Wiretrip

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by Wiretrip 1y ago
Not just Altman, but also Amodei, Pichai and Nadella. These guys are desperate now.
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by Wiretrip 1y ago
Yes but the main thrust of his criticism is the fragility of the whole 'AI' stack, where every part of the stack is unprofitable, unstable and inter-reliant - if any one of those parts goes tits up - everybody else goes with the
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by Wiretrip 6y ago
Actually I think it's 52% <ducks> :-)
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by Wiretrip 6y ago
You've got to remember that the average IQ is 100. There are a lot of people in the UK below this, just look at Brexit and who we elected, sigh....
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by Wiretrip 6y ago
I would love to see an article about how people pronounce some of the strange names and acronyms we have ended up with. Quick survey? 'etc', 'gif', 'uefi', 'wget', 'cifs' ?
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Yes it was real. My fav phrase to describe the work was 'KY2K Jelly - helps you insert 4 digits where only 2 would go before' :-)
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
PDF is, without a doubt, one of the worst file formats ever produced and should really be destroyed with fire... That said, as long as you think of PDF as an image format it's less soul destroying to deal with.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Totally agree. I worked on a project that had to try and extract tables from PDFs. It is much harder that it would first appear.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Agreed. I discounted that becuase of the cost but I guess there's the community edition!
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Actually a very good alternative would be Java and JavaFX, maybe using Eclipse as the IDE.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Positive reasons: 1) It runs out of the box without and Internet ocnnection. 2) The IDE is extremely good. 3) It teaches OOP and memory management (something often forgotten by today's programmers). 4) It is capable of giving very low
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
I am a professional programmer and I still use Delphi. It's great!
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Agreed. I still use Delphi (7) to write Windows apps (and Lazarus to port them to Linux MacOS). Not everything is web based.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
They may be slightly safer for the occupants of the car, but the height factor kills 30% more pedestrians and in actual fact accident fatalities are up as a result of SUVs as they incite risk-taking behaviour and roll over in accidents much
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Yes of course. But nobody would ever argue that a van is a better vehicle than a normal sized car for moving people around (unless you have a massive family). SUVs are a profitable marketing trend for car companies and nothing more. We are
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Yes true, but I was really referring more to SUVs. Worldwide there is a real problem with this trend, and it is nearly all marketing. Certainly the average school run in the UK does not benefit form the extensive use of SUVs.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
It looks like something my son would have designed when he was 5.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
The problem is, they're just bad vehicles . They don't handle well, they guzzle fuel and they kill more pedestrians. There is no point in them unless you're a farmer.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
A classic example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOW_kPzY_JY&feature=youtu.be...
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Ha! Superb! That neatly describes the state of politics in the USA and the UK at the moment....
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Just to add that Musk was not a Paypal founder either. In fact they absorbed his company and promptly fired him for making stupid decisions.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
"These guys are working on something No one has EVER done in the history of mankind" - erm people were making electric cars before ICE ones!
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Let's face it, it would have been called 'The Dildo', not 'The Tulip'.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
GDPR is a good question as I'm not sure they can 'waive' the GDPR rights. There is an ongoing court case in the EU at present.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
OK, under most circumstances that is a fair point, and I personally hate astroturfers, but in this case I feel the comment was equally valid as an answer to two threads that were physically separate - and could have ended up in vastly diffe
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
There are tonnes of other approaches to machine learning that don't involve backprop! There are also other approaches to neural netwroks that don't use backprop (have a look at Numenta's stuff for example). I suggest you watc
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Quantum will be the next 'AI', like blockchain was the last one. :-)
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
In the text generation tool outlined above (and indeed many of the convnet-based visual networks), the hidden layers are there precisely to extract 'meaning'. The lower layers (closer to the source input) deal with syntax and feed
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
For a real emperor's new clothes moment, look at SpinVox! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinVox
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Exactly, we are in a very early phase. However, the hype wave is driving a dangerous level of premature deployment of half-baked parlour tricks or the over reliance on simple algorithms where there are real consequences. i.e. prison sente

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