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For me, the benefit of pi is what it doesn't do.

Thank you! <3

In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russel

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unspun | Swift Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area

We built an automated process for creating perfectly fitting jeans. Starting from a customer’s 3D body scan, our system generates customized pattern pieces that are then assembled on-demand. This removes the need for inventory and eliminates unnecessary waste.

We're looking for a swift dev to join the small software team.

Job Description: https://angel.co/company/unspun/jobs/1460386-ios-engineer

email: sw@unspun.io

It's too soon.

This quote.

We worked at a startup that leveraged autonomous blockchains to transfer money from naïve investors to slightly less naïve twenty-somethings. There are worse gigs.

There seems to be an unfair comparison between the various network architectures. The reported speed and accuracy improvements should be taken with a bit of scepticism for two reasons.

* This is the first yolo implemented in Pytorch. Pytorch is the fastest ml framework around, so some of YOLOv5's speed improvements may be attributed to the platform it was implemented on rather than actual scientific advances. Previous yolos were implemented using darknet, and EfficientDet is implemented in TensorFlow. It would be necessary to train them all on the same platform for a fair speed comparison.

* EfficientDet was trained on the 90-class COCO challenge (1), while YOLOv5 was trained on 80 classes (2).

[1] https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/blob/master/data/coco....

[2] https://github.com/google/automl/blob/master/efficientdet/in...

I had no idea which parts of this website were real.

Reading HN, Smashing Magazine, and A List Apart will pay off greatly in a few years.

You mostly have a presentation problem if you have marketable skills that won't sell. I started when I was 15 and the trick was displaying confidence, humility, and maturity in every interaction. It's harder than it sounds.

Life Work by Donald Hall

There's a meetup for your favorite JS library here, but I haven't found a group that I deeply enjoy going to yet. The challenge has been finding the right proportions of casualness, skill, and drive to actually build something in a group.

I'm not far from Stanford, so I would also be interested in a good answer to this.

I work at an early-stage startup where we all do a bit of devops, but I end up doing most of the configuration.

I've been waiting for this day for a long, long time.

My guiding principle is to code something so that you only have to code it once.

I am concerned that scientific and technological advancements are happening faster than intellectual and moral progress.

I couldn't agree more.

This is interesting experimental evidence in spite of the NFL theorem, which refutes the notion of a generally superior algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem

I would reconcile it by saying that the UCI contains a biased subset of all theoretical classification tasks.

Desert Places by Robert Frost

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost covered smooth in snow, But a few weeds and stubble showing last.

The woods around it have it-it is theirs. All animals are smothered in their lairs. I am too absent-spirited to count; The loneliness includes me unawares.

And lonely as it is, that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less- A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expression, nothing to express.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars-on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

Ode by Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy.

WE are the music-makers,

  And we are the dreamers of dreams, 

  And sitting by desolate streams; 

Yet we are the movers and shakers

  Of the world for ever, it seems. 

 

We build up the world's great cities, And out of a fabulous story

  We fashion an empire's glory: 

  Shall go forth and conquer a crown; 

We, in the ages lying

  In the buried past of the earth, 

  And Babel itself with our mirth;

  To the old of the new world's worth; 

  Or one that is coming to birth.

I don't see how any of these points directly threaten piketty's conclusion, that "r > g is a force for divergence," at least as they are presented here.

The first counterargument is nothing new. It's in the Solow model for Pete's sake! It only threatens the returns to capital as a theoretical conclusion in the distant, long-run future (going off the Solow model). Piketty has made an empirical argument off historical data.

The second paragraph saying most of r has come from capital gains in the financial market just looks silly before the one saying most of capital gains has been from an appreciation in land value. I don't know if that is how the original argument goes.

The only use for this I can think of would be to make it take less characters.

This is so cool

In brief, "Julian L. Simon, a neither shy nor retiring nor particularly mild-mannered professor of business administration at a middling eastern-seaboard state university" is challenging the widely-accepted wisdom in the life-sciences.

Microsoft has a thing for very long names though – possibly its greatest achievement ever is

    Microsoft® WinFX™ Software Development Kit for Microsoft® Pre-Release Windows Operating System Code-Named "Longhorn", Beta 1 Web Setup

How are you calculating the Lives-At-Risk Score?

cool

Thanks for the suggestion.

I am a full-stack web application developer.

Here are the technologies I have experience with.

Python Django, Flask, Bottle Ruby Sinatra, Rails JavaScript Node.js, jQuery, Backbone, Express PHP Jade/sass/less/CoffeeScript

I want to join, but I don't have a group.

If anyone wants to be in a group with me, you can add me with eli0s"at"live.com.

Marxists, Anarchists, etc. often draw a line between ownership and possession. e.g. You would own a factory or a piece of land, but you would possess a toothbrush and your clothes. There is a subtle difference between them.

I think his idea is that if private property were abolished, the means of production would not be owned.

I laughed so hard when I noticed "Fun & Games" in the menu.