TrevorJ

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by TrevorJ 4y ago
Reinforcement learning is the thing that integrates the network across time though. In one sense, I think it's doing at least part of the job that consciousness does: mediating between memory(past) and the present.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I think we need to start thinking of these networks not as something we hope will someday simulate a brain, but as small building blocks that can be networked together in a variety of ways to tackle tasks. DALL-E may not understand 3D image
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I'm becoming convinced that these algorithms are huge steps towards AGI simply because AGI might end up being a collection of many of these domain-specific networks with a network sitting above them who's only role is to interro
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I don't claim that people outgrow ADHD, nor do I believe that to be the case. There are a number of other therapeutic drugs for ADHD beyond Ritalin, and there are other useful behavioral interventions including diet, exercise, time out
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I did not call it legal cocaine, though I did compare the two, and I stand by that statement. Ritalin's mechanism for action is extremely similar to cocaine - it even competes for the same binding sites on neurons. It's still a ve
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
It certainly can be addictive. "Warnings Ritalin may be habit-forming. Tell your doctor if you have a history of drug or alcohol addiction. Keep the medication where others cannot get to it. Misuse of Ritalin can cause addiction, overd
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
>if you can’t get therapeutic effects at a dose low enough to avoid a “brutal” comedown, you should be looking for alternatives. Agreed, this is why I no longer use it to treat my condition. The point I am making is that parents need to
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
1. Ritalin is a schedule V medication precisely because of the reasons I mentioned. 2. Five minutes of research online shows that my experience is not uncommon. Hell, reading the warning label from the pharmaceutical manufacturer is suffici
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
First off, do you are assuming that everyone reacts to drugs in the same way? I was taking 1/5th to 1/10th of a 'normal' dose. Secondly, if you do a few minutes of research online you will find that both issues (the high
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
Two things can be true at the same time. Some kids truly do have a disorder that benefits from medication. Some kids are prescribed medication they don't need simply so they are able to do something that no child should reasonable be e
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
This doesn't surprise me. I've been prescribed Ritalin at times both as a child and an adult in small doses. It is a remarkable strong medication, and operates much like I imagine recreational drugs operate - there's a defi
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
>Most of the mainstream articles make it seem like they a) did not read the paper b) are incapable of understanding the paper This seems pretty par for the course in terms of science/tech journalism to be honest.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I view it as something that is inevitably happening in spite of all these large companies who are tying to own it. They are to the metaverse what AOL was to the worldwide web.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I think you slightly misunderstood my point - I'm not arguing that we should or shouldn't built out a denser charging network. I'm just pointing out that from the standpoint of the consumer today, the fact that they can&#x2
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
Eh - the problem isn't intractable. Consumers do change their behavior when they are communicated with properly, and the technology has reached the correct inflection point. It's possible battery tech never gets to the point w
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
Reminds me of a quote attributed to Picasso: Inspiration exists, but is has to find us working. The hard engineering work and planning is what enabled the good luck to exist.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
A fair point, and many early adopters are perfectly willing modify their behavior in these small ways to make an electric workable. There's another segment of the market that will likely only open up once fast electric charging network
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
Counterpoint: consumers can embark on a long road trip with a gasoline powered car with zero planning or research with respect to refueling. If electrics want wider adoption in the free market, that is something that will need to be addre
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I agree with this 100%. To compound this issue is the fact that when I, as a person, make a mistake on the road, the problem space is limited to me. When a self driving car makes a mistake, every other vehicle on the road running that softw
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I think it's easy to be biased towards agreeing with your point here because failures are much more visible in this realm than the successes. There's a whole host of things that we've 'worked out' on a national leve
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I don't disagree, but that's not quite the problem space I am curious about. My thesis is that as a society we've accepted that humans make mistakes and will kill people on the road. I suspect that society will be much less
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
What I'm 'driving at' (hehe) here is that there's a lot of daylight between what the math says, and what people are likely to accept. We are, for better or worse, somewhat comfortable with the fact that a human driven se
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
How much better than a human driver does a self-driving system need to be before we as a society will accept fully autonomous vehicles? That seems like the key question which we are spending very little effort trying to understand. Until
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
You're kind making OP's point here, no? In essence, there are some huge failures to resolve these issues at the level where those solutions would matter in terms of moving the needle. The responsibility is being abrogated at the g
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
As an aside, I'd love a chat app that sends each character as it is typed, simply for the pure chaos of it.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
That's similar to my observation that if you speak gibberish into the youtube search bar the first or second result is almost always a song.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
It's been ongoing for months, so I would not expect it to stay on the front page.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
There are actually around 2,000 VFX shots in the film, but I think they really nailed the mix between practical and VFX in a way that makes the sum of the parts greater.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
Same here - I am finding a TON more videos that SEEM well produced at the start, but you get halfway in and realize it's a hired voiceover artist reading a script that was either written by GPT-3 or someone not fluent in English, and t
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
What's interesting here is that as a content creator, it really does feel as if this externalizes the 'latent space' that exists in my own head. 99% of my time/skill is used in the pursuit of getting the vision of someth

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