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They're great for doing phone stuff without pulling your phone out of your pocket and unlocking it. I can check if a notification is important, get GPS directions, snooze alarms, g…

I wonder if their real intent is to gather training data on which parts of papers are considered important by readers, and which topics are related to each other.

This is probably an extension of their hostility to mp3s. They wanted to force people away from downloaded or ripped content and toward their own store.

What are the standards for plastic-free? I suspect almost every piece of clothing with zippers is using nylon thread and backing, as well as plastic materials tags.

And the F-15's design slogan was "Not a pound for air to ground". Guess what it's being used for now?

I was stuck behind a big RV recently who was driving part way over the center line most of the time. I eventually realized he was trying to avoid clipping all the low branches alon…

Search engines refer people to those old threads. Users who care enough and are tech savvy enough to delete their post histories are more likely to have made higher quality comment…

One thing it's still useful for is getting user reviews that actually tell you if a product is junk or has recently been replaced with an inferior version. Store sites and review p…

The solution to social media companies behaving badly once they have users locked in may not be to lock yourself into another unprofitable company's closed ecosystem that's tempora…

I can get a much better idea how my ML models will behave at scale if I prototype on my 16GB MBP than if I only had whatever ram is leftover from 8GB after Chrome and everything us…

The new Macbook keyboards have such low travel that they feel like a step in that direction. I like the laptop overall but I make a lot more typos than I did on my old one.

I've made this same prediction before. In 2001 it was driven by people owing AMT from option exercises in addition to day trading. We got tax paperwork from our brokers though - I'…

Go to Burning Man or find the crowd that does.

This is a trend I can get behind, recruiting by advertising that you pay well instead of telling people they should get a sense of pride and accomplishment by working on hard probl…

They still are when you factor in benefits. Family health insurance costs more than single.

That's a different problem. Some things are hard wired by biology, but individual organisms learn during their lives in spite of vague feedback. That's what we're trying to replica…

MNIST error rates are noise these days, but otherwise agree. These guys have been around for the entire deep learning boom of the last decade, and have never produced results to ma…

I remember reading about Puerto Rican mafia bosses doing this to show an explanation for how they could afford their lifestyles. It was either known in the community that winners c…

Your Honor, please consider the thousands of banks I didn't rob.

"Everyone who doesn't agree with me should shut up and go away."

People sober up when there's a defined end date, but it still takes camp leads and the threat of penalties to get everything packed out properly.

I've been trying to do this better recently after having some non-reproducible results. I've settled on taking all hyperparameters (including booleans like whether to use batch nor…

Some ML applications will replicate expert behavior (e.g. document discovery in law) or improve on it (quant trading). A lot of the gains will be at the other end of the skill spec…

Anyone have any insight into what the top ML people are being paid right now?

From the stories I've heard I wouldn't be surprised if some were still on DOS. It's hard to develop in house with a tightly controlled budget and it's hard to outsource when you're…