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by Iv 6y ago
> What could we have in a World's Fair now that looks ahead? I want a roboticized home that cleans itself, that is able to do autorepairs, rooms reconfiguration. I want an auto-laundry and an auto-kitchen. I want it smart enough to
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by Iv 6y ago
That actually makes me sad: good automoderation tools are decades (plural, yes) old and yet most website haven't caught on the fact that you need some sort of ranking to filter out spam or bots. Thing is, newspapers as their business m
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by Iv 6y ago
"Science progresses one funeral at a time" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
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by Iv 6y ago
Deathbeds are where people have maximum experience and low incentive to lie. Nothing magical. Louis XIV saying "I loved war too much" on his deathbed gives a perspective to his life achievements.
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by Iv 6y ago
People love to joke about it but I remember 20 years ago, the joke was about it being 40 years away.
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by Iv 6y ago
France uses Matrix but not Element. They forked it and called it Tchap.
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by Iv 6y ago
It is interesting that the github does not mention that this FPGA chip is optimized for ML inference. Or is sold as such at least: https://www.latticesemi.com/en/Products/FPGAandCPLD/iCE40Ult... I am not vers
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by Iv 6y ago
There are a lot of different clients, in various stage of development: https://matrix.org/clients/ Element is kind of the official full feature, basic client implementation but there are lighter clients with different
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by Iv 6y ago
I agree, but think it is the creators retribution piece that is important, and that it does not have to take the form of advertisement.
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by Iv 6y ago
Mos' def' bro. And I mean, they do have a scene where the cops have to hire a local lady who speaks the slang well to transcribe some of the conversations.
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by Iv 6y ago
The few games Microsoft did were actually pretty good. Age of Empire is still going on today.
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by Iv 6y ago
That's the mode where SC2 shines. The Co-op isn't too bad, and the campaigns are good, but there are better games in these categories.
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by Iv 6y ago
You can do RL on an raspberry pi. Depends what problem you are trying to solve but not all of them require video analysis and billions of parameters.
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by Iv 6y ago
I think RTS can evolve, but I don't think you can compete with SC2 in the style where it excels, after more than a decade of balance patches. You can make games with a different focus though. SC2 is a short (~10-20 minutes) 1 on 1 APMs
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by Iv 6y ago
> I disagree. I think we have decided collectively to progress towards automation as fast as possible without unduly impacting people's quality of life. We have decided to move all our factories to China instead of automating them.
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by Iv 6y ago
I am trying to not delve into a 20 pages presentation, but I have gone though and through these themes for most of my professional life. The question whether we can really go to 100% of automation is moot if we can go to 99%. Either way it
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by Iv 6y ago
First, the disagreements: no, driving and cooking are not hard tasks to automate. They are stupidly easy if you decide to create the infrastructure for that. You have industrially cooked food, mostly through automated process, in supermarke
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by Iv 6y ago
Oh yes, to be comfortable you need far more than just food, I agree. My point is that we are far past the point where mere survival requires the whole population to work fulltime. Collective choices are made with the assumption that everyon
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by Iv 6y ago
I am obviously making an extreme reasoning there. It is just to illustrate the absurdity of the notion that unemployed people should starve because otherwise no one would work to produce food. Society is designed in a way where non-working
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by Iv 6y ago
If you count the whole field of agriculture, which would include most supplies producers and processing, you reach ~2% of the population (in France, I took my country as a reference, as I know it is a net exporter of food). I don't con
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by Iv 6y ago
In rich countries, less than 1% of the population work on agriculture. We could have a society without starvation even if 99% of the population did not work. The fact that starvation is possible in a rich country is by design. It is not a n
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by Iv 6y ago
For more than 20 years I have advocated and pursued the idea that society should abolish work. I am astonished that in 2020 most of our production is not automated. We have had the ability to automate most work for two decades. Food, cloth
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by Iv 6y ago
I was surprised when reading Keynes texts where he criticized capitalism, seeing him counting the concentration of capital as one of the pros of the system: it allows efforts that no one else could take on.
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by Iv 6y ago
John Carmack's path is highly unusual. I highly regard the person but would not take on his experience as career advice.
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by Iv 6y ago
I am stating it how it is, not as I think it should be.
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by Iv 6y ago
I think people are starting to catch up on why security-minded devs were always critical on depending on JS for so many silly things (displaying texts and images, seriously?)
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by Iv 6y ago
Right now, the question to answer is "how much would it cost to use a different chemical?" and the answer could be "Oh, we just have to use one of the 100 different ones from our catalog, that's barely a tenth of a cent
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by Iv 6y ago
Staying within the law is pretty easy. The fine is for people who want to play the game of "where exactly is the line?"
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by Iv 6y ago
That's how it works and it works well: let's be fair, the law is not always 100% clear. Some companies try to find the line, have the budget for it, and find it when they get slapped. The goal is not to kill the infringing company
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by Iv 6y ago
Thing is, gradient descent is not really a complex algorithm.

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