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by drongoking 7y ago
"One poster on social news site Reddit claimed he had been able to extract a mobile network Sim card from one of the devices, and used it to access the internet for free." When life gives you lemons, dig the sim cards out of them
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by drongoking 7y ago
I think when performance on a real world task can be expressed as a single percentage, we've over-simplified the hell out of it and it's time to rethink the problem.
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by drongoking 7y ago
I'm always bemused by the idea that AI is nothing but machine learning, and ML is nothing but predictive analytics. Equating research in AI with a "boring hyperparameter search" shows how narrow it's become; saying you&
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by drongoking 7y ago
- Groupthink is a very real thing, and stronger than most people realize. People in a group will hold and defend beliefs that they would never individually hold, simply because they're (perceived to be) part of the group's beliefs
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by drongoking 7y ago
This is a place that famously had a motto "move fast and break things." In other words, fail early and fail often. For that culture to succeed you need people willing to admit (and tolerate) mistakes. Sounds like that's pr
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by drongoking 7y ago
I'm generally pessimistic about predictions of the future. In this case I can't help but smile. They're trying to predict how a field (AI), which deals with complex adaptation, will intelligently adapt its adaptive techniqu
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by drongoking 7y ago
Congratulations, you've become That Guy.
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by drongoking 7y ago
I thought that cellular referred to each point (cell) having its own neighborhood and reacting individually. IIRC, cellular automata have been generalized (made continuous) in both space and time by various researchers, making them (as you
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by drongoking 7y ago
Community aside, I'd love to read an article on what's good and bad in the current semantic web. Maybe it would have to be written anonymously. Or maybe contact O'Reilly and write an intro book "Semantic Web: Just the G
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by drongoking 7y ago
This is too extreme. If, like Google, you have a flock of Ph.D.s who you can put onto an NLP problem to extract semantics from text, then semantic markup becomes less valuable. Not all of us are in that situation. And I don't think pa
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by drongoking 7y ago
I don't buy his argument and I think he's confused. Lots of people have released code on github (as have I) so that other people can use it. Lots of it isn't used, so it looks abandoned. Maybe it is. So what? Why is that
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by drongoking 7y ago
Two questions. It's difficult to evaluate CYC given Cycorp's secrecy. Domingos called it something like a colossal failure, which is hard to believe, but it's hard to argue given how little info gets out of Cycorp. So does
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by drongoking 7y ago
OK, what experiments would you design to test whether AGI is possible? Given the decades (centuries?) of thought that have gone into the issue, I'm sure a set of experiments would be valuable.
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by drongoking 7y ago
I think you are correct: this site doesn't really do what it claims. I'm not sure how it's different from just searching arXiv. I am pleased to see paperswithcode.com as a collection point of research. But the fact that it c
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by drongoking 7y ago
The Turing Test has nothing to do with chess or any other game. It's a conversational test between two parties. It doesn't refer to human-level performance on any specific task. Please check Wikipedia. > Sure; all the parts ha
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by drongoking 7y ago
Heh. Except it took forever for states to begin decriminalizing/legalizing marijuana, and it isn't legal at the Federal level yet.
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by drongoking 7y ago
Yep. Huxley was heavily into Hinduism. "The original soma, from which I took the name of this hypothetical drug, was an unknown plant (possibly Asclepias acida) used by the ancient Aryan invaders of India in one of the most solemn of
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by drongoking 7y ago
I'm genuinely surprised. Maybe it's just for psych ailments (e.g. anxiety) that use has declined. > the biggest rise in prescriptions during this time period was for back pain and other types of chronic pain. Now I'm doubl
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by drongoking 7y ago
I hate to be That Guy Who Argues With Everything, but I will. I'm a big fan of Huxley and Brave New World, but he wasn't particularly visionary with Soma. Drug use goes back as far as humankind does because people have been try
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by drongoking 7y ago
I'm confused about what plain text means if JSON and YAML don't qualify. They are non-binary and non-proprietary. Is CSV plain text? And the example URL of openfootball has data files with fixed column positions and square brack
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by drongoking 7y ago
> We've seen that threshold crossed with neural agents like AlphaGo which can be reasonably described as thinking. I don't recall ever reading in a technical paper, or in an interview, a leader in the field of ANNs claim they w
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by drongoking 7y ago
Two reactions to this. I almost believe these: 1. The difference between collecting bus tickets, working on mathematics, and figuring the crystallization patterns of snowflakes is virtually nothing. To the people obsessed with it, it is al
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by drongoking 7y ago
Not exactly. Incorporating a world or domain model usually means taking pre-existing declarative knowledge in some form (e.g. from a semantic net) and using it to aid learning. To quote the article, "Model-based reinforcement learnin
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by drongoking 7y ago
You miss the point of the slides. His point isn't about supervised vs unsupervised, it's about the general areas where AI seems to excel and fail. It's being used to predict social outcomes where it does very poorly, may be i
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by drongoking 7y ago
> (edit: I'm not claiming he's a field expert in a week guys, just that he can probably learn the basics pretty fast, especially given ML tech shares many base maths with graphics) This may be his biggest impediment. ML has got
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by drongoking 7y ago
> which recently popularized the term n-gram. Eh? It's well known in Info Retrieval; it goes back at least to Salton's IR group at Cornell in the 1970's.
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by drongoking 7y ago
Amen! It is slightly better now than it used to be, i.e. you now have to read two sentences to realize it's incoherent gibberish, rather than just one. But thinking you're getting closer to understanding this way is like the met
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by drongoking 7y ago
I came here to say basically this. I've worked at enough companies to know that their ideas of what their values are may not be accurate. Instead of asking about values, ask about behavior. No one is going to say no to "Do you va
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by drongoking 7y ago
Interesting essay. Related to time anxiety, Oliver Burkeman pointed out the paradox of "making good use of time". Taken too far, it turns time into an instrumental goal. You never really enjoy it; you're always just investing
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by drongoking 7y ago
In sociology many results are obvious. You just don't know which ones until you do the study.

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