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> there are approximately zero people who cannot learn ML because they don't have access to a GPU

That sounds like an entitled, myopic view.

There are reputed, fully meritorious govt. run Engineering colleges in India, where tuition fee is ~100 USD/Year. Many of the students studying there are in poverty, govt. provides free laptop albeit obviously cheap one. Almost everyone studying there are placed in top companies around the world.

In my previous startup I've conducted ~80 ML/DS interviews, fresh graduates from above colleges perform very well in DSA & other CS aspects; but perform poor with ML when compared to those from expensive private institutions.

When I enquired them, it came down to lack of proper access to ML hardware. Their college labs are not equipped to provide ML training at scale, their access to Internet is limited to make use of Google Colaboratory or similar services.

Yes, they could run a CPU bound training for days, but it isn't practical and many don't have consistent power supply.

Economic disadvantage in education is real, more pronounced when it comes to ML in my experience.
I like Duolingo because it is so accessible, however I found that it doesn't bring you up to the level where you are able to speak a language in practice.

For instance, I completed the entire French course but I still can't have even a basic conversation when I'm in France.
> Life is one huge proof of that.

No! Life is huge proof that efficiency lowers maintenance possibility.

> And yet the final result is incredibly resilient.

It depends on whether you consider a species or an individual. Evolution is great as having species adapting and surviving. But this also means that the individual is hopeless against major incidents.
Do you think something like this would significantly improve experience for remote workers?
I can’t speak for the 8k one, but I’ve personally seen the small one (9”) and was completely blown way by how good it was.

The viewing angle is very specific; if you’re off to the side it doesn’t work, but the sweet spot is big enough or perhaps 4-5 people to stand in front of.

Given they’ve quietly delivered on exactly what they (as far as I can tell) promise, I see no particular reason to believe the 8k isn’t real.

Obviously wait for the detailed reviews to roll out, healthy skepticism (for example I have no idea what the SDK is like; perhaps it’s only capable of rendering specific types of 3D content)... but this isn’t a scam.
Duolingo starts at the beginning. If you think a skill is too easy, try testing out of it to get to a higher level or advance faster.

Duolingo says they don't currently aim too teach beyond A2/B1, so you may already be past that.

Having learnt a few languages with and without duolingo, I think you will usually need 2000+ words in a language, and close to 90% of the grammar to read native texts well. Duolingo can get you quite close to, but not past that mark.
Sounds like it's more so water pollution where tires are bad:

> Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem — turns out, it just might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters. [...] Rainfall washes more than 7 trillion pieces of microplastics, much of it tire particles left behind on streets, into San Francisco Bay each year — an amount 300 times greater than what comes from microfibers washing off polyester clothes, microbeads from beauty products and the many other plastics washing down our sinks and sewers.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-10-02/califor...
Even Chrome isn't competitive with Safari, UI-wise. It's plagued with many of the same issues as Firefox on macOS, last I checked.
It's what John Milton wrote about in Paradise Lost: To serve in Heaven or to rule in Hell. Milton backed the republicans during the English revolution, and saw his beloved revolution be usurped by the Cornwall dictatorship, and ultimately the restoration of the British monarchy. He had to flee for his life and was effectively banned from all public life. Whereas he used to serve in prestiges jobs, at the end of his life he was marginalised, broke and blind. Survivorship-bias gives a wrong impressions of rebels, most end on the outskirts of society. Milton dictated the verses of Paradise Lost to a scribe, as he put it, to justify the ways of God to Men. Substitute an all-powerful God for an all-powerful government, and it get a hole new meaning. IMHO it's still one of the best poems in the English language. There is a wise lesson here, I don't like it, but I can't say it's not true.
Because it's written as an entertaining book presumably. I don't know why anyone would even consider it reference material.
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Well, it's not their cash is it? Might as well splash it around
Then until you are successful in fixing all the governments put the encryption discussion on hold. Then we can see the remaining arguments.
philosophers coming up with excuses for their lack of creativity :D
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It's a no go for law enforcement because they want to eventually spy en masse.
I recently sold a car seat just to learn about the second hand age of cars seats matter.

But the environment matter a lot too. There ought to be crash test by government agencies comparing new and old car seats.

Similar trend with children carriages. Shifting from sturdy iron constructions towards light weight aluminum materials. Difference being iron construction lasts long good for the environment, aluminum one to two children buy and throw.
If you love that capability, good for you. But leave it out for the others, live and let live.
The camera motion makes it look like they're trying to hide something... like the effect only works horizontally, not vertically.
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In the past we didn't have all the recent data mining technologies, they are a game changer.
Encryption also provides immense benefits to society. Modern commerce couldn't work without encryption. Companies wouldn't be able to protect their trade secrets. And so on.

