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Odd. I’ve used Firefox exclusively for the past 4 years and am a tab hoarder (150+) and my laptop is as quiet as the night with Firefox using very little memory when compared to Chrome


Appears to be a common problem with FF on MBP:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7g6k9n/firefox_qua...


What makes you think that? Media? What are you including under the umbrella of AI? ML, Deep Learning? Are you in the industry?


What industry?


AI


I sell AI robots and its bullshit


Ah, different use case then as opposed to using AI or ML for drug discovery.

I agree, robots are hit and miss


I’ve wondered, why are these types of games, such as Screeps or WarriorJS only ever made to be played with JS. Why not Python or Go or Assembly?


There are many polyglot "code games".

Off the top of my head: http://codingame.com/ - They support a lot of languages, even Rust!

I also remember an old Java application where you would write AIs for dueling bots, but I don't recall the name.

The folks at https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ also host several games like that, more often than not competitively, however, and not open-ended or "singleplayer" games. Most accept any language that can take stdin and print stdout.


You are probably thinking of http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

I played this like 17 years ago and to my most pleasant surprise, the project is still alive.


> I also remember an old Java application where you would write AIs for dueling bots, but I don't recall the name.

Sounds like Robocode.


This one's based on [ruby-warrior](https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior).

I'm sure there are other ports for other languages too. I'm pretty sure there's a Python one for one.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

Probably because if it's going to be in the browser, they have to do a large chunk of the work in JS anyways

and of course, everything is JS these days


Everybody and their cousin can write basic javascript, especially for these kinds of pretty easy cases.

If you know python and had never written JS before, you could probably still play this with a bit of trial and error.


Why would you use those over the ubiquitous language?


I think he means the volatility/instability of it.


I can tell you, a very bad one.


How’s that going? I was pretty surprised when I’d downloaded my data to see they hadn’t given me so much of what I know they have...


Pretty badly to be honest[1], seems like their local data protection authority is Ireland, who like to sit on their hands. That's partly why I'm waiting.

[1] - http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_...


Are you simply wanting to see your data, or do you want it deleted? After GDPR comes in I’m going to be looking into the latter.


Both. I want to:

1. See what data they hold.

2. Have it deleted.

3. Formally withdraw consent to the collection of future data.

4. Follow it up in 6-12 months with a subject access request.


I have heard that the facebook "download your data" feature on the website does not give you all the personal data they hold. For that you need to contact them directly (maybe a letter), and quote data protection law to them.


Not as good as -

“StackOverflow: How to add numbers”


For anyone who hasn't seen it yet:

http://i.imgur.com/Q3mkcnl.gif


This is great. Nowadays, we would replace "there's a jQuery plugin for that" with "there's an NPM module for that".


All communities that depend on upvoting/downvoting summarized in a nut-shell. :P


Try and add 2 ethereum amounts correctly without using a library.

They have 18 decimal places.


DECIMAL(38, 18) in SQL should do nicely for that.


I hadn't seen that before - I really need to brush up on my jQuery!



What do you think commits are?

git commit -m -S “just having my 4th Oreo milkshake haha”


I see what you’re getting at, but this would be a very lengthy and arduous process. Not to mention, many ML and DL algorithms are incredibly mathematically complex that describing them with literal step-by-step detail sounds like hell.


It would be if you had to be involved, but I'm suggesting algorithms could have some sort of instrumentation so such "explanations" could be automatically generated and thrown into a data warehouse for possible future use. (This is all a cynical attempt to meet legal requirements rather than anything actually useful for the user, of course.)


It’s a pain in the ass. I built one for a steganography thesis and the psychoacoustic model is really what made it difficult.

The psychoacoustic model took more time on its own to code than the PCM splitting, MDCT, windowing and Huffman coding.

It’s a fun project however painful. There’s a MP3 encoder from the early 90s floating around that you can use as a base if you can fix the legacy code. I can’t remember the name though, sorry.


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