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alook
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Comment #46686649
I just wanted to chime in and thank you for sharing your prompts like that! It feels like which prompts people are using (even from developers on the same team) is often opaque. It…
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Comment #43968601
I laughed out loud at that 100 number too when I was reading statuspage :P
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Comment #43946935
They definitely do train their own models, the founders have described this in several interviews. I was surprised to learn this, but they made some interesting choices (like using…
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Comment #43669844
The book of shaders is fantastic: http://www.thebookofshaders.com/
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Comment #43621702
There are apps that help you hide unused menu bar apps - this one works well: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hidden-bar/id1452453066?mt=12
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Comment #43556048
I love this work by Otoro / David Ha. For come context, this uses a technique called CPPN’s (compositional pattern producing networks), where the inputs are (x, y, sqrt(x^2 + y^2))…
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Comment #39752413
Love this advice. I’ve always struggled with the same thing. One friend started telling me to get over myself and publish, then he reworded it to: “Get over being under yourself.” …
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Comment #39737405
At a startup I worked at, one of my cofounders was an incredibly skilled designer, and he took a lot of pride in the design of our homepage. He spent a lot of time in particular fi…
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Comment #37157848
Also would love to hear an answer to this
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Comment #30750399
These results are beautiful! Just curious, how did you end up on fxhash? Did you consider any other platforms, or was hicetnunc the only comparable platform you’d use for this kind…
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Comment #29008502
These are awesome! Thanks for putting your work out into the world, turtlesoup. In my free time I make paintings of outputs from GANs/Deepdreams/etc. I've been wanting to paint som…
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Comment #15605484
Look at some good open source projects, and look at the overall project/module structure as well as the OO graph. Re: high-level project layout: - where are their build files? - ho…
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Comment #13573945
It's true that there aren't too many practical applications of GAN's yet, but I'd argue that transfer learning is already pretty powerful. It's fairly commonplace to approach a com…
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Comment #8396907
URX is hiring! San Francisco, CA URX is building the Mobile App Search API for Developers [ http://developers.urx.com/ ] We're hiring Senior Software Engineers: === The Role === UR…
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Comment #8385180
CTO of URX here - thanks for the feedback! ELI5 "what is a deep link?": mobile deep links mean registering custom URI schemes for your app, and registering a URL dispatcher within …
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Comment #7526073
Does this only apply to UI changes? Or can i fix, say, a logic bug as well? Also, what kind of performance concerns might I see?
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Comment #7424245
It's exciting to see under-appreciated math techniques in use for modern-day data science!
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Comment #7424242
It's exciting to see under-appreciated math techniques in use for modern-day data science!
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Comment #7345665
Under Marissa Mayer's watch, Yahoo has been investing tremendous effort in refining the UX on their web/mobile properties like Yahoo Weather [1], Flickr [2], and Yahoo Sports [3]. …
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Comment #7256511
Great article - I think lots of first time founders don't spend enough time planning out their budget pre-seed round