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http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-ex...
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'significant' is another good one.
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The list is interesting. Jobs or Gates, of course. Lampson, HNers will probably know from his important CS research such as on distributed systems - he'll be mentioned in those sort of history books, although not generalized ones. Kapo
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I don't know about 'new'. I read Dos Passos's _U.S.A._ trilogy many years ago, and what I kept thinking in reading articles and essays about China's modernization over the past decades is, 'it's just lik
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This sounds exactly like the previous Autopilot failure! A high-up truck where the Tesla slides under and crashes.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia
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That, however, contradicts their other assertion that past researchers have fuzzed the fonts and found many vulnerabilities. They can't both be easily true, so there must be something further going on.
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Or MS has fuzzed it but hasn't devoted as many computational resources as Google has. They say that fuzzing-produced bugs have come out regularly over the years, so clearly no one else had before applied as many resources as Google did
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And also regression to the mean (a constant factor in any of these attempts to predict the fall of a big company). When will a company want to, or need to, build a big headquarters? When things have been going very well and the sky seems li
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Or if they get eyetracking+foveated rendering. Then you get super effective navigation between 'monitors' (just look at one) and the rendering isn't so demanding, enabling either more sampling or higher-resolution displays.
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Yeah. Looks like their two dimensions correspond, left-right to serif vs sans-serif, and up-down some sort of bold/italic dimension?
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You could try googling 'keto soylent', which I assume would be 0 carb recipes.
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If you have to appeal to rare cases such as traumatic brain injury, then it is indeed 'really hard' and not of much interest theoretically or practically; the mind is what the brain does, so that massive damage can cause changes i
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The left hand disagrees with the right hand... How much has polio eradication been set back by the CIA's decision to use polio vaccination as a front for hunting Osama bin Laden?
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Kind of weaksauce. One review 50 years ago doesn't override all the work done since, particularly on OCEAN, showing high longitudinal stability of personality traits when measurement error is considered. (What's more interesting i
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It was not signed, because Satoshi has never signed anything ever. But it was, as far as it's possible to tell, genuine.
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> That doesn’t seem very fair at all. Are there any other management practices where one would optimize for former employees at the expense of current employees? I can’t think of any. Options with vesting seem little different from pensi
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> Is this the basis of your statement? No, the basis of my statement is the lengthy sections of the article describing Gray's political power and obstructionism which was causing the district to decay and how his death lead to a vac
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And execute the do-gooder liberal activists. EDIT: I am being literal. Read the article.
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Maybe not electric rockets, but SpaceX could start shooting self-driving cars with robotic arms... into space... to manufacture giant solar panels to beam down energy 24/7 to replace all the nonrenewable baseload. (Or more prosaically,
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They also have a very different food, cultural, and military environment than the isolated hobbits would.
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His P2P Foundation was hacked afterwards and then locked for good; but P2P Foundation confirmed at the time that as far as they could tell, it was Satoshi.
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You mean Dorian? Satoshi did correct it. That's how anyone knows he's still alive.
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Traditionally, supercomputers and mainframes have way higher inter-node IO performance like bandwidth than anything you can spin up on EC2. IO is extremely important because it's very rare to have a true shared-nothing algorithm, which
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I was wondering about third-party benchmarks. As far as I know, the Top500 is pure self-report, and this is a big national-prestige thing...
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Some people say, 'this subway is so noisy it's a problem; I know, I'll drown it out with death metal bands!' Now they have two problems.
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16 of 30 is more than I expected. Those must have been interesting discussions with the hired bookbinders...
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If AlphaGo ever gets released, sure. DarkForest can learn from corpuses of AG self-play games.
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That's interesting. How do you brute force all possible Fractran programs when they take natural numbers? Did you have an upper limit like 10,000?
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At this price point, it's time to start looking at alternative approaches. The original iterative optimization approach is not the only, nor is it remotely the fastest. (There's an upscaling CNN version which runs at like 20FPS bu

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