Hacker News: Palptine

New comment by Palptine in "I Am Deleting the Blog"

Palptine — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:47:19 +0000

Yeah I get your point. But I guess for this model you can kinda have a concept of the "ideal" training set, where all high frequency features appear at the same rate as in real world.

New comment by Palptine in "I Am Deleting the Blog"

Palptine — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:46:47 +0000

I don't understand how people can defend his detractors in this particular case. Are you telling me that an image upsampling model that does not contain hard coded bias, and trained on unbiased data will produced biased result? Especially the kind of biased result represented by the error made by the original tweeter who fucked up?

New comment by Palptine in "Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov [pdf]"

Palptine — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 23:09:36 +0000

Large HIV database inflating matches is indeed a big concern. But dismissing one miss matches sounds arbitrary: these segments were not arbitrarily selected, but real insertions on tops of sars.

New comment by Palptine in "Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov [pdf]"

Palptine — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 22:20:38 +0000

What's the chance of hitting all 4 of them though? This is a good step in verification but you are awfully too quick to reject their claim.

New comment by Palptine in "Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov [pdf]"

Palptine — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 20:34:36 +0000

Could easily be "mixed samples" on the other end instead of intentional leaks. You know how old lab equipment could be really useful in a live seafood market.

New comment by Palptine in "Is Canada Broken?"

Palptine — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 17:55:55 +0000

Lament from one camp that political discourse has been more polarized is often hard to distinguish from them hating on the world for leaving their camp. People don't have to stay in your camp forever, aka "not polarized".

New comment by Palptine in "Google’s Dominance Is No Longer a Sure Thing"

Palptine — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 17:01:19 +0000

Sounds like pr when Google is under antitrust investigation

New comment by Palptine in "Huawei's alternative OS to Android set to roll out as early as fall"

Palptine — Wed, 22 May 2019 13:37:10 +0000

Arm has said that they are not gonna work with Huawei.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48363772

New comment by Palptine in "Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret"

Palptine — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:02:55 +0000

Isn't it's darkest secret the fact that we can't shut it down because the inmates don't want to face civilian trial in NYC and they have nowhere else to go?

New comment by Palptine in "Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law"

Palptine — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:00:13 +0000

Cambridge can't even fix potholes and plow snow, but this is where they decide to spend money. Some real galaxy brains.

New comment by Palptine in "Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution – Then Came the Bill"

Palptine — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:40:53 +0000

Tell that to the guy that tried to create HIV resistance babies in China. He had a decent lab yet both babies he created didn't have ccr5 hit: the crispr missed target.

New comment by Palptine in "Laws against lies: Asian governments are trying to curb fake news"

Palptine — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:35:44 +0000

Who fact checks the fact checkers?

New comment by Palptine in "MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE"

Palptine — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:45:14 +0000

It's written in their "anti-espionage law", where all companies based in China have the duty to actively comply with spying requests when asked.

New comment by Palptine in "Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim"

Palptine — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:15:44 +0000

https://github.com/akiyosi/gonvim

There you go. Dein is integrated and has GUI.

New comment by Palptine in "Update on New Zealand"

Palptine — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:56:30 +0000

Wow, if Facebook does the same about tiananmen tank men and a sleuth of other stuff, they didn't have to get blocked in China!

New comment by Palptine in "The Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine"

Palptine — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:59:08 +0000

Not true. Be-4 is a staged combustion metholox engine.

New comment by Palptine in "The Big Hack: Statements From Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, Chinese Government"

Palptine — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:18:11 +0000

Because at least half of the people wouldn't believe them and consider this another conspiracy theory. Even when Bloomberg pushed this there are still so many deniers in this thread.

New comment by Palptine in "SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal"

Palptine — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 22:40:46 +0000

He definitely has a lot of say when it comes to the technical details of rocket design. Mueller told the story about how on Merlin engine he insisted on utilizing fluid Dynamics to control the fuel instead of using valves, when everyone else disagreed, and the idea worked really well. And you know that there is no way Musk can fire Mueller and keep SpaceX so he doesn't need to brown nose Musk.

New comment by Palptine in "AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch"

Palptine — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:19:57 +0000

Well they didn't use inception. If their inception units have, say, a 7x7 conv, then ladders will probably be found much earlier.