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by dlkf 7y ago
Is there a purpose to this, other than tricking the user into thinking they are talking to a human? One the one hand, if you have a large database of facts on which you can train this to accurately answer questions, why not just index the d
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> Frank Kermode, in his famous book The Sense of an Ending, elaborated on Cohn’s masterwork by suggesting that actually it’s very common for all of us – especially artists – to feel that we live at the end of times, and that our own demi
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Former Facebook Insider on Why It’s Hard for Tech Giant to Get Elections Right(slate.com)
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I wish I had read this a few years ago when I was having difficulty finding a job. I saw every rejection as a personal failure. In reality, whether or not you land a job is largely a function of circumstances that are not only out of your c
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by dlkf 7y ago
> As if the entire human species is incapable of walking and also chewing gum simultaneously Do you believe that attention is an infinite resource?
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If you work in software development, you've probably witnessed many instances of smart people spending all their time and energy on invented problems that are mathematically or philosophically interesting, rather than actual proble
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The Theoretical Urn(davefernig.com)
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The author claims that Peirce "surpassed [all other scientists born in the 19th century] in sheer intellectual virtuosity"; then goes on to laud Peirce's contributions to the towering scientific field of "semiotics.&quot
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by dlkf 7y ago
> The difference is nowadays it's starting to be less of a fringe view, thank heavens. Well put. The timing is good too, because NLU-is-just-around-the-corner hype is starting to have some really negative social consequences. Yester
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Nailed it. I'd go so far as to suggest that mere reliability - and not deontological ethics - is probably where all the effect is coming from. In the article's example, the problem with the anti-hawaii-trip partner is not that the
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> people would be surprised by the positive effects of heroin legalization on lifestyles and outcomes of addicted people. This is true. > opiates taken properly are safer than Tylenol This is ridiculous.
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This is a great example of why it's grossly irresponsible for members of the ML community to talk about how AGI is just around the corner. In addition to the fact that we have no idea whether this is true, it primes a naive public for
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> There is huge demand for [home-based classes], especially from white-collar workers with high demands on their free time I suspect people are overestimating this part of Peloton's market. All the people I know who spin value being
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by dlkf 7y ago
Gödel's incompleteness theorem is Gödel's incompleteness theorem for philosophers. Derrida is fashionable nonsense.
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The biology content is interesting, but the discussion of freedom/agency is so painfully amateurish that I had difficulty finishing the article.
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Which one of the examples you have listed can exist without SOTA search?
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> Evening learning probably isn’t ideal for teenagers either. In a study published in 2012, Johannes Holz at the University of Freiberg, and colleagues, found that 16- and 17-year-old girls performed better on tests of factual memory if
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Philosophical Psychology Lectures (1989)(youtube.com)
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"Who got it first?" has always been a salient question. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calcu...
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> I'm wondering what other applications this might have besides malware detection. I'd be interested to hear if bioinformaticians are interested in this work.
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Was anyone else put off by the tautological title?
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Construct Validity(davefernig.com)
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I find this physics problem / psychological problem distinction totally unconvincing. The variety of scientific advancement that makes peoples' lives better has always required the joint effort of pure scientists solving physics p
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> He calculated (he was an engineer) that, if we applied our tech and resources efficiently , we could provide for everyone "without disadvantaging anyone." This is just putting a name on the problem.
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Great anecdote. I'm increasingly of the opinion that "pay some humans to do it" is the most underrated data product engineering pattern out there. It's well known that FAANG invest heavily in human annotators (it's
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by dlkf 7y ago
Nailed it. There are some very good points made in the article. Atlassian is a smart org and I suspect they're doing it well, but the article doesn't go into enough depth to let us look at it with a critical eye. There is a real d
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> No one will be allowed to read or download work from the repository, because that would breach publishers’ copyright. Instead, Malamud envisages, researchers could crawl over its text and data with computer software, scanning through t
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by dlkf 7y ago
> It would be a more interesting approach to try to define a minimal set. Agreed. One way to represent this would be a collection of clusters of the technical skills listed in the article. If you're interested in statistics and mach
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The article discusses the argument that statistical machine learning is a resolution to the paradox - as it shows that an agent can learn something without being given explicit instruction. I think this is basically a sound argument, and I
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by dlkf 7y ago
> This conclusion requires an understanding of what endows something with consciousness Either you mean A) a "full" understanding or B) a partial understanding. If you mean A then I disagree. We can talk sensibly about markets

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