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Elefant AI (elefant.gg) | Full stack developer / ML Research Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE Elefant AI is build AI to understand the physical world. Our first product (which you can…

Truth is a defense in Australia. one thing I like about Australian law is that large companies cannot sue for defamation. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation#Australia

I recently learned this has a name. The Gell-Mann effect. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-ge...

If you want different threads to see the same data structure then I think you would also need a mechanism to prevent multiple threads modifying the same node and clobbering each ot…

Fortunately, the internet is large and adds a huge number of new domains daily such that whitelisting is so disruptive to everyday browsing it's rather difficult (e.g. Amazon cloud…

For insertions and lookup it is probably hard to find a situation (for large n hashes are asymptotically superior). Trees provide some other nice properties such as maintaining an …

Fixed. I'd like to say it was a subtle implication that it contains wisdom from the future ... but actually it was just me being boneheaded.

I only benchmarked and considered the single-threaded case. Multithreading is a whole new can of worms.

(top article author). I wasn't aware of that, it looks like they come to similar conclusions "B-trees are widely known as data structures for secondary storage, because they keep d…

Btw. Google now has a similar DNS service https://developers.google.com/cloud-dns/what-is-cloud-dns

See https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/ for some easy to use Tor apps for Android.

Deep learning just refers to the idea of a many layered neural network. These can be used for unsupervised (unlabeled) learning and supervised learning (labelled). Many of the rece…

I don't thin the issue is Uber recruiting drivers. The issue is DOSing their competitor to do so.

Had a similar issue with AT&T. Now I'm using prepaid straighttalk service ... Not great but no mysterious extra charges.

There is some academic interest in ability to use bitcoins scripting language to build "smart contracts." In practice, escrow isn't necessarily needed. In a typical consumer transa…

The NSA lost all credibility for their claim not to be stealing for commercial advantage when they were caught spying on Brazil's Petrobras (government owned oil company). It is si…

This is a real concern. I held the same view for awhile. In the end, however, I decide the small risk was outweighed by the importance of the issue. The more people that voice thei…

Is there a way to donate bitcoin?

One difference is the degree of effort and expensive required to record mailed letters in bulk. If I was a person of intense interest to the government I definitely would not trust…

I find it amazing the US officials thought it a good idea to drop small (trainer) explosives on a nuclear armed USSR sub during one of the tensest standoffs of the Cold War. Is it …

I agree that it is important to reform the system, not just scapegoating. However, I think you minimize the importance of holding individuals accountable and the effect that has on…