sidthekid

This twitter thread should give an indication that developers are extremely in demand: https://twitter.com/sebaudet26/status/1394380919818051584

Dwight is that you?

Cloud amoeba wins the phrase of the week.

The images of spectrogram analysis between the real and fake voices seemed to be distinguishable by the human eye. Can a image model be trained to detect fake voice spectrograms based on pitch and tone choppiness?

This is something that could literally be productionized today.

Let me leave this moving video here about a "right answer" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP6eZAfO0Yg

I find the site decently fast, definitely ugly but then again I don't want it to get a reddit-style redesign either. The information density is ok right now, and I'm actually impressed by the wide range of functionalities they have, related to reviewing books and updating your progress.

Working closely with people (friends preferably) who have higher "discipline" than you, and seeing how they grind their way through a problem is instructive sometimes.

I've seen something similar in some extremist bot accounts, where the tweet picture and text has a titillating and sexual tone (like catfishing) but includes an unrelated political hashtag at the end. These bots try to get certain hashtags trending without the users who fav the tweets realizing that.

What's your age? I've noticed in my circle that single unmarried people have less pressing things to do after work, thus are open to working in the weekends, unlike people with families.

The physical world is hugely polarized. I don't see how tweaking the UI of websites is going to reduce real-world tendencies, it's a losing battle.

Why generate a fake story? Why not communicate the real and moving journey of how a single note in the training data travelled through hundreds of neurons and thousands of matrices, and eventually made it past the final activation function to become a feature in the output tensor.

Amazon is already the dominant player in India.

If we exclude all the silly buzzword-driven ICOs that have sprung up recently to take advantage of the hype, there are plenty of companies that are years old (started after the 2014 surge) and have decent working products. These companies have been waiting for a surge in cryptocurrency adoption and deserve the funding they are getting.

Then how do we validate your claims of accurate prediction?

Softbank has invested in various applications.

Also, if decentralized storage systems become very popular, then people will buy lesser storage space with their computers, because they expect storage space to be cheaply available online. In that case, the number of individual hosters would reduce and big companies/pools would step, making it less decentralized.

It would be relatively easy for the VC to identify where the 'anonymous' leak came from - the people they screwed.

Seems like something a code review would have caught. Then again, code reviews and other slow processes are probably not the par for startups.

That's pretty good, fastest I reached myself was 2026.

Really? What is your win/lose ratio?

I wonder if 50 years down the line, maybe when humanity is building spaceships to go to other planets, will the interstellar software be written in C++/Java or Assembly or be produced entirely by AI subsystems or what.

Messing around in the settings feels like telling a talented child what to play - it can technically play anything but isn't sure what to go for! http://djen.co/#share/gN3Ao9

I cant help but imagine the attacker party/their associates read reddit and online forums, and thus would be vocal in criticizing the soft/hard fork decision. The theft of $50m is being rendered useless in front of their eyes - a maddening situation I'm sure.

Platforms like Virtuix and Infinadeck are interesting designs for this problem.

This must be what heaven feels like!

Really nice. I had built something similar in Python and matplotlib [ https://github.com/sidthekidder/kmeans-visualize/blob/master... ]. Of course your implementation is 100x, and I gained a better understanding from reading the source.

Free Basics has other services apart from just facebook. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/internet-org/examples

Change at a fundamental level is a good long-term goal, but do you want to make people wait 5-15 years for that, instead of getting help in the next week? Will getting free internet slow down the fundamental change?

It is somewhat similar because the long-term effects were malicious/not known in the short term. But its not exactly the same because anyone can switch internet carriers at any time (nobody gets medically tied to Free Basics).

'Facebook addiction' isn't as objectively proven as the side effects mentioned in the article. 'Tracking usage data and privacy snooping' isn't as harmful as the side effects mentioned, because poor people probably value their 'usage data' less and access to basic resources like Wikipedia/job posting sites/health and weather reports more. (and its just fear and speculation that facebook will maliciously track all data passing through its servers, but we are treating it like inevitable fact)

There are people who do not have access even to the walled gardens of 25 years ago.

This link is a response by Facebook to criticisms of Free Basics - https://info.internet.org/en/response-to-free-basics-opponen...

I don't understand why no progress is better than some progress. This initiative is not meant for people already connected to the internet.