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by b3kart 6y ago
Maybe when Google stops paying these CS grads obscene amounts of money. Only people with very strong political views will convince themselves to not go there, and I doubt it's a large group of people.
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by b3kart 6y ago
> Yoga has zero place at a serious busines It's "business", and why? Are you paying your (say) coders to write code? Unlikely, otherwise you'd measure their productivity in lines-of-code written, which I hope you real
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by b3kart 6y ago
Where goalposts for "winning" can conveniently be moved each weekend, I imagine.
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by b3kart 6y ago
“Meditative” is exactly the word I’d use as well. Which also brings up parallels with meditation itself: meditating might seem boring, but when fully engaged in (and with some practice) can be a transformative experience.
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by b3kart 6y ago
> The freedoms and principles of the old internet are being crushed from all sides inwards now. Indeed. And we shouldn’t let Google get away with it. :-) (Although this particular legislation doesn’t seem like a very good way to achieve
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by b3kart 6y ago
I think this would be a valid argument if significant money wouldn't also come with significant power in the modern day and age. As soon as there is significant wealth inequality, there is also a significant power inequality, with a sm
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by b3kart 6y ago
Still a lot of the big games missing on GFN though, e.g. all of Bethesda and Blizzard games. Apart from that -- a lovely service.
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by b3kart 6y ago
That’s just not the kind of use-case the protocol has been designed for. Think “documents”, not “tools”.
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by b3kart 6y ago
No, but if a law is applied inconsistently it raises questions about whether 1) the law is sensible 2) the regulatory system is unbiased. Pointing to such inconsistencies is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
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by b3kart 6y ago
So unless you know the proportion of good reviews to no. of visits there’s no way for you to compare places? Odd.
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by b3kart 6y ago
Agreed. At this level of competition for top talent you need to pamper your staff, which includes letting them work on the kinds of projects that they’ll proudly mention on their CVs, even if it’s not the highest priority project business-w
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by b3kart 6y ago
Is this equivalent to hiring-by-comittee, as practiced by FAAN[A-Z]*G?
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by b3kart 6y ago
Interesting: could you point me to one of those sites?
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by b3kart 6y ago
One negative is that such a hybrid mode still ties you to a location, albeit more loosely. Being able to travel and live in arbitrary (often cheaper) places is a benefit of pure remote work that many people seem to enjoy.
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by b3kart 6y ago
Ah yes, the famous Hollywood documentary “The Last Samurai”. :-)
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by b3kart 6y ago
> enormous How enormous? We wouldn’t need words like that if we looked at the right numbers.
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by b3kart 6y ago
We don't know which model architecture will work for which problem, and why it would/wouldn't. We experiment until we find something that works, and can sometimes try to guess why it did. But none of this knowledge is formal
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by b3kart 6y ago
This I can get behind (note this has nothing to do with talent).
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by b3kart 6y ago
Underpaid people aren’t talented? That’s harsh.
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by b3kart 6y ago
> if lessons are learned This is the key statement. Even in reinforcement learning exploring intelligently is an important problem. There’s no point exploring a new state if your world model is confident about what’s going to happen th
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by b3kart 6y ago
Jesus, at these prices anything less than perfect is unacceptable.
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by b3kart 6y ago
Of course. It's just that the comment I've been responding to suggested OpenAI going the "open"/non-profit route was to 1) get top researchers and 2) get investment. I was arguing that this doesn't seem to (gen
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by b3kart 6y ago
Sure, but that's OpenAI's particular set of circumstances. Generally speaking I struggle to see investors preferring a nebulous non-profit over a for-profit with a clear path to market.
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by b3kart 6y ago
I buy the former, researchers might be happier knowing their work potentially benefits all of humanity, not just a bunch of investors. But wouldn’t it be more difficult to get funding as a non-profit?
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by b3kart 6y ago
To make the show more engaging? “Oh, yeah, everybody knows that, whatever” is a quick way to turn your less knowledgeable audience off.
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by b3kart 6y ago
Research, and academia in particular, are very status/authority oriented, for better or worse. People with no credentials succeeding is not unheard of, but is extremely rare. Especially these days, when you’ll be competing with horde
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by b3kart 6y ago
Thanks for your comment. I should go and read someone who’s actually studied the phenomenon, instead of making conjectures.
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by b3kart 6y ago
Yes. Alternatively, “look, ma, my number is the biggest number”. Apologise for the sass, just not very happy that SOTA chasing is often discouraging original contributions that would actually move the field forward.
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by b3kart 6y ago
I would agree that as a science machine learning is in its infancy. There's statistical learning theory, but arguably that's a fairly small subfield, if not a separate field completely. ML has largely been an engineering enterpris
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by b3kart 6y ago
>they don't work. In the same way that ANNs didn't work for quite some time, until we've had the compute and the data to train them successfully? I get that it's important to prove that an idea is worthwhile, and the

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