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by bnjmn 8y ago
Please see my reply to @baddox. You say you do math and not philosophy, but the whole CH independence proof kinda moves this discussion out of the realm of (ZFC-based) math, doesn't it? If you don't want to consider philosophy her
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by bnjmn 8y ago
> Now, you might mean that most mathematicians suspect that adding CH to ZFC is more intuitive/natural/useful than adding !CH to ZFC, but that's a quite different statement. I guess I'm a constructivist about this. Yo
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by bnjmn 8y ago
I suspect the Halting Problem was already an obvious theoretical limitation to machine learning. Just imagine a network trained to classify programs according to whether or not they halt. Then construct a program that runs forever if the ne
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by bnjmn 8y ago
You're not alone! https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/68#issuecomment-4331815...
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by bnjmn 8y ago
Ah you’re right!
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by bnjmn 8y ago
This sentence, wow: > Two of Elemental’s biggest early clients were the Mormon church, which used the technology to beam sermons to congregations around the world, and the adult film industry, which did not.
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by bnjmn 8y ago
Another speculative execution side-channel cache timing vulnerability, a la https://meltdownattack.com Related disclosure from DigitalOcean: https://blog.digitalocean.com/a-message-about-l1tf/ Intel is evas
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Intel discloses new L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability(newsroom.intel.com)
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by bnjmn 8y ago
Could this kind of model registry enable efficient model search based on input/output queries, a la this paper about semantic code search? https://kstolee.github.io/papers/JSS2015.pdf Perhaps the registry would ne
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by bnjmn 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a core maintainer of Meteor. One thing that makes this release tricky is that the differential modern/legacy bundling system sounds so much like something that any modern JS application must be doing already, but
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by bnjmn 9y ago
Wow, I commented about this on the blog post, and they apparently deleted my comment. Cool.
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by bnjmn 9y ago
This update was a very long time coming, so I'm grateful that it finally happened. Still, it's disappointing that they couldn't change course (ever so slightly!) to accommodate the 8.11.0 security update from a week ago: h
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by bnjmn 9y ago
For what it's worth, Daniel Dennett spends considerable time in _Consciousness Explained_ (and his other books) deconstructing both why Searle's Chinese Room argument is misleading, and also why is seems intuitively appealing (he
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by bnjmn 9y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback!
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by bnjmn 9y ago
Here's the statement I plan to read to my representatives: I live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I work for a small startup of less than 30 employees. Three years ago I left a large, publicly traded tech company to take this job, because of
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by bnjmn 9y ago
This! Still, admittedly, this is a drawback of my strategy.
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by bnjmn 9y ago
Since the author spent so much time on the optical character recognition step, it's worth mentioning that you don't even really need OCR for this task. You can just find the squares, group the characters in the squares into visual
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by bnjmn 9y ago
It sounds like you've built some interesting technologies! Some food for thought: * RethinkDB was a startup that both collaborated and competed with Meteor, until it [went defunct]( https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethin
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by bnjmn 10y ago
Just what I hoped to hear, thanks!
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by bnjmn 10y ago
Yes! Wayyy too clickbaity without the niche adjective.
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by bnjmn 10y ago
I'll take "horrifying and lovely" any day!
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by bnjmn 10y ago
you're welcome :)
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by bnjmn 10y ago
I wish I'd known about this image when I wrote the poem I posted above!
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by bnjmn 10y ago
Thanks, that does mean a lot to me. I wish I had more to share, but writing poems takes such a long time, and my day job (programming) seems to deplete my motivation for other kinds of writing. But those are just excuses.
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by bnjmn 10y ago
A few years ago I wrote a poem loosely based this event. I know unsolicited poetry from strangers on the internet is almost always awful, but this poem still holds up for me, which is pretty unusual for anything I've ever written. So I
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by bnjmn 10y ago
Make sure you check out Appendix A at the end of the paper (Asymptotic Worst-Case Time Complexity), in case you imagined the name "stack" implies constant-time push/pop performance. This data structure is only a "stack&q
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by bnjmn 10y ago
In 2016, Inky Dufresne escaped from Shawtank Prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub.
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by bnjmn 11y ago
Perhaps I am, but the problem of accidentally embedding stereotypes in machine learning models is all too real: https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/post... http://www.pri.org/st
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by bnjmn 11y ago
It actually does bother me, and I wish I had the time to fix it, but fixing it involves much more than the comically large amount of work you're asking of me: it means convincing this PhD student that he made a genuine mistake that bet
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by bnjmn 11y ago
In the first example, being male is one of two features that predict playing video games, and (surprise!) only the boy and the old man are classified as gamers. Talk about casual sexism! Can you imagine taking this class as a woman (who may

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