Plenty of non-technical people think that they can have their cake and eat it by giving a backdoor to "the government". Which government though? The one of Burkina Faso? The fact is that backdoored encryption is broken encryption.
Does this support Flash Player? Having plugins like that RBI'd would be very useful as they're big attack vectors and usually not supported on mobile.
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In my opinion SR apps should not compute the repetition interval by themselves but rather ask the user.

After revealing the answer you should be able to say "repeat this soon, later, much later".

A different kind of app shouldn't use time at all but rather a queue of all words/cards and then put cards back a certain number of positions, depending on level and user input.

The queue system works a lot better with different timescales (practicing over short or long terms), and it doesn't tell you how much time you have to put in at any given day. It also takes less parameters, I think.
Yes. Because each one going in one car, specially in a american's very popular gas wasting cars is not only super ineffective in terms of energy and costs per trip but also extremely bad for the environment.

Also, you make a good high speed railway, and the demand will appear. In my coutry also nobody used the train, untill they were modernized, suddenly the word started to spread that it was nice, and now too many people ride the trains and we need more.
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...all definite articles can also be indefinite. The title is absolutely correct.
What period do you consider swapping the definition from new development to extension?
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My cat's collision avoidance can be both outstanding and abysmal. Context: she's running a purely vision based system at the moment (supported by elastic proximity sensors at the snout and excellent remote sensing for both chemical and acoustic stimuli) and she still bumps against my leg several times a day. And not just once but repeatedly. Something might be bugged here as she's not having issues with any other static and most dynamic objects either. I'm not sure about the details but since she's not getting any explicit upgrades to her high resolution 3D map, so she might using an advanced SLAM system. The latter is supported by observations that she has no troubles moving in previously unseen environments like while being at the vet.
Acceleration is good, agility as well, still sure-footed too, so her movement predictions and the execution seem to match well. So the only complaint is the frequent bumps against my leg. Maybe her system is misclassifying something as she's not having problems otherwise. Does not need to have a LIDAR upgrade, I think.

Edit: thinking of it more she does show this exact problem with other objects as well. Might need to debug her or get a decision-explaining version of her net installed.
That’s an interesting claim that I haven’t heard before — do you have any sources discussing this that I can read?
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The Online Etymological Dictionary (DDG bang !etym) is great for this sort of inquiry:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/quick

Similarly: quicklime, quicksilver, and quicksand.
The risk you point out is extremely true. That's one reason why corporate/paid deployments are single-tenant. So everyone (not hundreds, it's more compartmentalized than that) on an instance belongs to the same company, or if desired, the same unit.

Even in this free demo, every user has their own browser process, with its own uid owner, and that OS uid has its own limited permissions.

At the same time, it's not an insignificant risk at all and you raise a very good point, which I'm surprised no one brought up before. Thank you for bringing it to everyone's attention.

An instance is a single point of failure, it's also less attack surface. To some extent, that's a tradeoff. Relative to all devices and network infrastructure in a typical company that access the public web, there's less attack surface if all web access funnels through a BG instance. On the other hand, it's a concentration of the risks into one place. My belief is that makes it easier to manage, and that the "gap" between the client infrastructure and devices and the cloud (through which only pixels, and a wire protocol of user intent pass), makes it more secure than accessing the public web directly.

Even tho it's a single point of attack, a compromise of a cloud machine, is not the same as a compromise of a device in a company intranet, or a mobile phone of someone in the company. In order to exploit the user's local machine or their organization's network, an attacker would still need to convert any instance access they had into access of a company device or network. This could happen through attack vectors in the pixels for the screen view (less likely) or through compromising the source code that serves the thin client (more likely). This is why monitoring of source code integrity is important. Open Source is an important part of that.

At the same time, in these free demo versions the browsers only exist for 10 minutes, and, exactly as you say, hundreds of strangers are all browsing from the same machine together.

TL;DR - It's a tradeoff of centralized infrastructure. There's less attack surface, but there's also a single point of failure.

Also, if you want to responsibly dislcose any security vulnerabilities you discover, please report to cris@dosycorp.com and if you want I can acknowledge you here https://github.com/dosycorp/vulnerability-reports
Some duolingo courses have funny "priorities" too.

But in general, by learning and repeating any words in a language you build the mental infrastructure to learn more words easier.

It is almost scary to me how easily I can memorize new Chinese vocabulary compared to a few years ago. You could say my brain was pre-trained as an autoencoder!
> And why not?

