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by b3kart 7y ago
And here we see the problem with this particular way of splitting. Although I agree NeurIPS needs to be split up somehow.
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by b3kart 7y ago
HackerNews rule #76: dark mode is going to be brought up, no matter what the discussion is about.
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by b3kart 7y ago
Programming is a very social activity, though. It will take a while to automate all the non-coding parts. Yes, if you have a set of tests that the program must pass, we might soon see methods to generate code that passes all these tests. Bu
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by b3kart 7y ago
> I'm looking at screens upwards of 16 hours a day I wonder why white backgrounds hurt your eyes...
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by b3kart 7y ago
As a person with an eye condition that also makes things look like that (and worse), it took me a while to see what's wrong with this image.
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by b3kart 7y ago
> Dark modes are a lot easier on the eyes if you spend a lot of time infront of screens [citation needed]. Why do people keep making these general statements. Every time they do counter-examples immediately appear in replies. Why can&#x2
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by b3kart 7y ago
Exactly. How hard can that be. It’s almost like they’re on a mission to piss off their technical users.
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by b3kart 7y ago
Good point. But whether they do (or don't) care, the fact that these problems aren't being fixed for so long now implies that they don't consider the damage to their bottom line to be significant enough to invest any major re
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by b3kart 7y ago
Unfortunately, even if that law existed, how many creators have the financial resources to go to court with someone like YouTube (i.e. Google). I don't think this is the only case where even if you are technically right, you will go ba
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by b3kart 7y ago
This something that is going to have to be planned will also need a way of dealing with copyright issues. It sounds like an extremely difficult problem, which is why YouTube is having trouble in the first place. I doubt they enjoy these (ve
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by b3kart 7y ago
Then use it to post a link to an article on a platform that is actually suitable for long-form content?
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by b3kart 7y ago
And is that single NN better at any of these tasks when compared to specialized approaches? Don't get me wrong, I agree that AGI is the end goal, I am just not convinced that trying to solve the general problem (before simpler problems
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by b3kart 7y ago
There's certainly a lot to be done, and we'll likely need new approaches. But is it really productive to be tackling a general problem when we don't even know how to solve specific sub-problems? Especially if solving said sub
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by b3kart 7y ago
“_Specifically_ working on Artificial _General_ Intelligence” is a bit like “As a physics major I’ve decided to specialise in physics.”
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by b3kart 7y ago
Cult of personality much? Don't get me wrong, Carmack is one of a kind. But seriously, "if Carmack doesn't understand your idea => your idea is hopeless" -- this can not be healthy. EDIT: I'll elaborate a bit. In
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by b3kart 7y ago
Please tell me this is sarcasm.
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by b3kart 7y ago
Thank god. I am off to smell some books.
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by b3kart 7y ago
I've had the same exact thought. I love paper books: the aesthetics (the non-empty spaces on the bookshelf that you mention), the smell (I might be weird), the natural ability to make notes, proper typography, etc. But I do miss my Pap
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by b3kart 7y ago
> (no more cancellations for a better fare) Wouldn’t be so sure about that. The operating company will still be trying to maximise profits after all.
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by b3kart 7y ago
£45k is for international (that is non-EU, for now, sigh) students, right? It’s £27k otherwise. Which is still a lot, but I think we shouldn’t complain: it’s much less than what top US schools charge, and the tuition loan conditions are ext
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by b3kart 7y ago
Non-paywalled: http://archive.is/bUZBu
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by b3kart 7y ago
Sounds awful. Wouldn't any person be next to useless in their first weeks at any new job? Unless you give them some small well-defined task that doesn't require much domain knowledge, I can't see how one could showcase their
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by b3kart 7y ago
I wouldn't agree that the distinction is so clear, unfortunately. There are people with agendas on both sides. For-profit software obviously needs to make money, so whatever people are more likely to pay for is prioritized, even if it&
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by b3kart 7y ago
It’s sad that people have less time to contribute to public knowledge when hired by big companies, but saying that someone “has peaked” is just mean. I am sure you’d find it easy to say no to Google money.
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by b3kart 7y ago
Which would be ironic, given their whole business has been built on following links and keeping track of what links to what.
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by b3kart 7y ago
That's how it is in cutting edge research. It is much better to say "we don't know" than to speculate, which is what a natural reaction of many other researchers would be.
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by b3kart 9y ago
Try doing DL research these days -- just skimming through new papers takes most of your day. :-) The thing that helped me the most was to realize that you _have_ to specialize, at least to some extent. It's impossible to know and do ev
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by b3kart 12y ago
Isn't it like the whole point? You use a tool which is best for the job. Like in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy .