davmre

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by davmre 10y ago
> Recent attempts to get the developers to shoulder more of this cost is often the next fight these communities face. Why would the people building the housing be responsible for these costs? If new people are moving to a community and c
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by davmre 10y ago
> Resisting new development doesn't stop people from moving here, nor does it remove the need to build out new infrastructure. Sure it does. People aren't living in tents (generally speaking). Population can't grow unless
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by davmre 10y ago
It feels like this is mostly a disagreement over language. We all agree that determinism and "predictability" are independent questions. You've equated "free will" with non-determinism and therefore see predictabili
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by davmre 10y ago
To follow up: I personally see some extra subtlety here, in that even if a prediction machine did exist, we could still have a meaningful form of free will, because that machine would be governed by Rice's theorem ( https:/&#x2F
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by davmre 10y ago
I think you're missing the point somewhat. Yes, Aaronson assumes that something like physicalism is true, which I think is fairly defensible as a 21st-century scientist. But the argument isn't as simple as "physicalism entail
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by davmre 10y ago
I'm fairly sure you can just create a facebook account and enable email notifications. You'll never have to log in or upload any personal information, but you'll receive an email whenever you friends invite your placeholder a
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by davmre 11y ago
"This hash is computed such that it is resistant to alterations in the image, including resizing and minor color alterations." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA )
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by davmre 11y ago
You're right that the same arguments apply throughout the Bay Area. That fact that SF needs to build more and denser housing doesn't excuse Palo Alto, Mountain View, Berkeley, Oakland, etc. from doing the same. But even the housin
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by davmre 11y ago
Even if true (I know many professors who did postdocs), it's not clear what you think this proves. Faculty slots are very scarce and most newly graduated PhDs, even very smart ones, do not have "faculty job at a desirable institut
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Graphical Algebra and Fourier Analysis(acko.net)
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by davmre 11y ago
I don't think that follows from what I wrote, though it's certainly a defensible position.
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by davmre 11y ago
Why shouldn't it be? You don't even need the glorification. A normal calculator is performing what most people would consider to be a difficult cognitive task, and doing so at a superhuman level. AI is not some magical ineffable t
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by davmre 11y ago
It may not be relevant legally. But it undermines the (already very flawed) PR argument that Apple is enabling terrorists by not unlocking this specific phone . Forcing the FBI to admit that their real objective is the general power to hit
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What Tim Cook doesn't want to admit about iPhones and encryption(vox.com)
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by davmre 11y ago
You can reconcile those claims under a model in which most politicians (including Clinton) have genuine beliefs that are not corruptible by money, but the Koch brothers can buy political outcomes by bankrolling those politicians whose genui
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by davmre 11y ago
Neural nets require a couple of FLOPs per synapse. The processing power required is a direct function of the number of synapses. Each neuron is essentially applying a particular logical op, and counting the neurons and their inputs gives yo
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by davmre 11y ago
I don't know where in the article you see Bostrom predicting AI in 2004. That's a lower bound on when we might achieve the needed hardware capacity. Bostrom's predictions about hardware advancements have more or less come to
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by davmre 11y ago
That's contestable, but even granting the point, a "sufficiently close approximation" in the sense that we currently know how to run would require more computing power than is or likely ever will be available in this world.
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by davmre 11y ago
Throwing all the computing power in the world at an AIXI approximation would get you nowhere near AIXI.
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by davmre 11y ago
It can if you use Haskell: https://github.com/mikeizbicki/HerbiePlugin
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by davmre 11y ago
Yes, this was a best paper award at PLDI '15: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jrw12/herbie.pdf
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by davmre 11y ago
RMSE and MSE are monotonic transformations of each other, so minimizing one is equivalent to minimizing the other. You can think of linear regression as minimizing RMSE if you like; it's just cleaner to do the math without the extra sq
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by davmre 11y ago
I read the original (andrewxhill's) post as making a point analogous to the "fork in the road" example: it's fine to maintain a full posterior on ideas, but if you need to choose, you should put in the effort to choose t
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by davmre 11y ago
This is a very confused post. A posterior is not an "average", it's a probability distribution. That distribution may have a mean value, but that's not a meaningful quantity in general. For example, you're chasing
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by davmre 11y ago
At the time this post was written, there was no good autodiff implementation for any language that anyone actually used for ML, meaning Python, Matlab, or Java. That's changed now; for example, Python autograd [1] is quite seamless and
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by davmre 11y ago
Drones have agency; they can target precisely and evade defense mechanisms, whereas gas spreads in well understood and constrained ways. You can't release a cloud of sarin or anthrax over Washington DC and instruct it to seek and destr
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by davmre 11y ago
Very controversially.
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by davmre 11y ago
Email older PhD students at your local university, assuming you have a strong local university. Describe your problem in a few sentences to get them interested, and offer competitive compensation ($100-$200/hr depending on location) in
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by davmre 11y ago
The reason to buy a house would be the same as the reason to buy a car, or any other item: because you want to use it. If housing prices are guaranteed to increase, it means owners of housing are extracting unearned rents from the economy.
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So you want to reform democracy(medium.com)
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