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by bra-ket 6y ago
Deep learning is mostly irrelevant for AGI but the best part of the article is bringing up the "recursive process called Merge”. This Merge [0] is called "chunking" in cognitive psychology [1, 2], first mentioned in classic p
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About Google's approach to research publication (Jeff Dean)(docs.google.com)
1 points by bra-ket 6y ago|0 comments
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The Friendship That Made Google Huge(newyorker.com)
2 points by bra-ket 6y ago|0 comments
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by bra-ket 6y ago
The bias elimination idea is coming from financial industry where I worked for years. Investment decisions on various time horizons are mostly algorithmic these days, in the best firms. The odds of successful startup are pretty low and ther
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by bra-ket 6y ago
I don't get the "surprise factor". It seems a bit condescending, and that "born barbarian" part was completely off. Don't judge people by their upbringing or profession, or their looks, it's just dumb. Sin
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by bra-ket 6y ago
What I keep hearing these firms are brought in for purely political reasons, when management wants something done but has to offload the responsibility to some external brand, so in case things go south they can shift the blame. Seems to wo
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by bra-ket 6y ago
awesome, thanks for this relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_distributed_memory
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How the explosion in critical race theory is poisoning America(nypost.com)
3 points by bra-ket 6y ago|1 comments
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One man protest against Twitter censorship.(reddit.com)
1 points by bra-ket 6y ago|0 comments
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by bra-ket 6y ago
yeah, the same propaganda that drives the trend also helps with the elections
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by bra-ket 6y ago
yep, compliance with the law would suffice, thank you very much. I'd take that vs. a company driven by woke trend of the day.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
If their rights have been violated why don't they go to court with all the available evidence? Accusation of racial discrimination in a workplace is a serious deal, and it's not up to the media to decide who's right or wrong
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by bra-ket 6y ago
the article is from an extremely biased source, done in the midst of 'social justice' trend running out of steam, I'd just ignore it. Think long term.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
> If someone comes at you with a knife, you're justified in a violent response. Period. Exactly. Only there is no 'oppressive system', but an individual officer responding to 911 call and standing against an agitated indiv
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by bra-ket 6y ago
They can do nothing, once someone calls you 'racist' you're racist for good. I don't know the details of the story, but the thing is with baseless accusations of racism is that it's a perfect slander, one can never
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by bra-ket 6y ago
no paywall http://archive.is/ydbmX
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by bra-ket 6y ago
>Body of human knowledge is much bigger now-a-days that's what Einstein' contemporaries could have said as well. The growing body of human knowledge is increasingly noise, bad or redundant theories, with entire gigantic fields
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by bra-ket 6y ago
A stronger essay should have been titled "How to Think."
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Hidden Markov Map Matching Through Noise and Sparseness (2009)(microsoft.com)
2 points by bra-ket 6y ago|0 comments
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Why would a normal person build their own spatiotemporal database?(blog.mireo.hr)
2 points by bra-ket 6y ago|0 comments
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by bra-ket 6y ago
C++ is a fantastic language but it somehow attracts people with big ego. The smartest people I know would always try to simplify things, but many C++ developers (especially in financial industry) have this preference for complexity I can&#x
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by bra-ket 6y ago
I don't know the details of the story, but the thing is with baseless accusations of 'racism' is that it's a perfect slander, one can never prove innocence once proclaimed guilty.
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Spatial computing could be the next big thing(scientificamerican.com)
93 points by bra-ket 6y ago|45 comments
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‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)(thenextweb.com)
3 points by bra-ket 6y ago|0 comments
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by bra-ket 6y ago
agreed, it's strange that with all their legions of machine learning PhDs Youtube recommendations still suck. The worst part is when it gets stuck on particular video/topic and just keeps recommending the same thing for months.
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Online learning marketplace Udemy is raising up to $100M at a $3.32B valuation(techcrunch.com)
2 points by bra-ket 6y ago|0 comments
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by bra-ket 6y ago
Great article, what intro books would you recommend on 1) special or general relativity for an advanced (engineering) undergrad and 2) books on spacetime math/geometry/tensor algebra and its applications beyond modern physics.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
one of the most useful CS PhD theses ever
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Elon Musk unveils SpaceX Starship for round-trips to Moon and Mars (2019)(youtube.com)
1 points by bra-ket 6y ago|0 comments
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by bra-ket 6y ago
Elon booked the entire flight for himself. He just wants to go home.

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