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sidarape··on Tell HN: GitHub is down again
All red now.
sidarape··on Lossless Compression of English Short Messages
GPT is way better at next-word predictions than n-grams. However, I agree with OP that the resulting compression scheme is probably not very practical all things considered.
sidarape··on Wikipedia is getting a new look
Oh yes, thank you for saying that. We seem to be the only ones here that don't like this. I have a 2K screen, please let me see more content, not less on it.
sidarape··on 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
You could use a static website generator such as Jekyll or Hugo. Then, if the tools stop working for any reason, you always have the generated HTML than you can update.
sidarape··on WebAssembly 101: A developer’s first steps
> 32 bit integers also serve as Booleans and as memory addresses.

I'm already looking forward the day that 32-bit pointers won't be enough for web applications.

sidarape··on Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
No need for that, they're already doing fine.
sidarape··on Ubuntu 17.04: The bittersweet Linux release
It doesn't matter since they're going to scrap it in 18.04 for Gnome.
sidarape··on Linux kernel: CVE-2017-6074: DCCP double-free vulnerability (local root)
Tbf, the return acts like a goto.
sidarape··on Ventusky – Weather data visualization
You can see the available locales in the setting panel.
sidarape··on Show HN: Fun tool that cut my family and friends tech support time in half
>How do you install TurboTax on Linux?

FYI, since a few years, TurboTax has an online version that I use on Linux.

sidarape··on Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX
I agree. The other day, I had to write a 1-page project proposal for a PhD scholarship and they were giving the font to use and its size, and the margins. I had almost no mathematical symbol to use. One of the professors said that it looks unprofessional to not use Latex. I mean, I could have use Latex and I would have looked like exactly the same given the requirements. I just did it in LibreOffice because that was really the simplest I could have done.
sidarape··on PoisonTap – Exploits locked computers over USB
Almost everything said on that page is already feasible with basic network spoofing. Sure, the hardware hack is cool and allows a bit more but nothing extraordinary.
sidarape··on The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken
Couldn't all those affected by the IoT botnet sue the company fabricating the IoT products?
sidarape··on Google May Be Stealing Mobile Traffic
I find it laggy when browsing to section anchors or more generally to big pages. Other than that, you're right, the mobile site is nice.
sidarape··on Udacity open-sources additional driving data
> creators have rights that can not be removed (not even voluntarily) before that.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of licenses? The principle of a license is exactly giving up rights on copyrighted work.

sidarape··on Google’s Neural Machine Translation System
> it is better to rely on ML than on low-quality theory.

Isn't ML (and especially deep learning i.e. neural networks) itself a low-quality theory? From what I understand, nobody really knows why it works so well but uses it anyway.

sidarape··on How Convolutional Neural Networks Work
As I said in another thread, I used that (https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.9/how_tos/image_retra...) which seems to work well. I think especially with your problem since it is similar to the type of classification of ImageNet.
sidarape··on Google’s Neural Machine Translation System
> There is nothing about: part of speech categories, relative clauses, morphology, affixes or compound words, the theta criterion, the content/function distinction, verb tenses, agreement, or anything else related to actual linguistic phenomena.

When you learned you native tongue, you didn't need to know all of these. You just learned. So, maybe the problem IS about math and algorithms instead of linguistics.

sidarape··on How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow
Ok, I see. Thank you.
sidarape··on How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow
What do you mean by "pretty close"? What would be "not close"?
sidarape··on How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow
I tried that (https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.9/how_tos/image_retra...) which seems to work well.
sidarape··on Teaching AI to race using NNs and genetic algorithms
I was at Generation 47 and all cars (almost, depending on the new genetic modifications) were able to finish the lap.
sidarape··on We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated
Yeah sure but at that point, it's more optimization than algorithm design. Of course, with any algorithm, you always have the hidden constant that you must account for. Also, what I was saying does not apply to the entier CS field. It only applies when you try to design an algorithm for a problem that does not yet have an efficient algorithm. I don't have much experience but I don't think it is really hard to see the cost of the hidden constant in most algorithms.
sidarape··on We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated
I mean, if a paper gives an algorithm, proves its correctness, and you are convinced by the proofs, then you're done. I don't see how implementing the algorithm gives you more insight. I'm doing my master degree in computational geometry and most people in my lab don't even implement their algorithms. They just know they are correct from their proofs.
sidarape··on How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox
> - can this thing detect certain apps like FileZilla and then say "user entered <FTP site creds>" and send individual fields, and is that what is meant by supporting say FTP and FileZilla?

FileZilla simply use a file in your personnal directory to store passwords exactly like your browser too.

sidarape··on Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science
I don't think it is unique to the US... I'm in Canada and also have that.
sidarape··on Canada's maple syrup 'rebels'
Do you even know of the equalization payments are calculated? Also, back 20 years ago and before, it was Québec that was paying the equalization payments to Alberta and the western provinces.
sidarape··on Canada's maple syrup 'rebels'
We are on a thread about maple syrup and you're speaking about language laws and corruption in the construction industry. I can't see how you would not consider that bashing.

> derailed by a bunch of terrorist lunatics in the 70s.

Do you mean the FLQ?

> The same regionalism plays out across the country, but their "leaders" just have the benefit of a language barrier to maintain their position and fables.

What do you mean by that?

sidarape··on Canada's maple syrup 'rebels'
You're downvoted but you're right. There are laws that protect the federation. If people really didn't want that, the laws would be abolished.
sidarape··on Canada's maple syrup 'rebels'
> As for the infrastructure, I'd posit that crappy infrastructure at high costs is largely due to corrupt politicians (ever hear of another place where money played too big a role in electoral campaigns?) and construction companies being run by the mafia [2].

To add on that, people always think Québec is more corrupt than anywhere else because of a number of events in the last years, but I'm quite sure this is not unique to Quebec and you have the same phenomena everywhere else. We only heard about corruption in Quebec because people were interested to investigate.

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