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by akyu 7y ago
>slicing structs Can you explain what this means? Still learning Go. Google didn't help.
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by akyu 7y ago
Been hacking on a side project in Go, after coming from a career of nearly exclusively using OO languages, with a little bit of functional here and there. And of course enjoying all of the new functional features that nearly every big langu
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by akyu 7y ago
They can also be hard to find because they won't be advertised as remote. I'm full time remote but this wasn't mentioned in the job description, and I only found out after getting the job offer. I think management had the sen
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by akyu 7y ago
Just to clarify, I wasn't talking about using TOR in my post. I found a certain configuration of Firefox config settings and Add-ons which will fail every CAPTCHA on any site. This is without a VPN, from my home IP address, which I fou
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by akyu 7y ago
I would love for something like that to happen, and given all of the activity in the blockchain space, someone will probably come up with a clever solution. I just have a hard time imagining a motivation for Google to switch to using such a
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by akyu 7y ago
Theres another downstream issue of this that many people seem to be unaware of. I've gone down the road of trying to create a super private browsing experience.(www.privacytools.io for a good start). The issue is the web experience deg
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by akyu 8y ago
>We're nowhere near it. So? >We don't even have a good idea what it would look like. This should make you even more worried.
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by akyu 8y ago
Ah I missed that.
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by akyu 8y ago
My conspiracy theory on this: This entire fiasco is actually an experiment to gauge public reaction to this kind of release strategy. Eventually the point will come where the choice of releasing a model may have real ethical considerations,
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by akyu 8y ago
My guess is there was some tell that they were using to predict the timing.
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by akyu 8y ago
Those were some exceptional children.
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by akyu 8y ago
Saying 200ms flat reaction time is "human level" is really unfair. That is raw reaction time when a is human paying attention for a stimulus, like in a reaction time test. Lets look at casting a spell in a Dota. First I need to pe
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by akyu 8y ago
I got a great deal of insight on problem solving from being a university teaching assistant for 2 years. Every couple of weeks or so, there would be a particularly difficult assignment, and I would get many visitors during office hours that
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by akyu 8y ago
I called out the fake voice thing years ago. It was blatantly obvious, but I guess people were afraid of being "sexist".
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by akyu 8y ago
Whiteboarding is fine when done well, horrible when done poorly. The variance is on the side of the interviewers. I've done a lot of interviews over the years, and I've encountered a couple stereotypes: 1. The gotcha interviewers.
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by akyu 8y ago
It would be remarkable if biological neural networks don't use gradient descent. They very likely do even if it is a highly approximate gradient. Neurons are optimizing for some objective, and the gradient is usually a very efficient
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by akyu 9y ago
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
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by akyu 9y ago
As someone in the process of applying to PhD programs right now, these comments are quite disheartening... scary even.
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by akyu 9y ago
So much for that "winner take all" narrative.
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by akyu 9y ago
Glad to see Wildberger getting some recognition, even if some of it is mixed. His rational trigonometry is an entirely rigorous and interesting piece of mathematics even if you don't think it's particularly pragmatic.
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by akyu 9y ago
>It doesn't have much with the actual innate quality of understanding That was his entire point.
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by akyu 9y ago
Quit drinking completely 6 months ago. Don't have any intention of picking it back up. Friends think I'm weird, but the mental clarity is worth it. Funny how alcohol is so ingrained in our culture that it's strange not to dri
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by akyu 9y ago
I read a research paper a couple years ago making an argument that neurons were using DNA as a kind of Turing tape for information storage. Very interesting but I can't seem to find it now.
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by akyu 9y ago
I completely agree with the author. Hiding my head in the sand and plugging my ears will completely avoid the AI apocalypse.
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by akyu 9y ago
The math in this paper is beyond your average Hacker News poster. So no wonder these comments are just name calling.
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by akyu 9y ago
If you are talking about building AI, maybe you have a point. But its pretty clear the domain of discourse here is computationally understanding the brain. In which case I think it is prudent to actually understand the brain.
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by akyu 9y ago
Mr. Kalanick, with salt-and-pepper hair, a fast-paced walk and an iPhone practically embedded in his hand, is described by friends as more at ease with data and numbers (some consider him a math savant) than with people. I chuckled a litt
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by akyu 10y ago
>Something deeper is happening when I am able to correctly identify dogs that is unexplainable, at least by me. There is an interesting experiment you can do to directly demonstrate this to yourself From Julian Jaynes' The Origin of
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by akyu 10y ago
No this is quite a bit different. In transfer learning in computer vision, people are using a network trained on another, typically large dataset, and using the learned features on a different data set. This LSTM simply learned to predict t
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by akyu 10y ago
They are using the term unsupervised properly, but do I like your characterization of callling it "coincidental". That is basically the essence of unsupervised learning. We have a system doing something (typically some form of opt

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