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Comment #24044486
Depends on whether you are looking for effectiveness vs efficiency. YOLO et al. are optimised for general feature extraction. They are ridiculously good if you need to build someth…
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Comment #24025139
A real life Flowers for Algernon :(.
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Comment #24024531
I have mentioned this before, this is a supply problem. If you do not gatekeep medical degrees with irrelevant non-academic barriers (volunteering, portfolios, admission letters) a…
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Comment #23962467
At that time software's AT&T style winner-take-all and network effect lock-in was still not that obvious. The PC was not yet the golden standard for desktop hardware and words like…
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Comment #23953700
Here's the previous thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23881342
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Comment #23953651
Organic chemistry and neuroscience are complex. FWIW soursop has also been linked to causing Parkinson's like syndromes due to neuro toxicity.
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Comment #23942615
There is a new version coming out next year: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/machine-learning-second-editi...
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Comment #23751699
This is a bog standard modern NLP problem, I love how all the comments here are on how impossible it is using traditional heuristics and quoting various pop neuroscience authors an…
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Comment #23741375
Does JAMA network handle the journal translations or are they done by the authors?
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Comment #23739626
So an inversed Dyson bladeless fan.
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Comment #23731655
I think WebAssembly+low-level DOM API would be a good compromise for the lack of JavaScript.
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Comment #23728930
Was the firmware at that time complex enough that you can attempt an OTA brick? Are radios from 1984 mostly analogue?
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Comment #23720981
Which Bossware SaaS has such sophisticated NLP?
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Comment #23717148
Looking forward to differentiable programming in Fortran.
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Comment #23716491
It is great until your charity gets acquihired by a big think tank/bigger charity/international aid group and most doctors/charity operators are not known for their talent at scali…
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Comment #23696851
I think Tensorflow with Swift or Rust bindings may also work.
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Comment #23696595
Just do a quick search for transparent LCDs, I think it will answer your question. (Not enough light gets through, the result looks more like high resolution stained glass than a R…
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Comment #23696578
Have you considered using an off the shelf differentiable programming implementation? Or are the requirements for real-time applications too demanding for existing software?
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Comment #23696448
How does the differentiable programming implementation work?
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Comment #23694304
It goes back way further than that, the incidents that I am recalling involved academic teams and I think ImageNet. It happened quite a few times.
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Comment #23694271
Another duopoly that needs more competition is push notification infrastructure. Efficient push notification requires OS vendor server support due to radio usage and agreements wit…
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Comment #23693809
There was a scandal a few years back when a Kaggle team did something simar with ML. They were treating the competition as a black box and optimising for the unknown dataset instea…
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Comment #23680639
Compilation speed comparable to template heavy C++, a large difference compared to Go for similarly sized projects
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Comment #23630260
The problem is that the aforementioned advances tend to often be 1) Patent encumbered, 2) Difficult to scale and put into production i.e. works only under very specific conditions …
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Comment #23629752
A major issue with biology is the compensation. Biology compensation is notoriously bad outside of accredited medicine.