Eliezer

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by Eliezer 9y ago
Kindness. It's an endangered species nowadays but it used to increase with time and wealth, and perhaps when wealth rises again the trend will return. Or I'll do it myself if I can.
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Douglas R. Hofstadter is a tad more than a translator. Try Google.
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by Eliezer 9y ago
I applaud their very, very confident reductionism.
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by Eliezer 9y ago
There's very few people in the whole ecosystem who take home a bigger paycheck if they chill and learn. Earth gets what Earth pays for.
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Most American people don't receive training on how to make valid arguments either. Maybe Israel...
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by Eliezer 9y ago
I would ordinarily just ignore this, but I know you and you've said a sensible thing that one time, so what do you mean by this?
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by Eliezer 9y ago
I'd like to believe that, but I suspect that more likely would be that people believe the videos of their friends are fake and believe the videos of their enemies are real, pushing us further down the easy slope of polarization by givi
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by Eliezer 9y ago
The alleged-foolish focus of the NSA on offense is perhaps a bureaucratic corollary of successful attacks getting lots of attention and funding and promotions within the org; and successful defenses fading quietly into the void, except when
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Nobody in this Twitter thread seems to know or understand what a commons problem is. Training up new devs is good for the industry, sure. But your own company doesn't capture all of that value. If you are trying to solve this problem
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by Eliezer 9y ago
It is in fact a suspiciously perfect interview with a man who specializes in giving optimized impressions.
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Presumably if her mom is about to run out of money, she pays for a final session where the dad gets hit by a car and has a funeral, right?
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Stuff got stuck in local minima for years before we learned about stuff like momentum and dropout and dropped a ton of GPU power on it.
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Now that we know how to initialize the weights so as to have the layer activations be something like sane, yes, we can use sigmoid/tanh. If you don't know modern clever ways of initializing weights then multi-layered sigmoid&#x2F
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by Eliezer 9y ago
I laughed at the Smaug example because it's a good analogy - wealth doesn't hurt anyone sitting in a cave. And aggregate demand is controlled by the Fed - if it's too low "because" rich people are sitting on bank a
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Are business cycles in the modern sense (unemployment that lasts for longer than six months) known to happen in the presence of free banking and absent a central bank? Actual question. It matters because we know how this happens when a ce
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by Eliezer 9y ago
These stories seem almost as implausible as those in the mainstream media, but I'm starting to understand where the term "Byzantine" comes from.
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Does anyone believe in the straw form of the EMH? Not I, surely. Standard weak form suffices to imply that nobody should be showing an ML-derived chart showing an expected tripling of price.
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Never use predicting stock prices as an example of anything. Pick literally anything other than stock prices to display confidence bounds. This helpful example diagram violates the EMH even worse by showing a large predictable directional
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Came here to make the same suggestion, and strongly agree. I should not be able to re-add the vault if I am not in my house.
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Technical but important quibble. You've described supervised learning: given pairs (X, Y), learn the function F such that Y = F(X). Unsupervised learning takes samples and generates more of the same kind of data. We can see unsupervi
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by Eliezer 9y ago
It seems to me that a majority of AIs across a wide variety of fiction are female. Including quite powerful ones.
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by Eliezer 9y ago
They could have just been called arrays.
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by Eliezer 9y ago
Quietly raising my hand that this bugged me too.
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by Eliezer 10y ago
What an excellent teaching pattern - you're far more likely to remember what you learned if you first stop to think and record your own guess, and this is excellent UI and UX for doing that routinely and inline.
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by Eliezer 10y ago
Clickbait title, story involved no Moties or space probes
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by Eliezer 10y ago
And neither Moshe nor Marcello are interns.
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by Eliezer 10y ago
It boots nothing to subsidize that which is in restricted supply. So long as there are only 350 othodontists allowed to graduate per year, there's a corresponding limit on how many patients are allowed to have straight teeth regardles
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by Eliezer 10y ago
I HATED "show your work". You want a proof, ask me for a proof. It's not my fault I can solve your problem in my head. Especially horrifying is if you want me to solve the problem a particular way. There is no better wa
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by Eliezer 10y ago
What on Earth do you think you know, and how on Earth do you think you know it?
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by Eliezer 10y ago
Every successful supervillain starts out as a wannabe supervillain.

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