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by arcanus 9y ago
This was the key insight to me: 'Many economists say the answer could lie in the rising power of the biggest corporations, which they argue is stifling entrepreneurship by making it easier for incumbent businesses to swat away challeng
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by arcanus 9y ago
We should call them the Turing Police, like they were in Neuromancer
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by arcanus 9y ago
Cuda is a GPGPU paradigm. It was certainly not an investment in machine learning.
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by arcanus 9y ago
Does this mean devs are more likely to be reporting to an MBA at AMZN?
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by arcanus 9y ago
Particularly if NLP (and AI assistants) finally start to work well. There is very little one does on phone that could not be performed with voice.
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by arcanus 9y ago
This does not bother me. Competition is good for the consumer.
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by arcanus 9y ago
The actual article title is: 'Investigation reveals hundreds of Canadians have phoney degrees' There appears to be no data to support the title' s claim. The text mentions, > Ewell estimates half of new PhDs issued every y
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by arcanus 9y ago
Will this be followed by large-scale lay-offs of mechanical engineers? I would gather a large portion of the workforce (those working on ICE) are ill-suited to electric.
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The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs(morningstar.com)
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by arcanus 9y ago
Teddy Roosevelt, where for out thou? The trend, barring an exceptional individual, is for power to consolidate further in the hands of the megacorps.
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by arcanus 9y ago
^ this. I cannot describe how many times I've been shown results and when asking how to reproduce them, after several notes (and sometimes complaints to higher ups) I eventually get a series of command line arguments or a barely functi
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by arcanus 9y ago
Jewish scientists were instrumental in the United States Manhattan project, where notable scientists such as Richard Feynman, Robert Oppenheimer, Hans Bethe, etc., made significant contributions to the discovery of the fission bomb.
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Ask HN: Programming / Mathematical Software for Children?
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Jeff Immelt: I have decided not to pursue a leadership position at Uber(mobile.twitter.com)
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by arcanus 9y ago
Input? If you control the input, at that point can't you hack a human mind?
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by arcanus 9y ago
Very cool! My comment came off as more snarky than I intended. I just like choice. I'm an HPC guy so I follow Julia with great interest.
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by arcanus 9y ago
Generic GPU kernels... for just NVIDIA devices.
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by arcanus 9y ago
Good for the engineers having more ethics than VW, and resigning when they are asked to go farther than the technology allows.
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by arcanus 9y ago
I've also always wondered this. But people seldom run. I think Snowden had seen enough of the sausage being made to realize that hiding in the USA was impossible, given the security apparatus' capabilities.
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by arcanus 9y ago
I don't disagree that AI is over-hyped. However, I think the research environment is not as likely to dry up this time. That is because much of the machine learning research is coming from industry, particularly the mega-corps. And for
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by arcanus 9y ago
Real title was, 'Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart'. Despite some of the recent coverage, this chart indicates that gains are not going to the top 20%: they are going to top 1%, and particularly <1%. To be clear, this is
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by arcanus 9y ago
> I sometimes wonder what would happen if some company simply offered to pay 3X the market rate and mercilessly filter the results. I've always heard this is the Netflix model. > difference between developer salaries at any compa
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by arcanus 9y ago
I highly recommend, 'The theory that would not die' as a highly entertaining account of the history of Bayesian statistics. It is not a technical text on the subject, but it provides some of the high level reasoning as well as sev
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by arcanus 9y ago
Perhaps normal, but the concern is that this could be a strategic disadvantage versus countries that are massively boosting these programs. The Chinese government is leading (and funding) massive efforts in high performance computing and AI
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by arcanus 9y ago
The government is far behind on ML/AI. I don't see any evidence this effort is going to help them catch up. In fact, the department of defense is far behind even the department of energy inside the US government on high performan
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by arcanus 9y ago
To say nothing of the AMD $$ advantage
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by arcanus 9y ago
Laurence Livermore National Laboratories is not too far from the bay area as well.
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by arcanus 9y ago
I also want to see the algorithm win on unorthodox maps. Perhaps a map they have never seen before, or one where the map is the same as before but the resources have moved. Don't tell the player or the algorithm this, and see how both
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by arcanus 9y ago
Happy to see my home base in Austin doing respectably at #13. But London at 43? Seattle all the way down at 21? I find those results surprising. Is South Korean truly better in terms of gender equality than the USA? Many asian cultures are
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by arcanus 9y ago
This was fraud. They lied about the emissions and wrote software to cheat on testing. This has nothing to do with environmentalism.

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