If your aim is "Reduce pollution caused by cars" then changing people from car-owning city-dwellers into car-owning suburb-dwellers might increase total pollution.

For example, if a family with one car turns into a family with two or three.
That's pretty much true
At the moment I am working on 5 languages, though with varying effort.
To be fair running browser sessions should be so much less demanding than running triple A games.
Are you saying that drugs have no practical benefits?

I think what the poster wanted to say is that cars are abused, and just like any other abuse or addiction, it should be regulated.

But USA have a problem regulating dangerous stuff: gas, cars and guns.

There's a climate change coming and people in USA really are still debating if it's a "personal freedom" issue?

We are 7 billion, they are 300 millions, I think it's time they understand what good citizenship means...
And it's equally irritating to see.
Electronics from the past had such an amazing form factor - nowadays every TV, smartphone, laptop etc. looks pretty much the same, dull and boring.
Well, I'd be pleasantly surprised to know it is Turing complete. For example, TeX is (IMHO) very unpleasant to use, but due to it being Turing complete, its abstraction LaTeX is much easier.
Is their any requirement to opt for IVF treatment in India?
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Thank you for the detailed comment. I'll explore BG further.
Not flash, but PDF and DOCX/XLSX should work okay.

I have not thought about Flash, but I totally get the point you make. It looks like it would be very useful as they are big attack vectors and usually not supported on mobile.

Thank you for this feedback.
Nice article, and this is certainly a topic that everyone should know a little about seeing how fundamental cement is to our civilization. But it left out something very important at the end there... steel reinforced concrete is fantastic stuff of course, but it also comes with a drawback that is about to cost us very dearly; it doesn't last very long. All of our magnificent bridges and fantastic architecture come with a built-in expiration date because the steel inside them is rusting. That expiration date is somewhere between 50 and 150 years, and for a lot of our infrastructure it's coming due.

Concrete made from portland cement is waterproof but it isn't moisture proof, nor airtight. It breathes just enough that the oxidation of steel isn't completely stopped. And when the rebar rusts it expands, which causes the concrete to crack, letting more moisture and air in, causting the rebar to rust faster.

There are solutions to this problem, such as using rebars made from materials less susceptible to rust (stainless steel or even carbon fiber), but for the most part they are either a lot more expensive or nowhere nearly as strong. And there is susprisingly little research into this considering how important it seems... our civilization isn't very good at committing resources to things that have payoffs longer than 50 years, so everyone continues to use plain old steel as rebar in their constructions.
Meanwhile, the Roman pantheon remains standing, perhaps another couple of thousand years?
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I don't doubt it for a second, but if you can make one happen why _not_ the other? if you already have a very powerful video compressor with low latency, why not do hosted applications?

Totally makes sense because you unconstrain yourself from supporting all web-browsers, rolling out features gradually, and it unconstrains you from javascript too.

Imagine instead of google docs you had microsoft excel but surrounded by a browser window, everything else is the same. I know people would pay for that. (even if I personally prefer google docs)
Are you familiar with https://mightyapp.com/ it looks like there are people working on something very similar but closed source & VC backed. Thoughts?
I had a few friends that commuted 1 hour by train each day, and they simply decided to buy and share an old car in the destination station. Just to make the 3 miles between the station and workplace. Bus were disfunctional, so they couldn't be relied on.
They huge amount of money saved in tolls and gas (gas here is not as cheap as in the US), plus the free time and more comfortable trip in the train, made the old crap car investment quite a no brainer.
Most obvious in English when you're talking about "the quick and the dead".
When you say over one year of work, do you mean one year of manpower (aka ~2000 hours) or that you started it about a year ago?
> Actor supervision systems (in whatever language) are essentially narcisstic: they have to be in control over the state management lifecycle

I'm not sure why you think elixir discourages using databases. Phoenix by default ships with ecto bindings and you're encouraged to use postgres or Amazon rds or whatever for your bulk state management. Phoenix pubsub ships with redis bindings as an option if you'd rather not use distributed erlang.

Fwiw, I have written a multinode graphql query handler that pulls results from actors instead of a database (in this case using a database as a central source of truth is a bad idea because the data being queried lives in "its own databases", libvirt, if you are curious, distributed across nodes and having competing sources of truth can be very hard to manage). Handling these queries was not difficult. And your actors, btw, don't typically live in a very deep hierarchy anyways, you use something like Registry, which lets you query your actors in a flat fashion (the only hierarchical components are supervisors, which don't store much in the way of business logic state)
Learning languages in parallel is usually the right strategy.

