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Re:The race for autonomous cars is over. Silicon Valley lost
on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @08:29AM (#13705275)
One billion people get in and out of a car every single day. They go to work, they go home, they shop, they play, they do a billion different things. Knowing where they're going and what they're doing can be very valuable. And then it can be sold to anyone.
It will be a sad day if and when real innovation loses to the sale of personal information for the purpose of surveillance and advertising.
Re:What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence
on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @11:37AM (#11946477)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_transform in the solution of certain ODEs
Re:The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s (2011)
on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @04:39PM (#10780566)
Can that really be asserted for anything but standard development/architect roles? It seems to me that anyone who wants to get into serious algorithm design (or the big buzz in ML), does need more advanced technical background. If you look at the technical foundations of a BS in the US, it is actually quite shallow from a technical perspective.
Re:How Tor Works: Part One
on Sunday December 20, 2015 @12:11AM (#10766132)
Not being factitious here. Do you have a better (more technical) alternative?
Re:Congress has added CISA to the federal budget bill
on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @04:58PM (#10747672)
I don't understand the connection here. Could you elaborate for me?
Re:The sad economics of being famous on the internet
on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @09:01AM (#10737763)
The difference that the article is trying to highlight is the contrast between fame and economic security. Van Gogh wasn't famous while he was alive, so it's a straw-man argument. The modern Internet Star, however, is quite known.
Re:Stack Overflow and the Zeitgeist of Computer Programming
on Monday November 23, 2015 @09:11AM (#10614631)
Anyone have comments/inisght as to why Clojure would have lost traction over the past year? Just curious as my impression of the language is that, relative to other functional languages, it's very useful for highly parallel computational analysis (see: ML/AI, data science, CFD/FEA, numerical analysis etc.). Many of these sub-fields are "in vogue", so I would have expected to see the opposite trend...
Anyone have insight they could offer? Thanks
Re:Ask HN: What is the best book to learn probability through self study?
on Monday November 16, 2015 @03:12PM (#10576825)
Based on the presence of a bookshelf on his webpage [0], he seems to be a fan of literature. I've been looking for a text on abstract algebra and now I think I've got one!
Seems like a question that he would welcome.
[0] http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~blitz/Site/Books.html
Re:State of emergency in France
on Saturday November 14, 2015 @11:03AM (#10566059)
This is completely tangential to the discussion of this thread, but so much of google search is forecasting based on user's search history these days it's hard to tell if it's just biased towards HN because we all visit it.
Re:Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]
on Thursday November 05, 2015 @03:16PM (#10515853)
I once had a mentor who was fond of saying "Git doesn't solve human problems", in reference to git-conflicts while explaining the system to less technical team members.
Technological advancements have, to this point, had fairly limited effect on mitigating error in human input.
Re:Google Brain Residency Program
on Friday October 23, 2015 @11:18AM (#10439112)
It seems to be listed as a software engineering position (and are likely paid through the same construct, since participants are required to be eligible for work in the US). I would think they are paid as entry level software engineers, but that's all conjecture.
Re:Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project
on Friday October 16, 2015 @01:44PM (#10400871)
>Google has scanned more than 20 million books since 2004 without the permission of the authors.
I am blown away how this is ruled legal, but in many cases scanning books as an individual is considered copyright infringement. As though they don't reap financial benefit from expanding the scope of the data they control? It's their entire business model...
Re:You can't defend public libraries and oppose file-sharing
on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @10:50AM (#10191767)
Is that not one of the most common analogies used by Pirates, the similarities between file sharing and lending a book or movie to a friend? That argument has failed for file sharing, what makes your argument different?