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dimmuborgiron AI (Deep Learning) explained simply

Sorry but where does he say automation will increase number of people who will be paid?

dimmuborgiron Gut Microbes May Talk to the Brain Through Cortisol

GAPS protocol is a quackery and its creator is antiscientific and dogmatic.[1] Your wife's eczema cure probably had nothing to do with GAPS protocol. Even if it was the reason it may not work for others and other diseases.

[1] - http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/08/01/gaps-in-a-docto...

dimmuborgiron Most unicorn founders are graduates of Stanford, Harvard, and the IITs

The proportion of IIT graduates leaving India has significantly decreased over the years. Last year just 200 went abroad.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/indias-brain-...

dimmuborgiron Foundations of deep learning

Anyone knows when will the videos of part 2 of fast.ai course be uploaded? Their website says "around May 2017". Can't wait.

dimmuborgiron Qatar airways to loan laptops to passengers to overcome the laptop ban

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/2...

dimmuborgiron Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley

Will the videos of Part 2 of the course be available?

dimmuborgiron Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music

Google's Magenta is exploring generation of long-term structure in music. [1] Its demo song is fun [2]

[1] - https://magenta.tensorflow.org/2016/07/15/lookback-rnn-atten...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFBQDfPyjoE

dimmuborgiron Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software

The dongle (iLok2) was cracked recently.

https://torrentfreak.com/ilok2-drm-system-appears-to-have-be...

dimmuborgiron Seikilos epitaph

The hymns have specific melodies which were transferred orally as there is no music notation system. They haven't changed in millennia. They are still widely used in India in religious ceremonies.

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBNEizCsor0

dimmuborgiron Seikilos epitaph

What about religious hymns of Hinduism and Zoroastrianism which were composed before 200BC and are still in use today? Are they not melodies?

dimmuborgiron Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub

Only Gist was blocked, not Github. It was a knee-jerk reaction to a court order after ISIS made a series of threats and some Indians were found to be in contact with the ISIS. All those sites were unblocked soon after.

dimmuborgiron Extract Chords From YouTube Videos

Microsoft Songsmith does that. There are some crazy videos on Youtube. Eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg0l7f25bhU

dimmuborgiron India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

Depends on how you see it: http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=Ne011212Onc...

dimmuborgiron The Great Python.org Redesign

OT: Does anyone know what happened to official Ruby site redesign proposal?

dimmuborgiron Gimp Sucks.

Old blog post. Some of the issues like single window and layer groups are fixed in Gimp 2.8.

dimmuborgiron Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer

Zed Shaw is the Nietzsche of hackers (and beyond)! Some Nietzsche's quotes I think relevant to this post and Zed's philosophy in general:

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."

"Everything is human, all too human."

"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of personal integrity."

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

"Who cares if I am right! I am much too right. And he who laughs best today will also laugh last."

dimmuborgiron Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCs

Don't be fooled by DistroWatch stats. It means nothing.

dimmuborgiron How India Became America

Link bait title. The author is advertising his upcoming book.

The gist of the article is that anything other than Socialism is 'American'. Since when houses with concrete roofs, foreign brands, shopping malls, office buildings and being optimistic represent only America? The author needs to travel other parts of the world.

Articles like this which draw parallels between two countries often do disservice to both the countries. America is not all about consumerism and India is not all about a poor imitation of America.

dimmuborgiron Indian Government Memo: Apple, Nokia, RIM Supply Backdoors

The Indian security establishment with 'overbearing powers' is only obsessed with Pakistan and China.

Internal security is not the task of military. Period.

All terrorist attacks in India (except Kashmir and 26/11) are carried out by homegrown terrorists with indirect external help.

dimmuborgiron Ultimate Rails developer & power user tools for Mac (2011 edition)

Pentadactyl is much more feature rich than Vimium and gives a more Vim-like experience than Vimium does. (thanks to Firefox's flexibility)

dimmuborgiron Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011

"Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography" by Julian Young.

dimmuborgiron Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3

"In this regard it's no different than Ubuntu's Unity."

Unity isn't a fork of Gnome Shell. Unity-3D is a Compiz plugin and Unity-2D is written in Qt.

dimmuborgiron Google: Let it snow

Works on Firefox 8 (Linux).

dimmuborgiron The PC is dead. Why no angry nerds?

In most so called third-world countries mobile is much larger than desktop simply because mobile is more affordable.

dimmuborgiron Linus Torvalds: Software and Process Patents Don't Make Sense

Origin is the Sanskrit word 'mukti' meaning liberation.

dimmuborgiron Linux based Development Setup

I just moved to Arch (always wanted to use it) from Ubuntu 11.10 after Unity (compiz) became intolerably slow on my 5 year old machine. Now running a custom DE using Openbox. It's blazing fast and highly customizable.

dimmuborgiron Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle

No. Firefox stable updates are immediately pushed in both non-LTS and LTS.

dimmuborgiron Dalai Lama hangs out on Google+ after visa is denied

"China is not threatening military action, it is simply saying it doesn't like this occurring."

China imposes trade bans on countries that offend it. As China has trade surplus with almost all countries, trade becomes a powerful blackmailing tool for it which is worrying, especially for economically weak countries.

dimmuborgiron India unveils world’s cheapest tablet computer for $35

"No boom, no bust..."

I meant to say India was unaffected from 'global recession'. Obviously there was no housing bubble in India.

"...it was govt corruption."

You mean in a crony-capitalism govt alone is guilty? How?