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It might be some sort of at-first-glance rational thing to do, certainly not very efficient.

There are a lot of people on earth, working in parallel or asynchronously should be a lot more efficient than fixing problems synchronously one-by-one and reassessing in between?
In USA, H1B visa is a dual intent visa and implies a possible path to permanent residence and citizenship. This was shared with me by the immigration officer back in my country of origin (he was not interested in my ties to my country of origin and explained this when I asked why).
Hey, I think I read about that in a book somewhere!
Still not what either I or the article is talking about. Yes, the person designing the service has to know about alias files (or whatever other back end is being used), but the user doesn't have to know or care. I'm talking about what the user sees.
At the rate they were rushing to design and build that hardware. I'm absolutely not surprised they chose not to go through the extra steps of qualifying a connector/mount for a flash daughtercard.

It's very likely the hardware designers didn't expect the software living on that flash to iterate that many times.

In too many ways, Tesla was and still is a hardware startup.
Should just use hydrogen. We learned how to safely fly airliners full of jet fuel, we can solve the safety problem with a bag full of H.
A lot of Boeing shills in this thread. Disappointing, but to be expected from an American company.
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well the parent doesn't make programming be like math, but extends math into programming. i didn't have that experience in my school but i can imagine that it would make math actually more interesting for some. otherwise you are right of course. programming is very different from regular K12 math.
I think it's important to distinguish that DBS as a technique is used for a lot of different neural conditions, with varying degrees of supporting evidence.

As an example DBS for severe cases of epilepsy is actually extremely targeted to specific brain areas and resolves seizures for patients who often have really high morbility.

To taint DBS completely as an intervention because of a side effect when treating Parkinson's seems knee jerking. Realistically there is still a lot about Parkinson pathophysiology that is still being discovered.
How to self evaluate whether you live in a filter bubble, and what shape your bubble has. How to consume information from outside your filter bubble. How to find primary sources for claims and critically evaluate them.
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Distributed systems and ML, I would say. This is if you want to land a solid job, assuming you have the right mindset. Some mentioned here video games, but that industry is far from lucrative. There are a lot of interesting things to learn in CS, but very few of them will make you money. P.S. Math proofs. Learning what it takes to prove a moderately complex theorem makes a far bigger impact than learning how to program a video game engine. Math teaches how to build highly complex, but reliable, imaginary structures from nothing, by introducing axioms and building up on them using logic - a skill that distinguishes good software engineers from mediocre ones.
Just want to point out that you're asking about "ML" but your questions are about neural networks/deep learning which is only a subset of machine learning.

> is there any math behind ML at all?

Yes. There is a lot of research in this area (some people argue it's excessive at the moment). You have the correct intuition that the answers aren't black and white all the time. For example, there are solid reasons to choose relu activations over tanh. Or to build certain types of network architectures for certain tasks. That doesn't mean that you can immediately calculate what would happen if you switch from one activation to another without running your network.
AFAIK server CPUs aren't much different than consumer offerings, and generally more cores = lower clock speeds, and (generally) subsequently leads to lower single threaded performance.

It's highly likely there's a market for it, however I'm doubtful they'd be willing to spec lower-density, higher-performance machines for the few people who would actually take advantage of them. Considering high core count CPUs are becoming the new norm, re-writing or finding software that can take advantage of multiple cores/threads is certainly the way to for maximum performance (where possible, of course)
Take my email so you can email me a list of books to choose from later. I look at so many new products and libraries every day that I had already forgotten the name of your site.

Since I get most of my reading done on the throne (currently re-reading The Art of Profit by ), I really like the idea of a bite-sized reading app, especially for the non-fiction business books I mainly read.
The console for digitalocean droplets (kvm virtual servers) is presented with noVNC.
Out of curiosity: Assume the answer is yes?
And it’s really hard to buy a good quality new TV that’s not smart
Anyone have a non-paywalled version? Frustrating to only be able to read the first paragraph.
It’s getting there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Singa...
> Nobody cares about freedom of the press because they are well paid and comfortable

that's because freedom of press and similar rights are a uniquely western phenomenon that are --- despite what droves of its proponents will tell you --- derived from christian values that didn't and don't exist anywhere else.

