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markeroon

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About markeroon

Machine learning and computer vision.

https://www.twitter.com/markeroon

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    Comment #46774609

    Do you have more info about this? Never heard it before

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    Comment #46714115

    I learned so much installing and using Gentoo about 20 years ago

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    Comment #46456281

    That's strange, I know a bunch of guys in my hometown who hang out at the Elks who aren't religious. Most of them are probably confirmed or at least baptized though.

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    Comment #46338466

    Enough with the pedantry please: "Driving under the influence of cannabis was associated with a significantly increased risk of motor vehicle collisions compared with unimpaired dr…

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    Comment #46338289

    If we're doing anecdotes I'm sure there are lots of drunk drivers with spotless records. I understand that you're taking issue with the idea of always being impaired, but the artic…

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    Comment #45986521

    I think that this is an opinion. For instance, one might think online gambling should be illegal, regardless of whether it causes addictive behavior or exacerbates some genetic pre…

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    Comment #45985773

    Is it important to stress that though? This feels like a personal responsibility argument while also acknowledging that it disproportionately affects people who don't have a ton of…

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    Comment #45486523

    I noticed that you posted the story, are you one of the authors of the paper? It mentions a number of potential treatments including mindfulness, CBT and metacognition -- do you th…

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    Comment #44944998

    Look into pruning

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    Comment #44390651

    Most provinces in Canada have $10/day childcare

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    Comment #43839524

    Was this book any good?

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    Comment #43808354

    Great reference https://x.com/dril/status/384408932061417472?lang=en

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    Comment #43419292

    Jim Ryun ran 3:59 as a high schooler in 1964 (and then 3:55 in 1965). Alan Webb ran 3:53 in high school in 2001.

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    Comment #43407869

    I’m curious how this aligns with the thinking on sauna and short-term heat exposure being healthy?

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    Comment #43276157

    Ever hear of Afghanistan or, I don’t know, World War Two? Do you know what the word ally means?

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    Comment #42900412

    I edited my link to better capture how much twitter is bleeding in terms of valuation, but you had replied in the interim. My bad! Fair point re: selling the debt.

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    Comment #42900366

    “The social media platform formerly known as Twitter is worth almost 80% less than two years ago when Elon Musk bought it, according to estimates from investment giant Fidelity.” h…

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    Comment #42892010

    Is that true of something like NPD also?

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    Comment #42741163

    The recommendation engine is at least partially learned so it’s fairly likely that it’s the latter

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    Comment #42618103

    This is a good summary that captures the discourse in Canada presently, very different from what people seem to be focusing on here on HN. One caveat: as far as I know, taxation in…

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    Comment #42518688

    > Extroverts don't understand this concept of limited capacity for socialization. Othering >50% of your audience isn’t the best way to make a point, and plenty of extroverts unders…

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    Comment #42476032

    Only 300 lines of code, impressive! I love this.

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    Comment #42451817

    This blew my mind when I first learned of it

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    Comment #41275561

    Imo the biggest issue (from memory) was that Tensorflow used a static computation graph. PyTorch was so much easier to work with.

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    Comment #41241204

    Already invented the transformer