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by dplavery92 7y ago
Maybe Susskind. I'm not sure what definition of "monumental" we're going with, but he's surely "brand name." Maldacena seems like a good consideration. Maybe Alan Guth.
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by dplavery92 7y ago
And perhaps these are the exceptions that prove the rule, being that they are such remarkable cases.
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by dplavery92 8y ago
How in the world do you figure $0.50 per mile? Even if you assume a modest 20 mi/gallon at $3/gal, you're looking at about $0.15 a mile. A $40 oil change every 5000 miles, and a more expensive maintenance job every 10000 mil
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by dplavery92 8y ago
That's an extremely unsatisfying answer.
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by dplavery92 8y ago
This is something of an academic factoid that has nothing to do with the practice of training and using neural networks, or with the merits of deep networks that I was describing above. Shallow feed-forward networks are "universal fu
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by dplavery92 8y ago
Significantly, it becomes a simple, 2-layer neural network. The power of the advances of neural networks in the past decade have largely relied on "deep" architectures with many layers. Very deep networks effectively learn the
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by dplavery92 8y ago
>The author of the paper is now in a position where they feel they have to defend themselves publicly Due in large part to the fact that his paper was attached to a press release from Oxford--a point of contention for both Hossenfelder a
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by dplavery92 8y ago
I get the gag here, but it's not a very apt comparison. The expected return from a roulette spin is really well understood: a loss of about 5% of your bet, albeit with high variance. The future of these investments is less understood
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by dplavery92 8y ago
> Those who read HN are likely aware of the differences and viable usecases. I am unaware of any non-currency use case where blockchain brings any advantages to bear.
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by dplavery92 8y ago
If your ankles connect to your knees, you might be in trouble, friend. :^)
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by dplavery92 8y ago
$432k, actually! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/arts/design/ai-art-sold-c...
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by dplavery92 8y ago
There's something missing here. How long ago did he finish his program? Is your friend limiting his search only to jobs in academia? Is he capable of getting a security clearance? What's your gauge of "respected"? Ther
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by dplavery92 8y ago
I saw the most recent eclipse from Western Kentucky. I can't speak about all nocturnal creatures, but I can confirm that bats came out during totality. They also seemed to circle like they didn't have their normal sense of direc
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by dplavery92 8y ago
That's simply incorrect. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/volcano-carbon-emissions/ https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits... https://www.skeptical
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by dplavery92 8y ago
What was the application process like, so many years out of school? Did you need old transcripts? Recommendation letters from supervisors?
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by dplavery92 8y ago
>The beautiful part is that once home charging is no longer required, people will be happy to charge at home! We are an adorably irrational species. The problem isn't that people are unhappy to charge at home now, it's that
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by dplavery92 8y ago
Research in carbon nanotubes only really matured from fundamental to applied in the past 15 years, so I don't think it's that surprising that the market isn't flooded with them yet. We're already seeing some of the first
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by dplavery92 8y ago
Well, for certain classes of problems, it is certainly proven that quantum algorithms are faster than classical algorithms. And they're not totally theoretical pie-in-the-sky; you can implement a 5- or 16-qubit version of Shor's
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by dplavery92 8y ago
Conway talks a little about this distinction in his talk at Google, at around 40 minutes: https://youtu.be/r1bDSlt1n9M?t=2401 The crux is that randomness is indistinguishable from a large collection of pre-determined hidden