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by currymj 7y ago
the laws were probably written with lotteries and gambling originally in mind, and made overly broad to prevent people from finding loopholes. (like, say, a poker tournament where the chips aren't worth real money, but there is a cash
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by currymj 7y ago
don't forget proximity to the Bezos residence; Crystal City is about a 15 minute drive away.
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by currymj 7y ago
The idea dates back even further than that, to the failed but fascinating Keedoozle, the second venture attempted by Clarence Saunders, founder of Piggly Wiggly, after his financial ruin attempting to corner the market in his own stock. You
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by currymj 7y ago
I sort of naively assumed that any binary classification task on images nowadays would be done with a deep NN. Are there any proposed techniques for detecting fakes that can't be easily differentiated through?
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by currymj 7y ago
Could just be that this is often done using GANs? So if you come up with some better way of telling apart real from fake, it can immediately be used as part of the discriminator, resulting in (hopefully) even better fake images.
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by currymj 7y ago
so it appears, no, all reasonable solutions are quite cumbersome for the time being, for an individual who wants to use many accounts anyway. a company might be able to cook up a system that works well for its employees though.
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by currymj 7y ago
A lot of people who advocate flat or structureless organizations actually have philosophical problems with even direct democracy for decision making. The big objection is to making majority (or even supermajority) decisions binding on the m
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by currymj 7y ago
I have long debated getting a Yubikey but have held off because I don't want to have to carry around several dongles at all times to be able to send an email. Surely other people are in the situation of: - iPhone, iPad - Macbook with o
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by currymj 7y ago
In fact with current neural nets on floating point hardware, people use dropout which is just deliberately introducing random errors. Which is why, only somewhat tongue in cheek, people sometimes describe the rounding errors from using lowe
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by currymj 7y ago
an ordinary grad student can't reasonably train an SC2 agent to do anything on their 1 GPU workstation. that's the motive -- an RL environment that's a little more interesting than mountaincar or Atari, and that doesn't
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by currymj 7y ago
People keep saying this with extreme confidence; I’m not sure I buy it. Certainly recurrent networks in general are not obsolete, even if attention/convolution works better for some applications. Perhaps one ought to try GRU before LST
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by currymj 7y ago
If you really want a spiritual successor to Elite fit for the 21st century you should buy Elite: Dangerous, created by the original creator of Elite, David Braben. I don’t want to knock Oolite which is a great free software project. But Eli
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by currymj 7y ago
Readers of this post may also enjoy Oolite, a GPL-licensed space exploration game heavily inspired by the original Elite. But this one is in 3D. http://www.oolite.org/
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by currymj 7y ago
I think the natural engineer intuition is that if a drug is just a chemical, and generic and name-brand drugs are the same chemical, how could there possibly be any difference? Don't be duped by advertising, save the money, be rational
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by currymj 7y ago
I have occasionally thought that for worker cooperatives, equity that decays over time might be interesting. That is, shares are still liquid and can be held by non-workers and former workers, but they gradually expire. New shares would onl
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by currymj 7y ago
I feel the opposite way: it's insane that Stockfish, running on CPUs and crude handmade heuristics, is able to keep up at all.
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CNN for Go at least seems justifiable. The use of a convolution captures the fact that a configuration of stones is mostly the same configuration of stones whether or not you shift it around the board a little bit. This is much less true fo
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by currymj 7y ago
Grades are fundamentally stupid. Grade inflation is as close as we can come, realistically, to getting rid of them, so I’m in favor in most situations.
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by currymj 7y ago
Lenore Blum has worked on some things in this direction. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lblum/PAPERS/TuringMeetsNewton.pdf I think most computer scientists have a natural and justified distrust of the real numbers, though
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by currymj 7y ago
you can find discords for many topics that have the feel of old forums.
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by currymj 7y ago
I am really curious how the employees and researchers (who will actually have to make all the miraculous things being promised to investors) feel about all the strong AI rhetoric. Do you have to be a true believer to work there, or are they
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by currymj 7y ago
my own intuition on this is that making food using complicated industrial processes isn't bad or good in itself. but it is more profitable for many reasons to make food that is sweet, salty, fatty, and calorically dense, and modern man
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Originally he learned to make soap in Europe, so I wonder if there are any soap making artisans still around who learned the same techniques. Dr. Bronner himself is a quintessentially American figure though. An immigrant fleeing Europe, he
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Dilute! Dilute!
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It really is well-designed and pleasant to use for the sort of programming that scientists and (real) engineers do. Not just symbolic math, but any kind of technical computing, done at least partly interactively, on a single powerful machin
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A useful analogy I once heard: suppose I want the government to build a dam somewhere. It would be totally pointless to go to the riverbank and start piling up rocks myself.
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by currymj 8y ago
I ended up having the opposite experience; I went and installed Pop on my non-System76 workstation. It is basically just Ubuntu, with a custom desktop environment (that is actually perfectly fine although optional), but more importantly, pp
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by currymj 8y ago
a common pattern I see in papers written by people on the technical side is: "The correct way of ensuring algorithmic fairness is X" where X is something they already happened to work on. In various papers X could be robust optimi
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most actual researchers are entirely sick of the hype and are desperately trying to correct it, to no avail. i think laypeople just have a strong desire to get overexcited about AI and nothing is going to stop them.
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by currymj 8y ago
The ACM is basically this, they even have a code of ethics. People just aren’t very involved in it though outside of academia.

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