bobstaples
Re:Machine learning of neural representations of emotion identifies su...
on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @07:18PM (#15597532)
in the paper they state they performed " 34 “leave one participant out” cross-validation cycles (folds)", the dataset still seems to small to be able to draw any conclusion though.
Re:Richard Stallman Explains [video]
on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:24AM (#14978245)
Isn't that comparable to going to a restaurant where they don't give away their recipes? If you encounter a problem with one of their meals you are dependent on their good will to change it for you. Isnt it that you are just using a service someone provides? Or are you enslaving yourself the moment you walk in a restaurant where they keep their recipes secret?
Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:32AM (#14976732)
looking at the men:women (8:2) ratio in software science at my university in NL, I can perfectly understand where the inbalance in ratio in the workforce comes from. Maybe we should focus on that first? Trying to get a different ratio at the workforce in all companies will effectively mean you will have less qualified women. Assuming a CS university degree is an important qualification.
Re:Ask HN: What's a good cheap, low-power, high-flexibility home serve...
on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:16AM (#14969916)
I bought a cheap dell fx160 thin client (€50 @ 4gb RAM) has no HDMI but works well as a low power home server
Ask HN: What happened to our willingness to discuss opposing views
I generally consider my political views to be in line with the (left-leaning) views of sillicon valley, mostly because opinions are formed by trying to understand what the other is saying and adapting the opinion when it turns out the other view makes more sense. At least that is what I used to think, before a now ex googler _internally_ published "Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber". I've seen...
Re:Turkey referendum: Erdogan camp set to win after most votes counted
on Sunday April 16, 2017 @02:06PM (#14126693)
Since this most certainly means that a large group of people will be deprived further from a fundamental right called freedom of press. A right that many people from this community hold dear.
Re:Ask HN: Coding notes – how do you do them?
on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:49AM (#13550843)
I've been using dokuwiki[0] for this for a while now and I am quite satisfied with it. It allows simple markdown so you can add (internal and external) links, images and code snippets. If I remember correctly it also saves everything to simple folder structured text files so you will always be able to revert back to that when you want to take it offline.
[0] https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki#