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by bnegreve 11y ago
It does increase the cognitive load for no particular reason. Which is what the author is trying to avoid.
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by bnegreve 11y ago
What makes you believe that these reasons were all wrong? Many (most?) technologies have failed after all, possibly for these reasons. One recent example that comes to mind is Google glass
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by bnegreve 11y ago
> Take a topic you know absolutely nothing about. Let's say it's aerospace. Now every year we have an aerospace day to try and explain to you how various types of fan and jet engines work. You certainly wouldn't expect ev
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by bnegreve 11y ago
There are many variables that do not vary linearly with the speed (e.g. rubber's stiffness) so it could be that the sound is indistinguishable at higher speed. The goal is clearly to slow people down, so that would be really surprising
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Wikipedia says it's Voltaire quoting an ancient Italian saying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good Old sayings don't really have frontiers, so it might as well be an old Russian saying
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by bnegreve 11y ago
I wonder if blocking ad-blocking people from viewing content is viable in the long term. People producing content want to maximize the probability for their content to go viral don't they? Blocking anybody (ad-blocking or not) seems co
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by bnegreve 11y ago
I suspect that training the AI is the most CPU intensive part. If they would release the (trained) AI to everybody, that would prove that the training phase is general enough to beat any player, not just one. Google doesn't have to pa
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by bnegreve 11y ago
But that would prove that they are not overfitting their opponent. Which would be nice.
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Even if he is now, there is a probability that people will learn how to beat AlphaGo. In a sense this is unfair: alphaGo was trained with a lot of human data, but AFAIK Lee Sedol is playing AI for the first time.
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by bnegreve 11y ago
There is a 60 sec timeout.
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by bnegreve 11y ago
I think the takeaway is: Humans assisted with robots are superior to just robots when the variety is high.
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Haxe is a cross plaftform language [1], Haxe develop is just an IDE it seems. [1] http://haxe.org/
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by bnegreve 11y ago
It doesn't make much sense to compare temperatures at latitudes from different sides of the Atlantic ocean. The Gulf Stream [1] makes the European cost a lot warmer at the same latitude. E.g. NYC is colder than North of Spain despite
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by bnegreve 11y ago
It uses scholar as a search engine, but then it replaces the links in the results. e.g. http://link.springer.com/link-to-paper becomes: http://link.springer.com.sci-hub.io/link-to-paper As fa
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by bnegreve 11y ago
> Except that we've been pumping radio waves out of this rock as loud as we can for decades. It's true but there is a possibility that human radio activity does not last that long. We choose to transmit information using elec
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by bnegreve 11y ago
This is debatable, SIMD instructions and GPUs are highly synchronized, yet they do help with scalability.
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by bnegreve 11y ago
I don't get it, can you give an example?
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by bnegreve 11y ago
There are more authors on the second page.
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by bnegreve 11y ago
> Experts aren't entirely sure why "those who can least afford it play the most, Is this that irrational? With 1000 trials, probability of winning at least one time is 3*10^-6 which is low. But what are the odds of becoming a
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by bnegreve 11y ago
> Because it believed it was accessing a work account, the judges said, the firm had not erred. I think this is relevant, at my workplace which is in EU, sysadmins are allowed to access anything that is not explicitly marked as persona
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by bnegreve 11y ago
I think you're being unfair. The author has given us many clear issues with closed source algorithm that would not exist with open source algorithms. Showing that the benefits outweigh the costs would require a model of the impact th
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by bnegreve 11y ago
It seems to me that the whole article is about proving this point. Relevant quotes: > The secrecy of the algorithms further pushes people toward conformity. If you are worried that the US government will classify you as a potential terro
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by bnegreve 11y ago
But desktop processors also don't zero pages, do they? And by zeroing pages, you prevent lazy memory allocation policies which do not allocate the pages until they're read or written for the first time. This can have a significant
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Yes, by "cheap" I mean "low quality with low requirements".
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Hum, I think a free swivel wheel would only work for very cheap designs. If you're not convinced, you can search for 3 wheels vehicles on google image [1]: none of the vehicles there have the 2 wheels + 1 free rotating wheel design tha
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by bnegreve 11y ago
My guess is that it saves the trouble of making a wheel that can rotate along the vertical axis (to turn left and right). That greatly simplifies the design and make the whole thing more robust.
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by bnegreve 11y ago
I'm not sure what you would consider politically correct here, but this article has some political involvement. This for example: European Commission published a special report on women in decision-making positions, suggesting legisl
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Really, where? I've always heard this was more intentional than unfortunate. From the FAQ: 2 Did you really need to name it like that? Some French computer scientists have a tradition of naming their software as animal species: Caml,
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Both white and clear matter re-transmit all the light they receive, so neither of them have their own characteristic color. Maybe that's why they are often mixed up.
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Given that the disk is several orders of magnitude slower that the RAM, lazily re-loading pages from the disk to the memory can induce very visible and annoying loading delays everywhere (e.g. change tab in browser takes 3 sec). I'd ra

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