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RavlaAlvar··on Improbable Inspiration: Bayesian Networks (1996)
Bayesian network is not Bayesian neural network
RavlaAlvar··on China aims to shake US grip on chip design tools
Same in China, people working in internet giant like Alibaba and tencent earn 3 times the salary more than people working in HW.
RavlaAlvar··on Everything You Know About MongoDB Is Wrong
Ouch
RavlaAlvar··on New Reddit’s PageSpeed Insights
The new Reddit page experience is really horrible. Speed slow for every action and extremely laggy. Your would think single page application is faster once all the resources are loaded from the server, but no.

I started to think they purposely make the experience worse to push user to their mobile app.

RavlaAlvar··on AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th
They are 10yrs behind, I doubt they will ever able to catch up.
RavlaAlvar··on TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce
I cap this picture from Chinese media. Also, It is common knowledge that big techs in Chinese have CCP division setup in it.
RavlaAlvar··on TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce
A picture that summarise this comment

https://na.cx/i/YW5ziy9.jpg

RavlaAlvar··on US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
Foreign investors were forced to sell their shares on Ant finance(Alipay) few years ago.
RavlaAlvar··on Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal
Why Microsoft though, is there other company competing for the deal?
RavlaAlvar··on TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
If US successfully force China to open market, that would be a win for everyone. Of course though, this situation would only occur in fantasy land.
RavlaAlvar··on AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings
I am not seeing AMD putting any serious contenders for CUDA though.
RavlaAlvar··on XNect: Real-Time Multi-Person 3D Motion Capture with a Single RGB Camera
For “slow” moving object like human body, does synchronised shutter matters that much and if so , is there any tricks to compensate it if synchronisation is not possible?
RavlaAlvar··on Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’
Does anyone have any technical detail of that story. It is hard to imagine how a bug in the image parse library can be utilise to steal text message.
RavlaAlvar··on Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves
No, since the paper is now owned by the Chinese tech billionaire Jack Ma.
RavlaAlvar··on China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong
Have you considered that China had vocally threatened military action against democratisation.
RavlaAlvar··on iPhone SE: The One-Eyed King?
In all probability, there will be no true depth sensing capability in SE, thus developer would not be able to access the api.

The portrait mode is likely to be implemented with monocular depth estimation using deep learning.

RavlaAlvar··on Why is quicksort better than other sorting algorithms in practice? (2013)
Can you elaborate on why bubble sort is fast on huge dataset?

Also, If counting based sorting algorithm is faster in practice , why we are not seeing more of it in database system?

RavlaAlvar··on SMS is not 2FA-secure
Does that mean an authoritarian government can read the location and sms of a number from foreign country without any cooperation from the carrier?

Scary thought

RavlaAlvar··on Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
Genuinely asking. Do most of the population believe Singapore’s authoritarian government would stay benevolent??
RavlaAlvar··on We Asked People Around the World How They Feel About AI. Here’s What We Learned
At least the general AI community acknowledges it’s overhyped, unlike blockchain and fintech.
RavlaAlvar··on Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost
No , because there’s only one major newspapers that is pro democracy. All other major media is either centrist controlled by businessman, or flat out pro-CCP.

But even back in 2008, the pro-democracy paper namely Apple Daily also was celebrating our Chinese identity, and praising china’s progress.

RavlaAlvar··on Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost
Hker here. In 2008, even the most radical forum on HK Internet praise the achievement of China , we celebrated the Chinese Olympic and mourned for the great earthquake in Szechwan.

We all shared the same view with the west that China will eventually transform itself to democracy and we shall have harmony in 2047.....right until China shattered the promised universal suffrage.

Also, China had singlehandedly groom the separatist sentiments HK. Initially in 2014, there were only a handful of activists and they weren’t even treated seriously even within the pro-democracy circle. But lately you see Chinese state media started to put the separatist hat on every pro-democracy movement and figure. You can imagine people are extremely frustrated by this narrative and many young people started to wholeheartedly support independence (no matter how impossible it seems).

RavlaAlvar··on Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
I can totally imagine the world which China could control the west through exerting pressure on these giant companies.
RavlaAlvar··on Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app
So apple would have to ban telegram and all Internet forum ?
RavlaAlvar··on Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
If you live in Hong Kong, you can definitely feel that over the years, CCP have been increasingly ramp up their influence on HK matters.

CCP officials start to comment on internal HK matters, lobbying for government policy to pass in the legislative branch.

RavlaAlvar··on China's super camera can pinpoint specific targets among of thousands of people
I am so frustrated about how HN is now full of whataboutism on the China issues.
RavlaAlvar··on White House Weighs Limits on U.S. Portfolio Flows Into China
Promise they made when joining WTO
RavlaAlvar··on Top Chinese State-Media Editor Complains About Internet Access, Deletes Post
Very common within millennial circle.
RavlaAlvar··on Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet
Why do you think that no state put significant effort into fusion research? You would imagine the first country to figure it out would dominate the world for decades to come.
RavlaAlvar··on Hong Kong Exchanges Bids $39B to Take over London Stock Exchange
It's so depressing. I just read news today about politicians from New Zealand and Australia being exposed to have tied with CCP.

On this rate, within 20 years, CCP would have major political grip on most major Western societies from within those countries. What a horrifying thought.

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