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This article has more information - looks like this was from 12 years ago https://www.reuters.com/world/match-group-settles-us-ftc-cla... > The FTC said OkCupid users were never to…

A really short version of it is that you don't need an agent if you have a well-defined solution that can be implemented in advance (e.g. the 'patterns' in this article). Programme…

> If they can make the average song listened to by a user just 1 second longer, they reduce that by about 0.5%. This isn't how music royalties work - rather, Spotify (and most othe…

There's a lot of confusion in this thread about "before the big bang". I was also confused and did some googling and found this explanation from a professor of theoretical physics.…

I learned about this from Red Dead Redemption 2 (spoiler ahead), where the protagonist purchases a pre-built home from a catalog modeled after the Sears Home catalog. What I found …

While my experience is not from the 90s, I think I can speak to some of why this is. For some context, I first got into neural networks in the early 2000s during my undergrad resea…

Their business plan is to build custom models for clients/companies who want to own models built on their own data. No comment on the viability of such a business model. https://tw…

I agree, but can you imagine that Matlab, and then R, were the de facto ML languages before Python really took off? Putting R models into production was an absolute nightmare. Befo…

Python did not win the ML language wars because of anything to do with front-end, but rather because it does both scripting and software engineering well enough. ML usually require…

Create view is a great V0.5 for a data warehouse and what I recommend people do if possible so they can concentrate on building the right schema, naming standards, etc. dbt is the …

It's gotten much easier in the 24 hours because of this binary release of a popular stable diffusion setup+UI: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/rele... (you …

If I am reading this correctly, a pawn past row 7 will automatically be replaced by a Queen: https://github.com/ehulinsky/AnalogChess/blob/main/analogche...

The y-axis has actual meaning: it tells you the purchasing power of a public stock, which will never be 0. What you could do is normalize it by the value of the stock at the start …

That's exactly right, he specified a style with each and cherrypicked out of 40-60 pictures: https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1512119623315075081 >Btw transparency for this…

>A "vector" in vector search solutions is a dense vector generated by a transformer model. Just a clarification that vectors are much broader than text vectors generated by transfo…

This doesn't seem right to me, why don't astronauts suffocate on the International Space Station? You can pressurize air in a spacecraft, I believe the ISS is kept at ~1 atm.

>Google is about to introduce a next-generation Tensor chip, updating the ones found in the company’s Pixel 6 phones. It is basically an artificial-intelligence accelerator in your…

>Their business model incentivize them to have top notch quality. I worked at a competitor to Costco; I would argue this isn't quite accurate, and that this statement applies to Am…