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bradscarleton

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    Comment #12609417

    This is bogus. If the US really thinks that Russia did the hack, then it's not because of an originating IP or company in Russia. The US probably has hacked Russian communications …

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    Comment #12594216

    > JS almost forces you to write garbage. There are ways to work around this... First, ES6 brings a lot of enhancements to JS. However, it also makes JS even more complex and unwiel…

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    Comment #12594115

    > People who think that Javascript and PHP are crappy languages aren't just comparing these languages to 'arbitrary coding aesthetics'. I'm not defending the design of JS and PHP. …

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    Comment #12593795

    > Complex in the sense that they were originally thrown together and the results of the program might best be described as "stochastic output", yeah I can agree with that. Absolute…

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    Comment #12593677

    As someone who does a ton of Node/JS coding as well as some Python, I am personally offended! Ok, not really, but I think you're wrong :) I think VB is more similar to Python in th…

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    Comment #12127478

    There are basically two types of cryptocurrency enthusiasts as far as I can tell. The first one believes that decentralized cryptocurrency and smart contracts will lead to a better…

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    Comment #12118295

    I think you're right that one of the big downsides currently for AWS lambda would be dev tooling, however one of the big upsides is that the code you throw up there should run "for…

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    Comment #11947468

    There is no contract simulator AFAIK, but you can deploy contracts to a test network or your own private test network. The benefit there being it's cheaper from a Gas perspective, …

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    Comment #11918022

    It looks like they are using both TensorFlow and Theano. Is there a reason to use both?

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    Comment #11872698

    Responsive web apps are difficult to build, however settling for native Android and iOS is not sufficient for comparison since he's leaving out the desktop (so he should probably i…

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    Comment #11718079

    Awesome, I just flipped that switch at the top and can see how it calculates the individual handwritten inputs. Great demo! So I guess during training you're telling it that correc…

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    Comment #11717562

    Can anyone explain how the "floats" that are the output of the last layer correspond to the individual digits?