SammoJ

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Are these numbers for real, and are these all Bay Area? I'm further North and pull no where near these numbers as an ML PhD with a lot of experience now in the tech industry. Have I goofed on all negotiations?

Comment · 9 years ago

I didn't look too hard but didn't see any similar free services with full DNS management and an API for cache validation. Would love a suggestion here too!

Comment · 11 years ago

Seeing a link to the dailymail is a hint that HN may be jumping the shark. This is a UK rag of a paper.

Clearly this driver is outside of the recommended highway driving scenario. There are multiple warnings both audible and big red indications on the sensor dash that automation is about to stop.

Would we have a problem if I set cruise control in my Mazda to 60MPH then drove off a tight bend? No, we would call this driver error.

Comment · 11 years ago

I was also desperate to see this. And rightly so, here's what looks like a prototype link from above - and it's beautiful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-drmRYsvUaM

You can really appreciate the difference between the gentle movement induced with mechanically actuated magnets, and the nasty instantaneous movement which would happen with electro.

Comment · 11 years ago

Please show a paper where fine-grained vehicle classification in unconstrained images is anywhere near this performance from 20 years ago. You will not be able to, because it wasn't.

Comment · 12 years ago

This is brilliant, thank you.

On the Musk transcript I found this formatting confusing: "Have you played Kerbal Space Program?

What do you think SpaceX uses for testing software?"

I can't access Reddit to see what the original comment was.

Comment · 12 years ago

I don't see anything new here, but for any practioners like myself Scikit-learn and Spyder were the Python tools which finally moved me from a die hard MATLAB junkie.

I grabbed the handy Anaconda package from here: https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/

Within about two weeks, and with a little bit of discipline, I became a MATLAB->Python convert. Spyder is a solid IDE, and Anaconda comes with all the packages you need (i.e. Matplotlib...).

All that's left now is to find a solution to MATLAB's excellent debugging. You can break to pydb in Spyder but the debug environment is nowhere near as functional as iPython.

Comment · 12 years ago

So I had always heard this is the case, and now believe this must be a common misconception. See Table 6 in this file from the Office of National Statistics:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.h...

While from 2004 to 2012 total UK fertility increased from 1.80 to 1.98, the fertility rate for non-UK born women actually /decreased/ from 2.50 to 2.29 (albeit in a slightly messy non-monotonic fashion) while the fertility rate for UK born mothers /increased/ from 1.69 to 1.90 quite monotonically.