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by economicslol 6y ago
>I don't think self-driving cars are realistic at all They said the same thing about a Computer beating a Human at Chess or Go, or Radiology, or countless other examples. I don't see why a random person on hackernews would be a
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by economicslol 6y ago
They're not doing that to plan things, it's used intentionally for PR. Drive fear into those that watch it and recruit others who are excited. Pretty clear those are different.
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by economicslol 6y ago
It's like Salesforce, that crap is ubiquitous in large companies. Have you ever used it? It's a nightmarishly clunky piece of trash and yet Salesforce is a 150B behemoth.
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by economicslol 6y ago
But my Blockchain Deep Learning Dog Walking app is going to change the world!! I went to Stanford so I must be right! /s
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by economicslol 6y ago
>What makes you so sure that average people should be CORRECTLY terrified of this virus? 50% of Asymptomatic and 80% of Symptomatic cases on the Diamond Princess had ground glass opacity on CT scans. Usually indicates irreversible lung d
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by economicslol 6y ago
It's also terrifying that it's possible we could create a godlike AI that is entirely unconscious.
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by economicslol 6y ago
You might be misunderstanding that debate then because what's usually termed Libertarian Free Will which is the type that most people think they subjectively experience, that is the ability to choose from different paths at any given m
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by economicslol 6y ago
But spherical cows are actually reasonable approximations. Economics is astrology hiding behind dense math to parade as a science. It is not.
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by economicslol 6y ago
Well that's the point. The right way to think of bitcoin is a digital version of gold. It's mostly being used for speculation and as a store of value by some.
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by economicslol 6y ago
The supply isn't changing, only the rewards for mining are.
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by economicslol 6y ago
I'm sure the majority of volume is from speculators. I think Bitcoin really is basically a Digital Gold, with a finite supply and creation rate.
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by economicslol 6y ago
Is the actual market really any better? Seems a strange position to take.
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by economicslol 6y ago
Completing the mining of 1 block of bitcoin now rewards half as many bitcoins as it used to. Bitcoin hyper-bulls think this is a massive event and believe it will lead to Bitcoin rocketing to $300K-$500k by next year. Bitcoin increased in v
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by economicslol 6y ago
"Substantial", maybe. I don't recall any major papers this year about efficiency in NeurIPS, ICLR, etc. Nevertheless I think my point on "the wider Deep Learning community" not focusing on efficiency is correct.
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by economicslol 6y ago
Secret Snitches? You are aware this was all reported anonymously so no one knows what stores were or weren't operating withing guidelines. So who exactly does this affect?
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by economicslol 6y ago
Is it really on the same scale though? It's quite hard getting a sense of what's normal from Social Media sites since they are so US-centric. It certainly seems like a large portion of the population here misunderstand basic scien
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by economicslol 6y ago
>I am for reasoned reopening of our economy, but only if we do it with I would call “smart style”: adopt safety measures and make them mandated by law. This is obviously the right measure to take but I don't think any states have th
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by economicslol 6y ago
He didn't do anything even remotely invasive. If they want to go back to crowded restaurants full of people without masks sitting too close together they are going to discover pretty quickly how big of a mistake that is.
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by economicslol 6y ago
Seen an anecdote saying we overestimate the impact of a technology over 5 years but underestimate it over 10 years. Seems relevant here
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by economicslol 6y ago
Clearly downward? If you don't have to work at an office in the Bay Area why would you continue paying $3K/mo in Rent or praying your startup has a good exit so you can pay $1M cash for a starter house?
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by economicslol 6y ago
Possibly, but I didn't see anything in the paper about energy efficiency vs a similar software implementation of their neural net and I don't think the wider Deep Learning community really has spent much time thinking about energy
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by economicslol 6y ago
While pretty interesting, do you gain anything from this over purely software Neural Nets running on standard silicon chips(cpu, gpu, tpu, etc.)?
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by economicslol 6y ago
It was true for decades before the mid 70s when productivity and wages decoupled. The reason why isn't clear but there was certainly the expectation that wages would increase for half a century in the US. https://www.epi.org
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by economicslol 6y ago
Speaking of abuse of statistics, lumping the bottom 20-40% with the top 60-80% of wage earners is extremely deceptive. It's well known that income growth is wildly different for those groups. Inflation adjusted wages for the median wor