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by cfcef 11y ago
Given the Baidu work, I think we can safely say that Hinton et al's forecasts 4 years ago were on the money. Deep approaches are now clearly dominant and have yielded fantastic performance.
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by cfcef 11y ago
A 'further reading' is not a reference; 'further reading' means 'here are additional sources you might find relevant about material not covered here'. Which of 'Triumph of the City', 'The Ghost M
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by cfcef 11y ago
The post reads like a (very poorly written) rehash and plagiarism of Diamond...
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by cfcef 11y ago
'Prosper'!='exist'. He claimed they existed. They did not, barring ancient people being some sort of bizarre near-super-human race which can laugh off protein and iodine deficiencies and parasite loads and early-childhoo
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by cfcef 11y ago
They probably also benefited from low-hanging fruit. No one today has the opportunity to invent 'logic' or 'the Pythagorean theorem' or 'the tragedy'.
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by cfcef 11y ago
You can see underwater, but you don't see as well as they do: > The kids had to dive underwater and place their heads onto a panel. From there they could see a card displaying either vertical or horizontal lines. Once they had stare
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by cfcef 11y ago
> Human intelligence has remained approximately the same for 50,000 years. The ancient world had its geniuses at the same rate as the modern world. No, they didn't. Human genetic intelligence may be the same (although this is doubtf
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by cfcef 11y ago
> The level of sophistication of science in medieval Europe may be way ahead of what we assume (have we even tried to measure it?). I think he's not gesturing towards medieval Europe, but Rome. There was one empire which was extreme
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by cfcef 11y ago
I wonder about the legal aspects. The reuse in one set of cases may be legal, but what about the others? If nothing else, you would think that the NYT or USA Today would have a clause in their contracts that puzzles are guaranteed new and u
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by cfcef 11y ago
And that expansion was done for the revenue it could deliver now, not in 2108. If the original Suez Canal had not been constructed in 1869, then this new one could still have been constructed now and it would be for the short-run gains, not
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by cfcef 11y ago
> The only reason that things like canals get built is because people can charge money to recoup their costs. In the case of the Suez Canal, though, it wasn't finished in 1869 for the income it could deliver in 2016, since discounte
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by cfcef 11y ago
The Ainu barely exist anymore, and the whole thing about the Burakumin is that they aren't visible and all their descendants hide any connection. A better example would be the Korean descendant population, but that's still a tin
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by cfcef 11y ago
It's always 'climate change'. Dozens of megafauna disappear? 'climate change'. Whole tribes with fortifications suddenly disappear? 'climate change'. Wholesale population replacement? 'climate change&
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by cfcef 11y ago
Sounds like 'all public Google+ photo albums'. (I say public because given what Facebook reports about daily photo uploads, a cumulative 126m seems like it would be way too small for G+ if it covered all Google Docs/Photos up
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by cfcef 11y ago
The point about ECC and accepting lower error rates makes a lot of sense. It's the end-to-end principle again: since all of these HDDs are going into a global pool in which each of them is disposable and written content is protected by
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by cfcef 11y ago
Some previous submissions: http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/why-is-there-no-gen... http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/why-is-there-no-gen...
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by cfcef 11y ago
When I was younger, I didn't understand the appeal of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism 's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax ; proponents came off as cranks. But the more
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by cfcef 11y ago
Ditto. I signed up for the free Prime offer, after a while decided it wasn't going to be worthwhile for me (a lot of the total delay between ordering and receiving seems to be on Amazon's warehouses' end of things, and not US
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by cfcef 11y ago
> I know it because I grew up in one. You did not grow up in North Korea. North Korea is not the USSR, and it operates differently. I laid out several ways in which it differed in explaining why being a tourist is only harmful. > Eve
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by cfcef 11y ago
They feed westerners a propaganda machine to fill the time and provide a trip. You need paying customers for the hard cash, but you can hardly let them wander around in the general population. The propaganda is there, might as well use it.
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by cfcef 11y ago
That's possible. It's using Andrej Karpathy's char-rnn. Presumably it's doing something like running the trained model with 'th sample.lua -model something.t7 -primetext '$WORD, ' and taking everything aft
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by cfcef 11y ago
That's absurd. We are talking about a totalitarian regime which does not care in the least what the West thinks, which carefully ushers tourists who feed it the hard foreign currency it needs through a well-honed propaganda machine (re
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by cfcef 11y ago
I'm sure one could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11127534 But rolling out a paid service like that comes with a lot of expectations that being part of a free app doesn't.
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by cfcef 11y ago
You're being paranoid for several reasons. First, you will presumably be keeping the classifications you get from the API (if for no other reason than $2/1000 can really add up and why would you do that to yourself?). Second, Goog
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by cfcef 11y ago
http://janifoundation.org/the-fallen/
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by cfcef 11y ago
If you used Baidu's services, you might be more impressed. In any case, one barrier to rolling these things out to production is that it takes time to get them into production, and there are cost challenges: you represent too little ad
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by cfcef 11y ago
Of course, Lem tried to top it with _Star Maker_, where multiple universes are too small for his canvas :)
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by cfcef 11y ago
So would OP be the 'fractal sundial'?
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by cfcef 11y ago
There are occasional torrents, AFAIK. Hope you have 10tb of free space handy.
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by cfcef 11y ago
Arxiv is a voluntary service where authors upload their own papers. It covers a few hundred thousand papers, probably, since authors have to know about it, want to use it, and have copyright service; it covers only a few areas of science wh

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