bertiewhykovich

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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
no
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Am I imagining that the enthusiasm for gut bacteria research is driven in part (potentially in large part) by the failure of more classical physiological paradigms for understanding mental illness? Anything to avoid confronting the fact tha
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I don't think it's irrational to judge an industry that worships "disruption" on visible failures of that paradigm. Blithe disruption is all fun and games until it's your GI tract getting disrupted.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
lol Twitter doesn't make money
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The Macintosh in 1984(toastytech.com)
70 points by bertiewhykovich 10y ago|88 comments
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
what the fuck does this mean
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
http://abc13.com/society/san-francisco-janitor-makes-$276k-w... "The janitor puts in 114 hours a week, according to a researcher who discovered the janitor's pay."
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
To say nothing of the fact that he's been putting in 114 hours a week /as a BART janitor./ Remember when a hazmat team had to open up and hose down an escalator because it had become jammed with excrement?
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Good for him.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
salaries are both definitely determined by level of service provided and ought to be determined by level of service provided. both of these are true and definitely not outrageously false.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Well, that's certainly the ethos of American modernity -- but there seems (to me, at least) to be little reason to believe that it's actually true. And, even if we were to assume the difficult-to-justify proposition that the purpo
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
My immediate thought was "this is pathological" -- some artifact of modern malaise. But on further thought it doesn't seem all that different from the sort of punishing rituals that people have undertaken for the majority of
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I'm not claiming that they do, although AI researchers who focus on DNNs certainly have a vested interest in accentuating their capabilities -- particularly when they have industry ties. I'm referring more to intellectual trends i
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Optimization problems -- the bread and butter of machine learning for years. DNNs are certainly more powerful than many earlier-generation systems, but it's a quantitative difference, not a qualitative one. A DNN may have more neurons,
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Because it's a way to avoid confronting the increasingly unavoidable fact that the AI renaissance DNNs were supposed to usher in is looking increasingly less impressive. Unsurprising, given that throwing more computing power at neural
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Stealth Infrastructure: Disguised Cellular Base Stations(rhizome.org)
1 points by bertiewhykovich 10y ago|0 comments
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
"My rule is that I can only listen to [my favorite genres] while programming. Helps to really put me in the 'you’re working now' space." This sounds insanely unpleasant. Why would you do this to yourself?
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
It's foolish to believe that real humans, driving real cars, will treat these technologies as mere "driver-assists." Autopilot is used -- shockingly enough -- as an autopilot. And even if they /were/ used perfectly,
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
What this article tries its damnedest to elide is the narrative-wrecking fact that Holtz, confronted with a standard request to demonstrate that his product meets regulatory standards, took his ball and went home. /Exactly/ why he
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Probably nothing. Groups like the Pirate Party work themselves into a fit over meaningless affronts to privacy because of some combination of a) a lack of real politics, and b) actually having something serious to hide.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Given that the Hyperloop is failing spectacularly, "a high intellect and a good general purpose engineering training" seem empirically to not accomplish quite as much as you think they do -- although, in fairness to high intellect
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Your concern should be for the safety of your customers, not for whether a measure that drastically increases safety might lead to a suit in rare cases.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Good. It seems exceedingly unlikely that this is a road-ready technology, and we don't need yet another software-brained megalomaniac releasing an insufficiently-developed, unproven product into the physical world, where "bugs&quo
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
This would be a moronic interviewing technique, but it would also be unsurprising for Google.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Soylent also uses the cheapest vitamers available. While the jury is still out on the difference between some of these compounds and their natural (read: biochemically native) analogues, it's cause for consideration, and possibly conce
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saliva#Digestion It's not clear that salivary digestion is categorically different from non-salivary digestion -- it works on compounds the rest of the GI tract also deals with -- but
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
because the FDA can only regulate food
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Well, as all of us in Silicon Valley know, regulations are nothing more than irksome impediments to the march of progress. Let's roll 'em all back.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I agree; it's terrible that journalists expect to be compensated for their labor.

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