amthewiz

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by amthewiz 8y ago
The conference sounds like a nightmare for serious scientists and philosophers. Consciousness is a broad term with lots of nuances - ( https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2018/entries/consciou... presents a
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by amthewiz 8y ago
This. Would people be willing to shell say $5/mo towards their online news content consumption? A browser plugin could then track time spend (keep all data local), at the end of the month, present a simple dialog that says, your top 5
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by amthewiz 8y ago
I'd recommend OnePlus 5T or the upcoming 6. Switched from iPhone a few months ago and happy.
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by amthewiz 8y ago
My 2012 MBP is still going strong and I see no need to replace it. That never happend to me with Windows laptops that I used for a decade before that. I love the trackpad of MBPs. The aesthetics and physical build are good. The OS hardly ev
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by amthewiz 8y ago
That depends on your tools and platforms of choice. For most open source stuff, Windows has less support than Linux and macOS because it usually requires tweaks (build tools, libs, etc).
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by amthewiz 9y ago
> The moment I first sat. . . well, here is the type of sound they pump in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqEWTlaweaM It would be torture if I were forced to listen to this. Apart from all the religious baggage involve
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by amthewiz 9y ago
That.
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by amthewiz 9y ago
Reminds me of XSD - the XML schema definition language that itself is XML. Any takeaways (good/bad/ugly) from that experience that are applicable here?
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by amthewiz 9y ago
Seems over-engineered. Why not the following simple setup - - user receives email with a link (text or image) that points to some AMP page - user clicks on the link Gmail: - renders the AMP page in-place, replacing email content Non-gmail c
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by amthewiz 9y ago
Most scientific research is still published as PDFs with small text at A4 size (approx 13inch diag). Anyone has experience reading such material on ReMarkable ~10inch screen?
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by amthewiz 9y ago
Cognitive scientists define consciousness as the ability to have subjective experiences. The definition is not mathematically concrete, but sufficient to differentiate from intelligence.
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by amthewiz 9y ago
Numenta's HTM theory seems functionally similar to variants of N-gram models ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram ), where the model is able to predict future steps based on learned conditional probabilities. Mayb
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by amthewiz 9y ago
No papers yet, still in (early) implementation/experimentation phase. Currently surveying research about minimal sentience/consciousness exhibited by animals and corresponding neural correlates. If there is enough data to isolate
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by amthewiz 9y ago
I am working on a hierarchical predictive spatio-spectro-temporal pattern model, which uses convolution-like patterns that use time and frequency of spikes, where each spike indicates a pattern 'match'. Patterns evolve over time f
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Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Memo Prompts Company Rebuke(huffingtonpost.com)
15 points by amthewiz 9y ago|2 comments
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by amthewiz 9y ago
Applied! This is ridiculously timely as I am quitting my job at the end of this month to take up independent research in general AI.
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by amthewiz 10y ago
It is not about sketches at all. It is a nice AI problem that is becoming approachable now with algorithms and computing. It is a step towards machines being able to learn more and more complex concepts and producing correspondingly complex
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by amthewiz 11y ago
In Seattle area, freeways got variable speed limit signage a few years ago. The system uses sophisticated traffic flow optimization techniques to maximize average speed of all traffic. It changes the current speed limit on a stretch of free