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by bo1024 6y ago
That's still AI, it's just older-generation AI.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Imagine taking someone who didn't know English words or sounds, sitting them down with a document and dictionary, and asking them to spell-check it. If they could figure out that "butiful" should be "beautiful" in l
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by bo1024 6y ago
Couple issues. (1) Optimization is much, much bigger than graph traversal and sorting. (2) Modern route-finding algorithms are to your on-paper-Dijkstra what a rocket ship is to your bicycle. (3) I think you're under the same misconcep
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by bo1024 6y ago
AI gets such a bad rap. People only think of unsolved or sort-of-solved problems as AI, and don't give AI any credit for the problems it has solved, I guess because by definition those problems seem easy. Think how much Microsoft Offic
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by bo1024 6y ago
1/3 of one table = 1 student. 1/3 of two tables = 2 students. 1/3 of one table + 1/3 of one table = 2/3 of one table. 2/3 of one table = 1/3 of two tables. 1/3 of one table + 1/3 of one table = 1
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by bo1024 6y ago
Apple and google’s system apparently doesn’t store location information. Actually it’s getting pushback from health people because it doesn’t collect data.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Don't underestimate the effectiveness of practice!
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by bo1024 6y ago
Yep. It gets at, what is the meaning of "faster?" Implicitly we are saying the average runtime of A is smaller than the average of B. But if for example, B always halts in 10 seconds, and A halts in 1 second 99.99% of the time but
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by bo1024 6y ago
This is great, thanks!
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by bo1024 6y ago
Ha. You hit the nail on the head. There is no rigorous way to measure AI-generated anything . (to my knowledge) So every demo is "ooh look at this" and actual performance is not scientifically evaluated, because we don't kno
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by bo1024 6y ago
Maybe they are! The friendship paradox says the average person's friends have more social connections on average than the original person.
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by bo1024 6y ago
This seems very cool, but I didn’t understand clearly what it is used for. More spelling out of the purpose would help, and discussion of similar software.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Some research papers at least?
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by bo1024 6y ago
This quote was at the point in the film where banks were keeping prices artificially high until they sold their positions off. Similar is "Banks that bundled bad debt and bet against it" https://www.nytimes.com/200
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by bo1024 6y ago
The Big Short - "It's possible that we are in a completely fraudulent system."
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by bo1024 6y ago
Yep, great perspective. We can apply it to Amazon and Netflix next, then the platforms where we get information - search results, news, social media, etc.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Remote collaboration is very common so I would email the best matches (once you’ve one background research) wherever in the world they are!
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by bo1024 6y ago
Not positive about hiring committees but I think most would be very open and judge you fairly. It won't be easy to get into a good PhD program, even with prior master's research experience. Did you get and keep old recommendation
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by bo1024 6y ago
This is mostly good advice, but this part is not: > Go into grad school and pursue a PHD because you've got a burning desire to turn one of your good ideas into a breakthrough. If you don't have such an idea based on your under
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by bo1024 6y ago
I strongly disagree. There are certain human rights that it is immoral and illegal to contract away. The common example is that selling yourself into slavery is illegal even though people have self-agency. Over time we have decided on other
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by bo1024 6y ago
I completely agree, but it's a privilege to be able to risk your job for such a principle. I hope we can push to level the power imbalance between companies and employees so that privilege is available to more people.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Security and privacy are different things; both important. Also, lots of information that is not so dangerous on an individual or neighbor level can be exploited at scale.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Your definition of bubble and the one I was replying to are fundamentally incompatible - I don’t really care which term one uses though
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by bo1024 6y ago
I’m not sure I agree when that one thing is the word linear (half the name). It just feels wrong not to ground the subject in the idea of a linear transformation.
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by bo1024 6y ago
If you're talking about me, I don't think it's normal or good! But I do think it's a matter of fact.
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by bo1024 6y ago
I agree, or pretty close. But it's not axiomatic that bubbles always pop (at least on the time span one expects).
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by bo1024 6y ago
Why? A lot of the value of a stock is ability to resell at a high price later. If everyone (including U.S. Fed and gov) agrees to continue to push prices high for the forseeable future, then it seems like prices can lose connection to e.g.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Regardless of shipping speed, I'm concerned about quality and co-mingling with knock-offs. Especially with something medical like vitamins. But everything else too.
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by bo1024 6y ago
I think a "honeypot" HTML input field works well for anything not written explicitly to target your site. If any text is entered, mark as bot/spam. <form> <div style="display:none"> If you
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by bo1024 7y ago
Really interesting question here. I wish it went a bit more into specifics of how to navigate the tradeoffs. Maybe one way to put this is that it’s fine to do preliminary studies that motivate and direct the actual rigorous research, but we

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