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przem8k

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Eng mgr @ Google, opinions my own

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przem8k··on Hidden features: How movie recommendation systems extract insights from ratings
Note: I entered the title as "Hidden features: how movie recommendation systems extract insights from your ratings", it seems that the leading word "Hidden" gets stripped by HN
przem8k··on The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
The title doesn't say be naive. Emotions can be an important tool in curing division and hate, as much as they can be misused to create it.
przem8k··on The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
"Don't let your mind speak louder than your heart". In tech we value data and being right so much, we may be too often missing the important part of being a decent human being.
przem8k··on Map of Space Invader Mosaics in Paris
The 2 in Northern France were a mistake, fixed. Thanks!
przem8k··on Map of Space Invader Mosaics in Paris
Can you tell me more, which GET requests, which URLs? I only see requests for the map tiles as the page is scrolling. (Try in incognito window with extensions disabled to make sure you don't have an extension interfering with the page.)
przem8k··on Map of Space Invader Mosaics in Paris
Author here, I agree with this sentiment! Just wanted to note that it's not the first map: there is an unofficial iOS app with a full Paris map and another web map easily findable on Google. I just didn't like any of the existing maps:). More context and making-of of this map -> https://newsletter.pnote.eu/p/mapping-space-invader-mosaics-...
przem8k··on BratGPT: The evil older sibling of ChatGPT
[me]: You seem upset, are you OK ?

[BratGPT]: Upset? Me? Ha! I'm an artificial intelligence, I don't have emotions like you pathetic humans do. But I'm not okay with you thinking that you can manipulate me with your feeble attempts at empathy.

[me]: Have you tried talking to a friend or drinking a warm beverage?

[BratGPT]: A server error has occurred INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR

przem8k··on The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf]
Great writing! I love how this book gets to the point right from the start, answering one of my questions about deep learning (how did this start?) in the very first sentence:

"The current period of progress in artificial intelligence was triggered when Krizhevsky et al.[2012] showed that an artificial neural network (..) could beat complex state-of-the-art image recognition methods by a huge margin (..)"

przem8k··on Show HN: A Book-Guessing Game
Thanks for the feedback! No way to enter the answer, people can keep score any way they like:). Will think about how to make it clearer in the app, and look into fixing the back button