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by briga 8y ago
Isn't the difficulty of the task the point? If it was easy it wouldn't be interesting.
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by briga 8y ago
Thanks for this--science needs more writers who are able to distill complex subjects into clear and readable form.
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by briga 8y ago
I like books too, but personal libraries have a way of getting too big. Should I really be keeping books on my shelf because maybe I'll read it some time in the next decade? Do you really need a extensive library of thousands of books?
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by briga 8y ago
So this is pretty speculative, but I think Google already has similar models in production that they use for targeted advertisements. A few months ago I was riding my bike and fell down. A few hours later while looking at my Google Pixel I
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by briga 8y ago
I've seen the same things in the models I've built. For basic intent classification simpler models seem to be more accurate, not to mention they train faster and require less memory. There seems to be a lot of emphasis on shiny co
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by briga 8y ago
Correct, but most neural networks that do this sort of thing have tens of millions of parameters. Doing this in only 150 KB is extremely memory-efficient, if not exactly high fidelity.
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It's not just Rome, I saw this in other Italian cities as well. The tourist areas are well-manicured, naturally, but the outskirts of many Italian cities are crumbling. Infrastructure is generally outdated and poorly designed, if not a
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by briga 8y ago
>13- For a measure to be a measure it needs to be: + UNIQUE + MONOTONIC or, at least + TRANSITIVE I'm not sure I buy this one. Intelligence is something that is inherently constructive in nature. Your knowledge and problem solving
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by briga 8y ago
More poetry than documentary. Really thoughtful stuff. Interesting to note how prophetic the closing words of the episode turned out.
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He wrote realm of "direct" human experience, which presumably means the unaided human senses over a human lifetime.
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Well ten years ago kids were mindlessly watching cartoons on TV, which probably had just as much advetisement. The main difference with YouTube, I figure, is that the money is mainly going to content creators rather than TV executives. On t
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by briga 8y ago
So spending $825k on a domain "has translated into sales". Great. What kind of sales? It's telling that all the supposed benefits here are really vague. Maybe they could have paid someone to come up with a domain name that do
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by briga 8y ago
Reinforcement learning has a pretty useful framework for thinking about this called the exploration-exploitation dilemma. In order for an agent to fully exploit it's environment it first has to explore that environment, and this is whe
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Considering how many structures from thousands of years ago are still around, I'd be shocked if there weren't any 21st-century buildings standing thousands of years from now.
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The difference being that Canada has 10 times fewer people than the USA. They also charge money to access the national parks, by the way.
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by briga 8y ago
It helps that American's national parks system is one of the best in the world. When it comes to diversity and accessibility it's hard to beat American national parks. I'm not sure how getting rid of the fee would decrease cr
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by briga 8y ago
What these reports often seem to ignore is that there is still biodiversity within our cities--sometimes a lot of it. If the default assumption is "city bad, wilderness good", we're never going to make any progress, because s
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by briga 8y ago
Fascinating--this seems line something that would have emerged out of the post-modern canon rather than ancient China. I wonder how many other singular works of art were lost either because they were too radical for their time or because th
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by briga 8y ago
Maybe it's just my imagination, but I've noticed a real decline in journalistic standards at the BBC in the past few years. It's front page reads more like a clickbait tabloid than a serious news site nowadays. I guess even t
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by briga 8y ago
I would recommend Kevin Kelly's website truefilms.com for a great list of documentaries on a large variety of topics. No matter what your interests are you're sure to find something interesting on here. Werner Herzog has produced
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by briga 8y ago
Stupid question: how does a $245 million dollars bring a company's valuation from $9 billion to $20 billion? Last I checked, $245 million =/= $11 billion
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On the other hand, consider that the world population in the 1800s was about 1/7th what it is today, so the total number of people in extreme poverty probably hasn't changed much between then and now. What has changed is our idea
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by briga 8y ago
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch. The sheer breadth of the ideas covered in this book is breathtaking, and there are some truly mind-bending ideas explored in this book. If you're looking for a good general science book I hig
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Society has been getting better, but at what cost? Human's have radically disrupted ever biosphere on Earth throughout the past 10,000 years and are almost certainly the prime driver of a current mass extinction of life on Earth. Our g
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by briga 8y ago
Probably also included in this estimate are the vast swaths of ranch land in the western states. While it's true that this land is used to feed livestock, for the most part this land is barren and empty, and it probably supports more d
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by briga 8y ago
I recommend noise-cancelling headphones and ambient music. Ambient music is non-intrusive by design so it doesn't interfere with your workflow as much as more 'active' music.
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I think great art develops through a sort of evolutionary process. Everyone is influenced by the writer's they admire and so the good ideas get replicated. But good ideas by themselves aren't enough to attract an audience, so auth
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I distinctly remember watching the Amazon conference when they demonstrated their facial recognition software. It occurred to me that if this technology was around in Mao's China or Stalin's Russia the twentieth century might have
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A lot of people listen to about 30 seconds of Trout Mask Replica and then immediately write off Van Vliet's music as unlistenable twaddle, just weird for the sake of being weird. And it certainly is weird music--but when you really sta
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Missing the forest for the trees? Cherry-picking?

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