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Scaling TypeScript Compilation (2020)(neugierig.org)
3 points by bra-ket 6y ago|0 comments
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Ancient DNA Suggests Steppe Migrations Spread Indo-European Languages (2019)(youtube.com)
1 points by bra-ket 6y ago|0 comments
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by bra-ket 6y ago
but we did have quite a few advances at the time of the first airplane, for example by that time steam & combustion engines were already invented, which required non-trivial understanding of physics, chemistry and material science was v
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by bra-ket 6y ago
I'd say Gottfried W. Leibniz is the true author, as it's all comes down to calculus. The particular implementation for "neural nets" is just a special case of function minimization by taking derivatives.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
the problem with that analogy is trying to build an airplane before you figured out the laws of physics.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
The best part of the article is a quote by G. Hinton, the father of "deep learning", at the end: "My view is throw it all away and start again, I don’t think that’s how the brain works."
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by bra-ket 6y ago
how long does it take for this signal to reach Earth?
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by bra-ket 6y ago
you can terraform Mars with all those gazillions of charity money, that mostly go to bureaucrats anyway.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
The real 'bubble-breaker' for Ayn Rand would be something from Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy. Not "Secret lives of Millionaires". C’mon man.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
she was fired for toxic behavior - demanding to doxx colleagues, calling for sabotage in mass emails, throwing ultimatums, slandering people on social media. It was a good call to let her go, way overdue in fact, but very badly handled PR-
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by bra-ket 6y ago
amazingly cheap shipping for 900kg device. and then you can resell it I assume ("used but in good condition, minor wear & tear, hardly noticeable leftovers of thorium salts")
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by bra-ket 6y ago
regulation
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by bra-ket 6y ago
The ends do not justify the means. What I see is a bunch of bullies forcing their opinions on everyone else, spreading lies and propaganda on media, attacking and 'cancelling' anyone who stands in their way. Whatever seed of &#x27
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by bra-ket 6y ago
never underestimate the lengths American Intelligence will go to (for a couple of bottles).
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by bra-ket 6y ago
thanks for proving my point.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
yeah, there are 80M people like you and just 74M like me, congratulations. Both groups are influenced by media and social circles but the first group tends to trust others opinions more, methinks. The fact mainstream media was pretty much u
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by bra-ket 6y ago
it's funny the lies this time are coming not from the government but from the opposition and their propaganda machinery. I'd never consider myself government supporter, but with Trump it's like the last bastion before the cou
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by bra-ket 6y ago
>"corroborated" stories of dozens It's a "boy who cried wolf" for me. I've seen these activists promoting lies to us the entire summer of protests for completely made-up causes. I've seen them distortin
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by bra-ket 6y ago
this case had nothing to do with censorship though. It was Gebru' unprofessional conduct - she gave ultimatum to her managers demanding to disclose names of the reviewers who criticized her work or she would resign, and broadcasting em
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by bra-ket 6y ago
I wouldn't do it justice[1], it deserves a blog post or a book [2] but in general solving almost any boolean algebra problem, in hundreds, and hundreds of thousands variables, very efficiently and in very compact representation (via or
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by bra-ket 6y ago
the paper was not the problem, her attitude & reaction to peer review was the problem - giving ultimatums, demanding to disclose names of the reviewers, and broadcasting emails to entire team calling for sabotage. Her behavior fits the
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by bra-ket 6y ago
also on neurolinguistics: Pulvermüller, Friedemann. "Words in the brain's language." Behavioral and brain sciences 22.2 (1999): 253-279. Pulvermüller, Friedemann. "Brain embodiment of syntax and grammar: Discrete combina
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by bra-ket 6y ago
sure, my email is in my profile. I'm not an expert though, just curious about "mind computations".
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by bra-ket 6y ago
Some CogSci & Neuro papers I found interesting in 2020: Constantinescu, Alexandra O., Jill X. O’Reilly, and Timothy EJ Behrens. "Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code." Science 352.6292 (2016): 1464-14
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Why Is Transgender Identity on the Rise Among Teens?(psychologytoday.com)
5 points by bra-ket 6y ago|6 comments
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by bra-ket 6y ago
not my words but Don Knuth's from his lecture "Fun With Binary Decision Diagrams" at Stanford in 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25342643 it's really amazing what you can do with it.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
Part 2 on ZDD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HzQYeqS9Wc also some notes here on implementation: https://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/notes/zdd/
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Binary Decision Diagrams (2010)(crypto.stanford.edu)
162 points by bra-ket 6y ago|89 comments
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Don Knuth - Fun with Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) 2008(youtube.com)
5 points by bra-ket 6y ago|1 comments
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by bra-ket 6y ago
it was a joke.

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