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www.pingidentity.com 4y ago

Join Forces to Strengthen U.S. Cybersecurity in Light of Increased Cyber Threats

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www.bloomberg.com 4y ago

How U.S. Visa Delays Are Taking a Costly Toll on Frustrated Workers

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time.com 4y ago

China Is Now the Last Major Country Still Pursuing a 'Zero Covid'

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twitter.com 5y ago

Clubhouse handles audio streams, serious risks related to data

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www.theverge.com 5y ago

Clubhouse says it will improve security after researchers raise China concerns

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balajis.com 5y ago

Yes, You May Need a Blockchain (2019)

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knightcolumbia.org 5y ago

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)

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www.bloomberg.com 5y ago

Silicon Valley Wins as SEC Allows Direct Listings to Raise Cash

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twitter.com 5y ago

The marginal returns of ML researchers are rapidly declining

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www.thetimes.co.uk 5y ago

Taiwan academics told to identify as Chinese in journal

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techcrunch.com 5y ago

Waymo starts to open driverless ride-hailing service to the public

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www.vox.com 5y ago

Amazon will now let you pay with your palm in its stores

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semiengineering.com 5y ago

Transistor Options Beyond 3nm (2018)

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aipaygrad.es 5y ago

Manually verified job salaries/offers in Artificial Intelligence

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interestingengineering.com 5y ago

Radiation Levels on the Moon Are Alarmingly High

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www.nber.org 5y ago

Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade?

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www.digitalmusicnews.com 5y ago

Spotify Employees Threaten to Strike If Joe Rogan Podcasts Aren’t Removed

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medium.com 5y ago

How to derive convolution from first principles

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twitter.com 5y ago

Apple has started manufacturing iPhone 11 in India

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www.tomshardware.com 6y ago

Zhaoxin KaiXian x86 CPU Tested: The Rise of China's Chips

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en.wikipedia.org 6y ago

The Carrington Event (1859)

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www.reuters.com 6y ago

Google faces $5B lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

Cambridge University moves all lectures online until summer 2021

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www.lbcnews.co.uk 6y ago

Cambridge University moves all lectures online until summer 2021

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

New TSMC Fab in USA: I Don't Believe It

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www.businessinsider.com 6y ago

Uber is expected to begin another round of layoffs

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

A Coronavirus Explosion Was Expected in Japan. Where Is It?

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www.neowin.net 6y ago

Firefox adds NextDNS alongside Cloudflare for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)

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iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu 6y ago

Iowa Electronic Markets: online market based on real-world events for research

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arxiv.org 6y ago

Read, Attend and Comment: Automatic News Comment Generation

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Oh, you're talking about using the forward gradient method. This still does not make much sense because if the projection of the gradient in that direction is zero or near zero, that is a very weak step in reducing the loss.

I agree, in expectation, the orthogonal directions cancel out. But the variance does not cancel out. Are you using some sort of momentum-like optimizer?

The more dimensions, the simpler the surface. With enough dimensionality, everything is a straight line.

Even assuming this statement were true (which is a big if). That does not explain how it would outperform gradient descent.

That does not make sense, can you expand? The steepest descent direction is far more useful than a random direction in high dimensions because that random direction has a greater chance of being nearly orthogonal to the steepest descent direction.

Why is there a culture of hiding cap tables in the first place? Seems like some incentive structures need to be fixed before a transparent cap table is adopted.

This is the thing I do not fully understand about crypto and more specifically Bitcoin. If Bitcoin is successful, it will inevitably create a tiny group of super-wealthy early adopters amongst everyone else and we are back to the same rigged system evangelists were arguing crypto solves. Even worse, there is no method of confiscation/redistribution/taxation to prevent monopolies.

When you make housing an investment, by definition, it has to become less affordable in the future.

Until a country decides to stop making policy to support this notion that a basic need should be an appreciating asset and not a depreciating one like food, transportation, etc, this completely unsurprising trend will continue. It is a strange world we live in where we collectively believe that a basic need should increase in price over time.

When you make housing an investment, by definition, it has to become less affordable in the future.

Until a country decides to stop making policy to support this notion that a basic need should be an appreciating asset and not a depreciating one like food, transportation, etc, this completely unsurprising trend will continue. It is a strange world we live in where we collectively believe that a basic need should appreciate in value over time.

Housing should have never been considered an investment. It is a basic need. If that basic need becomes an investment, it is by definition going to become less affordable to those who do not hold it in the future.

If you consider it an investment, homeowners are going to protect its value like one, and prevent supply competition via regulations, voting power, etc.

It is a strange world we live in where we collectively believe that a basic need should appreciate in value over time.

That is not how limits work. No human we are aware of in the history of the world has been to Mars. Does that mean Mars is above a limit?

Limits are not defined by history, they are defined by our current understanding of science (and they are often wrong).