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by briga 7y ago
As far as I know there is no evidence that the brain has any analogue to the back-propagation used to train pretty much all modern neural networks. Back-propagation is a good way to optimize neural networks, but it doesn't seem to be t
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by briga 7y ago
Limited headroom? Seems like they're assuming greater-than-human language ability is just impossible and will never be surpassed.
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There are few people who've read so widely and deeply as Harold Bloom. For all his idiosyncrasies as a critic and for whatever personal flaws he might have had, he inspired a generation of readers to read more and explore the classics
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by briga 7y ago
If I understand this correctly, it seems like the researchers were just stimulating vocal areas of the bird brains--which to me seems like an entirely different thing than implanting memories into the bird's brain. If you stimulate my
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by briga 7y ago
Deserts are already pretty fragile environments, seems like removing what little moisture there is in the desert air could have some unintended consequences. Large swaths of the USA are a few ecological disasters away from becoming uninhabi
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by briga 7y ago
For a 2000 year old poem, De rerum natura offers a surprisingly scientific take on the world, as well as a fascinating insight into what was going on at the edge on Roman thought at the time. It's still a great and fairly accessible re
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by briga 7y ago
Not to mention, the tallest tree in the world is only a few hours drive away in Sequoia National Park.
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by briga 7y ago
On the other hand, as software and frameworks get more complex, they require more compute to run. Software hasn't decoupled economic growth from energy consumption, it has just made the energy consumption harder to see. Edit: since peo
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by briga 7y ago
This is probably more a result of there being more images of young people in the training set
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by briga 7y ago
Seems like a good way to eliminate a lot of life in the desert. Presumably that air moisture gets cycled through the plants and animals in that environment. No water = no life. Mind you, humans have already drastically altered the deserts b
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by briga 7y ago
Cognitive scientists have been studying the computational foundations of vision in depth since at least the 1980s (see David Marr's 1982 book Vision), and AI scientists have been using neural networks for computer vision tasks for at l
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by briga 7y ago
Millions of people get by just fine in the national parks without carrying any firearms every year. Maybe carrying a tiny gun could help, but with a large animal like a grizzly or a wolf it could just as easily escalate the situation.
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by briga 7y ago
Lem had a seemingly inexhaustible imagination, and this was one of his most fascinating books. If you like his more serious sci-fi books it's definitely worth a read. He always seems like he was operating on an entirely different plane
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And if these companies had their way users would be spending every waking minute on their platform, collecting that sweet sweet ad revenue. That's what happens when primary business success metrics are engagement and hundreds of micro-
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Many of the large shallow lakes in the Prairie provinces are drying up as well. For example Miquelon lake in central Alberta has shrunk by at least half since European settlers arrived. Not to mention the fact that many smaller lakes are no
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by briga 7y ago
>Machine learning algorithms eventually determined how to spot when participants were answering a question and which one of the 24 answers they were choosing Seems like it might be a bit of an overstatement to say that Facebook is close
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by briga 7y ago
In a way that's already happened, though maybe not in the way youre thinking of. Machine learning data is more and more being collected by volunteers or paid content curators. These jobs are generally low pay and in foreign countries.
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by briga 7y ago
It's interesting that you say the cycleway unquestionably put small businesses out of business--why do you think that? In North America small businesses and town centres are generally under threat from big shopping centres and the way
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by briga 7y ago
Leave it to California to figure out how to spend 600k to get rid of a mural. Doesn't this city have more pressing problems to fix?
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I know plenty of highly educated people who couldn't care less about environmental protection. Something tells me that universal college education isn't the fix for climate change, although it could solve other problems.
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by briga 7y ago
Well, mass-shootings wouldn't happen if there weren't people who believed it. It turns out that anonymous 'edgy' internet forums are an ideal breeding ground for that sort of ideology. The absurdly offensive dialog that
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by briga 7y ago
Maybe it would be more accurate to say most people couldn't care less about the Earth's "imminent demise" (whatever that means). I mean sure, there are lots of people who say they care, but how many have stopped driving
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by briga 7y ago
When given "Elon Musk Dies", the model outputs: "It's easy for everyone to believe that Musk was the real reason behind the death of the planet. He was the first guy to believe the same as we did. But this seems so obvio
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by briga 8y ago
>Tolkien, Lewis and Williams actually flatter the reader’s Narcissism, while morally softening the reader’s Promethianism. Lindsay strenuously assaults the reader’s Narcissism, while both hardening the reader’s Promethianism and yet remi
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by briga 8y ago
The way I see it, when everybody consumes the same media everybody starts to have the same thoughts. Which isn't a bad thing, per se, but it's the sort of thing that leads to political polarization and close-mindedness. Groups of
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The problem is that there's just too much out there--too many books, movies, TV shows, news articles, blog posts. No one has time to keep up with it, so some sort of cultural selection process is necessary. The only content that can st
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Lile the article says, the Google Play Store makes it difficult for newer developers to get established. To get your app featured, you need to meet a whole host of design/accessibility/localization/etc requirements that prett
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by briga 8y ago
Do you really think China has done anything on the level of these three? Basically every new neural network architecture in recent memory is underpinned by Hinton's work on back-propagation. China has done some fantastic work in ML, bu
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Writing in the AI Era(jjanes.ca)
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The online Stanford courses--CS224, CS229, CS231--are an excellent introduction into modern AI. CS231 with Andrej Karpathy in particular was a game-changer for me. It has three very thorough and well-designed assignments that will have you

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