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>Remember the KPMG anthem that leaked circa 2000? Actually, no I don't, never heard of this until now, but it is beyond hilariously bad, assuming this [0] was the real version. It …

This is a huge deal. It smells a lot to me like Cambridge Analytica, but even worst. >The service can find the whereabouts of almost any cellphone in the country within seconds. It…

Having been on a project with a 100x tech lead who rarely wrote code (but every time it was amazing) due to their leadership position, followed (and preceded now that I think about…

You are not off base at all, thanks for clarify and sorry for the confusion, I did not mean to say it was using gradient descent. It's been a while. The term I was thinking of was …

Having studied this extensively back when they were called Genetic Algorithms, I would like to offer a few insights. 1) One of the biggest reasons they fell out of favor for more "…

Wow. I’ve discovered many bugs in my life. But none caused me to fear for my life. >There were often significant food shortages in the Soviet Union, and the government plan was to …

Let's hope they start bringing these cars to upstate New York in the winter, only then can we seriously consider Level5. The salt layers on so thickly that I would be surprised if …

You don’t see why forcing the open sourcing of the entire Google codebase would be a problem? That’s essentially what GPL does, if you use even a tiny portion of it for your code a…

Agreed! The Great Treat List Recursion problem from Parlante's intro to CS page is really good practice with pointers.

I edited the original comment to include a source. Serious talk of self-driving cars was around by then, as they had already successfully used auto-pilot in planes, it wasn't that …

You already are quite involved by providing translations, thanks!

You’re right it’s not that novel. Volvo has self-driving* truck convoys going back to the 90s I think. I think for long-haul trucking it’s certainly pretty hard to stay fully tuned…

Interesting. So that's why emacs whigs out sometimes when trying to open very large files: because it has a recursive GC that has trouble when it runs out of stack space. Assuming …