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by dougabug 7y ago
We had free vaccination of children at school, and opting out wasn’t common behavior. Also, the population was smaller and healthcare significantly cheaper.
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by dougabug 7y ago
Lasers.
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by dougabug 8y ago
It's not just US consumers who demonstrate a strong preference for low prices, it's generally a global phenomenon. While most consumers would likely prefer that revenues from the products they purchase be distributed equitably, th
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by dougabug 8y ago
Did you read the article? The central thesis is that automation is not the primary culprit for manufacturing job losses.
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by dougabug 10y ago
The point of the original paper was to learn the hyperparameters of a DNN using a DNN, as opposed to using, say, a bayesian optimization framework.
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by dougabug 10y ago
Again, I'm not trying to provide an exhaustive survey of AI or ML applications. Merely point out that the fallacy of using past failures of AI and ML to conclude that they will continue to fail at tasks against which they have thus far
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by dougabug 10y ago
No one is suggesting that AI is a solved problem. I simply cited a handful of areas such as computer vision where progress in ML has been remarkably rapid after many years where the problems seemed daunting and skeptics had written off the
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by dougabug 10y ago
What are the rules for image / video captioning? For natural sounding speech synthesis? For realistic image generation? For semantic segmentation? For determining perceptual visual similarity between images? Frankly, rules based AI is
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by dougabug 10y ago
Machine learning is "learning from data." It is not the assumption that there are no dynamics, and that the future will simply be a repetition of the past. To the extent that the future is predictable, learning from data is the be
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by dougabug 10y ago
There was a paper at CVPR 2016 called "Sketch Me That Shoe," which basically converted hand sketches to images using tied embedding networks. https://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~qian/Project_cvpr16.html
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by dougabug 10y ago
Handwritten digits / OCR was one of the first practical uses in the late 80's / early 90's for CNNs (check reading, addresses, http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/lenet/ ). Integrating an LSTM would be u
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by dougabug 10y ago
The basic CNN structure was in place, but as the saying goes, "The Devil's in the details." Early CNN's were applied to problems such as handwritten character recognition with rows of small grayscale image cells as input
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by dougabug 10y ago
1. If you love writing software, don't give it up just because you don't fit into the existing mono-culture of "top-tier" tech companies. Recall that WhatsApp's founders were both rejected by Facebook, but still man
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by dougabug 11y ago
Increasing the supply of labor puts downward pressure on labor costs in general, most specifically at the tier of labor where the labor pool is expanded. The article states that most of the labor imported is at the entry/journeyman lev
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by dougabug 11y ago
That addresses one aspect, but fails to address the issue that the supply of workers has increased, placing downward pressure on wages.
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by dougabug 11y ago
This is an astute point. Encryption is a modern, defensive technology against an overreaching State intent on total control over its populace. In the 21st Century, guns are a relatively weak counterbalance to State power. Even in Saddam&#x2
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by dougabug 11y ago
I would second that competition in the server/desktop/laptop cpu space would be salutary. Intel has had a near monopoly for a couple decades or more, and this has possibly stifled innovation. I was hoping that ARM would provide th
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by dougabug 11y ago
There's also the question of inequality. Granting monopolies exacerbates inequality, so a hypothetical short term boost to productivity growth might not translate into meaningfully better quality of life for most people. Government eng
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by dougabug 11y ago
The question should not be whether you believe that it is possible for patents to promote innovation. Rather can you prove based on evidence that they clearly and irrefutably, in fact, do so? Do patents ever harm or retard innovation? Is it
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by dougabug 11y ago
Postgres is pretty mature, robust and easy to use, it does a reasonably good job of adopting ANSI SQL standards. It has partitioning and replication support out of the box, scales well across multiple processors, large amounts of RAM, has a
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by dougabug 11y ago
As automation continues to improve, we see that fewer and fewer people are sufficiently skilled that they cannot be replaced at least in part by technology. Even tasks demanding high cognitive abilities gradually shift into the domain of wh
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by dougabug 11y ago
I don't have the time to jump through hoops to maintain promotional pricing for a NYT subscription. Maybe a sufficient long term discount would be attractive, or unbundling content. The NY Times just doesn't offer enough value to
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by dougabug 11y ago
Do referrals of clients with ad blocking enabled not generate fees for Mozilla? Also, Mozilla is a non-profit foundation, so providing users some small relief from advertising seems entirely consistent with serving the public interest. The
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by dougabug 11y ago
The assumption that the general public is dumb and must be protected from difficult subjects/intellectual work, is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Removing everything from the curriculum that "a lot of people are bad at" is a bad
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by dougabug 11y ago
This would argue that economic growth is to a significant degree subjective, which would be consistent with the basic thrust of the original article. Economists once predicted that energy would be basically free, which turned out to be badl
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by dougabug 11y ago
Since our energy consumption has grown exponentially in modern industrial times, most of the energy consumed has been during the age of oil. Further energy is not the only dependency modern civilization has on oil. You can't glibly dis
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by dougabug 11y ago
A criticism which seems to be gaining traction is that many traditionally held economic beliefs were not sufficiently established by data, with their adherents often being satisfied with a (single) model, consistent with a limited set of ob
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by dougabug 11y ago
The point of an eigenvector is that its direction is stable when you hit it with the given transformation. That is, it's an invariant direction of your transformation. This is analogous to the derivative of an exponential function bein
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by dougabug 11y ago
Ok, but then Uber will have to bear the full purchase, financing, depreciation, maintenance, garaging, inventory, theft, and insurance cost for potentially millions of vehicles.
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by dougabug 11y ago
Oracle has had pipelined table functions since version 9.0.

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