Kindergarden Quantum Mechanics Graduates 5 years ago
Slide deck from the lead author introducing his diagrams:
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Given so many webpages have dynamic elements, piece of HTML/DOM that only pop up in edge cases (alerts like cookie notices, loading animations, confirmation dialogs) I would be very wary that a tool would be able to identify all the things that are really in use. To use effectively, I think you would need a test script that stepped through all the edge cases, and then you're depending on your test coverage being 100% (of at least triggering the possible DOM structures and style class configurations).
I have the following URL as the first bookmark on all browser bookmark bars:
data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
In your example of reversing decreasing runs, you dropped a 9.
The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user 8 years ago
I appreciate the "dots don't matter" feature, but have always felt it required an API for external developers to canonize gmail addresses for this precise reason.
Interesting that this works with any query parameter: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610743/mit-severs-ties-to...
Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android 8 years ago
Flutter's dev tools are built on intelliJ.
Microsoft MakeCode 9 years ago
If that was the goal, wouldn't efforts be better placed in the Jr Colleges, online courses, and similar institutions. Grade-school level curriculum is a pretty far-future return on investment is the only goal is cheap workers.
Microsoft MakeCode 9 years ago
There is a lot of research surround this transition, and solid evidence that is does help novice programmers (not just kids) transition: http://www.jite.org/documents/Vol16/JITEv16ResearchP209-226S...
Our goal is to reduce barriers surrounding syntax and discoverability, so that they reach computational skills (sequences, conditions, functions, lists and other data structures) faster and with higher confidence and motivation. With the motivation (e.g., "I already built this") and a solid foundation, text programming can feel more achievable to the student.
Microsoft MakeCode 9 years ago
Blocky team member, here. Microsoft and MIT/Scratch have been amazing partners and contributors. We're really excited about Scratch 3.0 and the efforts on Scratch Blocks.
Segwit2x Bitcoin Fork Suspended 9 years ago
For context, those numbers came from 2014. http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-inequality-2014-1
I can't find any more recent study specific to the Gini coefficient, however these[1] charts show an improvement over this snapshot[2] from May 2015.
[1] https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.... [2]: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/1-bitcoin-community-controls...
Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced 9 years ago
I don't do neural nets, but if I had to crudely estimate... 10,000 songs (the outputs) * 16 layers * 16 parameters per node * 4 for the bytes per float = 10MB + a DB of song/artist names.
I'm probably underestimating the parameters per node, and overestimating the size of the layers closer to the input. Further, it's more likely structured as an LSTM than a convolutional network, since sound is a streaming source.
Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced 9 years ago
They only need to store (and occasionally update) the kernel parameters for the trained deep neural net. Very small indeed.
Computer Science Education 9 years ago
"...outside of my career"
Ummm... isn't that a pretty major effect? Doesn't that have some impressive side effects?
I watch my so many of my non-CS friends cycle through jobs (and debt) with limited ability to add long-term stability. If information sciences are having an impact on every industry, and encouraging students to explore those options gives them better access to jobs, and thus improve their life, that seems like a noble goal.
Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010) 10 years ago
Another article from 2013 reports conflicting evidence: http://www.livescience.com/39724-afar-rift-deep-mantle-melt....
Ten Years at Google 10 years ago
I did not expect to see this here (nore Neil's post). Nice meeting you.
I'm part of the Blockly team (https://developers.google.com/blockly/), an open source project for visual drag-and-drop programming, usually targeting kids. Despite being a "visual programming editor" first, we are exploring blind accessible (i.e., screen reader ready) variants of our library.
See our first demo: https://blockly-demo.appspot.com/static/demos/accessible/ind...
Right now, it is effectively a different renderer for the same abstract syntax tree. We'd love to see people evaluate the direction we are currently going, and possibly apply the same accessible navigation to our existing render.
In terms of dev tools, Blockly blocks are usually constructed using Blockly (https://blockly-demo.appspot.com/static/demos/blockfactory/i...). That said, no one has considered what it would take to make our dev tools blind accessible. The fundamentals are there.
