utkarshsinha

Would having a "license" for companies instead of individual devs make more sense? Imagine Google losing its license to use personal data to target advertisements - this would make them much more sensitive to protecting their users from malicious entities.

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I suspect the sweating would factor in as well. I'd probably double the 8 liters just to be safe. Dehydration is real.

Look at https://twitter.com/year_progress for some ASCII goodness.

It's someone standing in front of a green screen. You don't need ML to find a person's silhouette.

Surprisingly, imagemagick already supports this.

You can sell papaya seeds for $200/treatment.

I've noticed that the agile model doesn't work well for a lot of technologies too. Things that have been well studied (for example, creating a webapp with X frontend and Y backend, or creating a graphics engine with DirectX) have known costs and estimates. There are answers you can look up on StackOverflow. Not all realms of technology have such luxury.

Is there an alternative to agile that's available out there?

Did you remember other languages by Google? Dart anyone?

A fair comparison might be something like microsoft's cognitive services or google's cloud vision.

You're wrong. What you're suggesting is there is no merit in going for an O(n^2) sorting algorithm to O(nlogn) and then to an O(n^1.2534) sorting algorithm.

SLAM at a multi-city scale can use mathematical trickery to improve runtime. Sure, a new solver would help - but we don't need it as long as there is another trick up the mathematician's sleeve. Oh, and it's harder to come up with a new solver / technique.

Might as well switch to Windows now. They've got a bash shell (thx Ubuntu) and have a much more polished UI.

Have you looked at http://aishack.in/

Any sufficiently human-like capability is likely to be based on neural networks in this age.

Wait, the neural network encodes within itself probability distributions of the various image patches it has seen. This is sort of like AI.

Approaches in the past used heuristics (like finding edges and upsampling them, etc). Those were fragile systems. In this approach, the system learns what's appropriate on its own.

Have you looked at http://aishack.in/ - it has a bunch of opencv tutorials and projects.

I can imagine this being useful in certain Indian cities (where water is relatively expensive). The self-powered part makes it super awesome!

That's probably because the BSNL employees are still having the samosas/chai they ordered?

Seriously?

Do you know there are people working in sweatshops at really low wages? Be glad you're not there yet.

Fixing piracy requires that the government officials are paid a good salary. Would a policeman need a bribe if he can get INR 1 lakh/mo legitimately (~USD 2250/mo)?

These games always make me want to make some of my own!

Now it's around 39%.