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by briga 9y ago
It would seem that Elon's personal business model is an inversion of the "under-promise, over-deliver" dictum. I wonder when it will catch up to him.
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by briga 9y ago
Care to name any large news publications that don't do this? I can't think of any.
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by briga 9y ago
I'm sure if you live a full life where you are constantly learning new things and having new experiences you can reach old age with a lot of mental elasticity and a wide-ranging perspective. Problem is, many people seem to narrow their
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by briga 9y ago
I think with modern advances in facial recognition technologies, a human participant wont be necessary. Have you seen how accurate these models are nowadays? Many big tech companies have already released tools that make it possible for just
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by briga 9y ago
>So while you're right that we used to rely on gossip and hearsay, simply amplifying the number of sources in no way implies that we're getting a less biased message. That's sort of what I was getting at. At heart, these n
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by briga 9y ago
We used to rely on gossip and hearsay to determine what was true. Now we rely on social media and search engines. Which are basically just gossip and hearsay amplified a million-fold. One of the strengths that's getting overlooked here
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by briga 9y ago
Well it was basically a piece of propaganda for the Roman government. A really beautiful piece of propaganda, but propaganda nonetheless. The Trojan heritage of Rome isn't true in fact, but it certainly has some truth metaphorically. R
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by briga 9y ago
The only reason we are the dominant species is because we have resources and ecosystems that can support us. The dominant species won't be so dominant anymore when ecosystems collapse.
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by briga 9y ago
This is really something everyone who opens a restaurant should be prepared for. An overwhelming majority of restaurants go out of business within a few years. It's a really difficult profession to be a part of, and if you want to be s
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by briga 9y ago
What is forever? Surely there must be some limit to life, whether that be the sun exploding or the eventual heat death of the universe. Almost every species on Earth has gone extinct, and almost every great civilization has faded. Every sol
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by briga 9y ago
The Plague Dogs has got to be the most depressing books I've ever read--almost sadistically so. The sucker-punch ending isn't eased any by the last minute deus ex machina either, it's just plain bleak from beginning to end.
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by briga 9y ago
At any given time I have goals for the next week, the next month, the next year, and the next four years. Periodically I'll spend some time reflecting and update the goals as new opportunities appear or major life transitions occur. Ke
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by briga 9y ago
Beautiful and intricate, but also hard to love. Milton is a spectacular poet, but there's something about the poem that kept me from appreciating it beyond its aesthetics. It's similar to Dante's epic in that sense, lovely an
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by briga 9y ago
That's something that worries me about moving down to Silicon Valley. It seems like everyone there is envious of how much their neighbors and co-workers make, regardless of how much they happen to be making. I want to avoid falling int
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by briga 9y ago
What's even harder to wrap my head around is that according to this survey around 15% of people at Netflix think they're not compensated fairly. What do they want? 400k? 500k? Would a salary of a million dollars a year be enough?
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by briga 9y ago
I think a lot of the current state of art criticism has to do with philosopher's like Barthes advocating the proverbial "death of the author". After that idea was discovered by liberal arts academia a floodgate of bullshit wa
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by briga 9y ago
Were they not using AI and ML techniques before? Or is this announcement just indicating that they are going to put a greater emphasis on deep learning? I have trouble seeing how the NSA would function without ML techniques, for example.
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by briga 9y ago
I came up with a similar idea recently--it figures that every original idea I ever have turns out to be not original and decades-old. Perhaps the lack of success so far has been due to the fact that the faculties of the brain we attribute t
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by briga 9y ago
It demands a government that can actually keep up with the pace of modern technology. Waiting 4 years for major administration changes is too long for the 21st century. Silicon Valley seems set on disrupting everything, so why not the gover
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by briga 9y ago
I think rather than being broken, captcha models are just going to be made more complex. Maybe they'll start asking you to write a poem or play a mini problem solving game.
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by briga 9y ago
My step-father has this weird obsession with keeping a perfectly flat green lawn as a front yard. Any time an ant-hill springs up it's out with the pesticide. Any weeds that pop up are immediately exterminated. It's this sort of s
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by briga 9y ago
Exactly. I don't think there is any serious cognitive science who claims that the brain works EXACTLY like a computer. It doesn't and we have understood that for a long time. But it obviously processes information, or we wouldn&#x
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by briga 9y ago
Why are they using MNIST to demonstrate generalization? Isn't it basically a toy problem at this point?
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by briga 9y ago
What are you talking about?
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by briga 9y ago
Can we really compare wealth between people who lived 2000 years apart though? The amount of material goods a relatively poor middle class American can afford is vastly greater than what the richest Romans could buy 2000 years ago. How do y
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by briga 9y ago
And apparently your experience in one part of the world is completely universal and applies everywhere. You're sure reading a lot into my reply.
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by briga 9y ago
Not really. I don't know where you live but this isn't true in Canada.
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by briga 9y ago
Whatever you guys need to feel better about yourselves. This article is poorly written, and with no control group of normal bike-riders I don't think the study can say much one way or the other about how electric bikes compare to norma
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by briga 9y ago
Like others have mentioned, a Fire Upon the Deep is great. Vinge has got to be the most visionary sci-fi writer I've read since Olaf Stapledon.
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Given the general resiliency of certain extremophiles and how similar the early environments of Earth and Mars were I would be surprised if we didn't find some sort of fossil evidence of microbial life on Mars. The question is whether

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