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by MiroF 6y ago
> "I was just following orders" does not defend one's actions I hope you don't take the truth of that statement to mean that the leaders who ordered the Holocaust weren't morally culpable for the deaths of 11 mil
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by MiroF 6y ago
> bullying can drive people to suicide or indeed bring them to commit terrorist acts. You think bullying on twitter has caused 0 deaths?
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by MiroF 6y ago
> removes agency from those who choose to react in a negative way. "I order you to kill this person." Just a combination of words, and yet.... I think there is a continuum between this and non-violent+non-inciting speech and yo
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Those are still loans that must be paid back Yes, obviously - what did you think deficit spending was? But the point is the cost of fiscal expenditure is lower than it has been in the past, and it seems like we have a really useful thi
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by MiroF 6y ago
Why not just massive investment in making masks that everyone can afford, given historically low interest rates the government is basically spending with free money
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by MiroF 6y ago
Just limit how many can be sold to one person.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Both DDG and Google seem to have regressed to only surfacing lots of blog spam in response to my technical queries, perhaps with a few useful StackOverflow discussions.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I suspect that posting about this on HN is one of the fastest routes towards getting this fixed, in terms of concentration of Google engineers likely to see your post.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Cycling is dangerous. Don't make it more dangerous by adding unpredictability to the mix. I agree, but at the same time I think the laws should be changed so that stop signs become yield signs for cyclists (so called Stop as Yield
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by MiroF 6y ago
Yes? As long as the pay differences are what they are, why wouldn't it be?
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by MiroF 6y ago
> money shouldn't be used as a proxy for success Money is a proxy for a lot of things, like ability to afford the things needed to survive on a daily basis. I don't think we can wave away huge global inequity by saying that we
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by MiroF 6y ago
My point is simple: rooting for the extinction of humanity is bad. I'm not commenting on the veracity of claims about the extinction of humanity, although I do think that present trends do not always explain or predict future ones.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Cheers! I thought that archive.is trick no longer worked which is why I didn't try.
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by MiroF 6y ago
The problem here is that the JPEG decoder is not differentiable.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Those are very cool examples and of considerably higher quality+bitrate than when I last tuned into this field half a year ago. Unrelated, but I actually recognize your name from Github - I guess deep image compression is a pretty small spa
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by MiroF 6y ago
I think that young childbirth and the general age of having children is on the up and up, so perhaps this will happen naturally.
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by MiroF 6y ago
That makes sense, I don't think I stated my question very clearly: how do you control/optimize the entropy of the latent space? ie. what stops the network from laundering all of the information for reconstructing the image through
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by MiroF 6y ago
But how do you optimize the lossless encoding of the quantized latent space? ie. how do you tell the encoder to produce something that can be well encoded, given that the encoding is a bunch of discrete steps.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> A little further out there, but if other intelligent life exists and they saw us as a virus, they might try to cure the planet by eradicating us. Which would be awful, as we can all agree.
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by MiroF 6y ago
You're being uncharitable with your interpretation of my comment. > Indeed. Squeamish about the truth, comfortable in delusion. I'm taking issue with the extinction of humanity being framed as a good thing or a solution to the
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by MiroF 6y ago
> You're not getting it. No, I think I am. Your comment actually misses my entire point and instead just explains climate change? My point is that a common sentiment I see articulated in response to someone saying that the biosphere
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by MiroF 6y ago
Our society is so odd. I find it astonishing that so many people can be cavalier about the deaths of millions of people when it comes to environmental destruction in a way that would be totally socially unacceptable if you were talking abou
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by MiroF 6y ago
Many people do not care remotely about the lives of others that they can't conceptualize. I'm increasingly worried that large segments of the population will not be reached by that message or any message that isn't about dire
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by MiroF 6y ago
> entirely differentiable image compression pipeline Depending on what is meant by entirely differentiable, this might be impossible without relaxation. ie. you can't differentiate through the quantization step
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by MiroF 6y ago
It's not trained to generate faces, so I don't think so.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> more optimized jpeg The thing about compression is that there is no single "more optimized" knob - there's a bunch of different tradeoffs. Want a compression algo that can compress existing images to smaller sizes than J
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by MiroF 6y ago
> any guarantees on the output of any particular image though You don't have any guarantees with this non-convex optimization. I think most of these methods would work OK on out-of-domain data.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Can't read the WSJ article linked, but > For banking there is a reason for regulation, and it is precisely deposits. Deposits are open to runs. I don't agree that this is the sole reason for banking regulation. For instance, Gl
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by MiroF 6y ago
Exploiting someone's need to survive for labor is what the modern labor market is
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Drake equation, which remains a chain of expected value multiplications, which is a bad way to combine probability distributions. Perhaps the paper wants to say that the problem with the Drake equation is intrinsic to multiplying expec

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