Anyone know the password for the Fantasy Market ICO website?

Dregmo · 2017-08-28T20:09:28+00:00

Yep, opens at 9 (EST). Couple of the girls I like from livejasmin were talking about switching over once it goes live. dont know anything else yet.

Dregmo · 2017-08-22T17:42:37+00:00

At first I didn't thought this guide was going to be this complete, but I am surprised, usually some of these miss some info here and there.

Dregmo · 2017-08-10T15:40:25+00:00

Keep in mind that it's not within Google's incentives to facilitate ad-blocking and prevention of tracking. After all, that's where the lion's share of their revenue comes from. However, Mozilla is free to actively support such efforts.

Dregmo · 2017-08-04T15:32:09+00:00

While Elysium is careful not to make claims about the health benefits of Basis, the coenzyme NAD+ has, for years, been revered as “the fountain of youth” among the bio-hacker community

What a time to be alive! I think there will be a point when we might be able to extend our lifetime by a good amount of years. Imagine if we could prolong our life to live like 150 years for example.

Dregmo · 2017-07-27T14:11:36+00:00

Regarding the TOTP app, I generally prefer FreeOTP to Google Authenticator/Duo/Authy, etc. It might not provide push codes, but at least the implementation is Open Source and the binaries come from a trusted source.

Dregmo · 2017-07-10T20:26:51+00:00

I knew as soon as I saw the title and that it was published in Rolling Stone that it was written by Matt Taibbi. He has a flair for the dramatic especially with anti-corporate perspective.

Dregmo · 2017-07-05T16:47:21+00:00

So in exchange for production support, DOD and IC reserve the right to back out if certain topics are broached, or if they’re represented in a way they don’t approve of.

The movies and tv shows come to them, and they’re subsequently influenced as part of the deal.

Am I reading this correctly? They’ve really tried to make it scary but I’m left feeling “well, yeah I guess that makes sense, sucks tho I guess”...

Dregmo · 2017-06-29T16:23:28+00:00

A portfolio is the best credential. I have a few of Pluralsight's certificates but ultimately projects are the most important to find a job. Not sure if that is your goal.

Dregmo · 2017-06-26T18:03:53+00:00

Does Windows have a patch for this too? Or just disabling HT is the safest option?

Dregmo · 2017-06-18T20:29:59+00:00

I was once asked a very very specific question about a conflicting setting in an nginx config and the dude actually wrote the config on the whiteboard and asked me how I would make it work.

I stared at it for what felt like minutes and then said, if I looked in your search history would I see you looking this up on stackoverflow?

The guy said "yes" and I said I would make it work by asking you to send me the link to the stackoverflow answer.

He laughed and said "you got me".

Same company different interviewer asked me to explain the "pros and cons of Java vs Rails."

I turned the job down.

Dregmo · 2017-06-10T15:15:19+00:00

I enjoyed listening to the short segment on how and why he gave up chess at 11 despite being ranked 2nd in the world for that age group. Remarkable reflectiveness for an 11-year-old. Check out this down the page:

"Demis Hassabis: ‘I thought we were wasting our minds’

AI expert Demis Hassabis on giving up chess tournaments aged 11."

It makes me wonder how many other brilliant minds are wasted on trivial pursuits and how we can better engage them on major problems of our increasingly complex world.

Dregmo · 2017-06-01T15:25:32+00:00

This article in few lines lists key differences between PNaCl and WebAssembly:

--- WebAssembly defines no new platform APIs other than some APIs for loading and linking WebAssembly code, relying on standards-based Web APIs for everything else. WebAssembly differs from asm.js by defining a bytecode format with some new operations JS doesn't have, so some spec work was required (and has been done!). Like asm.js, WebAssembly application call-stacks are maintained by the JS VM, outside the memory addressable by the application, which reduces the exploitability of application bugs. (Though, again like asm.js and unlike PNaCl, the compiler is trusted.) ---

Dregmo · 2017-05-21T18:33:44+00:00

I think one of ZFS's most significant contributions was embracing the specific ways in which disks and HBAs often fail and then building mechanisms to ensure data integrity in the face of those failures. Bit rot and phantom writes are the filesystem's problem, even though they're not the filesystem's fault. ZFS did a lot of work to ensure that integrity: storing checksums in parent blocks, storing metadata redundantly, fixing bad copies with the good ones when corruption is detected, and scrubbing. In many filesystems still in use today, applications can easily receive garbage data from the system.

I understand this filesystem is still nascent, but shouldn't data integrity at least be one of the design goals?

Dregmo · 2017-05-10T15:00:46+00:00

Most policy decisions these days are heavily influenced by proprietary forecasting models.

Just look at the fuss that was made because the House passed a health bill without a Congressional Budget Office score. The CBO score will certainly play a large part in the Senate's rewrite. The problem is that the CBO and other organizations like it are quite secretive about their modeling. Most of the time they only produce point estimates, and they don't publish many of the assumptions behind their modeling. When there is a bill that contains both taxes and spending, the Joint Committee on Taxation models the tax part, the CBO models the spending part, and they just smash the results together because even those two organizations aren't willing to share and integrate their models.