Many in the broader region don't care about freedom of press, while also being poorly paid and uncomfortable. No placation of masses needed.
NoVNC is a wrapper, too. It requires VNC server and present that VNC server as HTML5 app.
There is a subfield that does serious mathematics, but their results are usually far removed from the state of the art stuff. Their results usually look like "a neural network with 1 hidden layer is a universal approximator" or "exponential expected convergence speed on linear relations for <X>".
Yep, that's absolutely fair, and I don't have data on it. I also picked a specific BAC value only slightly above the legal limit. The more you drink the worse it gets, naturally. Without data, I'd speculate that the incidence of non-fatal and fatal accidents increases commensurately as you are of course generally less able to control your vehicle.
I wonder if it got more difficult to kill them for the furs when they got cuter, more friendly and loving.
I agree with your language parenthetical, but speaking for myself at least, my elective language course did not have this effect on me (at least that I noticed). It was actually traveling to a different country (In my case, the UK in high school, then China in college) which opened my eyes to all the assumptions I didn't even know I had.
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Ask for name and date of birth. Voila, no scraping.
Yes.

https://joanbruna.github.io/MathsDL-spring18/

On Tanh and ReLus, the paper on SeLUs is pretty intense.

ReLUs help with vanishing gradients to some degree on a larger degree of loss and activation functions, btw.

edit: On your question about a billion data points and predicting behavior, we are getting there.

http://www.offconvex.org/2017/03/30/GANs2/
I would say that it’s also about team output. By getting rid of a productivity tool, you will decrease expenses, but simultaneously productivity and therefore revenue will suffer.
> That country is an authoritarian nanny state disguised as Disney Land.

This was my observation about Monaco too.

If people were poor and fighting for opportunities in that hamlet they would call it authoritarian. But since it isn't and is free from adversity it is viewed favorably (and the poor people can live across the street in France). Just a fascinating look into relative morality, or masquerading disdain of certain forms of government as a moral issue while ignoring others, as opposed to just the authoritarian nature of a particular government.
Not necessarily true. The polynomial time for the escape of saddle points by using stochastic noise is pretty practical.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21407727

Vendor page:

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/autonomi/
Previous submission/discussion (without paywall): https://www.piper.com/press-releases/piper-announces-new-m60...
Feel free to reach out to me. I’m a bit jaded from seven years of early stage startups, and from what you posted here, it sounds like you contributed a lot and expect recognition. Don’t. If you’re not a founder or you didn’t negotiate a huge stake of equity, you need to look out for yourself.

If your lead is liked by the founder, it won’t matter if you’re right, and you’ll be painted as a bitter employee. The flip side is that you could actually already be that bitter employee, in which case being right also doesn’t help :/

Edit: if you do have a good relationship with your founder(s) follow the advice given by others :)
re augmented memory, from 22 years ago, http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/Papers/wear-ra-personalt...

Is what got me interested in wearable computing.
I do not know much about sagas.

I like this approach because you need this user table anyway (probably!) and no data is duplicated in your system. There is one authoritative place that maps username to stripe id, and the logic to work on computing that (making stripe api calls, retrying) lives inside the system that is responsible for telling other parts of your infrastructure that ID. So you do get a consistent view from everywhere; no system will ever have the "wrong answer".

The complexity here comes from handling every possible transition. With an ad-hoc approach, some transitions are hidden and can be ignored until they actually happen. With this approach, you have to think about it all up front and write the necessary unit tests.

The first version of my password changer thing detected states I hadn't thought about and just sent an alert for someone to manually do something. There was a control plane outage and everything broke one day, and that forced me to implement some of the automatic cleanup. Some other comments suggest "don't write this, just send your ops team an email when something breaks" and that is fine for the initial version. All you really want is a detailed record of what's happened and what went wrong, from there you can either fix it one-off, or finally write the code to fix it automatically. You don't need to implement retries and rollbacks on version 0... just flag the account and go fix it yourself until you decide you'd rather have the computer do it.
Basically anything that can be flashed with open firmeware, such as Tasmota (https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/wiki/Prerequisites) plus a local instance of Homeassistant.
It needs a bit of work and sometimes soldering skills, but some devices can be flashed without soldering and in general it’s not too hard to do. :-)
Mobile Games Make 39-Year-Old Singapore’s Latest Billionaire
This is nonsense IMO. Not to disparage Tesla but I doubt many of the components will last 10 years let alone 100
I've been living and working in Singapore for two years now, coming from the United States. I'm a libertarian who finds politics and economics in the US to be horribly broken, and while in principle I don't agree with authoritarianism or planned economies, I'm also of the mind that one cannot apply a single concept of government to every culture. That's a colonial mindset.

America's liberal tradition came from many, many factors over hundreds of years. By comparison, Singapore is still in its infancy. While I don't agree with everything I see here, the system does work.

