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by dmreedy 10y ago
I think there's a little more to it than that; I feel like the rise of autocorrect is pretty strongly correlated with the rise of glass keyboards, an intrinsically imprecise input method. I remember being pretty damn precise (and fast)
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Apologies, sloppy link-copying. Should be pointing to the .jpg now.
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I guess J.J. Abrams is somewhat forgiven for this, then: http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/2/29/Vul... [edited for direct .jpg]
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Nor is this Howard Roark's wet dreams (even if it does also involve architecture). Your points are not unfounded, but I don't think the Godwin's Law-esque strawmaning is helpful here.
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I do get a little sad every time I listen to a James Taylor song, and hear the way he can make one guitar sound like six. It doesn't stop me from plucking along on my own. I've never felt that this article is condescending; in fac
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I'm talking about Shannon Information specifically. In which case, acres of whitespace and gradients very much are information. Calling them "whitespace" and "gradients" is a significant act of compression in and
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Not just the size of a given output, but the space of possible outputs. I am also of the opinion that webdev is bloated and miserable, but it is still a massive compression of the information it represents.
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If you're interested in more about this particular subject, I think Gleick does a pretty good job of providing a 'road through history' on the subject of the representation/computation duality in "The Information&qu
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For those who find this interesting, Chaitin's work is a subset of (or complement to) Kolmogorov's work on complexity theory; fundamentally, the unification of computation and representation under Shannon-style Information. It col
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>> since our goal is human level intelligence and human intelligence isn't easily explained either I think this might be where the real divide lies. To present a false dichotomy, there are two schools. One that is interested in
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>> I think that a part of the problem is that older ML PhDs are angry that deep learning is so easy (until the learning rate fails to provide convergence of course...) and would prefer that their preferred methods would still reign su
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It's convenient that this article and another on the nature (or lacking) of modern humility are both on the front page at the same time. I think this entire argument reduces to a recommendation: "Humble yourself". It's s
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It's thought to be part of a larger series of sound shifts that happened as Proto-Germanic branched off from Proto-Indo-European, called Grimm's Law[1]. Romance languages like French (along with other Indo-European languages, like
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Ancient Greek has an interesting coincidental evolution here in that its specific character for representing ` /w/ ` was, in the classical period, referred to as digamma , literally 'double-gamma', because it looks like
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Agreed. There is a fantastic quote from the early pages of History ; "There is, however, a more general argument against reverence, whether for the Greeks or for anyone else. In studying a philosopher, the right attitude is neither re
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It's a bit of an odd one, but I can't recommend Bertrand Russell's 'History of Western Philosophy' enough here. It's engaging and well written, as Russell tends to be, and its focus around the philosophical dev
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Mentioned in the article, but not delved in to much, is the role that the pre-Greek Alphabet script Linear B played in our current understanding of the Mycenaeans, from the tablets found at Knossos and elsewhere. If you're interested i
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They way they maneuvered those forklifts in the beginning almost reminded me of watching ants dragging a large bit of scavenge back to the colony, or any sort of insect with limited manipulation affordances (mandibles, maybe forelegs). I wo
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I just got in to soviet watches myself. If you've not seen them, the Raketa brand from the Petrodvorets Watch Factory in St. Petersburg had some beautiful, non-traditional timepieces that are still classy enough to avoid 'gaudy&#x
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>> if it works right this is the crux. Current-era chatbots, and chatbots for the forseeable future (barring some radical breakthroughs in the understanding of intelligence and natural language), are all the same terrible APIs people
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I don't work in game AI, but my hunch is that part of the reason for any dissonance between state-of-the-art 'AI proper' and state-of-the-art game AI would be the abstraction level of interface permitted by the respective env
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David Ferrucci: Machines as Thought Partners [video](poptech.org)
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These are very good, very well-stated points, I've been thinking about this recently. Less on the trade union (even if that might make more sense, in the vein of actual leverage), and more on the professional association side. I'v
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In retrospect, and especially in comparison, Google Glass really was beautiful, especially the lensless models. I respect the design in a similar way to something like the Microsoft Band, which didn't try to be a watch, but instead emb
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How the polls, including ours, missed Trump's victory(reuters.com)
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Unfortunately, I feel like it is the case that much current DNN work is predicated specifically around not understanding the problem, in a kind of Skinnerian rejection of GOFAI; the hope is that the signal in the data is strong enough that
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I believe this was an allusion to most Christians' experiences with the Bible being compiled through several translations of Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Latin, depending on the version and books.
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This is true, but there was also a significant amount of ADR/Overdubbing work with american actors, especially for the minor roles. One of the most notable exceptions, of course, being Red Leader, a British actor doing a fantastic rend
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The reason for the disparity here is because, while you're right that humans are not particularly good drivers, there is a massive institutional infrastructure built up around things like criminal prosecution and insurance for when a h
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At the very least, "poorly reassembled by incomprehensible aliens" is a plot element in the Star Trek TOS pilot. Granted, that character lasted more than a few minutes. And costumes for incomprehensible aliens are expensive, so bi

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