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An Over-Engineered Travel Blog
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site
on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:03PM (#30939852)
I've got my travel blog https://kevinandsam.travel that I made with Gatsby and my personal blog https://kevinhughes.ca using Jekyll.
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Re:The simplicity of dropping Google in 2018
on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @04:24PM (#17666624)
I still use Google Photos for my real time uploads/backup but I have been pretty impressed with Synology Moments for photos on my NAS. I use it for my historical library.
Re:OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships
on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:44PM (#14995880)
If you're interested I did something similar to what you describe for MarioKart http://kevinhughes.ca/blog/tensor-kart. Its a lot simpler than DOTA though
TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow
Re:KeeWeb: Unofficial KeePass web and desktop client
on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:17AM (#11174933)
I've been waiting / hoping someone would build this! thanks!
Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend
on Monday October 19, 2015 @05:33PM (#10415943)
cool I didn't know that - thanks for the info!
Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend
on Monday October 19, 2015 @04:54PM (#10415667)
I disagree - do they still lock you to their db? if they do then you are going to have to do a lot of work if you want to move to a different platform
Re:Commentit: comments on GitHub pages
on Monday October 05, 2015 @10:08PM (#10336364)
I agree I just moved from wordpress to middleman and disqus is a pain. Its so close to be a great thing but so far...
Re:Ask HN: Language compiled to Excel spreadsheets?
on Friday July 24, 2015 @03:01PM (#9944367)
thank you
Re:OpenCV 3.0 released
on Thursday June 04, 2015 @12:53PM (#9660475)
I highly recommend http://www.amazon.ca/Mastering-Opencv-Practical-Computer-Pro...
Re:GitWikXiv: Toward a successor to the academic paper
on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @04:23PM (#9416790)
great post.
I've also spent a lot of time thinking about this problem and would like to eventually put some work towards it. A couple of additional ideas that I've had:
* A paper could rely on a critical reference to build upon and the referenced paper could be disproven down the line but this is not immediately obvious from the paper that used it.
* Currently it doesn't seem like any merit is given to researchers who are very good at reviewing papers. Compare this to software where a good code review is celebrated. Editing and cleaning up the state of science should be valued when scientists are looking for work so I think that something along the line of a Github CV for scientists would be valuable.
Re:Ask HN: Mechanical engineer that wants to work in the programming f...
on Friday March 27, 2015 @11:17AM (#9276763)
I have a BS in Mech Eng from there I got a MS in Computer Engineering working on Computer Vision and robotics. If you are good with python and care about good code then it should be no problem to switch.
Re:EFF Outlines Plan to Fix the Broken Patent System
on Monday February 23, 2015 @10:41PM (#9098556)
I had an idea similar to this where when filing for a patent you include an estimate of R&D costs. If the patent is awarded then its lifetime is related to how long it takes to get a reasonable payout on the R&D investment.
This way big pharmaceuticals put a couple million into a new drug and they get to profit for a few years. An Apple engineer makes slide to unlock in a couple days and given the number of iphones sold the patent is over quite quickly.
tl;dr a salary cap for patents based on R&D cost
Re:Harvard’s Asian Problem
on Sunday November 23, 2014 @12:51AM (#8647945)
can you explain how this works?
Re:Machine Learning frameworks, libraries and software
on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @12:53AM (#8040636)
http://www.shogun-toolbox.org/ has a lot of algorithms, is super fast and has bindings for many languages, check it out!