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by allenz 9y ago
These past episodes show that Mozilla can be tempted by money to go against their core values of user choice and privacy. Only in small ways so far, but trust is easy to lose. If you don't like Google, you can always use Chromium or Br
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by allenz 9y ago
I don't think that you would need that much insider information--you can just use more leverage. As a thought experiment, it's possible to earn similar returns by wiretapping any large business newspaper.
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by allenz 9y ago
This timeline should clear things up: 2008: FCC issues Comcast order citing ancillary jurisdiction under the Communications Act of 1934. 2010: Comcast v. FCC strikes down only that justification. 2010: FCC issues a new Open Internet Order
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by allenz 9y ago
None of that is specific to product management as opposed to management in general.
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by allenz 9y ago
A minor detail: "To woo [reporters], Lessin offers compensation that consists of their former base salary plus 10 percent." AB 168 recently banned this practice in California, to make salaries more equitable.
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by allenz 9y ago
Summary: The Information is a subscription-only news publication covering Silicon Valley and the tech business. It has 10,000 subscribers and is a must-read for tech elites. Its founder, Jessica Lessin, argues that ad revenue promotes high-
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by allenz 9y ago
Kind of. Every technology has costs and benefits. It's important to evaluate the net benefit on a personal and societal basis. Criticism of rock and roll was clearly overblown, but I do believe that most forms of TV and social media ar
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by allenz 9y ago
It isn't yet practical for the SEC to regulate crypto formally because the industry is still in its early stages and evolving rapidly. The SEC needs to balance many interests, and it's not clear what the costs and benefits will be
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by allenz 9y ago
Thompson's article has been heavily criticized: https://www.wired.com/story/what-an-internet-analyst-got-wro... While Title II classification may have some burden, there are no viable alternatives for preserving n
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by allenz 9y ago
They only say that they performed nearly 200 sessions per monkey, where each session involves multiple movement task trials. You would have to contact the author for details: mschiebe@ur.rochester.edu They don't report testing whether
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by allenz 9y ago
Summary: Two monkeys were able to learn to perform specific movements in response to microelectrode stimulation at corresponding (arbitrarily chosen) loci in the premotor cortex. The stimulation was too low to directly drive muscle movement
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by allenz 9y ago
You're probably imagining an assembly line, where one step follows another in a logical procession, and there doesn't seem to be much of a branching factor. However, each step along that line is the process of many deep optimizati
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by allenz 9y ago
Chess has 16 pieces each in one of 65 positions, so the state space is roughly 65^16. A car has more than 16 parts each in more than 65 possible positions. There are around 100 legal moves for any chess position, and only a handful of rules
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by allenz 9y ago
Vision is part of the puzzle--a large part in the case of self-driving cars. But blind people are way better than computers at everyday tasks, so I don't think that it's the Big Problem. Translating to 3D is low-level and relative
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by allenz 9y ago
It depends, MIDI files can be complicated. I don't think it's easy to programmatically isolate the melody in the general case.
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by allenz 9y ago
A driveway is fine, but the rest of the front yard should be unpaved.
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by allenz 9y ago
It's typically handwritten because computers aren't very good at transcribing music. You can use it to search for music: http://www.musipedia.org/melodic_contour.html
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by allenz 9y ago
I don't think that the specific numbers are relevant for what deepnotderp and I were saying: that Giraffe already demonstrated the potential, and all that was missing was a boatload of compute.
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by allenz 9y ago
Edit: DeepMind's victory over Stockfish didn't need novel research. Giraffe already demonstrated that the asymptotic speedup was possible; it just needed more compute.
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It's unclear how much of the "better representation" was due to better algorithm vs. more compute/deeper NN.
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by allenz 9y ago
I agree that the average Joe will misinterpret the significance of AlphaGo, to Google's benefit. But most people in the research community already know how amazing it would be to make an affordable household robot or a search-and-rescu
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by allenz 9y ago
The conversion factor seems to be 1 TPU-hour ~ 500 CPU-hours in terms of flops. We can nitpick that number, but it won't change the conclusion that AlphaZero needs a boatload of compute.
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by allenz 9y ago
Absolutely. This required an exorbitant amount of compute, but DeepMind had to do novel, nontrivial research to make use of those resources.
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by allenz 9y ago
Compute absolutely matters. With tree search, there's a tradeoff between scoring cost and positions evaluated. AlphaZero can evaluate fewer positions because it uses a huge amount of compute to accurately score each position. It's
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by allenz 9y ago
Which, of course, is not evidence that a superhuman wouldn't consider such a move. AlphaGo also made unusual moves that looked like mistakes, but turned out to be insights.
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by allenz 9y ago
DDG has a stronger commitment to privacy. That said, DDG will almost certainly be outbid by other companies, and DDG will probably face problems scaling to that many users.
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by allenz 9y ago
> which would never be considered by ... a superhuman How would you know?
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by allenz 9y ago
It searches fewer positions because it decides where to search using 4 TPUs, which are 180 teraflops each according to Google.
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by allenz 9y ago
ACA without the individual mandate is not the same as no ACA. Plus, lots has changed in the meantime: a growing shortage in physicians, even higher healthcare costs, an expanding role for nurses. The healthcare market is not static.
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by allenz 9y ago
I don't see any legal difference between the content and access to the content because circumventing copy protection is still a copyright violation. I am curious, however, whether this will be a copyright case or contract case.

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