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by LocalTrust 6y ago
I am reluctant to accuse Jeff Dean of bad faith, but this argument doesn't scan. I've been on the inside of an AI team during a crisis and then seen how senior management spun details to obfuscate critical details to avoid respons
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Apple researchers train AI drivers to merge lanes in a simulated environment(venturebeat.com)
3 points by LocalTrust 7y ago|1 comments
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by LocalTrust 7y ago
Yichuan Charlie Tang, the paper's author also shared an accompanying video on his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinselhi_reinforcementlearn...
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Apple Project Titan paper uses Deep RL and self-play for multi-agent negotiation(arxiv.org)
4 points by LocalTrust 7y ago|1 comments
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by LocalTrust 7y ago
Given the way the US oscillates between administrations with oppressive tendencies and administrations which are at best squeamish when they violate international human rights laws, to me this just sounds like a skunkworks project.
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Is Compass Just Another WeWork for SoftBank?(section4.com)
1 points by LocalTrust 7y ago|0 comments
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by LocalTrust 7y ago
> A former Facebook engineer once said (and he’s been quoted a thousand times over): "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click on ads." I spoke to some of those best minds: economists employed
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Author of Facebook's Content Rules Calls Exemptions for Politicians ‘Cowardice’(wired.com)
2 points by LocalTrust 7y ago|0 comments
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by LocalTrust 7y ago
Established outlets for real business journalism were included on the firm's rate card, including claims they could get stories onto Reuters for $8,360 and the Financial Times for about $50k. Also, lesser known, web-only portals were o
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Russian PR firm helps Co's plant stories in news outlets for cash(fortune.com)
4 points by LocalTrust 7y ago|1 comments
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by LocalTrust 7y ago
recently saw a tweet by an academic (political) economist who proposed "you are not a real empirical social scientist unless you have published a null results paper." science cannot advance without them, but an individual cannot b
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by LocalTrust 7y ago
You’re right. Thanks for this comment. It’s really helpful. I’m still wondering what the factors are that created this gap. If financial institutions aren’t losing confidence in each other or the assets that are been posting as collateral,
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by LocalTrust 7y ago
I guess that's a fair point. Sorry for oversimplified explanation. So, to attempt to improve on your further clarification: technically it is $75b per night created and destroyed each morning. And 3 separate cycles of $30b will be crea
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by LocalTrust 7y ago
Wow this is not good. Repo market is the market of overnight debt between banks. Banks lend money to each other to cover their collateral needs/exposures at the end of each day. If banks lose confidence in each other, they start demand
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by LocalTrust 7y ago
So much wrong about this listing and company that I feel relieved to hear they are delaying their IPO. The corporate structure defied reason as did the concentration of voting power in their CEO, aside from the self-dealing and other ethica
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by LocalTrust 7y ago
Google Maps is vastly underutilized for search was the most valuable takeaway for me.
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Voterfriendly among best in NYC Big Apps(tnw.to)
1 points by LocalTrust 15y ago|0 comments
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Hire the person, not the keywords(michaelrwolfe.posterous.com)
1 points by LocalTrust 15y ago|0 comments
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Meet The Two Most Dangerous Economists In The World Right Now(businessinsider.com)
4 points by LocalTrust 15y ago|0 comments
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by LocalTrust 15y ago
What about the issues posed for idealist entrepreneurs... ?One does not want to endorse a malfunctioning system, but working within the existing patent regime, seeking its protections, and enduring the legal costs that it imposes seem more
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Recession Took Bigger Bite Than Estimated(bloomberg.com)
3 points by LocalTrust 15y ago|0 comments