dilemma

59 ms·

601.
by dilemma 10y ago
It does, but the fact that search engines use statistical models has no overlap with how human language faculties work.
602.
by dilemma 10y ago
Why did Steve Jobs think the iPhone shouldn't be able to copy and paste?
603.
by dilemma 10y ago
That essay misses the point its trying to refute. It references Chomsky talking about the nature of language and by extension the human mind. It then turns to talking about how search engines work, which is an unrelated topic.
604.
by dilemma 10y ago
Windows Phone identifies spam callers and lets you report numbers as spam. Like I said, my Windows Phone already does this!
605.
by dilemma 10y ago
My Windows Phone already does this!
606.
by dilemma 10y ago
>However, he is IMHO pretty wrong in thinking that this latent structure can't be learned (e.g. inferring a probabilistic context-free grammar). Please correct me if I'm wrong but your representation of Chomsky's thesis se
607.
by dilemma 10y ago
Rather than markets contra communism, I think we should think of it as property rights contra state ownership (of everything). It is because people are allowed to own things that they can trade. In this system there's plurality whereas
608.
by dilemma 10y ago
The point is that the parent thinks planes fly themselves.
609.
by dilemma 10y ago
>Planes travel 500mph and they fly themselves. Case in point: Why Tesla's naming of Autopilot is misleading.
610.
by dilemma 10y ago
Sounds like a lot of other countries.
611.
by dilemma 10y ago
Doing really quick runs (5 minutes actually) helped me get started running. From there you can go up to 10, 15 minutes. Bought the book, also. An interesting thing to keep in mind is that we are products of both nature and environment then
612.
by dilemma 10y ago
>But if Google is hiring for more than that - say, for what the employee will come up with on their own in their 20% time - then the false negatives could be extremely expensive to Google. This hiring process, together with internal stru
613.
by dilemma 10y ago
Computer systems can't handle unexpected events, at all. They can only do what they're told (execute instructions). They do not have judgment.
614.
by dilemma 10y ago
As of today, there's much left to prove. AI remain ideology, not reality.
615.
by dilemma 10y ago
>There are 30,000 motor vehicle deaths in America each year. In perhaps 30 years, fully autonomous vehicles could cut all of that needless carnage to nearly nothing. There is a huge assumption underlying this: That computer systems would
616.
by dilemma 10y ago
>A company that makes products for $5 and sells them for $5 may have a negligible stock price while creating an enormous amount of value. A company that buys products for $1 and sells them unchanged for $10 may have a high stock price wh
617.
by dilemma 10y ago
Sanders' policies would throw any of the Nordic economies into depression and would bankrupt the state if put into practice there. What people fail to understand is that the Swedish model of social democratic capitalism isn't anta
618.
by dilemma 10y ago
Line isn't an app, it's a business. You think companies that don't make apps at all need zero employees?
619.
by dilemma 10y ago
Without the agent you wouldn't know that you knew the seller :)
620.
by dilemma 10y ago
This is the same way it works in every developed nation and every larger city. The difference is just scale and speed.
621.
by dilemma 10y ago
This is exactly why the legislation is created: to stop peoples' lives from being destroyed or negatively affected by computer programs that not even their creator know how they work.
622.
by dilemma 10y ago
The naming and marketing of it. Will they admit fault and change?
623.
by dilemma 10y ago
There seems to be third problem: Tesla refuses to take responsibility for its product's shortcomings and blames the victim instead.
624.
by dilemma 10y ago
Marketing and distribution can increase sales hundred fold. A committed editor can also significantly improve the quality of the work (an editor that doesn't care or doesn't get it can have negative impact, though).
625.
by dilemma 10y ago
Societies need financial infrastructure. Very little of it can be replaced with software, and innovations in finance is just as important to economic development as technology is.
626.
by dilemma 10y ago
These money hungry HBS graduates perform jobs that are in themselves so boring, stressful and costly on a personal level that nobody would do them if it weren't for the large rewards they come with -- creating new technological infrast
627.
by dilemma 10y ago
I order lunch on WeChat and send a red envelope inside a group chat as payment after its been delivered. The group has 300+ members. This is the exception, though. There are better ways of making payments through WeChat and I'm guessin
628.
by dilemma 10y ago
Fixed at what point in life? Age 12, 18, 21, 30, 50?
629.
by dilemma 10y ago
Inability to think critically or be creative often come as a result of management. Positions are too narrowly defined, so operators lack context for their work. Without information, you literally can't think at all.
630.
by dilemma 10y ago
My belief is that, after working in a couple of dysfunctional companies, organization design with proper work and communication processes, and effective management, is the "secret" to company success. Almost no one seems to unders

More ›