All that said, I'm applying for permanent residency here, because when I look at what's happening in America, in either major party, I don't have much of a desire to return. At least the Singaporean government is much more honest about what it is. It's not perfect, by any means, and it's expensive to live here, but it's clean and safe, it has the world's best airport, and it is a great place to do business.
No you are incorrect. noVNC is still ultimately a client, a simple baked-in static web server does not a PaaS make. Guacamole is a turnkey server that works out of the box where you get a full blown GUI and control panel and everything. Guacamole has the added overhead of the proxy but it's a lot more convenient. Unless you are doing high performance applications like cloud gaming with the server halfway across the globe, Guacamole is more than sufficient if you don't want to fiddle with too many knobs.
Visa-sponsoring jobs that involve minimal coding and only 3 years of experience?
What are some jobs that involve minimal coding (or none) and will visa-sponsor you if you have 2-3 years of experience in said job?

All I can think of is Project Manager. Anything else?
Is it feasible to design the aircraft so in the case of an accident it can release the hydrogen and safely glide to ground level?
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according to the article, these newer ships could fly high enough to be above all the problematic weather. only take off and landing would be an issue. but at the speed they are flying, a few hours delay won't make much off a difference either.
If they were serious they would have calculated the max theoretical energetic efficiency of Zeppelin cargo hauling and realized they should stop
At this point I think it is fair to say that pilots are only kept around for passenger comfort. Automated aircraft have been in the skies since the 1940s and as computers became more powerful we have reached a level in which flying without computer aides is not only difficult, but literally impossible for a many new models (aircraft as far back as the F-16 in the '80s are impossible to fly straight by hand).

Given the strict and well defined procedures regarding commercial air travel, I see it as only a manner of time until air traffic controllers are giving commands with keyboards instead of their mouths. That is, until automated air traffic control completes the circle.

Automated air travel is, by almost all accounts, a solved problem. None of the ambiguity that plagues self driving vehicles exists in the air. Not only does the plane have basic location (INS + GPS) and attitude knowledge, but it also has access to synthetic terrain databases and live weather radar combined with hundreds of ground radar stations offering NDB and VOR/DME services, and to top it all off most commercial runways have ILS installations that can bring the airplane within inches of the centerline and perfect glideslope.

It is a bit of a shame as someone who has wanted to be a pilot for a long time. I still want to get my PPL, and I wholeheartedly believe GA will be alive for decades to come even after the Boeing drones come out, but at this point I can't see it as being a valid career option.

Change my mind?
the joke this time is that we switch to non-binary logic gates with qubits.

so we'll still laugh at this comment even though the addressable space turned out to be "good enough", it was just an antiquated framework to begin with
Billions of people fly every year. Your single Big Mac might not have an impact for you, but billions of them can have an impact globally.
I'm glad you got better, but I am baffled at how enthusiastic folks are about this book. I think this Amazon review sums up my concerns pretty well: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3M3YGYR7X3P9L/re...
Why not use hydrogen, its cheap and zeppelins can be smaller and fly higher.

We will maybe better in avoiding accidents compared to 1937:

- have better materials

- can use it only for cargo with drones - no human should travel with them!

- should/can use routes to avoid cities, and should/could build some separate safe landing space

etc...

finally:

Hydrogen fires are less destructive to immediate surroundings than gasoline explosions because of the buoyancy of H2, which causes heat of combustion to be released upwards more than circumferentially as the leaked mass ascends in the atmosphere; hydrogen fires are more survivable than fires of gasoline or wood.[22] The hydrogen in the Hindenburg burned out within about 90 seconds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
Someone might not hate opinions, just not appreciate the condescending tone in yours. You can still rely on the color reproduction of your expensive device when it matters.
Sounds like an airplane's Valsalva maneuver...
My 11 year old philips is still fine.
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As an US expat living in SG, I would say yes.

Singapore is the first place where I actually began to question whether democracy was the absolute way. Democracy was how I was raised. Overall, I still believe it is the way long term, but what can you do when you have a single, unified government that cares for its people is simply amazing.

Safest in the world, hands down. This can be felt in every day life. I hold tables while I get my lunch with my cell phone. I've even dared it in public "hawker centers" a number of times. My friends have had stuff stolen, but that was in the bathroom where there's no "watchful eye". My kid can run/play freely and I only worry about her running into traffic.

A about 1-2 years ago, someone was stabbed to death in the central business district. It was the biggest headline for ages - murder of passion from father-in-law. That's it... nothing else. I don't think/worry about guns - ever.

"Hawker Centers" are basically food for the people. Each meal can be had for US$2-4. I live in public housing, HDB, and while that sounds weird - 70%+ is public housing. i.e. only PR or citizens may purchase (I can rent as an expat). This keeps the price of homes at a relatively reasonable amount. US$250k - US$600k. Housing is not perfect but it is way better than stateside problems.

