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by dasboth 10y ago
That's definitely true, it's rare to see a fully civilised discussion where those concerns are addressed without the accompanying rhetoric. Having said that, surely it's a fact that we'll run out of fossil fuels at some
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by dasboth 10y ago
Good point. I've often wondered: apart from wanting to be right, what do climate skeptics have against e.g. transitioning to renewable energy?
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by dasboth 10y ago
> some sort of world wide agreement to lower consumption is a pipe dream This has been my conclusion recently too. Sure, we can all do our own bit individually, but I can't realistically see a global shift in conscientiousness tak
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by dasboth 10y ago
Interesting, what makes you say that? I haven't read MMM in depth but have a feeling it might be down to certain circumstances (e.g. if you're renting in London, you're pretty much guaranteed you can't save 50% of your i
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by dasboth 10y ago
I see beauty in math and algorithms. I'm sick of people, who just see such things only in dollar terms. Try seeking out people who also see beauty in maths and algorithms and you might have a better experience. Finding people who hav
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by dasboth 10y ago
Try going analogue, find a hobby that doesn't involve a computer (music, cooking, hiking etc.). I find if I do even a small amount of a few different activities in a day, it feels a lot more full . A day spent coding, then going home
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by dasboth 10y ago
I prefer to think of it as "defensive coding" rather than something related directly to self-confidence. Same with driving - I'm confident in my abilities but drive under the assumption that everyone else on the road is unpre
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by dasboth 10y ago
That's what I thought, you could be confident in the limits of your own ability, as opposed to being delusional that everything will always work perfectly!
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by dasboth 10y ago
As far as I know the RBM is related to a proposed model on how/why we dream, so "imagination" is apt.
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by dasboth 10y ago
I love this, the blog post is a great write-up. Not a trivial algorithm to implement (although a theoretically interesting one), kudos!
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by dasboth 10y ago
True, but for some reason this one hit a nerve. At least in most cases digital marketing can (at least slightly) benefit the user, but in this case the benefit is 100% with the company. Uber were alleged to charge more for those with low ba
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by dasboth 10y ago
That just feels so sketchy. What a waste of time and knowledge just to chase more profits.
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by dasboth 10y ago
I agree about the story. Text generation is already well within our capabilities, but it would be much more "intelligent" if the algorithm understood concepts of plot and characters to come up with a coherent piece of writing. The
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by dasboth 10y ago
This is also true in research in the sense that the moment a problem is solved that previously felt unattainable, it gets somewhat dismissed as "weak AI". The goalposts are constantly moved and the progress to date is underestimat
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by dasboth 10y ago
I think it's definitely a good thing to abstract away the nuts and bolts of a complicated ML algorithm for general use. Implementing the algorithms from scratch is really useful if you want to learn the details, but most of the time th
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by dasboth 10y ago
His book on Fermat's Last Theorem is also excellent.
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by dasboth 10y ago
Well and that's the other thing, exactly. The offline caching is more important for other appliances that need to happen on a timer and you might alter the frequency more often (e.g. a thermostat or something).
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by dasboth 10y ago
Exactly, it's nice to be able to change the frequency of the timer remotely via the web, but the device should cache the latest settings offline. This is definitely an instance of malice/greed rather than an oversight...
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by dasboth 10y ago
Thanks for that good read. I particularly agree with this: I think for myself, I do have some moral and ethical baselines that I don't want the byproducts of my labor to violate, like harming others, perpetuating government oppression
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by dasboth 10y ago
The dirty little secret is that nobody actually needs any specific experience to do the job. You just need a decent brain and an Internet connection, and just enough people skills to fake it until you make it. Very true, and this is why t
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by dasboth 10y ago
I'm interested in how that kind of thing prevails. Is it because the purpose of the lie is just to get past HR screening, and after that competent people just learn the language they lied about on their CV? I can't imagine that wo
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by dasboth 10y ago
The point was though that if your 2 cents' worth isn't constructive, if it's not the difference that could "make the project as good as it can be", you shouldn't give it.
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by dasboth 10y ago
I didn't realise he wrote a book. His chess videos in Chessmaster made me a much better player, I'll definitely have a look at the book.
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by dasboth 10y ago
Wow that is ridiculous, I had no idea. Thanks for the link. I guess "normal" Pokemon rules don't apply, perhaps that's why I've been having trouble!
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by dasboth 10y ago
"It has all the markings of a fad" My thoughts as well. It already favours players who play obsessively. Casual gamers can't really expect to ever challenge a gym in even a reasonably populated area. I was excited by the idea
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by dasboth 10y ago
That's a great mission statement, and it's not too lofty to be impossible to attain.
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by dasboth 10y ago
"Read Pressfield's "The War of Art." It's cheap, it's short, and it's helpful. "Tomorrow" is really dangerous thinking when there's not an actual deadline. You'll be saying tomorrow for
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by dasboth 10y ago
I don't disagree that the customer needs to be more aware, but the gym analogy doesn't quite work. The risks of dropping a 100kg weight on yourself are much more transparent than an app sneakily loading unnecessary data and not ca
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by dasboth 10y ago
Interpretability is going to be a huge area of research in machine learning, what with the advent of deep learning techniques. It's hard enough explaining the output of a random forest, what about a deep net with 100 layers? In some ca
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by dasboth 10y ago
Interesting, my only 2 encounters with Packt have been positive. One was a talk from a guy who wrote a book about a Python library who said Packt were good to work with, and the other was one of those pearls, "Python Machine Learning&q

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