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by colllectorof 11y ago
Because it's a fucking board game . There are tons and tons of more practical and impressive computer science achievements that get absolutely no news coverage.
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by colllectorof 11y ago
This reads like a mix of a disingenuous PR statement and a typical agenda-selling article from some mainstream news org. Let's look at just one sentence: >We've also had the chance to see something that's never happened b
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by colllectorof 11y ago
A few months back, the expert consensus was that we were many years away from an AI playing Go at the 9-dan level. Any sources for this statement? I've seen it repeated over and over again, but without any specific examples of who th
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by colllectorof 11y ago
Go rankings put that AI at #2 in the world. Go rankings weren't designed for ML algorithms, which can have high-level deficiencies and behave erratically under certain conditions.
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by colllectorof 11y ago
The notion of "professionally offended" implies making money off the whole thing. If you don't, than you're merely an amateur offended. Also, saying that Twitter has a problem is like saying that fires can cause property
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by colllectorof 11y ago
Why does it have to be driven by ad revenue? There are plenty of people and companies who would gladly pay good bucks (relatively speaking) for a decent transcription.
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by colllectorof 11y ago
> It was a huge hurdle just to do pretty much anything beyond display text documents Like what? The trend I see in practice is that most web applications are still 98% text documents with images, but a combination of modern design patt
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by colllectorof 11y ago
The difference is that we've seen that the other kind of web development (without grapevines of libraries and complex toolchains) is both possible and capable of producing usable results. We're regressing.
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by colllectorof 11y ago
Sounds less like a fallacy and more like a strawman argument by certain types of AI proponents. First they claim that efficiency is the only thing that matters in intelligence. Then they fail to demonstrate high enough efficiency in real-li
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by colllectorof 11y ago
But.. there is a way to make people listen to you. Hype, right? Choosing problems for their theatrical effect, rather than utility. Writing articles and research papers as if they're marketing pamphlets. Claiming that incremental imp
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by colllectorof 11y ago
> Is what people do 'actually intelligent'? Yes, although there are plenty of people trying to convince everyone otherwise by example. > If you break down the processes of the brain to a low enough level, all of the &#x27
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by colllectorof 11y ago
> I'd agree with the rest of your post but this statement seems to imply there's some "general level" that can't reached by the incremental approaches that yielded the results. At this point in time, the belief
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by colllectorof 11y ago
Parlor trick is something that looks interesting only as long as you make incorrect assumptions about how it's being done. For example, a card that seems to appear out of nowhere while in reality it is held behind the hand between litt
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by colllectorof 11y ago
> Statements like "all I care about is what you have done/created/accomplished" is predicated on the notion that everyone is already equal. You're implying that you're so clever, perceptive and knowledgeab
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by colllectorof 11y ago
1. Global surveillance is not a left/right thing. No matter what you believe in or where you stand on issues, global surveillance can be used to force you to do things you do not want to do - without regard to any moral, ethical or l
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by colllectorof 11y ago
Yeah. The worst part, though, is that a lot of the same people now did a 180 and reside firmly in the "I have nothing to hide" camp. They jumped from dismissing global surveillance as too far-fetched and intrusive for reality stra
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by colllectorof 11y ago
That's my take on it as well. I guess it can make some sense to add skin color to emoji that represent people . But a lot of them represent emotions and mental states : "I'm happy" "I'm surprised" &quo
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by colllectorof 11y ago
There's no complexity to combining characters Except that all of it needs to be translated to code, it involves operations with color (or multiplying the number of certain icons by 5), it needs to have a slightly different behavior (
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by colllectorof 11y ago
"Political statement with every emoji" sounds about right. Certain groups hate the fact that the Internet allows people to overlook the boundaries of race, nationality and gender. It robs those groups of fuel for manufacturing o
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by colllectorof 11y ago
I always though that both good mystery and science fiction fit most of those criteria listed. Except deconstruction, which I can happily live without. Of course, neither SF not mysteries are actually like the stories this page links to.
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by colllectorof 11y ago
I don't get the outrage. In fact, I think it's a brilliant parody of post-structuralist jargon, self-contradictions and pretentious verbal mannerisms. If you take this repo as a serious attack against feminism I have to point out