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by briga 6y ago
This seems like a good way to burn out your entire workforce. Assuming 8 hours of sleep a night, that leaves just 40 hours of free time a week, much less if you consider going to/from work, household chores, and all the other daily thi
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by briga 6y ago
I think it's pretty transparent that Elon creates controversy and does stunts to get attention. Like many other celebrities he seems to have mastered the art of getting the public to talk about him. It's easier to sell your produc
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by briga 6y ago
Not all Chinese people live in China. My comment might have made more sense before the post title changed. Just pointing out that American companies engage in similar sorts of surveillance and censorship that Chinese companies do, although
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by briga 6y ago
Are there articles in China talking about how Google and Facebook spy on the content that all users send each other, including Chinese?
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by briga 7y ago
This is nice, but I bet you the moment SIP is lifted Yosemite is going to be absolutely flooded with people and will receive an all-time high level of visitors. Enjoy the peace and quiet while it lasts, animals.
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by briga 7y ago
Are there really only 20 permits for self-driving cars with drivers? I swear there are more than 20 self-driving cars driving around the streets of Silicon Valley.
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by briga 7y ago
Do you know of any studies on this topic that aren't "junk science", or do you just not like the idea put forward here? In general it doesn't seem far-fetched to me that women might be better communicators than men in ge
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by briga 7y ago
There are many writers who deserved the Nobel prize but never received it. Joyce, Kafka, Borges, Proust, Tolstoy, to name a few. The prize has been so consistently politicized over the years that it's hard to see it as a measure of muc
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by briga 7y ago
No one prefers any commodity until access to the commodity is viable
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by briga 7y ago
It seems like this field is at about the same stage of progress as image recognition was in the 90s when researchers were trying to getting a handle on MNIST-type tasks. I wonder how much the language embeddings learned by the transformer a
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by briga 7y ago
Even if we don't find life on these exoplanets, we're sure to discover some pretty incredible geological wonders. 99% of our geological knowledge is based around events that happen on Earth, and what happens on Earth is just a tin
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by briga 7y ago
But their parents and caretakers do
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by briga 7y ago
Just because no mutations are occuring doesn't mean natural selection isn't taking place, it just means that there are no fitter variants in that organism's immediate fitness landscape
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by briga 7y ago
In biology 101, they taught us that life is something with the following properties: 1. Has order 2. Has metabolism 3. Has evolutionary adaptation 4. Responds to the environment 5. Reproduces 6. Grows and develops Which seems fine as a defi
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by briga 7y ago
You don't think it would be interesting to discover non-Earth proteins within our solar system? At the very least, this finding would be a pretty good indicator that proteins occur naturally outside of our solar system as well.
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by briga 7y ago
There are, however, plants and animals that harness mechanical energy as a survival strategy, which might amount to the same thing. For example when dandelion seeds get spread in the wind, or fish swimming along ocean currents. I think a go
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by briga 7y ago
Also maybe worth noting: we've gained about half the Earth's population of humans in the past 40-50 years. These two facts are almost certainly related.
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by briga 7y ago
We're always looking for something to make humans seem more unique. Basically every biological evolutionary adaptation that humans have is present in other species of animal to some extent. Why is it so hard to believe that Neaderthals
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by briga 7y ago
Is MaryTTS still as good as it gets for free TTS? I've been researching this topic and it seems like there are some open-source implementations of Tacotron, but the quality isn't necessarily great.
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by briga 7y ago
Out of Control by former Wired editor Kevin Kelly. This book was a labor of love and it shows--every chapter explores some fascinating new topic on the intersection of biology and technology. Even though the book was written 25 years ago it
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by briga 7y ago
Part of the problem seems to be logistical. English natural language training sets are probably just way more common than other languages. About the only language that has more training data is Chinese, and they seem to be doing fine in the
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by briga 7y ago
I wonder if the chronic LSD use and the stroke were related.
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by briga 7y ago
Programming and blue collar work are two different types of work, requiring different skill-sets that not everyone has. Ask your average construction worker to write a web app and no doubt they would find it very difficult. Ask your average
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by briga 7y ago
Oh those poor innocent Hollywood studios, it's so unfair when critics just get paid to endorse movies--at least it is when those movies are getting made by your competitor. Maybe if the big studios weren't so focused on pumping ou
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by briga 7y ago
Interesting how similar these look to cave paintings in Europe. Is it convergent cultural evolution, or was this a result of some sort of cross-continent cultural transmission? My guess is that the first paintings were painted much earlier
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by briga 7y ago
"When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere." I'd be willing to believe that there is fossilized life on Mars, maybe even complex arthopod-type life, but
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by briga 7y ago
Love the little videos Nature puts out, you can find a bunch more on their YouTube channel. I'd be interested in seeing a similar map based on some measure of semantic/vocabulary similarity rather than just citations. There are pr
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by briga 7y ago
Nice little write-up, but BERT seems like overkill for this sort of binary classification task.
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by briga 7y ago
Never would have expected this to make it to the front of HN, but I'm glad it did. This album is well worth listening to, especially the closing track Catastrophe Σ. Even though it's something of an ambient classic today there&#x2
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by briga 7y ago
Is 2.5km a day really hardly biking at all? When you consider the fact that Dutch cities are so compact and densely populated, 2.5km of biking gets you a whole lot further than it would in the US, where there is little bike infrastructure a

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