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Re:I Am Deleting the Blog on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:47PM (#23634247)
Yeah I get your point. But I guess for this model you can kinda have a concept of the "ideal" training set, where all high frequency features appear at the same rate as in real world.
Re:I Am Deleting the Blog on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:46PM (#23620030)
I don't understand how people can defend his detractors in this particular case. Are you telling me that an image upsampling model that does not contain hard coded bias, and trained on unbiased data will produced biased result? Especially the kind of biased result represented by the error made by the original tweeter who fucked up?
Large HIV database inflating matches is indeed a big concern. But dismissing one miss matches sounds arbitrary: these segments were not arbitrarily selected, but real insertions on tops of sars.
What's the chance of hitting all 4 of them though? This is a good step in verification but you are awfully too quick to reject their claim.
Could easily be "mixed samples" on the other end instead of intentional leaks. You know how old lab equipment could be really useful in a live seafood market.
Re:Is Canada Broken? on Sunday October 20, 2019 @01:55PM (#21305774)
Lament from one camp that political discourse has been more polarized is often hard to distinguish from them hating on the world for leaving their camp. People don't have to stay in your camp forever, aka "not polarized".
Re:Google’s Dominance Is No Longer a Sure Thing on Sunday June 02, 2019 @01:01PM (#20076587)
Sounds like pr when Google is under antitrust investigation
Arm has said that they are not gonna work with Huawei.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48363772

Re:Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:02AM (#19665342)
Isn't it's darkest secret the fact that we can't shut it down because the inmates don't want to face civilian trial in NYC and they have nowhere else to go?
Re:Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:00PM (#19636643)
Cambridge can't even fix potholes and plow snow, but this is where they decide to spend money. Some real galaxy brains.
Tell that to the guy that tried to create HIV resistance babies in China. He had a decent lab yet both babies he created didn't have ccr5 hit: the crispr missed target.
Who fact checks the fact checkers?
Re:MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:45PM (#19575743)
It's written in their "anti-espionage law", where all companies based in China have the duty to actively comply with spying requests when asked.
Re:Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim on Saturday March 30, 2019 @11:15AM (#19529816)
https://github.com/akiyosi/gonvim

There you go. Dein is integrated and has GUI.

Re:Update on New Zealand on Friday March 22, 2019 @12:56PM (#19464405)
Wow, if Facebook does the same about tiananmen tank men and a sleuth of other stuff, they didn't have to get blocked in China!
Re:The Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:59PM (#19157512)
Not true. Be-4 is a staged combustion metholox engine.
Because at least half of the people wouldn't believe them and consider this another conspiracy theory. Even when Bloomberg pushed this there are still so many deniers in this thread.
Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal on Thursday September 27, 2018 @06:40PM (#18089491)
He definitely has a lot of say when it comes to the technical details of rocket design. Mueller told the story about how on Merlin engine he insisted on utilizing fluid Dynamics to control the fuel instead of using valves, when everyone else disagreed, and the idea worked really well. And you know that there is no way Musk can fire Mueller and keep SpaceX so he doesn't need to brown nose Musk.
Re:AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:19AM (#15508088)
Well they didn't use inception. If their inception units have, say, a 7x7 conv, then ladders will probably be found much earlier.