Hacker News: rndn

New comment by rndn in "Tell HN: Full Hacker News dataset now available on BigQuery"

rndn — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 22:52:04 +0000

There are items in there that are deleted/[dead] on HN (and not very recent). How come?

Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning

rndn — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:33:14 +0000

Article URL: http://rinuboney.github.io/2015/10/18/theoretical-motivations-deep-learning.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10418233

Points: 93

# Comments: 11

Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning

rndn — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:08:36 +0000

Article URL: http://rinuboney.github.io/2015/10/18/theoretical-motivations-deep-learning.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10413358

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rndn in "The Hostile Email Landscape"

rndn — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:09:14 +0000

In wich ways is this different and superior to a fee?

New comment by rndn in "Graffiti on ‘Homeland,’ Unnoticed by Producers, Calls Show Racist"

rndn — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:50:30 +0000

'The series dangerously feeds into the racism of the hysterical moment we find ourselves in today.'

New comment by rndn in "Auto-Generating Clickbait with Recurrent Neural Networks"

rndn — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:43:10 +0000

Could this RNN model perhaps be used to filter click bait headlines from HN automatically? Perhaps one could perform some sort of backward beam search to figure out how likely a particular headline would've been produced by it. If there are words in a headline that the model doesn't know, one could perhaps just let it replace it with one that it knows.

QuickLook Plugins for OS X

rndn — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 20:18:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10366837

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Reconstruction and Simulation of Neocortical Microcircuitry [video]

rndn — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:34:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=183&v=IL08fnRCb0k

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10365452

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rndn in "Reddit Presents: Upvoted"

rndn — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 01:29:59 +0000

Maybe I’m mistaken, but it seems to me that Reddit would be much better off as a dontation-based non-profit. It seems ethical that nobody should make money off of user-generated content except the users are compensated for their time (which is unpractical); at least not beyond what’s necessary to keep the system up and running and occasionally add handy features to it. I bet the amount of time it takes to develop and run Reddit fades in face of the collective amount of time there is spent on creating and curating content by millions of people. I’m actually surprised that none of the comments here are touching on this point.

New comment by rndn in "The microservices cargo cult"

rndn — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:51:57 +0000

What do you mean exactly? I mean that the status symbol aspect of a cargo cult is a crucial part of its self-reinforcement mechanism.

New comment by rndn in "Reddit Presents: Upvoted"

rndn — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 21:16:28 +0000

I’m not sure what this site is supposed to be for: Is it (a) to generate more ad revenue for reddit to be finally self-sustaining or (b) an attempt to come up to the expectations of Reddit's VC shareholders (i.e. a separate startup to generate more revenue than necessary for self-sustenance).

New comment by rndn in "The microservices cargo cult"

rndn — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 11:18:22 +0000

I think a cargo cult also has something to do with signaling, sort of like a status symbol ("They can't really be Y if they are not X!" -> "Look at us how X we are!"). It's a self-reinforcing meme that is used as a heuristic for value estimation, but usually fails catastrophically because of its heuristic and self-reinforcing nature.

New comment by rndn in "The Future of the Internet Is Flow"

rndn — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 23:57:50 +0000

Beautifully said and matches closely my intuition and how it is depicted at the beginning of the film Her.

Deep Learning Robot Takes 10 Days to Teach Itself to Grasp

rndn — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:59:37 +0000

Article URL: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542076/deep-learning-robot-takes-10-days-to-teach-itself-to-grasp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333994

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rndn in "Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element"

rndn — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:19:49 +0000

I have this script bound to cmd-shift-6: https://github.com/jomo/imgur-screenshot

New comment by rndn in "OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store"

rndn — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:22:11 +0000

Then lets steelman this point of critique: Why doesn't Apple keep their OSes in beta for a couple of months more to release something that is really stable? Is the sample size of beta testers really too small? I doubt 6 months or so later would be a big disadvantage to the competition, quite the contrary, I think releasing more stable 1.0s could be a considerable advantage.

New comment by rndn in "OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store"

rndn — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:27:56 +0000

I think that's an idiom.

New comment by rndn in "OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store"

rndn — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:10:18 +0000

I think the same applies to TeX distributions. It awfully slow for some reason, perhaps it double checks each file to avoid bit errors in system critical files?

New comment by rndn in "New Campaign to Help Surveillance Agents Quit NSA or GCHQ"

rndn — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:58:13 +0000

I'm not sure whether evaporative cooling [1] could be a result of that, i.e. that if the sane quit, you are left with the insane. If that's the case, such a campaign would make things worse.

[1]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beli...

New comment by rndn in "Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts"

rndn — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:48:26 +0000

Helvetica Neue is not optimal either, especially due to the light weight used in iOS 7-8, but it I find it still acceptable.

For my taste San Francisco looks a bit too blocky due to the flattened curves along the vertical axis. It's not bad, but I like Google's Roboto typeface, for example, better.