There are dark sides, do not get me wrong (built on the backs of migrant workers who can never gain status - is just one. Black and Chinese built US but gained status eventually... migrants can never gain status here and continue to build this country), but they're not nearly as dark as others.

Is it worth it? I say if you are willing to submit yourself, it completely is.
It may be an atrocious bad advice, but you didn't provide any reason/clue/example why it should be.
I thought it has been demonstrated to have excellent outcomes with respect to Parkinson's, is that not the case?
> derived from christian values

This is not quite correct. Christian values would be a strict theocracy with no freedom of the press.

Liberal values descend from a robust view of agency, eg humanism which is more or less incompatible with strict interpretations of Christianity. Compatible with deism though.
There is OpenSTF which is similar but for physically remote controlling Smartphones. No need to install any client.
Can be controlled from any browser, even from another smartphone.

https://openstf.io
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A good start: https://thebookofshaders.com/
What about gig work, such as driving an Uber?
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Eh, it's ok. It closes at 1:30am. Also, it's a PITA to get to the airport.
The puzzles are released each day at the same time - 5am UK time (I think it's midnight Eastern Standard Time but don't hold me to that) - and people race for the first correct answers. Check last year's leaderboards and look how fast people answer: https://adventofcode.com/2018/leaderboard/day/1

You don't have to race, it isn't required, but the people who do race are very very quick off the draw - they have scripts which login and download their data file as soon as it's available, then templated code ready to read it in as if it were numbers, as if it were a CSV, and load up some counter variables and arrays to save a few seconds typing, and they skim read ignoring the story, trying to jump to the calculation, code it in moments, run it, get an answer, paste into the site, and verify it. Then download the datafile for part two, skim read the story for part two, modify their code to handle it, run it, get an answer paste that in. First person did both those, all that, in 1 min 48 sec. (!)

Toolkit is mostly "I've done this last year, know what held me up, or what patterns came up several times", you don't need one at all if you're not racing for the first 100 answers.

btw. you can sign up now and do previous year's puzzles if you want to see what it's like.
> Isn’t 5000K very “cold” light? “Cold” lights (above 2700k, the typical incandescent color temperature) have a bad reputation, but 5000K is actually less cold than the sun (which is about 5500-6500K)

I don't think the author is taking into account that a lot of the blue spectrum from sunlight is scattered in the atmosphere resulting in a much 'warmer' light hitting us.
yeah, putting people in concentration camp because of their religion does not seem to buy them much credit.

Weird.
The degree of planning and preparation that goes into the infamous mass shootings does suggest that they are capable.
While it's true that many German reports presuppose his innocence, and I've also wondered whether those reports overstate their case, the submitted article (rant) is extremely low-quality.
Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter
I still don't see your point. Yes, Guacamole may be "turnkey server", but noVNC is server, too.

noVnc supports only VNC. Guacamole supports VNC, RDP, SSH.

noVNC can be run on Windows and Linux. I think Guacamole server has be run on Linux. Not sure about that.

That's not apples to oranges.
Perhaps that's because scientists had abused, the public trust in the not too distant past?

(that includes paper publishes as well authors).

I am interested however to learn/understand opinions of how to make the situation better.

For example, updating insensitive model that would include critical reviews of published work, independent confirmation of published work, and so on.

There could be a bias-adjustment model where if heavy majority of the government or business grants are looking for a particular 'answer' within a given subject-area, there need to be a counter-balance model (that, again, incentivizes a plausible discourse)

Today's intensives model for academia, appears to give lot of weight to # of papers being published.

In the areas where statistical significance of experiments/observations (rather than provable theoretical result) plays an important role -- this particular measure of 'one's academic achievement', could be responsible for the 'trust issues'
Go to the founder. Explain how you feel, respectfully. The only way the company survives is if it is based on sound foundations.
That's a good point. I wonder whether the answer is that CI applies to actions _taken_, not _avoided_. I could be wrong though. This requires further thought.
Autoland has existed in commercial airliners since the late '80s. It is really not much more than a mathematical equation given the feedback provided by ILS (which tells the airplane exactly how far off it is from the runway in both lateral and vertical directions).

However, pilots prefer to land by hand mainly because it gives them something to do (and it's fun). Additionally, not much thought was given to comfort when these autoland systems were made, and last I heard nobody recommends actually using them as they have a nasty habit of planting the plane into the runway (apparently, they're not programmed to flare before touchdown, resulting in all of the landing gear hitting the pavement at once). This is not really dangerous, but it does impact the lifespan of the landing gear and also gives the passengers quite a kick.

These problems are relatively minor and can be fixed in software, but we still have planes kicking from the '80s, so it will take a while for those changes to trickle down. Nonetheless, I am confident we can build a comfortable autoland in the present day.