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by curuinor 7y ago
Schneier is of the opinion that the threat of full disclosure is what makes 'responsible' disclosure work, if i recall correctly https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2007/01/schneier_fu...
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Fast newton's method for neural nets, with finite difference(github.com)
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by curuinor 8y ago
This is all expressions of power. It won't be overcome until interviewees get leverage and express it. By the structure of the thing they never get leverage, so it will continue because it can.
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by curuinor 8y ago
But the article's point is that its social ethos consists of just justifying the way things are. Two millenia later, we figured out that we can improve many of the way things were, we nearly abolished chattel slavery, we abolished a fe
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by curuinor 8y ago
It's also worth noting that the noted stoic philosopher and emperor Marcus Aurelius had completely worthless personal relationships, especially a son who ended up being remarkably poorly-raised. I saw a lot of folks who adhered to stoi
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Show HN: Fast Newton's Method for Neural Nets, with Finite Difference(github.com)
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by curuinor 8y ago
They turned into Dynamicland https://dynamicland.org/
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by curuinor 8y ago
I am afraid that I am running the other way: looking hard at the Zipfian criticality and thinking that the seeming hierarchy of symbolic AI is even more an illusion. Many seeming hierarchies are at heart the formalization of a power-law phe
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by curuinor 8y ago
As I said on the repo, I welcome discussion for a while, probably until end of day today on HN, but I just stay bookmarked on the SA CSPAM thread so you can ask me questions there whenever. This is probably the only way you can get me to ac
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Show HN: Two strange useless things to do with a neural net(github.com)
22 points by curuinor 8y ago|4 comments
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by curuinor 8y ago
I have an attestation from the Goizueta family that they aren't that smart and they aren't that stupid (as the COO put it)
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by curuinor 8y ago
People are great: organizations are less so. Your HR buddy can cry while they kick you off campus, they're still kicking you off campus. Unless they're the board and CEO, it doesn't really matter that the people around you ca
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by curuinor 8y ago
Done already https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/singapo...
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by curuinor 8y ago
well, they're as dangerous if you use carfentanyl. if you just use tear gas or something...
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by curuinor 8y ago
Lots of legislation effectively leaves it to courts to hash the actual specifics out. Courts can only rule on specific examples, so it prevents a genre of legal stupidity.
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Show HN: Fast Finite Difference Newton's Method(github.com)
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by curuinor 8y ago
fred hebert (monocqc) has his actual book out just now on Amazon, iirc https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1680506218
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by curuinor 8y ago
compare to the data: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/01/17/generation-z-looks...
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by curuinor 8y ago
LA is world-famous for being non-walkable (even as it simultaneously is getting much better for walkability, hilariously). Seattle just isn't walkable compared to SF.
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by curuinor 8y ago
Japan, however, at that point was a liberal democracy with rights and stuff. Can't say that about the PRC.
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by curuinor 8y ago
Isn't there lots of... crossover knowledge between hemp and the psychoactive cultivars?
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by curuinor 8y ago
"nutrition" the innovation is in pharmaceuticals.
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Show HN: J. R. “Bob” Dobbs Memorial Fast Inverse Hessian Multiplication(github.com)
1 points by curuinor 8y ago|0 comments
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by curuinor 8y ago
there's about 20 million people who know programming to the level that they can fizzbuzz, according to the rough idc estimates. if you know fizzbuzz, you know programming better than all the rest. (the rest don't know how to progr
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by curuinor 8y ago
I suppose by American standards they're cities, but if you're at all used to like, Seoul, they're basically towns.
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by curuinor 8y ago
I wrote a filesystem-and-own-email-account-only cronjob for myself to do it, it and its predecessors have been working fine for about a half-decade https://github.com/howonlee/diogenes8
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by curuinor 8y ago
December 16, 2019?
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by curuinor 8y ago
More a frenemy, really.
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by curuinor 8y ago
it's attested that "show, don't tell" was created to reduce exposition, which CIA operatives had noticed were the places left-wing writers would put in their left-wing ideas. https://twitter.com/eugen_lev
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by curuinor 8y ago
call em' gallatines

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