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by Tossrock 9y ago
Dr. Denneau, what an honor that you dropped by this comment thread! Congratulations on the publication, it's a truly groundbreaking discovery :) 10^16 is pretty mindbogglingly huge, but then again so is 4 light years...
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The authors estimate that there is ~1 such object within 1 AU of the sun at any given time. So, more common than we previously expected, but not exactly teeming. You're right that it was detected due to its nearness though - it was pic
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0.16 AU, according to the paper.
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I recommend anyone interested read the paper which is available as a preprint from Nature (for the moment): goo.gl/cSsHoj (link shortened due to having an embedded access token). Some tantalizing points from the paper: - They constrain
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Ask HN: Best bidirectional Android to desktop pipe?
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I hadn't heard of / thought of the thermal storage idea (freezing ice at night - when it's more efficient both cost wise due to cheaper power, and thermodynamically due to lower outside temperature - and then using that to re
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What VR platform would you want this on? For the desktop powered versions, you can use VirtualDesktop to run a browser in VR which can visit eg nytimes.com or whatever.
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Well, if I were to play the Yudkowsky's Advocate here (which in general, I'm not), I would say that this is precisely what he's talking about in the article. Because Karpathy knows how hard he's had to work, and how flaw
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For me, the "smoke under the door" moment was Karpathy and Li's Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions [1]. The almost perfectly grammatical machine-generated captions of photos were unnerving to
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Well, except they explicitly call the non-sentient ones female (also stupid, and property), and the sentient ones are both referred to as male.
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I remember after reading Ringworld on a friend's recommendation, saying that it had one too many alien species with non-sentient females for me. One, okay, interesting idea I guess, two, now you're doing a thing.
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Is that a broken link in a major Google product release blog post? Gasp! Screenshot for posterity: https://i.imgur.com/r7TpRQY.png
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Carbide is hardly exotic. You can get < $20 drill bits made from it at your local hardware store.
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Credibility isn't necessarily lost over failed doomsday predictions, at least among the faithful - "When Prophecy Fails" is the classic example of this. And these people tend not to have any credibility outside the faithful t
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Professor Kay, it's an honor to see you taking the time to provide context to this interview. For what it's worth, I was skimming the article until I saw your comments on human universals, and that made me sit up and take notice.
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Not sure why you were downvoted, this seems quite reasonable to me.
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This is part of what makes Signal exciting - great crypto backed by a lot of security folks, yes, but also mindshare and adoption, even among not traditionally security minded users. I've seen a wave of "X is now on Signal!"
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The math is actually quite simple to do yourself, your dilation factor is just 1 / sqrt(1-x^2), where x is a percentage of c from 0 to 1. So at 0c, your factor is 1 (obviously), at .5c it's 1.15, and at .9c it's 2.294. Divide
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Very similar to pg's "What you can't say" essay - http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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I know you were asking rhetorically, but there are still reasons to own a vehicle, even in a world with L5 autonomy. A pretty big thing you can do is keep stuff in there. This is perhaps a nice-to-have for many people, but for certain use-c
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Obligatory Dresden Codak: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/ edit: Sheesh, tough crowd.
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spoilers I think he implies pretty heavily that the Rhetors actually CAN influence the past, through a mechanism very similar to that described in the article - "choosing" which way an event happened in the past. Their powers wo
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Very interesting - reminds me of superconductors. Some quantity which normally cannot be escaped (ie, everything has some amount of resistance, or the Q factor is a finite number) that under certain special conditions can actually hit its s
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Putting my old photos on Google Photos is a good idea and I think I'll do that - thanks. Although it doesn't fully solve the issue of photos that had me tagged but were uploaded by someone else, which FB doesn't give you a co
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by Tossrock 9y ago
I deactivated my Facebook account several months ago, and it's been about 90% great, 10% frustrating. It's great for all the obvious reasons (less timesuck, less compulsion to endlessly scroll your life away, no notification inter
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For those wondering, this was (around) the 44 minute mark.
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It's exciting to me that there are still this many naysayers, even here on HN. That suggests there's still time to enter the field before the inflection point hits.
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pg has a good take on this in his addiction essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html "We'll have to worry not just about new things, but also about existing things becoming more addictive. That's what
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by Tossrock 9y ago
A webcomic called Toothpaste For Dinner has my favorite take on this idea: http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/index.php?date=051810
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Unprofitable for ETH mining maybe, but it seems like a natural fit to rent time on it to deep learning people with slow training models. Although that could still be unprofitable after the cost of electricity, I guess it's a question o

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