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I don't know - with some edge detection I think you could distinguish between the faces of each die, and some heuristics would probably get you the upwards-facing one. Another thin…

This is great! Especially nice to be able to remove entire fields. Relatedly, here are a couple of tools to ensure that references are complete (e.g. updating arXiv papers to their…

Great post, entertainingly written. Back in 2015, Instagram did a blog post on similar challenges they came across implementing emoji hashtags [1]. Spoiler alert: they programmatic…

I'm guessing they won't come unless you chase it. Nothing happened to my refund for May flights until I called, after which the money came within a week.

It isn't fair (in the statistical sense) to make a comparison on the basis of rank between an over- and under-represented group. Interesting read here https://en.chessbase.com/post…

2002 was the year of the Nokia 7650, their first phone with a camera - 0.3MP which it displayed on its 176x208 screen. It cost €740 in 2020 money (€550 back then). In 2020 you can …

> system where I actually refer back to things because I seem to google for the same things over and over again Yep, this often frustratingly turns nothing up for me. Hence, Pinboa…

I have two use cases. The first is to keep track of interesting articles I find and plausibly want to refer back to in the future. A 3rd party browser extension and mobile app make…

My background is in NLP - I suspect we'll see similar in language processing models as we've seen in vision models. Consider this[1] article ("NLP's ImageNet moment has arrived"), …

There's some similar work out that analyses the impact on conference paper acceptance of having deanonymised arXiv versions of papers available before review. They look at ICLR pap…

Home and end are most useful for me when I'm writing or programming, so both of my hands are on the keyboard anyway. I think I actually find these key combos more useful than a ded…

Dominos in the UK has similar incentives but put in place less rigidly - any medium/large pizza will run you £18-£20, but there are loads of 40%-50% discount above £x (x >= 35) or …

This problem of inferring something's truthfulness based on the number of times it's written down is nicely explored in the paper "Reporting Bias and Knowledge Acquisition". https:…

> It's an amazing channel for businesses to reach their customers. Do you have any insight on how consumers find this? I can imagine it's nice to hear (rarely) from a few places th…

Depends on your audience, but I imagine many find the answer boxes on Google search pretty useful. Getting the population of a city without having to click any links is probably go…

Relatedly, I'm curious about different ways that CS education can be framed. Speaking to teachers, one of the main reasons why many kids (and, crucially, parents) aren't interested…

Isn't taking this as an absolutist view kind of myopic? Sure, people don't pay anything to watch and each person's eyeballs aren't worth that much. But pretty much the entire value…

I guess it depends on what you're writing about: tech might benefit more from a date than philosophy. I'm sure he's written multiple times about this, but patio11 has a thread you …

Good example of where this has been used https://www.jwilber.me/permutationtest/

It's true (at least in my experience) that the paywall is transparently dealt with when connecting from a university network, but most sites make it pretty easy to access their con…

Don't have any personal experience, but in the UK I think most supermarkets are taking similar steps, at least when it comes to plexiglass shields and limiting capacity in shops. I…

I once took a look at traffic coming from my (Android) phone and IIRC the pressure was being sent to some Google server at a regular interval. I wonder if they use it for weather f…

I feel the resemblance to Theme Park World - thanks for reminding me of it!