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This reminds me a bit of the octree quantization implementation I hacked up to improve speed of generating Racket's animated gifs.
* https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/6b2e5f4014ed95c9b883...
* https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/f2a1773422feaa4ec112...
Thank you for bringing this up. I had not read this before, but it speaks to my deep concerns.
Thank you for organizing this. It's been a long time since I've listened to these last, and I remember these were enjoyable for Knuth's gentle humor.
I'm sure the folks working on protein folding are losing sleep over role-playing chatbots.
You may want to read the history of banana republics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic.
Given the wildness of that particular dark corner of our history, I'm looking forward to reading about the history we're living through now. Hopefully after some emotional remove, like in another ten years.
I misparsed this as
Two Years (With Emacs as a CEO and now CTO)
Two Years (With Emacs) as a CEO and now CTO.
Perhaps rephrase to: "Using Emacs for two years as a CEO and now CTO". The parse tree is still ambiguous, but a little less so.
There's a very nice article about how single-page web applications work that explain the mechanics of using the location API.
https://blog.pshrmn.com/entry/how-single-page-applications-w...
He's also a co-author of Lex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software)
It's human nature to demonize folks.
... and people ask why browsers are so complicated.
Example reference: see the "abbreviations and acronyms" section in: https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a
Hilariously enough, "Nasa" is specifically called out as an negative example from the English Wikipedia style guidelines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capi...
Can anyone tell which low calorie sweeteners the study is talking about? Certain artificial sweeteners elicit a large insulin response even if they are "low-calorie". Did they use any of the sweeteners listed in https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/...?
The Commonwealth Club of California had a pretty good session from the reporter:
https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2018-06-07/theranos-...
If by "laughingstock", you mean of the millions of lives that his foundation has saved from infant mortality, thus giving those folks the opportunity to smile and laugh, then I agree with that sentiment.
How many of you have immigrant parents who, where English is a second language, would have great difficulty performing the kind of verbal gymnastics that you take for granted?
I'm reminded of: https://qz.com/475975/video-robot-is-bullied-by-children-so-....
Another point: the documentary about FineArt from Tencent makes it very clear that folks there consider the race for AI analogously to the race to the atomic bomb. https://www.reddit.com/r/cbaduk/comments/7ryw0q/7_fine_art_d...
The bikes literally have an explicit warning sign on them saying not to take them. There's nothing implicit about this. http://www.timboelaars.nl/media/image/resized/7f65959de38848...
https://farm1.static.flickr.com/293/32393099485_6f16d1bfb6_b...
I was really hoping that this article was going to talk about some kind of machine-learned model that had been used to improve holiday parties. My hopes, dashed against the shores of reality.
Also in the Korean community. https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-01/biggest-megachurch-ea...
His "Word Crimes" is one of the more entertaining videos I've seen, because not only is it a "ha ha just serious" kind of song, but the animations in the video are just spot on.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144, as well as the References section at the bottom of: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...
The efforts toward making the protocol robust might be helpful, depending on context. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/protobuf/DwyPEnvFJ-o/discu...
You may be underestimating the overwhelming power of spam. That is, you're attributing a fear of negative attention. That might be true, but I suspect the concern has more to do with abuse. Don't underestimate the power of abusive users who have disproportionate power.
There's a good interactive tutorial at http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/
The community has also collected a lot of good Go resources at Sensei's Library: http://senseis.xmp.net/
Good luck!
Probably relevant: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/05/understan...
Hyperlink to the recommendation: https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-techn...
It's under the "Develop a strong understanding of algorithms and data structures" part.
I'm not sure if I'm in the minority, but I find the ragdolls in Dark Souls to be hilarious and charming.
... uh, if rolling around with corpses could be described as hilarious and charming. Wow. I just realized how very strange video games are.
This is an unfortunately common phone scam. https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/2952493?hl=en
It would be nice if source were provided, so that we can do a whitebox analysis. I don't have confidence that there is one single point of failure here, given that the site has already been compromised multiple times.