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saycheeseon Birth Order Effects Exist and Are Strong

Found the aggerate survey data:

And it is pretty obvious the sample is bias, though take a look to see for yourself and comment if you notice anything too.

saycheeseon “Deep Learning has outlived its usefulness as a buzz-phrase”

Past HN coverage of Differentiable Programming:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10828386

saycheeseon Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia

Stating the obvious, this clearly shows man is not the only animal to use fire as a tool.

saycheeseon XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

Did you even look at the graphic I linked to? If so, there’s no need to “go look” at anything, since that graphic very clearly shows there’s not a major difference.

saycheeseon XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

Not seeing a major difference between 3:2 and 16:9 aspect ratio displays, what am I missing?

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/panasonic-lx100/z-lx10...

saycheeseon XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

Why does the XPS keep putting the camera at the base the screen instead the top of where it is on most laptops?

saycheeseon The Attraction of Complexity

There’s no singular definition within that document for cognitive complexity, just a bunch of metrics.

saycheeseon Introducing Preemptible GPUs

Related HN post to your blog post on the benchmarks on CPUs vs. GPUs on Google Compute Engine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940724

saycheeseon How an A.I. ‘Cat-And-Mouse Game’ Generates Believable Fake Photos

>> “QUESTION: Look at the two photos below and see if you can figure out which person is real.”

>> “ANSWER: Sorry! This was a trick question. Both images were generated by computers.”

Not really a trick question when even if you know they’re both fake that the only way to be right (confirm you are right) is to be wrong.

saycheeseon Lensless camera creates detailed 3-D images without scanning

On the same note, depends on how you define “scanning” sense they’re clearly scanning.

You can do the same thing they’re doing with a bunch of pinhole, video feed with variation in the lighting, etc.

saycheeseon Lensless camera creates detailed 3-D images without scanning

Here’s the research paper: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9cff/c0c80b1ae3c1b773b761f3...

saycheeseon Engineers Create Stable Plasma Ring in Open Air

Related Wikipedia pages “St. Elmo's fire” [1] and “Ball Lighting” [2]:

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo%27s_fire

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

saycheeseon Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?

http://paperswelove.org

saycheeseon Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?

Does anyone have any suggestions on finding CS papers worth reading beyond those papers listed here?

saycheeseon Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow

TLDR: Be concise & unemotional.

saycheeseon Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway

"Thanks to HTML5" - what specifically in HTML5 enables this?

saycheeseon Deep Learning Research and the Future of AI [video]

Same video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BrNt38OraE

(YouTube seems to stream the video better)

saycheeseon Launch HN: ScopeAI (YC W17) – Extract insights from customer conversations

What is your revenue model? Are there costs to use the platform? Etc.

saycheeseon General and Surprising

On the same note, PG's "official" HN account hasn't been active for years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

saycheeseon Show HN: DeepSense – Know people better through AI-built profiles

Following is based on using his Twitter profile as an identifier:

"Donald J. Trump is a spontaneous individual and takes life as it comes. he generally dislikes coloring within the lines and does not stress over the little things but sometimes struggles with procrastination. He is a very dynamic individual who is easily excitable and sensitive. Passionate and impulsive, he wears his emotions on his sleeve. He is slightly emotional and judgmental. He is competitive and challenging as well as frank and believes in speaking his mind. He is a usually thoughtful individual who likes his space. He is extremely positive and optimistic."

SOURCE: https://frrole.ai/deepsense-app/realDonaldTrump

saycheeseon All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

Since it isn't clear what "number" you are talking about, thought I ask. Also, for ease of reference, here's the information on the company for the link above:

"Modular Science – Outdoor robot farming: Elon Musk may be concerned about robots taking over the world, but Modular Science just wants robots to farm our vegetables. The startup, which currently has robots out in the field (!) in Petaluma, CA, is aiming to automate 99 percent of the processes involved in vegetable farming within the next six months with their specialized farming bots. Modular Science is looking to charge $2,000 per acre, which they say is half of what farms are currently paying to for human labor."

saycheeseon INFOGRAPHIC: College Students and Startups Love Ramen (2012)

Has anyone seen any interesting or notable Ramen startups?

saycheeseon “Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US

>> "It creates a slight public subsidy for broadband"

Maybe it's me, but $3 billion is not a small amount of money:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13941757

saycheeseon “Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US

Possible my numbers are wrong, but based on the "1% of the project cost" appears this will cost 3.5 billion dollars in total; $305 billion total cost [1] * 1% of total = three billion fifty million for "dig once"

[1] "Congress passed the five-year, $305 billion “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act” on Dec. 3, 2015, and President Obama signed the bill the next day."

saycheeseon Impossible Foods says it is close to finishing a large-scale production facility

Nope, don't mind; deleted it because I could figure out what it was.

saycheeseon Impossible Foods says it is close to finishing a large-scale production facility

Of note in that filing is that Impossible Foods later requested that the FDA not review that PDF linked to above and the FDA agreed to stop reviewing it:

https://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/GRAS/N...

saycheeseon Impossible Foods says it is close to finishing a large-scale production facility

This is easier to read on mobile: https://www.impossiblefoods.com/images/faq/nutrition-facts.p...

EDIT: Here's a link to the FDA comment I deleted, but is reference in the comment below: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabel...

saycheeseon Supreme Court sets higher bar for education of students with disabilities

>> "His parents pulled him out of public school after his behavior deteriorated dramatically and he made what they said was almost no academic progress. They placed him in private school, where he made rapid progress, and they sought reimbursement for tuition. They are entitled to that reimbursement if they can prove that the public school failed to provide a free appropriate public education under federal law."

Seems like if this is the case for children with special education needs it should apply to all children given how poor the "free" educational system is in many areas in the US.

saycheeseon USPS Informed Delivery – Digital Images of Front of Mailpieces

USPS has been taking images of the mail for years [1].

All the images of the service are emailed to the user and are not secure.

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-conf...