Granted, Blockly programming is far from being as powerful as other languages. It is aimed at novice programmers, whether for casual use or to teach the fundamentals of computational thinking. You can write an app in Blockly (http://appinventor.mit.edu/).
If anyone is interested, reach out to us: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/blockly
My gut thinks this sort of training alternative to back propagation has a lot of uses where SVM have no applicability. The article talks a lot about RNNs (neural nets for sequence prediction), but I would guess it would have uses in online learning as well. Learning twice as fast in those situations seems pretty significant to me.
Refreshed the page and it worked.
Visual Turing Test 10 years ago
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The computer does not duplicate selective detail. Artists will put detail in areas of focus, and intentionally obscure or abstract other areas. Also, there is often an interplay between medium and message. To that last point, I'm guessing there is still a human "artist" who chose the reference scene and pose and artist style, even if they didn't paint it directly. Towards that, I see this as a creative tool to be included in some future Photoshop, or similar.
Also... Share on Facebook? "App Not Setup: This app is still in development mode, and you don't have access to it. Switch to a registered test user or ask an app admin for permissions."
The article is pretty clear that most of the light-damage, no-injury accidents don't get reported, and that all 11 accidents fell in that category. Half the point of the article is that this data is not well known.
Granted, taking those 1.45 and 55% figures, we might compare the 11 accidents to approximately 3.2 accident (reported and unreported) per million miles in passenger vehicles. Emphasis on "approximately".
The Cinematography of "The Incredibles" 13 years ago
Sorry... Pixar did not invent a time travel machine just to get a character reference. (NCIS LA came five years after.)
"cat urine" and "gum" should not be used in the same sentence. I'll leave that one out of my breathe freshener options.
$2,999 Mac Pro to go on sale in December 13 years ago
Capable of driving three 4k video signals. Amazing. Why can't the new Mac Book Pro drive just one?
He meant minutes. 45min.
Project Loon 13 years ago
Thanks for the history. For those only reading the excerpt, this article is from 2008.
I want the world to scroll this way 14 years ago
Admittedly, I didn't try it in any real world setting, but my gut reaction was horror. Even reading through the example paragraph, I did not find the gradients as useful landmarks.
But it does make me wonder if other forms of spatial landmarks could be employed in large paragraph text. Perhaps enlarge the start of each, if only for a couple of words, in a way that quickly tappers back to the normal text height. Extreme run-on sentences might require subclauses to be highlighted similarly. Line spacing should accommodate the extra needed height, but remain regular, making the whole document appear double spaced.
At least, that is the picture in my head. It might not do any better than this Beeline reader.
I want the world to scroll this way 14 years ago
I agree with munificent, with the precision of the scroll in the current implementation, but that seems trivially fixed with a snapping behavior.
There are keyboard short cuts and clickable side arrows to turn the page, though why they decided to override [space] with autoscroll, I cannot comprehend.
The scrolling feels backwards, now that I'm gotten used to Apple's tablet-style reversal on the touchpads. I'm sure this makes sense on a scroll wheel. Not sure if there is a way to detect the default scroll mechanism.
Overall, thumbs up for many long article applications.
Access denied 14 years ago
I also agree with purchasable extensions, as long as the prices increase exponentially from a very modest price in the first renewal.
Further, I think there is room to tie trademark into the process for media properties. In cases like Steamboat Willy, the character reflect a trademark for the Disney business. If it were applied as such, one might argue that a public domain version of the film (which could be seen as a product in the trademark domain) might be freely distributable but not modifiable without risking trademark infringement. This protects the free flow of information to later generations, as well as provides the company a means to protect the its brand from confusing or abusing variants/remixes. Further, registered trademarks already require regular renewal from a living person or operating business.
Not sure how one would apply that music and non-fiction (or if one should even try); seems about useful as copyrighting N seconds of silence.
(Obligatory: I am not a lawyer.)
"Small retina display images are fucking huge."
Even when reshown on retina displays, since the HTML standard is to attend to the pixel size and not the physical resolution. Screenshots taken with the standard Cmd-Shift-4 or similar all include proper resolution metadata, should someone want to show it at the correct size.