The problem is that it not only takes hands-on time to build the mental infrastructure, but also calendar-time.

In general, if you learnt a certain Word X time ago, you have a good chance of forgetting it after X further time. There clearly is a distribution, but this general rule of thumb does generally hold. I know I could learn a few hundred words in a day to remember them the next day, if I really wanted to (using mnemonics). But they would fade within days, or weeks at the most.
Works perfectly on Firefox, Android 10, Galaxy S10.
My personal recommendation would be Memrise's third party 5000 word deck for vocabulary, and something like this course or a tutor for grammar.

I used Duolingo for a month when starting out and consider it a mistake. It doesn't teach grammar, vocabulary goes faster when you space repitition individual words, and even after the full tree is unlocked there isn't really that much depth.
I dont need LIDAR for it. It is very expensive and doesnt have a lot of image points to train on, at least compared to images so 480p for example.
Additionally in different parts of Germany the gender of many nouns is different.
I was there recently and visited Sarajevo and actualy faced this as a real world problem: wanted to order bosnian coffee in a restaurant but was kind of unable to express myself.

If you order coffee (kahva/kafa) in Bosnia nowadays, you are likely to get whatever comes out of the machine installed at the bar.

To get the real deal I had to order using one of these expressions:
domaća kafa/kahva (homeland coffee? native coffee?)
naša kafa/kahva (translates to "our coffee")

or

bosanska kafa.

However, traditionally I guess coffee was just called kahva/kafa as it probably was not distingueshed between the verious forms of preparation. And also calling it turkish coffee would seem ok, as the whole area is highly influenced by (ancient) Turkey, not only linguistically.
I hope this gets me hired somewhere although I dont even have a high school degree yet
This is indeed a pre-release post.
The binaries for v4.0.0 should be released before CES 2020.
You can build from sources, somehow easily enough.

Btw, it include the option to build PCL, so that you can open many PCL file-format from within Paraview (or with VTK, if that matters)

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There are concrete ships. Often these are barges, though traditional sail and powerboat designs are found (news to me as I wrote this comment, see Wikipedia link below).

I don't know how well the Roman formula would hold up, but traditional concrete tends to spall badly in constant exposure to salt water. Reinforced concrete suffers from rusting of the steel rebar segments.

Under dynamic stress, I doubt you'd get lifetimes of wear. Though several decades should be reasonably viable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_ship
Starbucks dark roast is disgusting, but their blonde roast is just about tolerable.
It's just freefalling. So there won't be any significant forces on it unless it gets very close.
Did you keep the skills at level 1?

What do you think is holding you back? Is it that you don't know how to form a sentence, are you unsure to come up with the right words, do you think the course didn't contain the words you need?

In my opinion the Duolingo course does contain the necessary words, phrases and grammar for holding a conversation. But it may not be enough to understand native speakers at native speeds. And maybe you need to be more confident!

I would recommend listening to French podcasts or videos even if you don't understand them. With subtitles if available.
No this is the only article about the comma ai model. Many people including me,in the discord server tried to extract the weights from the snpe and carry them over to a keras model
Off-topic: I wonder why XMPP didn't take off.

Most people attribute it to the lack of standardisation regarding server implementations, or "which XEPs can I support" but normally when those situations happen a single set of things takes off because it's highly polished or packaged as a bundle.

It feels like we were -nearly- there with regards to decentralised IM, but then suddenly we regressed to walled gardens and now I have 10 applications on my phone to communicate with people, each with their own account and very little cross over.
The quality of some of the code in there is atrocious, I really hope that they don't use this for real in traffic.
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This is a cliche.

There are speakers that just have a vocabulary perceived as complex and it's not any easier for those people to switch to "easier" words than it is for others to switch to more complex words.

...and for some anecdote: For some reason the way my family talks is rather formal and I often have to deal with people assuming that I'm very pretentious, which really isn't ideal in most cases. (I'm working on it!)

I think all speakers of non-standard traditions (complex, simple, dialect, etc.) have to deal with a lot of prejudice.

Of course that doesn't mean that people don't use language consciously. It's just not that one way of talking can be assumed to be the default for everyone.
Let the kids go by themselves. That's what happens in actual developed countries. It's just that actual developed countries are safe.
Just in case you're not trolling: Cats do this intentionally to show affection, scratch themselves and mark things.
I'm hereby patenting an idea or company that let's you input a story, a use some gui to modify the looks of each character, and let the tool this company provides, create a porn to your liking - per your provided input.

Even if it's in drawing/hentai form and not 'real' people.

Big bucks to be made!
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