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by drcode 6y ago
It used to be that the Fed's message was "Keeping low interest rates and doing QE is okay because prices are stable." Now their message is "Keeping low interest rates and doing QE is okay because prices are only a little
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by drcode 6y ago
I agree Japan is awesome (visited twice) but let's not overlook this: https://www.businessinsider.com/world-suicide-rate-map-2014-...
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by drcode 6y ago
Dentistry seems like an extremely conservative profession, and one that received very little attention from outsiders. This story definitely makes me wonder if there are still a lot of "low hanging fruit" in dentistry that have be
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by drcode 6y ago
It's a custom web platform I built, a new edge case bug was triggered just as I published this post. Will fix later today.
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Explaining Consciousness with Color-Coded Cartoons(lisperati.com)
3 points by drcode 6y ago|3 comments
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by drcode 6y ago
The counterargument to this is that IF people are willing to pay for something, they must care about it. For both Bitcoin and Ethereum, the amount of money people are willing to pay in fees to propagate on the network are extremely high at
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by drcode 6y ago
It doesn't work to talk about an "elephant in the room" and then not name names. The whole point of the idiom is that you're criticizing other people for not concretely naming things.
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by drcode 6y ago
I disagree with this... I have a hunch GPT-3 is still falling short PRECISELY because of its dependence on language, and that it actually is going to great lengths to overcome this design flaw to create the simple texts that we're all
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by drcode 6y ago
With GPT-2, you had to (for instance) train the AI with thousands of poems for hours to get the AI ready to write its own poem. With GPT-3, you can just say "Here are three poems by Dr. Seuss about Grumpy Cat" and then it'll
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by drcode 6y ago
/r/buttcoin is still around? You folks haven't conceded yet? :-)
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by drcode 6y ago
I think the only measure that makes sense is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
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by drcode 6y ago
I agree, but on the other hand one has to be careful not to be blind to the obvious power of a new technology, simply because it cannot be immediately turned into $$$.
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by drcode 6y ago
I neither claimed tech development was linear, nor am I basing future AI progress on the rate of progress in the last decades. I am basing future AI progress on what AI can do in July of 2020, which I believe already represents substantial
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by drcode 6y ago
Personally, in 2014 I had put the odds of seeing human-level AI during my lifetime at around 10%. Given the latest developments, I would put the odds at fifty-fifty within the next decade.
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by drcode 6y ago
For those unaware, Common Lisp exception handling is heads and shoulders above almost any other programming language: Imagine having your program crash in the middle of a function, being able to inspect the call stack to find the bug, fixin
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by drcode 6y ago
I don't know how I feel about these types of threads... the airpods are something of a technological miracle, I frankly can't believe how reliable they are despite the shortcomings (I have the Pros and have experienced occasional
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by drcode 6y ago
The closest the game has to "self modifying code" is that you can "see" the "brains" of the opponents that shows the actions they will perform, and then attack with "hacking" weapons directly against
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by drcode 6y ago
I'm the lead dev on Walking Dream: No doubt the player will "notice" they are being redirected in a small space, the question is if it's bad enough to induce nausea. Our goal is to be able to tell the player "you ca
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by drcode 6y ago
Hi, I'm the lead dev on walking dream. It's hard to say right now what the "minimum area requirement" is, because there's an inverse correlation between area size and nausea (since more "redirecting" is ne
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by drcode 6y ago
Hi, I'm the lead on walking dream. There have been a couple of other games I've seen that have implemented version of this, though using very different approaches. However, most were closer to tech demos, without a full game exper
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by drcode 6y ago
I kind of share the authors dislike for the concept of entropy, at an instinctual level. But the fact remains that we know that energy is conserved, but there is still something happening as time progresses, where the world is changing from
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by drcode 6y ago
I think the main unsolved problem is that we need our notes organized both based on subject matter, as well as based on importance, with a high level of granularity on both dimensions (i.e. sentence level granularity) It's very hard to
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by drcode 6y ago
> People have spent more than $100M on Quest content and more than 10 titles have generated over $2M in revenue on Quest That sounds weird: The only numbers they can share with us are that people have spent $100M on game development, but
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by drcode 6y ago
There's a note-management system that can be built that's much better than all existing systems, I am certain of it, but all my attempts to design it so far have failed. It somehow involves a combination of organically determining
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by drcode 6y ago
I don't think it makes logical sense for there to be a "core.async function". Instead, you have each function return a channel with it's own go macro, then have the parent function consume data from the channels.
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by drcode 6y ago
That is true, but my impression is that the original syntax was cumbersome and that golang made major advancements on that front (though I'm no expert and haven't studied the original papers)
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by drcode 6y ago
Three examples of this: 1. core.async: So the guys who built golang did it because they had this cool idea for creating coroutines using channels. However, since it required very low-level functionality to be part of the core of the program
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by drcode 6y ago
Newbie question: If/when models the size of GPT3 are released to the general public, will average people going to be able to run them on their PCs, as they can with GPT2? Or will that basically be impossible now without expensive speci
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by drcode 6y ago
Don't be so certain, some languages allow a lot of flexibility within libraries. For instance, Clojure has an excellent library implementing Go-style channels with green threads (core.async) all built without any modifications to the c
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by drcode 6y ago
The design of their GAN looks super complex, and Pacman is pretty simple... I kinda wonder if they meta-overfit the game (ie the Pacman game engine which they say is missing is sorta hidden in the structure of the GAN architecture that they

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