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by Permit 7y ago
Yes, but you should acknowledge that you don't get to make that decision for me.
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by Permit 7y ago
This sounds a bit like "Taking out a loan to pay your medical bills is imprudent financial advice". On the surface it might be true but it doesn't matter if the alternative is you (or your startup) dying. Ultimately only the
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by Permit 7y ago
Wouldn't it be rational to wait for my competitor to take you up on that deal? Then I could spend the extra money on research that only benefits myself.
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by Permit 7y ago
Jack Ma seems like a counter example.
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by Permit 7y ago
>Just this month, CNBC ran a story entitled “Here’s a budget breakdown of a couple that makes $500,000 a year and still feels average.” Yes, because they have been running that story monthly since 2017! https://twitter.com
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by Permit 7y ago
Simply presenting data can still be biased. For example you can choose what metrics to show or you can choose to omit data (deaths for solar and wind) in order to make your preferred choice more palatable. I'm not accusing the authors
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by Permit 7y ago
> I get the impression that the people asking the questions appear to have a pretty good idea what they're talking about This video is edited so perhaps it's misleading, but I did not get that sense at all: https://
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by Permit 7y ago
I don't think the parent was referring to his singular focus, but rather his decades-long history of telling lies. In fact, not only did he lie, but he did everything in his power to destroy the careers and reputations of anyone who tr
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by Permit 7y ago
>This isn't chess or go, where you either win or you don't. Chopin composed for a reason, and it wasn't just an excuse to throw a lot of notes at the page. I disagree based on your following quote: > Aside from that, th
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by Permit 7y ago
>just want to shove AI in yet another niche where it doesn't belong and then pat themselves on the back for contributing to "progress". Can you elaborate on why AI doesn't belong in this niche? The results are too goo
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by Permit 7y ago
Scientific citations seem like a very poor metric for a country that is plagued by scientific fraud.
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by Permit 8y ago
> An arbitrage is just a strategy that's guaranteed to make money. If you know for sure that something will go up and down at different points you could make money risk free. Simply buy at any point below the current price and sell
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by Permit 8y ago
I am from Alberta and have never heard of this. Did this happen to you?
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Visualizing Recurrent Neural Networks(joshvarty.github.io)
3 points by Permit 8y ago|0 comments
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by Permit 8y ago
Using the anglicized name in English doesn't strike me as particularly egregious. (Presumably you don't say "Espanol" or "Francais" when describing other languages in English. Or describe "China" as &
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by Permit 8y ago
>Yes. I'm not even European, and I'm perfectly fine with this. >Ask me to track me. If I like you, your web site, or your content, then sure. I'll give you a little personal data. This should be a setting you choose in
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by Permit 8y ago
> That's an utterly disingenuous argument. > The EU made an attempt at formally codifying a very basic boundary that most everybody intuitively understands - everybody except for the advertising-surveillance industry which remain
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by Permit 8y ago
> Edit: Listen, USA, it's not such a big deal, and y'all really need to stop siphoning off everyone's data like it's no big deal, laws or not. I wrote some stuff for the GDPR, just had to remove some emails from our d
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by Permit 8y ago
> The parallel she uses to make her case is the breakup of Microsoft, which she weirdly calls “the tech giant of its time” (Microsoft is still a tech giant), and holds as perhaps the last example when government went toe to toe with the
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by Permit 8y ago
> * Most of these "deals" were put together secretly without input from the public. Millions (or in NY's case, billion+) of dollars were packaged and presented without community input or oversight > * State and local go
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by Permit 8y ago
Is volume really what dictates whether or not you can impersonate someone? It's never seemed that way to me.
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by Permit 8y ago
> Namely, he argued that OpenAI is concerned that the technology might be used to impersonate people or to fabricate fake news. This seems to be a particularly weak argument to make. How is their model going to impersonate someone in a w
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by Permit 8y ago
Many new condo buildings in Toronto are built this way as well. My building doesn't have a 4th, 13th, 14th, 24th, 34th or 44th floor. Part of me wonders if it's also in part so they can sell the 39th floor as the "45th"
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by Permit 8y ago
>I'm a big fan of TLO, but he's currently not even in the top 50 even with his main race For what it's worth, this comment reminds me a lot of[1]: > FYI, Fan Hui, the current European Go champion that Google DeepMind de
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by Permit 8y ago
Here is another link (YouTube) that allows you to go back in time if you've missed anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTMhmVh1qs
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DeepMind StarCraft II Demonstration [video](twitch.tv)
163 points by Permit 8y ago|116 comments
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by Permit 8y ago
That was from 2017 1v1 bot. OpenAI Five apparently learned it on its own. From: https://blog.openai.com/openai-five/ > Creep blocking can be learned from scratch. For 1v1, we learned creep blocking using traditional
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by Permit 8y ago
> Companies need to admit that only trying to hire a single type of person is not going to work. Why? It's not so clear to me that it's not working right now. These companies seem to be doing completely fine. If hiring programm
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by Permit 8y ago
FWIW A lot of these media organizations derive a lot of their inbound traffic from Facebook. Last January[1] Facebook changed how the news feed algorithm worked. My understanding is that this severely impacted the traffic to many of these m
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by Permit 8y ago
No they don't. The marginal running ability (or strength) of a soldier does not save lives. That is, a solider who runs a 12.5s 100m dash will not save more lives than a soldier who runs a 12.6s 100m dash. Obviously there are minimum p

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