chris-hexx

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by chris-hexx 6y ago
It sounds like we might have converged onto similar visions. I've got a terrible prototype, are you looking for a collaborator?
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by chris-hexx 7y ago
Well, okay, at what amount of warming attributable is it okay not to invest in reducing CO2? What's the spread in impact estimations if we should have reduced emissions, vs if we shouldn't? Basically, how do we do Pascal's wa
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by chris-hexx 7y ago
Open office is the future on average, just because it's the best you can do for dollar/worker/sqft. Offices with doors, we are told, are too expensive, because they're accounted for differently as part of the building, n
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by chris-hexx 7y ago
Fascinating that they say so bluntly that the end goal isn't a machine that performs well at a task, but warm fuzzies for the people that have to specify the tasks for that machine: "Turning aerial dogfighting over to AI is less a
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by chris-hexx 7y ago
Sounds like an excellent example of policies failing to address different types of homeless, as described at https://acesounderglass.com/2019/04/03/5-groups-of-homeless-... . Optimal aid for people who just go
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by chris-hexx 9y ago
I'd be interested, if you can use me.
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Halide: A Language for Optimizing Parallelism in Image Processing Pipelines [pdf](people.csail.mit.edu)
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by chris-hexx 11y ago
grpc is Google's flavor of RPC, with transport and semantics specified for you. 0MQ is an abstraction over raw sockets that lets you worry less about how different parts of a distributed application find and talk to each other. There&#
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by chris-hexx 11y ago
Bayesian in the sense of the so-called Cult of Bayes, who seek to apply formal reasoning methods to optimize personal knowledge bases and outcomes. See also: Eliezer Yudkowsky, http://lesswrong.com/ .
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by chris-hexx 11y ago
Honest question, here - I don't have much of a theoretical or practical economic. how distinct is your proposition from actually, explicitly, printing money?
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by chris-hexx 11y ago
"few elements can be modeled perfectly by human beings." "Our models of the world have gotten better — which means that our ability to predict the world has gotten better." Paraphrasing: "My friend knows more topics
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by chris-hexx 11y ago
No, really - why are transcripts not more of a thing for people trying to get their idea out and their books sold? That this guy expects 'entrepreneurs' to spend 45 mines being sold to seems unlikely and non-useful, so what gives?
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by chris-hexx 15y ago
Static analysis of lots of human translators' output. Given the input and output of a strange human filter, they're trying to approximate the filter using machine learning. When their algorithm's output approximates the best translations, t