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fredguth··on Software Entropy
This is a description of Kolmogorov entropy.
fredguth··on Brazilian authorities suspend WhatsApp payments
You have a very narrow world-view. You can not even imagine...
fredguth··on Brazilian authorities suspend WhatsApp payments
These currency controls are in place for decades and our current financial crisis has nothing to do with that.
fredguth··on Brazilian authorities suspend WhatsApp payments
In Brazil, we have had same-day money transfer (normally it takes 15 min) among accounts in different banks. Same bank accounts have "instantaneous" money transfer. PIX will make it simpler for newcomers.
fredguth··on New 13-inch MacBook Pro
For me it is still the best OS experience by far.
fredguth··on Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A
Honest questions, which rebranding you know worked? I mean, really.... I get the idea and even agree with it. It is just very hard to do it well.
fredguth··on Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an ‘AI winter’?
The current SoTA achieve this 97% with a high cost in the number of samples. We are a living proof that it can be better. I believe that there Will be a push in achieving same generalization with less data.
fredguth··on To Understand the Future of AI, Study Its Past
Excellent historical overview. However, I am astounded with this idea that human intelligence is explainable. It is not. We do not know why people decide how they decide. The explanation is always a narrative created subsequently.
fredguth··on Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
I used it for a while and really enjoyed. But I wanted to make it work with github pages and it did not seem easy. Has anyone here managed to do that?
fredguth··on Writing a Ph.D. thesis with Org Mode
With arxiv papers, I usually download the Tex file and copy the formulas from there. Besides, sometimes you find interesting ideas that were commented due to space.
fredguth··on Embracing Swift for Deep Learning
It has a style. It is ok if you don't like it. But it is not ok saying it hasn't.

By the way, Jeremy Howard spends several minutes on one of his videos explaining the style and why despite seeming strange it is the right choice for fast.ai. I just can't remember which video, but I would guess it is in dl 2 2019 first video.

fredguth··on Ask HN: Is Someone Hijacking Google Images?
Why is Pinterest plagiarist and Google is not? From your text it seems that Google owned that images in the first place.
fredguth··on Master art forger Eric Hebborn keeps 'playing a great trick from the grave'
I highly recommend "Beltracchi. The art of forgery" documentary at Netflix.
fredguth··on Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
I don't mind Notion's OTP, the token last for a while.
fredguth··on Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle
Right. My only complaint on AWS is how confusing it is. Gcloud is much simpler, IMO.
fredguth··on Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
I am a paying customer and it has always stand out for me in terms of UX. The only problem I see is that sometimes when I am editing a page I need to use the mouse because the keyboard just does not work in the way I am used to. This is a huge UX pain and I don't understand how didn't they fix it yet.
fredguth··on Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008)
I am pretty sure it takes a long time to put a book in that device.
fredguth··on Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods
TF only? Any reason why, besides Google tech lock in?
fredguth··on How to Build a SaaS Application Block by Block
Totally agree with your point, this is an attention grabber title for a poor article.
fredguth··on Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using modern best practices
differential learning rates are now called discriminative learning rates.
fredguth··on Building the Software 2.0 Stack by Andrej Karpathy [video]
I think the point of the talk was to say it is very different to engineer features vs to make features learnable. This is indeed very different than "software 1.0".

He also points that the challenges are not where academia is focusing.

fredguth··on Open Source SVG Icons Library – Vivid.js
Thanks for this link. This lib is awesome.
fredguth··on How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas
I would strongly recommend watching Jason Cohen's presentation on MicroConf 2013 (https://vimeo.com/74338272).
fredguth··on Generative Adversarial Networks for Extreme Learned Image Compression
Loved the site. Great way to present research, will be even better with source code or a notebook.
fredguth··on YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version of App
Is there a playlist of channels? Or a playlist of playlists? my kid love the idea that she is deciding which video she sees and apparently she prefers the creepy channels.

If there is a way to create that whitelisting I would happily pay. If there was a Foss alternative I would happily join.

fredguth··on YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version of App
I’m in the same situation here.
fredguth··on YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version of App
Me too! YT Kids sucks in blacklisting and I don’t understand why can’t the parents whitelist some channels.
fredguth··on Storyboarder: free, cross-platform storyboard tool
Reminds me of an old tool called Animator.
fredguth··on Common Lisp Brazil Community
The TOC is covering very basic topics such as what is CL, how to setup in your machine and there is also a link to a telegram group for discussion.
fredguth··on Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say
Spotify bought The Echo Nest.
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