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by davmre 11y ago
It's not clear the genetic component is what matters here; you could equally well suggest that Tao's parents should adopt and raise lots of other smart kids. Though cloning 1000 Terry Taos would certainly be an interesting investi
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The point of an embargo is to allow vendors to coordinate patches. Since the exploit clock starts ticking when the first patch is released, releasing all patches at once means that everyone has some opportunity to patch before an exploit is
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This article does a much better job than many explaining what math research is actually like. I particularly like the "chess with the devil" metaphor: The steady state of mathematical research is to be completely stuck.
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That doesn't stop Lyft from accepting tips. I think Uber is just pushing back against tipping culture out of a desire to hypersimplify their user experience. It's a noble goal, but there's still a huge amount of pro-tipping s
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There's basically no reason for me to carry cash in my daily life. Uber of all companies should be working to facilitate that trend, not impede it.
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by davmre 11y ago
> waiver of nuclear weapons to which they have the same right as any existing nuclear power No one has a "right" to nuclear weapons. You can search the Magna Carta, the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the United Nations
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by davmre 11y ago
> Essentially I see it as the same difference as between giving you money to buy your car and forcing you to hand me the key by pointing a gun at you. I'd argue a more apt comparison would be saying "I'll buy your car, but
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by davmre 11y ago
> The USA and a few other countries have not yet signed or ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. If your goal is zero nuclear weapons there is not much harm doing so. Zero nuclear weapons is Obama's goal; it's unf
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> Why can the USA and Russia and the others have nuclear weapons but not Iran? There is no justification for that. Most non-proliferation activists, Obama included, have the stated goal of a "world without nuclear weapons", in
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The entire point of the deal, politically speaking, is to dismantle Iran's nuclear program in a way that allows Rouhani and the Iranian moderates to save face to their own people by maintaining the apparent shell of a nuclear program.
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by davmre 11y ago
I'd imagine you're always free to leave, in a legal sense, at the cost of missing your flight. The airline's ability to deny boarding gives you a strong incentive to cooperate.
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Life Is Complexicated(multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com)
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This (deleted) Quora post is the best explanation I've seen thus far: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--N83GXLMb...
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by davmre 11y ago
> Until someone comes up with a way to make AGI guaranteed friendly, all AGI research is like high-risk genetic research experimentation, all the time, and with no obvious way to contain it. Two thoughts. First, in the same way that most
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by davmre 11y ago
That doesn't seem obvious. There are people working on banking, advertising, business software development, etc. in pretty much every major city. Why shouldn't the same be true of Epic Problems? You can direct your work efforts to
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by davmre 11y ago
> Bayesian reasoning--which is plausibly the only way of reasoning that will keep our beliefs consistent with the evidence--cannot produce certainty. To nitpick: Bayesian updating can produce certainty, in exactly the way you suggest:
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by davmre 11y ago
I doubt they included it on either side. How many Linux vendors still offer security updates for distributions from 2001, at any price? As others have pointed out, paying for support is likely much cheaper and less disruptive than developin
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Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers(futureoflife.org)
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This is the first intrusion of Rust into the Firefox source tree. The whole point of Rust and Servo development was that they would eventually lead to safer, cleaner code in Mozilla's shipping web browsers. This code itself doesn'
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Twitter acquires Whetlab (Bayesian hyperparameter optimization)(whetlab.com)
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Dick Lipton (GATech) has a blog post discussing this paper: https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/puzzling-evidence/ .
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by davmre 11y ago
This doesn't affect the actual contest results on the test set. Anyone who wants to overfit to the validation set can do so, getting a nice temporary leaderboard spot at the price of test set generalization, which is what determines th
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by davmre 11y ago
This is one of the reasons that public libraries are so important. It's still true that textbooks are a good investment even for the very poor - $100 is less than 15 hours at minimum wage, and you'll learn more from 35 hours of st
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by davmre 11y ago
I don't think most ML people are actively hostile to HTM, just indifferent until they show some results. For example, Yann Lecun in his Reddit AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/25lnbt&
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by davmre 11y ago
Eric Brewer is still on the faculty at Berkeley, just taking an extended leave at Google. He's scheduled to teach the undergrad database class next fall: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Scheduling/CS/schedule-nex
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They are using space that could otherwise be occupied by others. Doing so would reduce pressure in the housing market and increase the productive density of the city. Part of the point of property taxes is to encourage productive use of spa
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by davmre 11y ago
Parking is one of the easiest and most valuable things to automate; it's finicky and humans basically suck at it. Self-driving cars may have manual controls but it probably won't be driven by parking.
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David Patterson: Moore's Law Is Dead(amplab.cs.berkeley.edu)
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by davmre 11y ago
Fair enough. Though it looks like gsl_ran_dir_nd is implemented using normalized Gaussians, so in this case we're back where we started. :-)
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Yeah, the Gaussian trick is like programming in a high-level language: using existing abstractions lets you write clean and concise code, at the price of some efficiency versus the optimal engineered-from-scratch solution.

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