Dima @pixel@3dots.lv

Recommending systems at their best.

I've been heavily refactoring code of my machine learning project. Now I can just watch how GPUs are fully loaded, while the CPUs are not that much. Can't wait for first validation results. It's a slightly modified model which takes images of different sizes. I don't know yet wether it gives better results, but it definitely heats up the room.

Random pictures from Washington DC.

South Maryland and Assateague State Park

The origins of modern internet.

MoMath: National Math museum in New York. It's a lot of fun for kids and a lot of expenses for the adults.

NY reflections

http://2ality.com/2015/01/es6-maps-sets.html#mapping-and-filtering

неужели это единственное решение!

Lessons for shaving.

Поймал такого "зайца" на пути домой.

Some photo shots from Sunday.

Вчера выбрались в горы с коллегами. Понял, что получается или фотографировать только природу (но одному или в очень маленькой компании), или людей (но тогда особо без природы). В этот раз нащелкал много портретов.

Google doesn't show urls anymore in the search results. Compare this to duckduckgo, where the urls are shown.

I don't trust to whatever Google uses to identify a resource, I want to see the url to decide whether I want to visit that page.

Another picture of Annapolis'city dock.

Интересное отношение к Нобелевской премии. В одном случае ее получают конкретные учёные, в другом ее просто дают.

The end of summer in Annapolis, the capital of Maryland.

It has been a year since I've got my car. It had 135k miles when I got it. In a year I rode 13k without major issues. I had to fix quite a few things to pass the state inspection, change tires, so the service expense constitutes a half of my spending. A quarter is insurance and registration taxes. A fifth is gas. It looks that the case prices are going up, but that could be also a seasonal thing. What I didn't expect is such a big variance in price between different stations and states.

The example he provides also illustrates that not much progress has been made towards respectful communication.

https://social.3dots.lv/media/dOcMiCz2oybLkXxe5lY

Here is the part of the article in a better quality.

https://social.3dots.lv/media/Bl8reYZdICxc0_-Sy04

I'm reading a paper by J. Paolillo titled "Conversational" Codeswitching on Usenet and Internet Relay Chat" His description of Usenet and IRC totally qualifies as a futuristic killer of Twitter. But then you see the years of references and remember that these system predicted social media long time ago.

https://social.3dots.lv/media/2Ku6MtP-IhwtcPiB0M0