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by bh42222 15y ago
Or how about: Which is better, something which can learn exactly as we programmed it to, or something which learns by some unknown way in which the big 'ol bucket of bytes orders itself? Or, if you had a magic learning machine, wouldn't you
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by bh42222 15y ago
It works, and it's a marvel of engineering, but it's not "artificial intelligence." Is sound like you don't like complex algorithms written by humans. But you do like a big bucket of "neural network"? How is "The magical black box works s
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by bh42222 15y ago
He worked for roughly 40 of the 48 available hours. That's really not good for your health.
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by bh42222 15y ago
I stopped reading reddit long before you stopped. Quite a bit later, I slowly came back by being very selective about my subreddits. I think others might have done the same, because I've definitely been able to create a reddit very much lik
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by bh42222 15y ago
For one thing, it is a genius who is clearly extremely passionate about his work, and who has a lot of money, but he still has to yield to the disease. That is tragic. I wonder is a Steve Jobs of biotechnology even possible? Craig Venter
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by bh42222 15y ago
pg's essay on Slashdot -> reddit -> Hacker News.
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by bh42222 15y ago
Brilliant minds wholly obsessed with their work often do not take retirement well, or long. Or more probably, brilliant minds wholly obsessed with their work only retire when their health forces them to. This most often means the end is n
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by bh42222 15y ago
Beard nominees are expensive. All up scale restaurants are "real restaurants". But beneath them (while still well above fast food) are mid level restaurants. In Portland this market niche seems almost entirely dedicated to "gastro" pubs. Th
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by bh42222 15y ago
Portland is a great town.... but seriously gastro-pubs are silly, get some real restaurants people.
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by bh42222 15y ago
I like to believe this would be less than 1%. But unfortunately medical errors kill a lot of people: http://www.bbraunusa.com/index-A3866CA8D0B759A1E395A615A2C00...
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by bh42222 15y ago
Yep, copy/paste error.
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by bh42222 15y ago
I know this is a silly thing to do, but based just on the descriptions my favorites are: 1. Quartzy this sounds trivial but could in fact be huge. Also, think about the trend of personalized medicine... 2. Munch On Me, I just like food :) 3
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by bh42222 15y ago
_why is not an average programmer. His advise is good for masters of programming. He is also a super nice guy and sounds like he thinks anyone could become a super programmer. I don't think so. And I fear his advice will be taken most to ha
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by bh42222 15y ago
Is reconfiguring the very shape of the plane in mid flight all that "simple"? How do things going wrong here compare to things going wrong with the shuttle? Does this have more robust failure modes?
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by bh42222 15y ago
That's what the article is about. I think the OP's point is that this has been well established for a while, article makes it sound like a new theory.
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by bh42222 15y ago
I think the best comparison is Japan. Huge real-estate bubble fueled boom times, followed by a lot of spending to try and stimulate the economy Keynesian style. If it does not work, you get 20+ years of recession. At least America's populat
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by bh42222 15y ago
Watching many large companies, merge then split again, one might postulate that: Free markets look for solution by brute force, this means that most business (both small and large) is unprofitable, but the few winners make up for everyone e
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by bh42222 15y ago
That's physorg for you, at least this article is based on something (I hope!) true.
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by bh42222 15y ago
Pardon the old guy complaint, but the general public always seems to eventually take over the tech sites I visit. I'm not sure you have to do anything to make this slow takeover happen. It seems like very interesting content from (and for)
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by bh42222 15y ago
I'd agree that an incubator bubble isn't a scary bubble, but for different reasons. In slightly oversimplified economics, bubbles are bad because they mis-direct investment from productive areas to the unproductive but bubbling area of the
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by bh42222 15y ago
My google-fu also fails me. This is the best I found: http://www.metafilter.com/62173/The-hypnotic-beauty-of-the-a... I based my initial opinion on a documentary about someone who had tried to find the "typical criminal" face by averaging
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by bh42222 15y ago
I half agree. I have found offices, real offices, to be much more productive than both cubicles and open layouts. For me personally, cubicles and open layouts are both equally distracting, but I prefer open layouts simply because I hate s
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by bh42222 15y ago
Anyone have more information on exactly how this works? Does it mean 200+ Kg of thorium, only 8 grams of which would be used up during a car's life time?
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by bh42222 15y ago
Human opinion of what's "beautiful" in other human faces is not entirely subjective. It has been know for a while that if you start averaging faces you end up with a "pretty" face. This is because we genetically like symmetry, and averaging
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by bh42222 15y ago
According to Fortune, people in the field generally credit Milken's foundation with cutting prostate cancer death rates in half. If this is true, it's crime we have not reproduced Milken's strategy for all deadly diseases.
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by bh42222 15y ago
There is indeed a genetic difference, a very few people are able to sleep less with no negative side effects: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/artic...
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by bh42222 15y ago
An interesting look at a theorized national German character. But I agree with the driver/interpreter woman, Germany is huge, Bavarian, and North German, and High German are not even mutually intelligible. The article just didn't convince m
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by bh42222 15y ago
It means that the components of life are a "naturally" occurring things, which appear all over the universe, and do not require life to produce them. This in turn implies that life, not just any life, but carbon based, DNA using life, could
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by bh42222 15y ago
Wikipedia produces consensus, not data. That's a great description of what Wikipedia is. I keep thinking of it as an open source repository of human knowledge, like an infinitely large encyclopedia. But in reality it is more like a forum
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Wikipedia puzzles me. Why so many deletions? The significance of a topic is very important for paper encyclopedias because shelf space is finite. A regular encyclopedia collection can have only so many books before no one can afford to buy

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