Recent content by lancis

You will probably stand correct even in 15-20 years from now. :) There are theories out there, by respected scientists, such as Penrose, stating that our mind is a quantum machine. One such a theory is called "Orchestrated Objective Reduction" and it states that consciousness is a...

You mean speed it up by adding cache and image optimized, then slow it down again by adding Yoast?

I went ahead and tried it on a site with 20K daily pageviews (average time on site ~6min). With pretty modest settings of 1 thread and 20% free CPU time I made an astonishing amount of $2 in a week. In parallel I explored the technology behind that miner and my only conclusion - this is not...

I know you dont wear sunglasses in UK during true eclipse, but do you need a flashligth as well?

Is anyone aware of some live streaming affiliate programs for soccer? Ideally, a program that allows to embed a particular game into content, or at least to link to the particular game. Even more ideally - a program that has an API access to fixtures?

IMHO the industry uses the buzzwords too extensively (such as AI, Deep Learning). In reality we're as far from AI as 20 years ago. The only achievement of past years can be summed up as: propagation of Neural Networks from Science to Engineering. With the amount of libraries out there, even a...

It looks like a common case of local optima to me. The training phase of Neural Networks is not convex - meaning its hard to reach global optima. So when the "AI" receives inputs that weren't part of the training, it outputs garbage. There are more fascinating news from Yandex. They found that...

Amazon is into social networks nowadays. They launched Spark - social network for shoppers. While Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and alike try to integrate shopping into social network, Amazon shamelessly integrated social network into shopping. The thing with social networks - bad reviews dont...

He didn't try to steal 4B$, quoting the US Govt statement: He stole from Mt Gox to get his initial capital - that is international crime. Then he founded BTC-E as a legitimate business (in my eyes), which is now claimed to be illegal by US govt largely because it was anonymous. Anonymity is...

Touches? Stretches? Penetrates?

Short hat marketing?

"AI" in its current state interpolates remarkably well but is unable to extrapolate. Or, at best case has a very limited extrapolation abilities. So creativity is not about AI. It can find the best design among the designs you feed in, but it cannot create new designs.

Well, now it official, BTC-E is not coming back. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/russian-national-and-bitcoin-exchange-charged-21-count-indictment-operating-alleged

5-10 days to restore the service... Either they have half programmer, or the reasons are not technical.

Reuters reports that Alexander Vinnik arreseted in Greece for money laundering is connected to BTC-E. Some theorize he is one of the owners, and that btc-e main purpose was money laundering. https://twitter.com/ReutersBiz/status/890232366370893825