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by HarHarVeryFunny 6y ago
The best way to think of today's AI capability is: automation. You train it with a lots of examples of "given this input, this is the output i want", and hopefully it learns to get the "correct" (similar input =>
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by HarHarVeryFunny 6y ago
"At a global level, the architectures of the brain and the computer resemble each other, consisting of largely separate circuits for input, output, central processing, and memory." This is fundamentally wrong, even at the 10 mile
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by HarHarVeryFunny 6y ago
You've got me beat. I learned to program in the late 70's taking adult evening classes at local university (PL/1 punched card batch system), got my first home computer in 1979(NASCOM-1 Z80 1MHz kit - DIY solder assembly), too
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by HarHarVeryFunny 6y ago
It's a trade off - if you want dispatch efficiency then use functions, if you want flexibility use std::function and you can store functions, functors or lambdas.
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7y ago
This discussion reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "form is liberating". I always associated this with the sculptor Henry Moore, but the beauty of the idea is that it can be applied to all sorts of domains, whence it's
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7y ago
The article seems to be ignoring a critical aspect of Variolation. A quick Google on the topic indicates that it's more about being deliberately exposed to a less virulent strain of a virus, rather than being exposed to a lower initial
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7y ago
One of the useful things added is that the language can now define a default <=> operator for your own classes, for example if you had struct Foo {int a; int b;} previously you'd have had to define your own comparison operators s
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7y ago
That depends on what you mean by deadly .. percentage of deaths among people to get it, or absolute number of people who are likely to die from it. SARS-CV2 may not have the % kill rate of SARS-CV1, or other nasties like Ebola, etc, but it
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7y ago
Why do people keep wanting to compare this to the flu? It's a completely random choice of comparison. Flu is caused by the influenza virus, COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CV2 virus - a coronavirus closely related to the SARS-CV virus t
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7y ago
I'm not sure anyone knows where the "Spanish" Flu originated, but it may in fact have the US. It was certainly spread by US troops. The only reason it is called "Spanish" Flu is because it happened during WW I and n
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7y ago
As Mike Tyson once said, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth". These cool (and callous) calculations will be forgotten the second the hospitals get overwhelmed and there is chaos everywhere. When the country i
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by HarHarVeryFunny 9y ago
Well, yes, that's where some of the hardness comes from... but how do you build a predictive model capable of transfer learning without disentangling the latent factors? How do you perform one-shot learning without being able to lay do