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by deong 10y ago
It's stated in the article. During a day's play, the AI suggests plays based on its current knowledge. At night, the day's events are fed into the system for it to learn on for the next day. I assume there are probably papers
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by deong 10y ago
You're right, both stories do seem plausible, and we're getting both sides presented through a third party who might or might not have an editorial slant as well. Still, here's the part I noticed more than anything: "In
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by deong 10y ago
I think that is a question of leadership. Writing robust and reliable TCP/IP services isn't the wild blue unknown. People know how to do this. If Apple can't do it in 2017, it's because they haven't made doing i
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by deong 10y ago
When the second generation won't exist for half a decade, I don't think the old rules are still in effect.
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by deong 10y ago
I was a bit curious there too, but I chalked it up to ambulance chasing from a techcrunch reporter.
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by deong 10y ago
For what it's worth, though the prior XPS line did come with Broadcom wireless on the Windows variants, they give you a full service manual describing how to replace it. It took me about $30 and half an hour to put the same Intel chip
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by deong 10y ago
What you consider "busy-work admin issues", many people consider tier-1 features. For instance, take sloppy focus. On my Linux machines, I can type in one window while interacting with another, and I use that ability fairly often.
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by deong 10y ago
I'll plug TotalSpaces2 ( https://totalspaces.binaryage.com/ ) here. If you're stuck with OS X for whatever reason, it's well worth the $12 to remove that god-damned animation that eats keystrokes for a full sec
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by deong 10y ago
The touchpad is probably as close as possible as being just objectively better on Macs. But the keyboard? I don't even think "Mac keyboards are the best" is a plurality opinion among just Mac users, is it? There's obviou
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by deong 10y ago
In a way, he's making an even stronger argument than Searle did in his Chinese Room. Even Searle would probably admit that it's possible in principle for the computer in the chinese room argument to fool people into thinking it&#x
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by deong 10y ago
So the major component of a modern C++ application that contributes to long compile times is templates. In C and "older" C++, you're probably used to doing a particular style of separate compilation. You put your prototypes i
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by deong 10y ago
I've kept pretty much all my settings in a git repository for years -- you don't need the program to explicitly make that easier. $ git clone <<repository_url>> $HOME/config $ ln -sf $HOME/config&#x
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by deong 10y ago
That's the point -- one way to commit tax evasion is to get a little bit too creative with your tax avoidance.
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by deong 10y ago
There's certainly an element of truth there, but it's a bit of a smoke screen. The fact that there are grey areas doesn't detract from the concept that a dividing line can be devised and enforced. We do it all the time. Age o
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by deong 10y ago
I remember seeing the link in the original blog post, so I knew it was a real thing, but I'm extremely skeptical of the theory that it has anything to do with anything. The simple fact is that the FAA doesn't screen battery sizes.
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by deong 10y ago
The Dell site is absolutely terrible. For a while, perhaps still, there was no way to show the tech specs for at least the XPS laptop I was looking at. The marketing speak would say something like "XPS 13 with 6th Generation Intel Core
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by deong 10y ago
The whole 100W thing was, as far as I can tell, an almost completely unsupported theory advanced by a Mac blogger about why Apple doesn't put bigger batteries in their laptops. There is apparently some FAA document saying something to
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by deong 10y ago
As others have said, game AI doesn't draw from "real" or academic AI or Machine Learning. That said, the references for AI and machine learning are quite old. Particularly the machine learning parts. The only ML texts on the
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by deong 10y ago
I agree completely. People are too ready to leap at results that say, "Well, machines can never do X, and I can do X, therefore human-level AI is impossible." In general, my counter to that would be "you probably can't d
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by deong 10y ago
> My point was that ideally we like to believe that research supports products, but generally speaking, most of Google research or Microsoft research papers are rarely applicable to their products. I have no inside information here, but
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by deong 10y ago
No way I could see that happening. I mean, they might conceivably decide to fold the group into Google Research rather than keep the DeepMind name, but I doubt they'd do even that due to the name recognition that DeepMind has garnered
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by deong 10y ago
IBM has been conducting some promising tests of their Watson system (the one that won Jeopardy) in this area. Going back further, medical diagnosis was a classic application of expert systems even in the 1970s. They ended up being something
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by deong 10y ago
Yes, the stuff he's saying has been known for ages, but there's been a greater trend recently of people hinting otherwise. I worked in a research group that was focused on AGI until I left academia last year, and there are spirite
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by deong 10y ago
It's not just the screen. The actual physical phone has to come out of my pocket upside down if the headphone jack is on the top. The volume keys are on the wrong side; if you have a home button or fingerprint reader, it's flipped
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by deong 10y ago
See, I'm the opposite. I always wanted the headphone jack on the bottom because that's where it needs to be for the phone to go properly in my pocket.
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by deong 10y ago
While I think that its Gen-1 form is too expensive to do much to the market, the Surface Studio is as mind blowing as I can remember any PC or Mac being since maybe the first iMac.
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by deong 10y ago
You're conflating algorithms with data to some degree. The algorithm is responsible for finding the correlation, but whether that correlation is "irrelevant" depends entirely on the relationship between the training data and
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by deong 10y ago
But how do you do that? Race is baked into a lot of the attributes your classifier is going to find informative. Is someone a good credit risk? To decide, you look at features like past payment history, available balance, zip code, etc. Pas
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by deong 10y ago
When you say "trying to address an issue politically", that sort of implies a context in which you're pushing back against someone else who's already employed a more "Linus-like" approach. That's not what
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by deong 10y ago
They have the identification of a common problem in common, but their solutions are the complete opposites ends of the spectrum and mutually exclusive. I don't think a 3rd party could exist that met both their goals.

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