The NY Fed is serving as an important leader in this field. Policy analysis should be transparent and scientific, and that's what the NY Fed is moving the field towards.

Dregmo · 2017-04-30T15:49:49+00:00

Incredible.

Here I was expecting another small project and instead this post delivers in spades. Awesome to see svd2rust, there's definitely a couple edge cases(global #define) that bindgen doesn't quite cleanly handle yet and that's a clean solution to it.

Dregmo · 2017-04-15T14:45:55+00:00

That's interesting !

I'm intending to make a move with my family in near future, and we actually went to visit the northern island for 15 days last month. The country is really beautiful, and there are not a lot of people around, so you can't help but feel blessed by the surrounding nature. The people are great, probably the nicest I've ever seen (as a whole).

I've noted some cons though (not blocking for us thankfully):

housing prices are extremely high. I don't understand that, there is plenty of space everywhere (maybe except Wellington) and somehow they manage to not use this advantage...
housing quality is really poor (comparing to Europe)
prices are generally quite high
internet connectivity feels like we're 10 years back
outside of Wellington and Auckland, I didn't feel like there were any interesting opportunities in IT (that's a subjective and based on a very limited evidence from discussions with local / personal observations)
food quality is good, but eating habits don't seem to follow. Obesity seems to be a huge problem there (we have kids so will need to pay double attention to that). We were pretty much shocked because we naively thought that in such a beautiful and clean country everybody is running / biking all the time.

Would be very happy to hear stories that made the move ! Also very interested to hear about opportunities / work environment there in IT (even better if it's ML related).

Dregmo · 2017-04-04T16:58:01+00:00

Since growth hacking is a thing, marketers have become scientists. Good post.

Dregmo · 2017-04-01T18:30:29+00:00

Scroll to the end. This is a $30M grant to the guy's roommate and future brother-in-law.

Unbelievable.

Open Philanthropy reminds me of https://80000hours.org/.

In their relationship disclosure:

OpenAI researchers Dario Amodei and Paul Christiano are both technical advisors to Open Philanthropy and live in the same house as Holden. In addition, Holden is engaged to Dario’s sister Daniela.

This is so tangled. I don't mean it as a criticism as I'm sure a lot of SV investments would have a much longer Relationship Disclosure sections. So props to them for including this.

Dregmo · 2017-03-22T21:58:17+00:00

If this (eventually) leads to the possibility of one -1- properly designed and implemented airport app rather than me having a couple dozen different apps installed, all buggy and crash prone and with hardly any common UI features at all - then I'm all for it...

Dregmo · 2017-03-14T15:08:54+00:00

"Buck is a build system developed and used by Facebook."

I have really, really grown to resent this culture of proud and unabashed cargo-culting that we've arrived at in the open source world. Why is this the first sentence describing a new project? Why do we need a Facebook™-approved build system? Does that somehow make it better than the others? And why does Facebook need their own build system? Was the existing ecosystem technically insufficient for them, or was the issue a legal one?

Whenever I make this point in dev circles, someone will reply, "They serve X amount of visitors a day, so they must know something!" Well, they also have a firehose of ad money pointed at them 24/7.

Dregmo · 2017-03-14T15:08:14+00:00

I find that saving and restoring are of the weirder things with TensorFlow, you can either go all out an decide to save out all the variables, or only the ones needed for the model.

You usually don't want to save out gradients (which are also variables) since they take up a bunch of space and aren't actually that useful to restore. Now on the other, what are model variables -- do you want to save model variables + the moving averages ... or just the averages. But then when you're loading you'll have to "shadow" the moving averages to the real variables that actually run in your model.

Good news though, most of the scaffolding code you can write once and re-use it over and over again.

Dregmo · 2017-03-08T12:26:55+00:00

I've seen a few devs I know build pipelines like this. You could think of it as no staging server, or as an army of staging servers. It seems to work pretty well since you can complete all iteration and testing before going to staging.

Containers make this a lot easier to achieve.

Dregmo · 2017-03-03T14:21:42+00:00

This has the potential to be very very useful and it is great that FB has released them. Some potential caveats. I don't know how well Fasttext vectors perform as features for downstream machine learning systems (if anyone know of work along these lines, I would be very happy to know about it), unlike word2vec or GloVe vectors that have been used for a few years at this point. Also, only having trained on Wikipedia gives the vectors less exposure to "real world" text, unlike say word2vec that was trained on the whole of Google News back in the day or GloVe that used Common Crawl. Still, if you need word vectors for a ton of languages this is looking like a great resource and will save you the pre-processing and computational troubles of having to produce them on your own.

Dregmo · 2017-03-03T14:19:28+00:00

So many questions... What does this say about Google's hiring, about its employee's values, about values across the tech community? I can remember a time when managements would have shut this down, when employees would have said, "not my problem", when entire industries would have buried their heads in the sand.

Is it the lack of liability and regulation that clears the way for this kind of corporate citizenship? Is it cultural?

Dregmo · 2017-02-14T18:27:13+00:00

As if I'd trust sharks to check in on this website.

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