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piqalq··on Firefox can now stop Instagram and Facebook from tracking you online
Odd. I’ve used Firefox exclusively for the past 4 years and am a tab hoarder (150+) and my laptop is as quiet as the night with Firefox using very little memory when compared to Chrome
piqalq··on Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local Universities
Ah, different use case then as opposed to using AI or ML for drug discovery.

I agree, robots are hit and miss

piqalq··on Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local Universities
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piqalq··on Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local Universities
What makes you think that? Media? What are you including under the umbrella of AI? ML, Deep Learning? Are you in the industry?
piqalq··on Warriorjs – An exciting game of programming and artificial intelligence
I’ve wondered, why are these types of games, such as Screeps or WarriorJS only ever made to be played with JS. Why not Python or Go or Assembly?
piqalq··on The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10B of Bitcoin in Bunkers
I think he means the volatility/instability of it.
piqalq··on NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
I can tell you, a very bad one.
piqalq··on What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?
Are you simply wanting to see your data, or do you want it deleted? After GDPR comes in I’m going to be looking into the latter.
piqalq··on What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?
How’s that going? I was pretty surprised when I’d downloaded my data to see they hadn’t given me so much of what I know they have...
piqalq··on Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?
Not as good as -

“StackOverflow: How to add numbers”

piqalq··on U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants
What do you think commits are?

git commit -m -S “just having my 4th Oreo milkshake haha”

piqalq··on Will GDPR Make Machine Learning Illegal?
I see what you’re getting at, but this would be a very lengthy and arduous process. Not to mention, many ML and DL algorithms are incredibly mathematically complex that describing them with literal step-by-step detail sounds like hell.
piqalq··on Let's build an MP3-decoder (2008)
It’s a pain in the ass. I built one for a steganography thesis and the psychoacoustic model is really what made it difficult.

The psychoacoustic model took more time on its own to code than the PCM splitting, MDCT, windowing and Huffman coding.

It’s a fun project however painful. There’s a MP3 encoder from the early 90s floating around that you can use as a base if you can fix the legacy code. I can’t remember the name though, sorry.