MarkMMullin

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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
To me, Python has represented the nice friendly face one can put on the mean nasty stuff written in C++
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I think we have to start thinking about a way to make it work. There is pressure in some areas for papers backed by things like Jupyter notebooks, and machines make accessing the horde of information associated with a paper easier. We also
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Please make the lowest variance dimension go away to see if you can understand the problem then, and if not, rinse and repeat ?
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I like your reasoning - as an old Smalltalk hand I'd love to replace Python with Smalltalk, but Smalltalk's shrinking ecosystem is making it too niche
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
We all know the systems are biased, because we feed them biased information - Cathy ONeil did a great job on this with "Weapons of Math Destruction" What puzzles me is why he doesn't just provide the counterexample to scare t
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Enhanced radiation weapons, aka neutron bombs - there was initial excitement followed by a mass exodus - the govt held on for a while longer, but they move slowly - the labs and contractors visibly got cold feet over this
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I'm wondering if it might not be a good solution for >some< layers in a deep network, i.e. it's just another building block - practically I'm wondering just how far this puppy can distribute over gpus, and if you could
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
My problem too - have to haul out paper, crayons, Wolfram.....
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I've long wondered about this - I see and understand the comments by people pointing out this paper may a bit shallow - in the same sort of vein, I have this on my desk to grind thru - interested if anyone else has looked at it -- ht
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
>"Given that society created the environment for these tech companies (and their employees) to acquire their skills and thrive, does not society have some moral/ethical lien on how those skills are applied?" Yes. And that
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Especially the cartoon captioned something like "2+2=3.9erstėsdgdfg - the system is 99% working" - both funny and accurate, after a fashion :-) Too bad all we got for the MVC book was "The black art of MVC programming&q
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I agree with all but one of your points, the projection of her mindset. I've known many good technologists driving for the next big thing, hell I've done it more than once. Usually we're a bundle of quivering insecurities w
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Two more: Serious - ditroff - device independent troff Snarky - vi - vile (yah, I do emacs)
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
LIDAR is certainly useful in building up point clouds, especially when coupled with RADAR, however the devil always lies in the details LIDAR is higher resolution than radar, but often slower - counterintuitive to be sure, but such is the c
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
No - as the restrictions fall off, the probable number of sellers rise and the price falls - some of the current value of his holdings reflects the fact that they are not at play in the market - its the old supply/demand at work
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
You're missing the most horrible capability of this mine - when it sees its target, it could start chasing it
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
AsI recall, Terry Winograd later claimed SHRDLU was the beginning of the end of the strong AI trajectory, at least at that time. I believe he, or someone close, said the central weakness of the system was that when it failed, it did not ha
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I just love hacker news. One of the last bastions of people who think on the internet. This comment is succinct, dead on the money, and absolutely terrifying. My hat is off to you, I had never managed to formulate the risk so concisely.
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Not dramatic - the robots are not expected to reload - one robot one kill - simple as that- mass produced plastic, lots of robots, no intention whatsoever for reusability - the risk is that this means you dump thousands to millions of thes
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
MAD was based on the concept of the 'Nuclear Club' - the barrier to entry was the mass defect ratio, which you'd have to calculate on your own, and then you'd confront nation-state level expenses of turning that knowled
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I've done work in this space, and my stereo cameras are about to go airborne on Air Swimmers (Bruce the Shark :-) ) in my house. In the movie in the linked document its just looking around my office and showing parallax error - I have
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Yes. I can only refuse to play and hope the Russians et al come to their senses, the United Nations starts to work better, etc. If we go down that road, it will be the end of most of us, if not all of us. We really have no chance against
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
What about street level city/town surveillance? Of course all the cop shops want to feed all their wants/warrants into it. I have no problem with this if there is a legal framework that supports it. More importantly, there are t
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
True - I often make the heretical argument that SL vs RL is just a question of where the labeling comes from :-) You are correct that the tooling is weaker in this space, but it is growing - my point is only that there's a differe
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
That is going to be a tough one, and possibly even impossible based on where current ML tech is leading. A laudable goal, but taking a complex system with a training time of many GPU years and asking it how it came up with the answer basic
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
That's a pity - as someone in stereo machine vision, metrology is something we really really need for a huge range of applications - that said, if its feeding an autonomous armed targeting system, I agree. We really need to decide
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
We only call it AI - creating an autonomous ML system that is designed to kill anyone can lead to us all being killed by math and plastic - it's a singularly bad idea, so much so there is no scoring mechanism that justifies it - too mu
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
It depends on whether you are implementing a library to support RL or using one that does - in the former case, yah, you better have a grip, in the latter, you need to understand enough to know how to utilize the library and not feed it na
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
It's a cultural problem that has arisen across much of tech and is embedded within it - if you're going to have a science based business, then science says that while you may have picked your initial hypothesis because you love an
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Depends on your model - in the majority of cases training is a separate act from using the model, and just because you trained it doesn't mean it's well fitted. You end up caring about training speed because you don't know h

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