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by bbctol 10y ago
If Scotland manages to successfully secede and stay in the EU, they'll be even more effective at poaching the UK's tech world.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Well, there are other religions that have carried on after their promised messiah died by quickly reinterpreting their texts. I know it sounds like I'm trying to be edgy, but seriously: there's good precedent for religious fanatic
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by bbctol 10y ago
This is cute, but the title got me excited for something well beyond this. Heck, even if an AI produced spontaneously code that defined a function and later used it, I'd be ecstatic. This is just a fun piece of art.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Lots of mice for neuroscience experiments end up with their heads sliced in half, anyway, so there are worse fates. I never got that job, but I heard it does strange things to the mind to cut rat heads for an hour straight.
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's just such a shame that Minksy came out so harshly against perceptrons. He really was an inspiring figure, and at the time really did seem to have good reasons for preferring symbolic logic over neural networks, but the more succes
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by bbctol 10y ago
I'm a little uncomfortable with using "MIT" to mean "a particular set of researchers at MIT"
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by bbctol 10y ago
The cult of personality was the only reason for Theranos existing. Holmes is a young, rich Stanford dropout who idolizes Steve Jobs down to the sweaters, lives like a monk while consuming elaborate vegan smoothies, and claimed to be upendin
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by bbctol 10y ago
Looks gorgeous. Visualization is always an underrated activity, and I think visualizing the process of neural nets is only going to become more important for understanding what's going on around us.
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by bbctol 10y ago
I interpreted it as saying you can train inspiration to arrive, just like anything else, with enough discipline.
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by bbctol 10y ago
I still don't... get what PubPub is. I definitely think that peer review should be updated and science should be using the internet better, I just have no idea what PubPub has to do with that mission. Is it just... a place where people
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by bbctol 10y ago
Yeah, I think if anything this article showed exactly how much something like "raw talent" matters... I can envision myself saying any of the things said in this article, but haven't created anything noteworthy. I too don&#x2