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Open Bug Farm Wiki(github.com)
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One Child Policy: China's Worst Policy Mistake(nybooks.com)
4 points by ericjang 11y ago|3 comments
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by ericjang 11y ago
Coincidentally, Quora.com just had a knowledge prize contest to answer "How Significant is AlphaGo?". https://www.quora.com/How-significant-is-the-AlphaGo-victory... I thought that many of the answers were quite i
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by ericjang 11y ago
In fact, the paper mentions that the policy network (without MCTS) alone performs reasonably well and can beat most other Go bots.
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Flow: embedded language for expressing dataflow computations in Julia(github.com)
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by ericjang 11y ago
I'm with you on this, and I logged in just to upvote your comment. That said, if one suspects that humanity will not be able to construct powerful computer systems in a provably friendly manner ("friendly AI"), shouldn't
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Understanding and Implementing Deepmind's DRAW Model(evjang.com)
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by ericjang 11y ago
An underground device sensitive enough to detect animals walking around could be useful for other things... (from ecology research to large-scale surveillance)
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The mechanical and software engineering underlying these research endeavors is breathtaking. The laser apparatus, LISA pathfinder, ELISA - how on earth do they calibrate/debug/test such complex systems? ... and I shudder to think
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by ericjang 11y ago
It definitely doesn't sound right. I'm hoping/wishing that this quote was taken out of context. Can anybody with more insider context elaborate? I'm very interested in the "internal cultural battle" over divers
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I see - thanks for the clarification! Looks like they were only "open problems" in my mind :)
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#1 - Whether or not there is a formal risk measure that is less "ad-hoc/in-practice" than the others is still up in the air, no?
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1. A question that has interested me for some time: what is the best quantitative measure of "risk"? Intuitively we understand risk to be related to the distribution of investment returns. More information means that we are more c
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This was a great read. Congratulations!
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Here's a link to the paper: http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nphys3...
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What I would give to have Marvin Minsky be resurrected via cryonics and have him read this article.
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I wasn't aware that Danny Hillis was a student of Minsky's and that the Connection Machine mainframe series was created with brain simulation in mind. That's really cool. When thinking about implementing the network topology
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by ericjang 11y ago
Upvoted for the following word choice: "milquetoast videocard"
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This. I think most of the work that goes into building a successful large-scale project is making the design choices that minimize required effort. Everything after that is a matter of typing correctly and adjusting design choices to unexpe
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Startup idea: use ambient radiation from nuclear fallout to power bigger IoT devices. Also cheap communication and cheap heating.
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Thanks! This book looks interesting.
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Awesome Hacking(github.com)
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Gitlab is really nice, but the user experience isn't quite as slick as Github's. Understandable, since Github has a lot more engineers behind their infrastructure. I think Gitlab's current user base is for developers/s
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by ericjang 11y ago
It's a heavy accusation to say that "police are racist and violent". Maybe it's true, and generalizing all police as "racist and violent" is an acceptable thing to say because it's a systemic issue. I unde
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Generative Adversarial Nets Tutorial in TensorFlow(evjang.com)
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What would be really amazing is if Jupyter's notebook server was abstracted further from a general cell-based execution model, and instead provided a generic graphics backend for making web-based GUIs for a variety of programming langu
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Admittedly, there's real danger when a cultural majority uses "weirdness" as a value judgment on immigrants and foreigners. But... If hardmaru's remark about Japanese culture ("a society where the process matters ju
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Regrettably, not on the Internet. If you get a job at Google you might be able to search for it on the intranet :)
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"Google has signed Fiddler engineer Eric Lawrence to a lifetime deal in what one source familiar with the negotiations said is a fairly ordinary hiring. “We are excited to add Eric to our lineup,” Masko Askov said. “He is a talented p
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During my internship at Google I watched Hotz give a talk on QIRA and his Pwnium exploit. George Hotz working his magic on the computer is the most fucking legit thing I have seen in my life.

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