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vletal··on Apple releases open source modules of Big Sur
There is hardly any overlap between their public repos and these modules.
vletal··on Apple releases open source modules of Big Sur
NTFS, HFS, NFS, MSDOSFS, ... So many sources of file system drivers were release with the exception of APFS.
vletal··on Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year
Interesting. Why is Committee to Protect Journalists not showing that in their dataset? They seem to include USA in the Country dropdown list. Is it because they were arrested and not imprisoned?

https://cpj.org/data/imprisoned/2020/?status=Imprisoned&star...

vletal··on How to Learn Machine Learning and Deep Learning: A Guide for Software Engineers
While interviewing candidates I have observed an influx of candidates having a strong bias towards neural networks in the recent years - i.e. not understanding concepts such as overfitting in general and telling me how dropout would fix that.

We are a mid-size AI/ML consultancy company. We have not yet have a project where we'd actually been given enough data and resources from a customer to be even able to learn a NN from scratch. Vast majority of the problems we tackle are easily solvable with traditional ML methods which these fresh candidates consider obsolete and boring.

This tutorial pretends to be mildly aware of that, yet the first course it offers is Andrew Ng's ML, which is structured in a way that it culminates in building a NN, a brief mention of RF and then it jumps straight into DNN.

A disclaimer that this is hardly a thing a person would actually do for living should be included at the beginning of every tutorial such as this one.

vletal··on Show HN: Extremely minimalistic macOS website blocker
Are you as cheep as I am to pay 2$ for something as simple as website blocker? You can actually block undesired webpages across multiple browsers with a single tiny applescript wrapped as a system service. I think that this might serve as an inspiration for others.
vletal··on Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
Nvidia being like "Apple did now want to use our tech? Let's just buy ARM!"
vletal··on What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines
It's not enough that the windows are getting bulky. The thickness of the frames is _inconsistent_. Look at the screenshots

- Some of the windows look like they look now (Safari, Maps, ...) [1]

- Settings are skinnier [2]

- Finder is bulkier [2]

I might be a bit autistic in this hurts my eyes.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-introduces-maco...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

vletal··on Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
I was wondering why did they mention the virtualization. Let's see what technology do they use. Whether it is going to be proprietary or something like Xen.
vletal··on Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
The mention of virtualization in the official press-release is awkward [1]

> Virtualization technology allows users to run Linux.

How does it relate to the switch to ARM?

Did they get finally worried about success of WSL on Windows and aim to compete in that area?

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-announces-mac-t...

vletal··on AI Podcast #101 with Lex Fridman – Joscha Bach
I found this interview very interesting. It is rather long but Joscha Bach had something to say to plenty of vastly different topics with some pretty unorthodox ideas. I was wandering whether there is someone here with an interesting impression or critique to share.
vletal··on Speeding up Linux disk encryption
Has anyone already tried to compile the kernel with these patches for their desktop/laptop with encrypted drive? https://github.com/cloudflare/linux/tree/master/patches
vletal··on Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus
Well yes. Yet, since there are so many unknown variables it does not seem incorrect to assume the maximum entropy distribution - Gamma.
vletal··on 75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)
That is not how ai works. Such algorithm would not make it to an actual surgery. Even humans make mistakes. The advantage The point is to get the model to perform better than humans.
vletal··on It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004)
I have some minor background in control theory. After going trough the paper I had a very same thought thus I googled and found this: http://www.control.lth.se/media/Staff/KarlJohanAstrom/Lectur...

After checking out the slides I kind of feel that there might be some oversimplification in the used simulator, like producing _the desired lean angle_ might not be enough. But I am no expert.

vletal··on How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence
Reference to some comments which back this claim up?
vletal··on America Is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It’s No. 28
I did not mention the higher = better. I was wondering how can Russia be so great at handling unsafe drinking!
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