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How do your benchmarks compare against CoreML?
Re:Papers with Code on Sunday December 26, 2021 @03:08AM (#29690623)
In my experience there are many lesser significant hyperparameters that can impact performance when going from the released code to your personal favorite framework.

Nothing you can't figure out by reading source code of the two frameworks or by reading the documentation closely.

Generally, people don't seem to care about reproducing exact metrics - as long as it is close enough they're happy. You need to dig a bit deeper if you want the full quality.

Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:03PM (#28075632)
Permanent residents are also subject to the expatriation tax AFAIK.
Re:How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @02:24AM (#18862948)
Chicago Tribune doesn't show the website in India?
Re:Comixify: Transform video into a comics on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:22AM (#18665171)
Something similar we did for an internal Microsoft hackathon in 2017. https://utkarshsinha.com/blog/microsoft-oneweek-hackathon-20...
+1

There can be hidden variables that the PID system failed to account for. Workload distribution over time, temperature at the time of day, heat leaking into the datacenter, etc. I'm not sure if a PID based controller would account for such things.

What remains to be seen, however, is whether these manipulations keep the machines working at similar efficiencies and if they fail at similar rates as before turning on the control system.

Tangent here - self-awareness is an evolutionary cul-de-sec? Do you have any further reading suggestions on this?
Re:The Three Cultures of Machine Learning on Saturday January 23, 2016 @08:01PM (#10960956)
And then submit a paper to the same conference from where we collected the papers.
Re:Farbfeld – A suckless image format on Friday January 15, 2016 @09:16AM (#10909393)
The fact that this file format doesn't enclose the AdobeRGB vs sRGB information is a deal breaker.

A lot of computer vision research datasets uses a similar file format - so I can see its use there. But things like movie creation, publishing, etc will probably never adopt this.

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online course? on Monday November 30, 2015 @02:56AM (#10648318)
Great suggestions here. Have you looked at this repository: https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses

It's a collection of some of the best courses on the internet. The topics covered is quite diverse - but mostly related to computer science.

Re:Hugo – Golang static site editor on Sunday November 29, 2015 @09:40PM (#10647299)
I use hugo on my personal blog at the moment. http://utkarshsinha.com/

A few things I've found interesting are:

- Getting the layout just right takes a bit of tinkering (I mean the layout, theme and include file locations - not the CSS).

- The `hugo` executable is just perfect. hugo server --watch is all you need (plus it's super fast!)

- Also, I'm not a Ruby person. I don't need a whole Ruby ecosystem working on my machine just to parse some markdown.

Re:Visa Systems Issues on Monday June 22, 2015 @07:30AM (#9757549)
They probably already have you fingerprints.
Re:GitHub's down? on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @07:45AM (#9497897)
Not again.
Re:What every computer science major should know (2011) on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @01:47AM (#9491056)
No machine learning? Really?

It seems like for every problem out there - at least some tiny bit can be solved by machine learning.

General pattern recognition (identifying peaks, predicting disk outages, etc) at the minimum seems like a requirement that will show up in the next few years.

Re:How to Generate Millions of HTTP Requests (2012) on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:52AM (#9463653)
On an unrelated note, that website looks so 2011!
Re:Graphical Linear Algebra on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:49AM (#9463644)
Seems like a good idea. I would have liked this better if it covered harder theory. Khan Academy's linear algebra section is pretty good. I find it very long, though. Text + graphics wouldn't have that limitation.

My suggestion would be - take mathematics required by game development and explain how that works - collisions, intersections, visibility, rotations. All the juice is right there!

Re:Ask HN: Who's your role model? on Monday April 27, 2015 @09:18AM (#9446028)
John Carmack. He's consistently at the edge of technology - whether it is game engines or avionics. His insights are excellent and can often be used in other areas of engineering / software development.
Re:Programming Computer Vision with Python on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @01:35AM (#8818458)
I used to write for http://aishack.in/ - it's in C/C++ and covers most basic topics in computer vision.
Re:GitHub is blocked in India on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @03:19AM (#8813790)
I've been using the Google DNS server for a while now - so Github worked just fine for me. However, gists went down for a couple of days.

Gists, pastebin and imgur are still down for me every once in a while. Refreshing it ~4-5 times seems to make it work. This seems to suggest there's something more than just DNS at play here.

Re:Ask HN: What project are you working on over the holidays? on Friday December 26, 2014 @07:31AM (#8798709)
I'm experimenting with AndroidStudio and getting the NDK to work. Once I have this figured out, fun times lie ahead!
Re:Show HN: Shift for Android – Photo filters made by you on Friday December 26, 2014 @01:47AM (#8798291)
How do I add a new control point? Are you using opengl for the filters?