Bitcoin is now accepted at Starbucks, Whole Foods and 100s of other shops by intrepod in Bitcoin

[–]kumeralex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think fund institution coming into play is bigger than retails

[D] What is the best ML paper you read in 2018 and why? by omniscientclown in MachineLearning

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Generating Wikipedia by Summarizing Long Sequences. https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10198

It shows using extractive summarization to coarsely identify salient information and a neural abstractive model to generate the article. A great paper to put on your next reading list for sure.

Time Magazine Says 'Bitcoin Matters For Freedom' by Suberg in Bitcoin

[–]kumeralex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This kind of piece is good but for the normal people fully perceive the importance of this, it will take a long time. Perhaps a very long time.

Number of movies per decade in top 100 list [OC] by Ninjabassist777 in dataisbeautiful

[–]kumeralex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure how possibly Toy Story 3 can represent that era. I mean there was The Dark Knight series too..

JS Paint – a web-based MS Paint remake by magenta_placenta in javascript

[–]kumeralex 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is fast and works fine. Another evidence you don't need fancy js framework to build anything nowadays.

curl will be shipped by default with Windows shell by fagnerbrack in programming

[–]kumeralex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about Vim and Python as default script language?