Hacker News: cedias

New comment by cedias in "Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter"

cedias — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 11:55:52 +0000

The complexity in twitter is that you have one channel per user, so you want to scale the "personnalized timeline". Whereas telegram/discord have clear channels.

Soundcloud Go compensate artists on invite-only basis

cedias — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:08:09 +0000

Article URL: http://airplanemo.de/blog/to-soundcloud-love-dave

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11396520

Points: 2

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Elegant N-gram Generation in Python

cedias — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:33:51 +0000

Article URL: http://locallyoptimal.com/blog/2013/01/20/elegant-n-gram-generation-in-python/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9646099

Points: 1

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New comment by cedias in "Amazon.com redesign"

cedias — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:03:05 +0000

Am I the only one that thinks their right column is weirdly looking? Plus there is an ad at the top of it that makes the page look distorted.

New comment by cedias in "We Need This: A Maps App That Algorithmically Finds You the Scenic Route"

cedias — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:53:11 +0000

Link to paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1031

We Need This: A Maps App That Algorithmically Finds You the Scenic Route

cedias — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:52:42 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/we-need-this-a-maps-app-that-algorithmically-finds-you-the-scenic-route/?mbid=social_twitter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041012

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by cedias in "Meet the algorithm that can learn “everything about anything”"

cedias — Sun, 25 May 2014 10:47:56 +0000

You have everything here: http://levan.cs.washington.edu/?state=show_about

I quote the readme:

> This is an implementation of the "Learning Everything about Anything" system. The system is implemented in MATLAB, with various helper functions written in Shell, Python, MEX C++ for efficiency reasons. For details about the method, please see [1].

This readme contains instructions on using the code, as well as accessing/using already trained models for various concepts.

For questions concerning the code please contact Santosh Divvala (http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~santosh) at santosh@cs.washington.edu.

The software has been tested on Linux using MATLAB versions R2011a. There may be compatibility issues with older versions of MATLAB. At least 4GB of memory (plus an additional 0.75GB for each parallel matlab worker) is assumed.

New comment by cedias in "Meet the algorithm that can learn “everything about anything”"

cedias — Sun, 25 May 2014 10:42:13 +0000

Well you'd have to build a probabilistic model for each concepts, whether on pixels or on features, and you could use it to generate images randomly. It might show up some good shapes.

New comment by cedias in "Meet the algorithm that can learn “everything about anything”"

cedias — Sun, 25 May 2014 09:24:33 +0000

(Disclaimer: I am not an native english speaker) The title of the article and of the algorithm (learn everything about anything) is a bit misleading. You might believe that it learns everything, period. Actually it's more about finding every variation of a "concept", I quote their website: "a fully automated method that given any concept, e.g., horse, discovers an exhaustive vocabulary for it that explains all variations (i.e., actions, interactions, attributes, etc) that modify its appearance."

New comment by cedias in "The Fourier Transform and its Applications"

cedias — Fri, 23 May 2014 20:46:35 +0000

If anyone is looking for a quick intro to FT this was posted on HN a few month ago: http://nautil.us/blog/the-math-trick-behind-mp3s-jpegs-and-h...

New comment by cedias in "Telegram - secure, free messaging"

cedias — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:28:29 +0000

Open Api hasn't been this sexier !

New comment by cedias in "Typing.io: Typing Practice for Programmers"

cedias — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:01:55 +0000

I do agree with you speed typing might not be the most valuable skill to a programmer. Being able to type without a lot of typos is a lot more usefull since they can create hard to find bugs.

New comment by cedias in "Why does it seem like threading and fibers in Node have been abandoned?"

cedias — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:52:29 +0000

I'm puzzled, what's the use case for threads in the node asynchronous model ? Isn't the major use of threads is to prevent long running task from blocking the app in synchronous programming ?

New comment by cedias in "DynoSRC - Eliminate HTTP requests for JavaScript files"

cedias — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:24:59 +0000

isn't that what's browser cache is for ?

New comment by cedias in "100% Compression Using Pi"

cedias — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:59:12 +0000

Does this mean Pi contains copyrighted material ? Good luck DMCA !

New comment by cedias in "The API-ization of everything"

cedias — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:33:33 +0000

items Stock, Location, Open Hours... All that in a phone app or on google map ?

Are there legitimate uses for JavaScript's with statement?

cedias — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:15:56 +0000

Article URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61552/are-there-legitimate-uses-for-javascripts-with-statement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6689099

Points: 1

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New comment by cedias in "Type Checking in JavaScript"

cedias — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:34:40 +0000

It actually seems like an overhead but in reality it's designed to help you maintain your software easier: Using interfaces makes your software functionnally dependant meaning that it relies on "theorical functions". On the contrary using directly some library makes your software structurally dependant to one's library. This can be a massive issue if the library you're using is not maintained. If you wanted to switch to another one unless you were using a well defined interface that the other library can implement. You would just have to change a few lines of code vs changing a whole lot of calls to one's lib.

IMO, this is one of the major issue of javascript.

New comment by cedias in "HP Chromebook 11"

cedias — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:09:01 +0000

I totally agree. I own a Samsung Chromebook and even if i'm able to get a lot of work done with it and that it's absolutely a blessing to carry around (i'm a CS student) the screen isn't suited for long work session unless you want to go blind...