/s server[1] with an equally dumb router for some dev tools which could benefit from a simple, promise based api, for most other use cases I'd just pull in express or something more mature.

[1]https://github.com/8eecf0d2/decade
One hell of a postdoc.
I will never understand the desire to radically change an interface on any product <10 years old. Especially Snap's, as I don't remember anyone complaining about the interface. Instead, why not make your app use less battery power and improve the camera's functionality? Those types of improvement are universally appreciated, yet the least likely to be implemented.
Interesting; I was led to the impression that Shakespeare's writings showed a level and stratum of life experience that would have been beyond his reach or means.
But that doesn't mean that a company with the resources of Kroger couldn't also manage a brand that aimed significantly lower.

In Arizona, there's a local grocery chain (Bashas') that's been around since before WWII. They have three very distinct brands-- the mainstream brand, a decidedly lower-class brand with a string Hispanic focus, and a deluxe brand which seems to target a more foodie, but similarly affluent audience to Whole Foods.
Any reason why you think that should necessarily be so? By implying an ulterior motive, you avoid the need to actually consider the "hard choice"

For example, I was born a long time after world war 2, so couldn't possibly affect any of the decisions. But one can still try to consider (as historians routinely do) what was the right thing to do. Should Churchill have warned Coventry about the upcoming German air raids (learned of through cracked German codes), which would likely have saved lives in Coventry, but might have cost more lives and maybe lost the war by alerting the Germans that their codes had been broken?

On a much smaller scale, doctor's frequently have to make these kind of decisions - what if you have 6 patients who will die without a ventilator, but only 3 ventilators available with no way to get more? I don't know anyone making these kind of decisions who is "enamoured" with having to make those decisions - but we recognize that they do have to get made by someone, and would quite happily offload the decision to others as long as we felt there was an ethical, moral, logical basis to the decisions they would make.
Software developers will be non-unionised until there are so many of us that supply outpaces demand. Then we’ll form cartels to demand better pay and conditions, much like everyone else.
> Facebook is for finding out about events / people who aren't close to you, but you're still interested in.

That's one use case, I don't think it's the only one though.
Just to add: best analogy I've heard is that humanity is collectively acting like a crazed astronaut who's taken a hammer to the oxygen recycler.
In Tokyo when a train arrives, there is always a fairly long queue at the bottom of the escalator. In fact, the queue is so long that it is often impossible to get to the stairs to avoid the escalator. It usually interferes with the queuing of the trains on the platform as well. I can definitely see why they want to do this and it's probably a good idea. I very highly doubt that it will work. Even I will feel too weird to do it unless everybody else does it. They may have to seed the crowd with fake travelers just to get people to start.
Thanks. This answers the very question I was about to post.
Compare prices between a Dollar General in a poor neighborhood and a walmart. One of those is going to be 30% higher (even more on some things). Supermarkets have a net profit of 1-2%. If walmart could charge 30% more for the same thing, they'd build in poor neighborhoods every time. They don't because the risk is too high when a store a couple minutes away offers lower overhead, lower prices and lower risk. Walmart tried this with walmart express then killed most of them off (keeping some larger neighborhood markets in better neighborhoods) because they weren't turning a profit.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2016/01/22/wa...

Companies like Whole Foods are not typical of grocery chains. They will go wherever their niche is located. That would be like complaining there aren't Swiss watch stores on every corner. There is something to be said for branding and location, but even Walmart with their "
> Especially Snap's, as I don't remember anyone complaining about the interface.

Surely you’re joking? I make software for a living and I was utterly and completely lost in Snapchat. Easily the most confusing software I’ve used in a long time.
I know when I'm coding for me I don't because to me, tests don't solve the problem I'm out to solve at the time. I want this thing, over there. A test does not get it there.

Now, once I'm done with getting that over there, then I look at it and evaluate my level of testing I'm going to commit to it.

Some code, I can keep straightforward and narrative enough where even coming back a year later, I can pick it up and quickly move with it. Part of my secret to doing that is forcing myself to sit down with a saintly non-programmer, and talk them through it.

If I can get them to follow, I've got it nailed down. If I can't, I haven't whittled it down to it's simplest incarnation.

For all the other code... Let the test suites be written!
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Most people living in the city (i.e. most of humanity) don't get climate change.
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Large tech firms absolutely have access to unqiue image, text and game(play) data. I'm surprised you think they don't. How many tech startups do you suppose have access to every single multiplayer game of Destiny (Microsoft), every user's profile photo and interest metadata (Facebook), or every user's search history and email (Google)?

But wait, there's more! How many startups have ready access to usage statistics for every mobile app (Google, Apple)? How many startups have virtually the entire corpus of available ebooks on hand for mining (Google, Amazon)? What about traffic patterns (Google), or virtual reality game(play) data (Facebook)? Telemetry data from the most widely used operating systems and web browsers (Google, Apple, Microsoft)? Video content with official subtitles (Netflix, Amazon, Google, Apple, ...). And don't forget login and activity data through social login (Facebook, Google) and image training via reCAPTCHA (Google).

I can go on and on here. You should reconsider how large the set of training material is that be acquired by mining massive amounts of "personal" data. Of course, this is completely orthogonal to the other major advantage large companies have; namely, they have vast sums of money to throw at compute and storage resources.
From the article, it sounds like most people support NASA science programs closer to home, climate resource and planetary defense (against asteroids).

The article doesn't talk about preference for planetary expiration via robots vs humans.

In this article from Pew, people prefer human exploration vs robotic exploration only, 58% to 41%:

http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/06/06/majority-of-americans-...
Santa cruzian here: I don’t, the views and the weather are too nice to rush and put yourself in danger.
Besides you’d probably just be rushing into traffic most days.
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The report doesn't seem that scary, actually. The sections on particular impacts list reasonable mitigation actions (that don't have the tragedy of commons problem that climate change prevention does); and the particular impact of sea level rise you quote isn't that large or scary - the listed uncertain, faraway damage is much smaller than the certain, immediate cost of CO2 reduction we'd want. It's large enough to motivate local politicians to plan for mitigation activities - since no matter what they do (and in the absence of global coordination) they'll still be needed, we'll face some global warming and sea level rise even in the most optimistic scenario; but losing 2% of national real estate value over 80 years isn't economic justification for, say, meaningful reduction of consumption; sacrificing 0.1% GDP growth per year (which isn't nearly enough to combat climate change) is a much, much larger cost than the $500 billion tag.

As I skim it, nothing in that report has anything to convince people that "we're all going to horribly suffer if we don't act NOW". Yes, the effects are bad, but any personal impact I can derive from the descriptions in that report are on the same scale as the affected people would see in any major economic downturn.

The regional chapters in particular seem to have very little alarming content; it seems to center on "yep, this area is slowly to get worse, so we need extra infrastructure and preparation" - the described effects sound like sufficient justification for an 1% tax rate hike and doubling of insurance premiums, but not sufficient justification to mandate serious lifestyle change to try and prevent the consequences.
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