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by deepnet 11y ago
The web's survival was far from certain, other similar more proprietry instances didn't - many would argue freedom was the webs USP. Ubuntu & Debian improved my interfaces. I cannot in good conscience support a walled garden o
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by deepnet 11y ago
TL;DR Microsoft tried to leverage its desktop monopoly to become a browser monopoly to a server monopoly and thus own and tax and sanitize the early web, we wuz saved by Firefox. The web freedoms we are losing today were hard won. Back when
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by deepnet 11y ago
Acceptable default but one should be able to enable prompts as a less-confused user.
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by deepnet 11y ago
April Fool's day historically derives from the day of misrule, whereby the social order was inverted and for a day a lowly fool took the throne of the king.
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by deepnet 11y ago
I withdraw any opinion I have on this matter, it was uninformed and those on the ground obviously know more - I misinterpreted the article.
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by deepnet 11y ago
Clint Curtis testified before congress that he did just this. It remains an unproven allegation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKpvTBmdCI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Curtis
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by deepnet 11y ago
Edinburgh University's AI dept's legendary founder Donald Michie ( & close wartime friend of Turing) built a computer out of matchboxes that learns to play Tic Tac Toe. http://makezine.com/2009/11/02&
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by deepnet 11y ago
I disagree. The RBS failed entirely because of foolish investments. Funding covered the cracks till it dried up. Fred the Shred (RBS CEO) invested billions in toxic assets worldwide - his last act was to buy an investment bank full of them.
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by deepnet 11y ago
Sensible spending on jobs and the economy has always worked. Austerity is underspending not thrift.
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by deepnet 11y ago
The crime is wilful financial mismanagement, it took many forms: sub-prime morgages, LIBOR manipulation, fake AAA ratings, Goldman's advising its clients buy toxic assets to get them off the books, ... the list of actual crimes is huge
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by deepnet 11y ago
Exactly, the problem has got worse. Banks are larger and more centralised, the offenders unpunished know they can act with impunity, legislation is unchanged. Banking/ finance types now know that if they are losing money they must simp
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by deepnet 11y ago
Epigenetics is about gene expression, the genetic code isn't changed. The Danish/ Swedish famine study that first proved epigenetics was real showed that starvation during puberty affected the height of granchildren by switching o
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by deepnet 11y ago
and whistleblowers.
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by deepnet 11y ago
Is the problem a lack of budget or how those resources are spent ? Giving more money to a failing organisation without oversight will not get better results. The failures need a spotlight, questions must be asked and answered. Secrecy has f
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by deepnet 11y ago
The rush to attribute blame to something technical and pass a quick fix law is obviously a tactic to draw attention from the real question: Why did the authorities so utterly fail to protect us ? The facts remain: 'Europol' knew ~
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by deepnet 11y ago
AlphaGo's 1st incarnation included an input scalar that the Net was taught represented the level of Human Play to Emulate (handily included in the dataset). Thus AlphaGo plays as a human (before MCTS), it's choices model a challen
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by deepnet 11y ago
"Give me the child till the age of seven and I will show you the man." Ignatius of Loyola
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by deepnet 11y ago
Version 1.7.3 has everything required for the classroom and a clean room implementation is https://github.com/SirCmpwn/TrueCraft
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by deepnet 11y ago
Lie to the machines ! Under the spreading chesnut tree, I sold you and you sold me. Be Vigilant. Be Pure. Behave.
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by deepnet 11y ago
Dogecoin ?
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by deepnet 11y ago
Would like to see shadows, they are a great depth cue.
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by deepnet 11y ago
Can you provide more details, which model ?
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by deepnet 11y ago
Gradient descent seeks the lowest prediction error when compared with the training answer. A 1D line generally has an easy gradient downhill. (x is input, y is error). Each input is a dimension. In 2, 3, or more dimensions, downhill can be
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by deepnet 11y ago
And hosting companies selling certs are incentivised to not provide HTTPS by default. The number of not https wordpress admin pages and plain text ftp logins still in regular use is chilling and directly attributable to this misaligned ince
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by deepnet 11y ago
:D ha ha ha. FTFY The chances of it being secure are zero. The career incentives of the intelligence classes do not align with actual national security. Sadly it seems the inverse is true. --- Empirically: who gets fired when the data is ha
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by deepnet 11y ago
Then by implication this task does not require intelligence ;) Computers are faster serial processors but brains do more in parallel. Parallel pipelines only really hit Neural Nets with GPU's and the Imagenet convnet solvers like Alexn
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by deepnet 11y ago
An educated eye can find connections, meaning and value in places that most are blind to.
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by deepnet 11y ago
Or they call and ask for someone but won't say a company or name, because DATA PROTECTION. "Hello is XXX there ?" "Who is calling ?" "I can give out that information" "Mrs XXX here." "I am
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by deepnet 11y ago
Deferring a Phong shader gives 'good enough' dynamic lighting for 2D dynamic sprite lighting and is fast. https://29a.ch/2010/3/24/normal-mapping-with-javascript-and-...
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by deepnet 11y ago
It is undemocratic to secretly steal freedom - they must make us beg them to take it away.

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